a picture a day....

This picture turned up on the PRR Facebook group page.  I think it's a rather unique view of a GG1.

Mark, about 4mi South of Mosgrove is Adrian/Montgomeryville/Gumtown where my Paternal Grands lived, right beside the tracks:

Their house was 90 degrees to the right in this pic. Looking Northbound here, towards Mosgrove.

geysergazer posted:

Mark, about 4mi South of Mosgrove is Adrian/Montgomeryville/Gumtown where my Paternal Grands lived, right beside the tracks:

       

Their house was 90 degrees to the right in this pic. Looking Northbound here, towards Mosgrove.

Lew, was this on the west side of the river?  Adrian is up on the hill off 422 if I am right.

New yard lighting to help with nighttime crane and milk platform activities. 

Mark Boyce posted:

geysergazer posted:

Mark, about 4mi South of Mosgrove is Adrian/Montgomeryville/Gumtown where my Paternal Grands lived, right beside the tracks:

       

Their house was 90 degrees to the right in this pic. Looking Northbound here, towards Mosgrove.

Lew, was this on the west side of the river?  Adrian is up on the hill off 422 if I am right.

Hee. Mark, I'm going by Northbound/Southbound on the BR&P/B&O Buffalo/Pittsburgh. Yes, you are correct, on the West side of the river. Adrian is off of 268 towards Reesedale.

geysergazer posted:

Mark Boyce posted:

geysergazer posted:

Mark, about 4mi South of Mosgrove is Adrian/Montgomeryville/Gumtown where my Paternal Grands lived, right beside the tracks:

       

Their house was 90 degrees to the right in this pic. Looking Northbound here, towards Mosgrove.

Lew, was this on the west side of the river?  Adrian is up on the hill off 422 if I am right.

Hee. Mark, I'm going by Northbound/Southbound on the BR&P/B&O Buffalo/Pittsburgh. Yes, you are correct, on the West side of the river. Adrian is off of 268 towards Reesedale.

Yes 268!

For today: " Powered by steam, gasoline, and propane." 

Indian Motorcycle

For today: " Early morning switch job east bound. "

Even though I've seen one of these in real life, I still can't believe how tiny my Baldwin class 10 'trench' engine is in On30. It's the same size as the tenders on my Baldwin ten-wheelers!

the thing almost looks like a different scale, unless you look at the headlights and builder plate. The figures' heads are touching the ceiling of the cab:

All my other engines are ten-wheelers and I have a Whitcomb 50-tonner that doesn't get used much. All my other engines have wide contact 'footprints', so it's annoying to a degree that this engine which has contacts over maybe 2 inches, it will get caught on a turnout frog if it's going too slow. That doesn't happen on any of my other motive power.

Another B&O '50s excursion.

Again those Alco FPA2s are doing their duty:

Snow in the air which makes this a Maple Sugar Special and it's parked at West Salisbury, Pa on the Salisbury branch (a couple miles from Meyersdale, Pa. Do I remember the location, being 5-8yr old? No, but the next pic explains how I know  :

Click to embiggen and I think you can read the station sign.

Here is an interesting bit of operation Dad caught that day:

?? Since the principals are almost certainly gone all we can do is theorize so here is my take. The crew needed to run an errand (no idea what-could be as simple as fetching lunch from Meyersdale 2mi away) but it was cold so train heat had to be maintained. So leave two units coupled supplying steam and uncouple the lead unit to run your errand with....????

On Edit: I think Ima' start a thread to document these various railroad adventures of my youth. Some might find some of this old stuff interesting, especially if it was all in one location. How about it?

geysergazer posted:

Another B&O '50s excursion.

Again those Alco FPA2s are doing their duty:

       

Snow in the air which makes this a Maple Sugar Special and it's parked at West Salisbury, Pa on the Salisbury branch (a couple miles from Meyersdale, Pa. Do I remember the location, being 5-8yr old? No, but the next pic explains how I know  :

        

Click to embiggen and I think you can read the station sign.

Here is an interesting bit of operation Dad caught that day:

       

?? Since the principals are almost certainly gone all we can do is theorize so here is my take. The crew needed to run an errand (no idea what-could be as simple as fetching lunch from Meyersdale 2mi away) but it was cold so train heat had to be maintained. So leave two units coupled supplying steam and uncouple the lead unit to run your errand with....????

On Edit: I think Ima' start a thread to document these various railroad adventures of my youth. Some might find some of this old stuff interesting, especially if it was all in one location. How about it?

Excellent photographs, Lew!!  That is a good bit of snow that day!  Maybe the crew needed to get a snow shovel.  

I really like these photographs!  I think it would be great if you started a new topic on the Real Trains heading!

Thanks, Mark. I guess I'd better get to work. 

Lew,

Thank you, but no rush

For today: " A5 eases through the commuter station .... early morning east bound." 

For today:  " Hey Ernie!  Lets go to Kelsey's Pub after work!"  

Brian, very nice collage!!

Here is B&M # 256 ready to take the morning express through the Hoosac Tunnel.  Its late 1920's and things were pretty good in the club car last night...lots of Boston banker's buying drinks!

Don

Boston bankers, ahahaha....good looking B&Ms

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

What manufacturer made this car with the open end?

Ron

For today:  " A view from my bicycle."

Coal Tower area

PRRronbh posted:

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

What manufacturer made this car with the open end?

Ron

Ron. That is a scratchbuilt car and the end doors are 3D printed. I use MTH PRR box car when i start this project. 

Johan

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

PRRronbh posted:

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

What manufacturer made this car with the open end?

Ron

Ron. That is a scratchbuilt car and the end doors are 3D printed. I use MTH PRR box car when i start this project. 

Johan

Johan, that is really great how it came together and the doors very nice concept

About 10 years ago I took on a project of reverse engineering a box car complete with trucks and built it in CAD, I have never 3D printed it but might do that some day and may even have a door on the end.

sidehack posted:

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

PRRronbh posted:

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

What manufacturer made this car with the open end?

Ron

Ron. That is a scratchbuilt car and the end doors are 3D printed. I use MTH PRR box car when i start this project. 

Johan

Johan, that is really great how it came together and the doors very nice concept

About 10 years ago I took on a project of reverse engineering a box car complete with trucks and built it in CAD, I have never 3D printed it but might do that some day and may even have a door on the end.

Ray. Thank you. This was a really nice project. It's fun made it something different. The idea came from my friend Joey. Ray i really like your layout and everything what you 3D printed.

Johan

What's missing is Uncle Sam;

trumptrain posted:

For today:  " A view from my bicycle."

I had many views from my bicycle of the B&O in Valencia, Downieville, and Mars!

For today:  " Car Dept. is on site repairing a bad order vat car."