a picture a day....

Gandydancer - superb photography!!!!!!  AND ....GREAT modeling

I second that emotion! Great pic and great modeling.

gandydancer1950 posted:

Starkweather Street Station.....

 Very nice indeed'..  Gandy, Is it a Clever Model ?  If so, you did a perfect job on it'..!!

Another day, another Dinner Train!

Well, the Dinner Train is the same but each day's switching work produces a slightly-to-somewhat different freight consist (behind the old Station on the East End Branch) waiting for the next morning's trip to Interchange.

trumptrain posted:

For this day:   Back in the fall of 2010, my very first York experience ... this 7 Up tractor/trailer was my first ever purchase at York.  Brand new in the box ...  not bad for $20. 

Patrick 

Sweet Diamond T!

trumptrain posted:

Gandydancer - superb photography!!!!!!  AND ....GREAT modeling

thank you......and same to you!

Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

gandydancer1950 posted:

Starkweather Street Station.....

 Very nice indeed'..  Gandy, Is it a Clever Model ?  If so, you did a perfect job on it'..!!

Yes it is....with some add on's and thank you!

geysergazer posted:

Christmas Eve, 1964 at the P&LE station on Smithfield St in Pittsburgh. Waiting for the Eastbound Capitol:

                    

Lower right corner, Mum and I sitting. As well as the two Christmas trees inside there was a big one outside in the old drop-off driveway, up the stairs and through the doors.

Very nice! I grew up in the east end section of Pittsburgh (East Liberty) but never got a chance to see this building until late in my teens.  Just graduating from Peabody High School in 1964.  The Grand Concourse as it is now referred to is the site of a great brunch every Sunday morning.   For some reason; those doors are locked every time I had brunch there.

Thank you for the picture

Peace

Arnold

Here is a detail of how B&O Gondolas on excursion trains worked:

Brother, Sis and wee-gazer. I don't remember how the steel floor-plate was attached but I remember being intrigued with how it moved when the train went through a curve. It's a bit hard to see but there are railings attached to the floor plate and then chains strung from those railings to the railings in place of the removable car-end.

NYS&W/ Rahway Valley RR AK (Arthur Kill) Bridge viewed from Bayway on the Jersey side. The AK Bridge is one of the largest of its type in the world. Howland Hook Container Terminal is across the river in Staten Island, NY. The AK Bridge belonged to the B&O Railroad connecting the once thriving huge B&O Arlington Yard and Cranford, NJ. Dec.86'

                                                                MY PHOTOS

                                                   Protecting the rear.

I put up one of these pics on the SWSAT thread and here is both pics from that day. Head End showing Pennsy Geeps long-hood-front practice.

Rear End:

A Baldwin Centipede Pusher shoving hard. Super-Power in-the-day @ 6000HP. Built and billed as fast passenger power the Centipedes were quickly re-geared and downgraded to Pusher service on the Hill.

After viewing all these terrific pictures, its time for a quiet lunch'..