a picture a day....

Great photos and stories everyone! I am sorry I don't have anything to offer, but it sure is nice to be able to come here and read all the wonderful stories and photos to take a little to just relax and forget about the real world! You guys sure know how to put a smile on a guys face!

I hope your all having a great weekend!

FOR TODAY:  "Tuesday morning at the yard."  

Nice switch tower, Pat!

Caught this old Boxcar in Venice Illinois the other day  

@lee drennen posted:

Caught this old Boxcar in Venice Illinois the other day  

AN oldie, but a GOODIE'...😁

Took these two evenings ago

@p51 posted:

Took these two evenings ago

Just beautiful Lee great pics

The construction crew is repairing the buckled brick pavement caused by the weight of the new delivery truck that the company purchased. They will replace the area with a concrete slab.

FOR TODAY:  " Way freight works Butler Junction .... as the Pennsy 44 tonner sits idling, Otto Greeley, the headend brakeman, looks down at a pile of ties and remembers his days working on the MOW crew.  He counts his lucky stars that his brother -in-law, a road foreman, was able to bring him on as a brakeman.  As a MOW crewman Otto worked blistering hot humid summer days doing heavy lifting of ties, rails, debris, and what have you.  All of this plus the extreme cold of bitter winters on the MOW plow team sitting up high in the flanger with no heater, clearing out switches in snow and blowing wind, digging out stuck freight cars and locomotives, and whatever else Ol J.D. Seavers, the plow foreman, would throw his way.   Oh yeah, as a brakeman Otto still has to deal with the elements in the summer and winter ( fall and spring are his favorite times of the year ) but at least the brakeman job is at worst bearable and at best very pleasant.     Otto's glad those MOW days are behind him! "  

Well Mack, the engineer, just gave two toots of the horn.  With the bell clanging the engine and cabin car creep forward.  Time for Otto to get back to work.  Got to move those hoppers to track five.  ......  

                                      And so it was ... back in the day.

🎖 As the meeting with the resistance Mademoiselle fighters comes to an end, the word spread through Metz, the Americans were in the forest.  Suddenly, a brass band appears along with town folk to welcome the Americans'. The band starts out with "Viva La France'... and the 'French National anthem'... 🎼  The American Soldiers appreciate the welcome'..

Ted - absolutely superb!!!  I LOVE IT!!!!

Looks like you were in Winlock, Lee.  Is the giant egg still there?  Been by there on I-5 no too long ago but haven’t been in town for sometime.  

Larry

@trumpettrain posted:

Ted - absolutely superb!!!  I LOVE IT!!!!

Thanks very much Patrick'... Something a little different from me'...Glad you like it'...🎺😃

Thanks for the like Gents'...chessie1971, Mark Boyce, Dave Ripp., and Sitka

Ted, your work is amazing. You are too young to have been in WW2, but your knowledge is impressive. Curt

FOR TODAY:  Over on the team tracks 1953  .... Roger kneels on the deck of this flat car, crowbar in hand,  as he pries the wheel chocks loose.  Simultaneously,  Ned and  C.J. remove the chains; all of which is necessary before unloading this new tractor.  And so it was ... back in the day.

@Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

I want that tuba band next year, for my birthday.  They can play On The Atchison Topeka And The Santa Fe on my patio.

Curt, Ted, Lee, Patrick; great photos and modeling.

New equipment being delivered to the mine.....

Ted, the choice of people, pics, composition and settings you produce are interesting and just plain fun!  I love your stories that accompany and explain the scene.   Very well done, as always...!

@Curt Henion posted:

Ted, your work is amazing. You are too young to have been in WW2, but your knowledge is impressive. Curt

Thanks Curt'.. Reading, and history.  Something that is not that popular these days amongst our young people'..🤬 And, when I was in the Army, we were still under WW2 regulations. The regs did not change until 1974.  I left in 73.  Many have stated the old regs were better'...