a Black & White Wednesday

 

 

  nmp...

Spanken new PRR S2 on break in / training trip.

 

 

 

 

In work clothes, and all dressed up.

Christmas 1958, first Electric train. Marx/Allstate set.

 

I took this two weekends ago at Chehalis, WA...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This was from our floor layout last Christmas

 

In the Wagon-Lits:

I've posted this elsewhere here, but what the heck...

 

 

Looks like a photo above of a Rock lsland powered "B" at the Colorado Springs station...a diesel l might buy, so will never be offered.

Some pictures of an old Marklin O gauge layout in a french castle in 1937. Many rare high grade collector pieces there....

Daniel

 

No high grade collectors pieces here just a one of kind Sofue ATSF Mike and some hand built flats and military heavy artillery and one really great smoke unit. 

Great stuff SNCF 

Erik C Lindgren posted:

No high grade collectors pieces here just a one of kind Sofue ATSF Mike and some hand built flats and military heavy artillery and one really great smoke unit. 

Good Picture, if you notice the first tank barrel is in travel lock. This helps the gun barrel from bouncing around and putting undue pressure on the barrel mechanism and screwing up a bore sight.

Erik C Lindgren posted:

Spectacular work, Erik! I especially love the Shermans. While there's no chains that I can see, you have blocking done correctly on the treads and best of all, you appear to have stripped off the machine guns*. That's something almost no modeler does but would be done in real-life!

*I served in heavy-mech units in the Army, so of course I'd notice this.

 

 

 

 

 

Was on a blog I follow...not sure if it has ever been posted here...I understand this is from around 1900 at Orchard Beach, Maine...that's all I know...

Howard...

 

 

I took this this morning, I love the American Flyer Burlington Zephyr.

 

i was debating whether or not i should save this for Monochrome Monday...

 

 

 

 

 

I took this photo in Manassas, Virginia on 6/6/15 after my sons and I rode on the inaugural run of 611.

What a great day! 

Pic taken from an open gondola coupled behind a B&O EM1 (their 2-8-8-4 articulated) on an excursion train Eastbound out of Pittsburgh c. 1957. Everyone wearing goggles to protect eyes from the steady rain of cinders from the exhaust. Uphill the whole way from Pittsburgh to Sand Patch Tunnel.

 

                  

UP 844 (then 8444) on a Sherman Hill photo-runby. Excursion train out of Denver for the 1963 NRHS Convention. Dad took this pic. I was running an 8mm movie cam. The fireman was feeding extra fuel oil to make smoke and red flame kept exploding out from under the firebox.

 

               

2124 and 2100 double-heading a photo-runby during a Reading Ramble c. 1958. Somewhere near Tamaqua, Pa. I remember getting a cinder in my eye from the smoke. A nurse on-duty on the train washed it out.

 

                         

Popi posted:

(A photo of a CN CPA16-4/CPB16-4/MLW FPA4)

Now, that's a passenger locomotive with some real acceleration -- 2 F-M's and an Alco.  I would have loved to have sat in the seat of that consist on the head end of the Cavalier.

 

 

 

D&RGW Royal Gorge paused at the bottom of the 1,100ft deep Royal Gorge c. 1963. One of my many favorite train rides.

Lew

 

                        

The car in the foreground is the Dome. The train stopped for 10min here on every run.

 

 

 

 

My Brother and I up in the nose of a Pennsy T1 (sitting at the scrapyard in Blawnox, Pa c1954)

                         

Lew

 

                                  THAT IS SO AWESOME LEW    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                    _______________________________________________________

 

                                            how many people can say they did that...

         

I'll second the motion. What an awesome memory. You need to show that off more often.

OK, here's another one:

I'm looking out the Fireman's side window of a Baldwin Sharknose sitting in Driftwood, Pa, c.'57. Note the freight rolling through in the background. Looks like a B&O Wagontop in the pic?

Lew

 

          more awesomeness Lew  !!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

briansilvermustang posted:

 

 

 

 

Eggcellent!

Lew

Steam locomotive no. 765...something about that sounds familiar...

(Photo removed to comply with TOS.)

B & O Mikado...

DT&I Inspection car # 9- Springfield OH - 1948 - {RICHARD KURTZ Photo} - Car looks like it might have been a 1946 or '47 Ford sedan. - on industrial siding near Maitland Tower,

 

Wreck site!

              

Wee gazer and his big bro watching a Pennsy freight roll by.....

Lew

 

The first superpower steam locomotive. Found this while looking for photos for an upcoming video of mine.

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briansilvermustang posted:

 

 

    nmp...

 

 

 

        

Brian, your pic looks to be 1939-1950-ish?  This one is early '60s from about the same spot! IIRC (vaguely) Dad took this pic from the Capitol coming into town in the early AM. This pic got me scratching my head over how we were at a different level from the coach yard below. Then I remembered:

            

Chicago was a large hub for passenger trains. Six stations. This pic taken of a page in a Santa Fe timetable. 

Lew

 

          very nice Lew !   I'm really liking all the photos you are posting !!   GREAT 

 

 

A few streamliners at the main terminal at Ophir

NKP 765 running through Jaite, OH in 2018, with a black and white filter added.

briansilvermustang posted:

OSHA alert!! ...

rush hour at the Baldwin Locomotive Works...

Late...but it still is Wednesday and a NYC too! 🤪

Tom

Oh NO... Mr Bill!!

I'm a wee bit late but couldn't resist after seeing Bob Hales's pic.

            

IIRC the name of that formation is Castle Rock. One time a local guy took us in his car up to the base of the vertical cliff and we got to look down on Green River.

I remember seeing Big Blows and Veranda Turbines but IIRC not first generation GTELs. Huh.

Lew

 

 

 

 

 

the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern RR version of an "all weather" cab?

briansilvermustang posted:

 

 

 

 

 

Hey Brian, that looks like the Speers, Pa. (Belle Vernon) railroad bridge, if it is, you can still see Norfolk & Western on the main span, facing I-70.

Rusty

I've posted this in another thread recently, but what the heck:

Nice suit Dave!!

overlandflyer posted:

the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern RR version of an "all weather" cab?

I would think she would be hot in the summer though!!  Would make in interesting tinplate conversion with a 610 Pullman and a 259E....

or a 4-4-0 chassis.....

I in the spring of 1990 in eastern Germany after the opening of the border between east and west

Arne

Rockford, Illinois.

Some of my favorites from my tour of the Age of Steam Roundhouse a few weeks ago.

 

Baltimore, 1943:

this gang looks to be up for a train ride...

me @ 3.

from Nov, 1955 issue, Popular Mechanics...