a Black & White Wednesday

railroad version of a No Wake Zone...

Greg J. Turinetti posted:

 

One has to wonder why no Hiawatha Atlantic locomotives were saved from the scrap heap? As the first of their kind, they were truly historic.  Wouldn't you love to see one of these running on the rails today, or better yet, be riding in one of the original Hiawatha cars pulled by the original streamlined Hiawatha loco.

Bob Nelson 

I've posted a few of these here before, but what the heck...

briansilvermustang posted:

looking at this one, i think a new stream should be a "captioning contest".
for example...

          Milwaukee Road Announces "Economy Business Class"

PRR station at Centerburg.Ohio

 MEC CABOOSE.

another one from the past...but it's one of my favorites...gives a whole new meaning to "clockwork"...

Howard...

sawdust43 posted:

another one from the past...but it's one of my favorites...gives a whole new meaning to "clockwork"...

Howard...

i hate to nitpick a fantasy, but i've never seen a clockwork locomotive that wasn't a side winder.

Brian,

that last picture posted with nose of engine is really awesome. 

Tom

thank you Tom

PRR switchtender Ruth Hilger Hoffman, circa 1941, Philadelphia.

Tom 

I haven't had much time to contribute lately, but I made time tonight.

Quite a bit of difference, isn't it?

overlandflyer posted:

railroad version of a No Wake Zone...

"American Gothic"

Baltimore’s Inner Harbor 1975:

Craignor posted:

Baltimore’s Inner Harbor 1975:

WOW, I never knew a track went through there.

I was stationed in MD in the late 90s and went down there plenty of times, getting into an epic bar fight in the Planet Hollywood to the right of this photo as well as turning the tables on two muggers with a fellow LT who'd been a Ranger in Somalia (we pulled out our Leatherman tools, with the serrated blades out, and charged them).

Good times? Now, I say yes. At the time? Hmm.....

navy.seal posted:

Greg J. Turinetti posted:

 

One has to wonder why no Hiawatha Atlantic locomotives were saved from the scrap heap? As the first of their kind, they were truly historic.  Wouldn't you love to see one of these running on the rails today, or better yet, be riding in one of the original Hiawatha cars pulled by the original streamlined Hiawatha loco.

Bob Nelson 

It's the same story we've all heard.  Railroads were a business.  They were not in the historic restoration business but a making money business.  As curt as that sounds, it's the plain truth.  From what I have read, the New York Central was the biggest culprit when it came to retire "used up" equipment.  They scrapped everything.  Not a single Hudson was preserved or even set on a siding somewhere out of the way.  Even the Pennsy put a K4 on Horse Shoe curve.  We have to thank the Union Pacific for it's steam program, for one.  

I love B&W...  does it accentuate an era, or is it, that it leaves room for the imagination to fill it in?

Either way, great thread, great contributions.

12 monkeys posted:

I love B&W...  does it accentuate an era, or is it, that it leaves room for the imagination to fill it in?

Either way, great thread, great contributions.

 

I think both.

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N&W #1218 has passed Old Fort NC and started up through 'the Chimneys' towards Asheville where there is some convict labor working on the track below

Heading into "The Land O Sky' in the high country

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

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Sure looks like the William Crooks to me:

briansilvermustang posted:

I used to have a picture of an old guy with a gallon can of grease and a putty knife slathering the grease all over the gears on a Shay. I always think of that picture when someone mentions Shae Butter!   lol

   nmp...

Tom 

Craignor posted:

"Milk and Butter and Eggs and Cheese,          Fresh from the farm to you,          if you don't own a cow call Cloverland now          it's North 9-2222"

Roland

Exposition flyer in two flavors. Models by PSC, Sunset and Atlas O.

Nice Santiago 

Eric & Santiago, outstanding!  I love seeing your photography and modeling work...thanks for posting.

A seasonally-appropriate B&W, a sweeper-car in prewar Washington DC:

Hopefully the clean-up in the northeast goes as well.

PD

A william crooks next to an N-3 2-8-8-0.

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/topic/minton-cronkhite

another picture of master modeler Minton "not related to Walter" Cronkhite...

cheers...gary

          a post war layout...

          https://youtu.be/aLyUNcXDyeI

Just another day on my layout...

Nice Lee, and Bar GP7... fantastic 

Lee thanks for the comments over at MRH, I need to get over there this morning. 

Erik C Lindgren posted:

Lee thanks for the comments over at MRH, I need to get over there this morning. 

No problem, Erik. I give props when they're due, and your work is certainly amazing! In b/w it's even better in some ways!

Erik C Lindgren posted:

Nice Lee, and Bar GP7... fantastic 

Lee thanks for the comments over at MRH, I need to get over there this morning. 

Erik: Thanks. I always love watch your fantastic pics.

Johan

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Great stuff guys 

Awesome !!

time to superdetail that turbine cab...

briansilvermustang posted:

I would love to see a Standard Gauge version of this train made and have even asked Mike to consider it.  But Mike's new tooling costs combined with the increasingly smaller market for his Standard Gauge products make it unlikely I will ever see such a streamliner made.

Bob Nelson

  nmp's...

Philadelphia and Reading (Weston) station in Manville, NJ

I've posted this before but I decided to give it a funny twist. I was thinking of what layout figures would say if they could, knowing that this sailor figure will never see a ship:

my guess? ...it wasn't pink.

Lee, your photography is very nice. Keeps us inspired with hints to do better ourselves.

Been AWOL from the forum awhile. Here's a few to try to make it up for lost time.

handyandy posted:

Been AWOL from the forum awhile. Here's a few to try to make it up for lost time.

 

Geez, I am out of it. Was thinking today is Wednesday!  

I thought it was too...that's what working midnight will do to you

overlandflyer posted:

time to superdetail that turbine cab...

Hmmm . . . interesting (to a retired Road Foreman of Engines).  It looks like the engine was equipped with a variant of Number 24 air brake equipment, which I thought had only been applied to steam locomotives by Norfolk & Western.

Maybe I need to look at late Pennsy steam locomotives in more depth.

briansilvermustang posted:

When I first looked at the picture, I thought the sign said, "Every Hour is Happy Hour."

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1/32 scale narrow gauge layout I participated in an op session at over last weekend:

TedW posted:

B&W Wednesday  5/9/18

one of my favs... can you find the four modes of transportation depicted in this photo?

briansilvermustang posted:

would that be a PA PA?

give your loco some class!

Betty Grable running Lionel steam.