a picture a day....

"Long forgotten and newly discovered"

 Caught this guy sneaking through St. Louis the other day 

Rare little reefer sitting on the yard 

Threefir Wednesday.  " Shooting the Breeze"  " Back o Town " " Mountain Div "

Well, a video but....taken on the Oil Creek and Titusville mixed train. This fascinating railroad has a unique business model. They use tourist train ticket revenue to subsidize the freight side. When Conrail put this section of the old PRR Pittsburgh to Buffalo line up for abandonment Titusville businessmen bought the railroad so their several industries could still have railroad service. The problem was there is only several cars of freight traffic per day.....not enough to support the operation. So they turned it into a successful tourist railroad and they hang the freight cars on the end of the passenger train. 

Lew

Power on the OC&T is an ex-CN MLW M-420.

Mixed train on the OC&T. 

Lew

I remember watching that train whenever we were up at my Grandpa's cabin .

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Hey, nice picture of the GM&O Alco RS3, interlocking and depot at Delavan, IL. Looks like post 1972 merger of the IC and GM&O since the Northbound on the Peoria Dist. is lettered Illinois Central Gulf. The GM&O 1520 is on the "Jack Line". Thanks for posting Brian!

Rusty

Two photos of Metroliners I shot in the late seventies.  The one without the cooling blisters on their roofs is near Zoo Tower.  The other revamped liners is along the I95 corridor in Tacony.

PRR 6538 4-4-2 Atlantic E5s Double Header Passenger 194.

For something a little different, here is a shot I took in Reading Terminal on Market St. in Philadelphia in 1972.

Bob

Patrick just what is that Green and Black beast?

 Took this today in the East St. Louis been trying to get a good pic of this for months but it’s been on many sidetracks buried in other railroad cars 

Just enjoying a cup of coffee before work this morning,  took a pic of our messy work bench. 

coach joe posted:

Patrick just what is that Green and Black beast?

Coach - it's a battery powered switcher.  Briansilvermustang's photo link tells the story.  I took the photo at Schaefer's ( Sp? ) Crossing in Roanoke in July 2017.

" Western Maryland Passenger Service "

Good morning all it’s ok to have a messy work bench how would find anything if it was tidy. Here’s my pic busy week for me 

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Although assembled at the old Pennsy Juniata Shops the parts for this battery powered unit came from Brookville Equipment, nee Brookville Locomotive of Brookville, Pa. Here is another Brookville unit:

Still in operation at the Rockhill Trolley Museum. Powered by a Ford flathead V8.

Lew

Caught another Fallen Flag in East St. Louis 

Patrick and Brian thanks for the pics.  I want one of those battery powered switchers.  I guess it's another project to add to a long list of projects.

Young gazer seen here examining a truck under an Espee articulated Dining Car.

Lew

There’s my box. Better get moving 

took this pic on our yard back in 2014

Oopsie! That is one sad Alco.

Lew

My Dad in 1929 and 1999. He was the cook on a BR&P (Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburgh) Work Train for several years starting in 1928.

Yes, he went to work on the railroad at age 16, just after graduating High School.

Lew

GEYSERGAZER, It is very nice to see that photo of your father. It adds dimension to your very pleasant presence on OGR Forum. Good of you to share like that.

FrankM

Moonson posted:

GEYSERGAZER, It is very nice to see that photo of your father. It adds dimension to your very pleasant presence on OGR Forum. Good of you to share like that.

FrankM

Thank you, Frank

Nearly every B&W photo I have put up here he took. A lot of them I helped process in his darkroom. All tributes to him, really. All the great train rides I had as a kid were thanks to his  being an avid railfan.  Born in 1912, he died in 2016 a few weeks after his 104th. Think about the things he saw and the changes he witnessed in his long life.

Lew

Five for Friday! 

I love my job!  Specially when I get a challenge like this I’m just below Kingshighway in St. Louis at a dead end street had to blindside between these two buildings and had snow on the ground to top it all off 

now that takes talent. My Dad and Uncle could do that. This was one of my Uncle's "smaller" loads.

some of the drivers out there today are plain scary.

Steamer posted:

now that takes talent. My Dad and Uncle could do that. This was one of my Uncle's "smaller" loads.

some of the drivers out there today are plain scary.

Back in the mid 90s this was the probably only wide load I ever hauled on a flat rack container.  This is my 1979 international Transtar Noticed the four post on the flat rack that’s were the Mi-jack would lift it and l off the chassis and put it on the train. That’s me standing by my truck. Yes your right they are scary guys like your dad uncle and me not bragging are far and between. 

the second load was backed in

Steamer posted:

the second load was backed in

Dave

nice where’s this at