My boss stored about 100 of those trailers on our yard a couple years ago we pick them up at Edwarsvile Il. And pull them to the yard it was a lot of fun. Here’s a pic of me getting ready to hook one. Then last year I caught this guy rolling through St. Louis
Great pics, Lee.
I don't understand why the Roadrailer idea didn't catch on. When Santa Fe did testing IIRC they found an astonishing fuel saving.
Lew
Here is one I took from today
Catenary poles for the trolley have been relocated and it’s now possible to get a picture pole free of the engineers side of the locomotive .
I would sure like to see this back on rails pulling excursions from Calgary to Banff or Lake Louise and back.
That’s my fantasy as was seeing a UP Big Boy back running again lol
Second picture includes my personal assistant Lola
Al
Kinda like this photo from approximately 1946
Double headed Steam with perhaps 2816 and 5931 charging up the Big Hill
Al
Neat pic, Brian: Amrak Alco Under Catenary.
Lew
Dad with #765
Someplace-or-the-other, Ohio.
Lew
Twofir Tuesday. " The Mighty J ... Powerful Emergence"
trumptrain posted:Twofir Tuesday. " The Mighty J ... Powerful Emergence"
Awesome Patrick! Love that smoke!
Here’s some med boxes I took personally I like the bottom container paint scheme 
Well, three pics actually
:
Eastbound Capitol running [very] late
A couple miles East of Meyersdale, Pa
That's what once was the Western Maryland bridge over the B&O.
Pics taken in '98 with a Kodak digital camera.
Lew
"Mountain Division switch job"
Lew, Very nice real-life shots. I saved them all because they are instructive, giving excellent examples of the terrain in which RRs can be set. The natural colors are especially informative, also, with the rocks and bridge you shared with us....
...being images worth trying to attain on a layout, IMO.
Your photos have helped assure me I did not overdo my weathering of the layout bridge seen here; however, I can see from your photo that I could have been bolder with weathering this bridge...
Also, I always felt I should have/could have given the bridge abutment some serious weathering and regret that I did not, especially judging from your photograph. I appreciate your contribution of these photos to this thread very much, indeed.
FrankM
Moonson posted:Lew, Very nice real-life shots. I saved them all because they are instructive, giving excellent examples of the terrain in which RRs can be set. The natural colors are especially informative, also, with the rocks and bridge being images worth trying to attain on a layout, IMO.
Your photos have helped assure me I did not overdo the bridge, here,
but I always felt I should have/could have given the bridge abutment some weathering and regret that I did not.
FrankM
Yup, your bridge is just right wrt weathering. B&O and WM is/were very interesting examples of mountain railroading between Pittsburgh and Cumberland. Gentle grades for many miles following the Youghiogheny River on the West and heavy short grades on the East getting up to Sand Patch and Deal. That was my stomping grounds for 11yr and I'm sorry now I didn't take a lot of pics but that was mostly pre-digital and film was expensive.
Lew
3rd class train waiting for the 2nd class train to pass. The engineer always had his camera in his grip.
Good days (except for that 70's hair).
David Townsend photo.
Rob Leese posted:
3rd class train waiting for the 2nd class train to pass. The engineer always had his camera in his grip.
Good days (except for that 70's hair).
David Townsend photo.
Don't knock it. At least we had hair in those days.....LOL
Took this in East St.Loiis
briansilvermustang posted:
I wonder what the purpose of those rings on that boxcar are for. If the train is moving at any speed they won’t prevent damage to the tank as the train will not be able to stop that fast.....::.
A hundred pages and still alive . . . that's success.
Heading towards 101:
7yr old gazer looking for a train somewhere between Liberal, Ks and Dalhart, Tx.
Aha!
And yes, on the Rock Island. I can't tell from the pic whether those are passenger cars or box cars because of the dust. That dust makes me think he's really rolling so that may well have been The Imperial. From the. shadows it was noon-ish and that agrees with my 1958 Rock Island time table and it would have been very much like my Dad to plan a roadside lunch stop at the right time to catch a passenger train.
Lew
GREAT photos Lew !!! awesome !
Congratulations Brain!!!!
briansilvermustang posted:
GREAT photos Lew !!! awesome !
Dad obviously had fun setting this up. Of course it helps that he was an excellent photographer.
Lew
Thanks Patrick !
especially for all the great photos you have posted here
geysergazer posted:
. . . I can't tell from the pic whether those are passenger cars or box cars because of the dust.
Lew
It's a passenger train, all right, and I would agree with you that it is the Imperial. Taking a look at the track, you can see why it was always a rough ride on the Rock Island. But it was a fast rough ride.
And as an aside, last weekend marked 39 years since the Rock Island shut down forever.
Nice photo, Brian! Fireman's door open and he has his foot propped on the frame. Rounded nose looks like an Alco.
Lew
Saturday's six.
Aha! Steam turbine electrics, predecessors to the UP Big Blows.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..._turbine_locomotives
Lew
THANKS LEW
Seven for Sunday. " Traffic - Emerging J - Emerging J different angle - Grade Crossing - Unloading - Passing Through - The Water Stop"
Wow, Brian, talk about trains, in those days, having the right-of-way and taking precedence over other elements in daily life, as some of us try to figure out how close to have the 
trains pass to neighborhood elements on layouts...!
Thanks for sharing that one!
FrankM
Nickel Plate
briansilvermustang posted:
I like this pic, I cropped it and set as my background on my puter.
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