a picture a day....

Switching Coal Cars

@trumptrain posted:

For today: " This morning just as the sun was coming up."  This photo uses natural light.  

Patrick, great scene...very realistic!  The shadows and a darker background really add to the "dusk" effect...

In the department of a-prototype-for-everything, seen here is the Shawmut version of a unit coal train (wherein loading is taking place with the "train" in continuous motion under-power):

Those two SW 9s are dragging that cut of hoppers under the operating conveyor belt. I see a Crummy on the mainline so I assume once the last car in the cut was full they pulled onto the main, backed down, coupled on to the Crummy and headed North.

IIRC this was a mixing for pollution-dilution effort. To the right was a barge dock on the Allegheny River as well as a good sized pile of coal from local strip-mines. IIRC the barge coal was low-sulfur being brought in from who-knows-where and it was being mixed in with the local high-sulfur strip coal to bring the sulfur content down to meet then-current EPA regs.

c. mid-late '70s

For today:  " The MOW camp at night. "

@BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Johan, Great job on the weathering and also, I really like the low profile of your track.   What kind of track is it?  Looks wonderful!

Cheers, Dave

@trumptrain posted:

For today:  " The MOW camp at night. "

Really enjoy the way you stage your scenes!   They're always filled with plenty of activity.

Cheers, Dave

@darlander posted:

Johan, Great job on the weathering and also, I really like the low profile of your track.   What kind of track is it?  Looks wonderful!

Cheers, Dave

Dave. Thanks. They are MTH scaletrax.

Johan

Had the AC on one summer day when I snapped this pic

@BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Johan one of your best scenes and there are many! Nice work.

@PAUL ROMANO posted:

Johan one of your best scenes and there are many! Nice work.

Paul. Thank you Sir. 🤝

Johan

Finally got to the layout this evening. Please excuse the dust I haven’t been on it for months and pay no attention to Big Joe by the REA trailer he’s Ok he’s just taking a nap

Williams B L 2 's !

Running some freight cars.

I took these tonight south of the house

For today: " Empty car ready for return to owner."

Clifford, Those closeup photographs are exceptional!  I really like the 'partly white' pickup truck.

Wow, so many beautiful pictures, neat scenes, nice layouts. Trumptrain, I like the sunrise scenes, so innovative, Lee Drennen, the truck man, get Well, it’s nice to see your back here with those beautiful pictures of that nice Steamer going full speed ahead, CLIFFORD, neat pictures and a really nice layout, it’s a Wow. Geysergazer, Lew, the B&O hits home, one of my favorite diesels and color scheme. Wow. Happy Friday Everyone.

Boy  Larry ,  I couldn't agree with you more about  these  layouts  🤓......... but gee whizz....... how do I get over these guilty feelings when all I mostly do now is run trains instead of making  improvements on my layout ? 😶😉

@Dallas Joseph posted:

Boy  Larry , I couldn't agree with you more about  these  layouts  🤓......... but gee whizz....... how do I get over these guilty feelings when all I mostly do now is run trains instead of making  improvements on my layout ? 😶😉

Larry is so correct!!

@lee drennen posted:

Finally got to the layout this evening. Please excuse the dust I haven’t been on it for months and pay no attention to Big Joe by the REA trailer he’s Ok he’s just taking a nap

Big Joe needs to be a wee bit more careful where he takes a nap. He's awful close to some 21" rubber there.

Dallas Joe:  How to get over guilty feelings about not working and just enjoying running trains.  My solution:

1. Draw adult beverage

2. Put some pleasant music on radio

3. Drink Beverage

4. Lay on couch, close eyes , take nap

5.  When you awake, guilty feelings are gone!

My recipe anyway!

Don

DON ,  how did you ever get so wise ?   😉

Larry thanks for the well wishes I hope to get back finishing some Piggybacks and trucks soon

Lew you are so right that’s dangerous. After I loaded the pic that’s when I saw Big Joe napping.

Took this in De Soto Mo last Spring

@lee drennen posted:

Larry thanks for the well wishes I hope to get back finishing some Piggybacks and trucks soon

Lew you are so right that’s dangerous. After I loaded the pic that’s when I saw Big Joe napping.

Reminds me of a antidote a coworker told me back in the '70s.  He was working at a coal mine back in the '60s and decided to take a nap in the bucket of a front end loader.  Well, you can imagine what happened next.  He was fired, but it all turned out well.  He got a clean job working at the power company in the telecom department where I worked with him.  He was a good guy and had matured a lot since his days at the coal mine.

@Mark Boyce posted:

Reminds me of a antidote a coworker told me back in the '70s.  He was working at a coal mine back in the '60s and decided to take a nap in the bucket of a front end loader.  Well, you can imagine what happened next.  He was fired, but it all turned out well.  He got a clean job working at the power company in the telecom department where I worked with him.  He was a good guy and had matured a lot since his days at the coal mine.

Now Mark that would be spooky

Saturday morning dip at the swimming hole...

Hey Paul , nice attention to detail on all the activities 🤓.  Like that VW van, I have one but not with the open roof like yours.

Here’s Another one I took in DeSoto Mo. during this past summer

For today: " Early morning freight train with block of TOFC cars moves through Patsburg."

Another great scene Pat.

This would be a good one for a video 🤓

Patrick, great photo! It must be nice as its stil dark here in Washington! LOL

Saw the Amtrak test train along the new route from Tacoma to Nisqually today, including the infamous DuPont curve, but going VERY much slower than the speeds they'll run normal trains at eventually.
No clue when they'll start running trains there again...

At the top of the shot below, is where the train went off the tracks in 2017:

For today:  "B&O F3 AB units ease through town catching  the earliest rays of the morning sun."

Saw this old Fallen Flag in St. Louis this morning

P51, Lee, great pictures of a passenger train, concrete ties and seamless rails, smooth rolling and I’m sure it would be fun riding. You live in a great part of the country if your able to see the trains you show here on the forum. Thank you. Trumptrain, the lighting is right, the B&O AB is beautiful and rolling through some really nice scenery, downtown and around, Wow. Lee Drennen, good old St. Louis, a city like no other, I grew up in Flora, Illinois, so, I can appreciate your pictures, keep on trucking. Was that a UP Genset switcher you posted awhile back? Great pictures. Happy Railroading Everyone