a picture a day....

briansilvermustang posted:

 

                                                         agreed..........

                       a nice sunny, a little chilly day here in Ohio today

         the leaves are just starting to change here....will be raking soon....

                                          out on our morning walk........

                      now time to go work on the trains for a little while.......

Your place looks pretty special, Brian.  I’m starting a little project also.  Hidden under the mountain, but there for the curious. 

         thanks Ted.          you are building a wonderful winter layout ......

     I really like it, looks great !  enjoy seeing all the new details you add to it....

JHZ563, thank you for the explanation. I didn't know what I was seeing.

NJ Hirailers- Public Service PCC Trolley at the car barn.

PAUL ROMANO posted:

NJ Hirailers- Public Service PCC Trolley at the car barn.

You NJ Hirailers really know how to run a railroad.  

briansilvermustang posted:

http://carloadexpress.com/rail...eny-valley-railroad/

Yes, that is the angle we go into Pittsburgh following the Allegheny River on Rt 28.  Good photograph of the AVRR.

October 1, 2017

I thought I was about to see something bad this afternoon...

NJ Hirailers

NJ Hirailers

  NJ Hirailers

A C&O Allegheny rumbles through Coalwood as a NYC S-2 waits at the siding...

A single pic? How about over 170 of them?

I make a slideshow each year of the train photos I've taken. I usually show them at a local RR slideshow event, which will take place in a couple of weeks.

You folks get to see it before they do.

p51 posted:

A single pic? How about over 170 of them?

 

I make a slideshow each year of the train photos I've taken. I usually show them at a local RR slideshow event, which will take place in a couple of weeks.

You folks get to see it before they do.

Very nice, the guy needs to fix that tire though if he’s gonna haul a load.   Great show.  

TedW posted:

Very nice, the guy needs to fix that tire though if he’s gonna haul a load.   Great show.  

Thanks. I was wondering of anyone was going to notice the flat on that Amtrak baggage cart (I think I took that at Vancouver, WA).

For anyone who's curious, it's at 10:25 in that video listed above.

jhz563 posted:

Moonson posted:

Hi JHZ563, Are the silos / the whole complex for grain? Gravel? Cement stuff? (Shows how much I don't know, and haven't seen, huh.)

The hopper cars are all for coal, a mix of loads and empties.  This picture is a little misleading as it is taken from the top of a boiler structure, yet you can't see the boiler.  The blue structures on the right are for crushing and prepping limestone, which is used in the exhaust scrubbing process.  The light colored silos on the left have to do with ash collection and carbon reclamation from ash.

 If I can find a public use overhead view of the plant I will post it next week for clarification 

Here is an overall satellite view of the heart of the plant.  Very little of what you see is actually for making power.  Most of the equipment you can see from the sky is for environmental compliance.  

The black pile on the right is coal.  the grey pile on top left is limestone.  The tan area, top center is gypsum made from spent limestone in the scrubber equipment, used for making wallboard.  The top RR tracks are the NS line.The storage tracks just below that are for hoppers that bring in the limestone.  the majority of the tracks are for full/empty coal trains.

JHZ563, Thank you for so accommodating and thorough a reply. I try never to model something I haven't personally seen (which is why I have never tried to model Arizona desert areas, for example, being an East coast boy), so the satellite photo helps one imagine such a facility further.