a picture a day....

lee drennen posted:

Wonderful photo Lee!!! 

That Mack H model must have several million miles on the clock by now .

Patrick. thanks for the compliment I'm pretty proud of this rebuild 

Lew. It's a Mack it's now just getting broke in at a million lol

NICE!

Brian, 928 and 929:

If you embiggen the pic you can see that the lead unit is #929.

For today: " Early morning commuters."

I took this pic a couple miles from our place, Oct 2015.

For today: " View from the yard office." 

The Plywood Empire Route and the old rich guy made an agreement to run his equipment as a tourist train.

So, after many years of vacancy the lights are back on in the old station!

The main lines are busy this morning...

Mack N Zee's produce stand during the day and at night.

Mack N Zee is a play on words named after my granddaughter MacKenzee.

End of the week. Have a great weekend! 

For today: " Smoking is permitted "

For today: " In between " 

The Interlocking:

What is now the Plywood Empire Route used to be a few miles of a Class I mainline. This was a junction protected by a manned Interlocking. Most of the mainline was abandoned following the Conrail breakup and what was once a branch-line is now a short stub siding where the old rich guy's equipment is stored between excursion runs.

briansilvermustang posted:

 

 

 

 

Brain

My email is not working 

Lee Drennen 

683 Weiss RD

Park Hills, MO. 63601 sorry I had to do it this way 

         got it Lee, thanks      have a great day !!

For today:  " The Mighty J "

The Meet:

{Well, not really}

The last time there was a meet at this spot was before the Conrail breakup. That is the daily Turn on the Plywood Empire Route, a 15mi remnant of a once-busy Class I Mainline salvaged at abandonment by a few local businessmen from Yinztown who wanted to maintain rail service to their enterprises. Oh, and that crack Varnish is really the old rich guy's 3 Budd cars and a salvaged F3 re-engined with a 567C Mill saved from scrap by the fitment of 645 Power Assemblies.

geysergazer posted:

The Meet:

                 

{Well, not really}

The last time there was a meet at this spot was before the Conrail breakup. That is the daily Turn on the Plywood Empire Route, a 15mi remnant of a once-busy Class I Mainline salvaged at abandonment by a few local businessmen from Yinztown who wanted to maintain rail service to their enterprises. Oh, and that crack Varnish is really the old rich guy's 3 Budd cars and a salvaged F3 re-engined with a 567C Mill saved from scrap by the fitment of 645 Power Assemblies.

Again, the meet proves' imagination is as great as education'... Great story'.. Gey'...

Nickel Plate Road no. 765 in Akron yesterday around high noon. This photo really illustrates the crowd that a steam locomotive can draw. Imagine this in downtown Fort Wayne year round. My photo.

She has aged well:

I took this pic in '82 or '83.

Day sha vu, I was looking on the Lancaster Pa. rail Webcam and saw something that looker very similar of the 611 visit there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ejEjn57h3A

John

 Saw this by the car shops in DeSoto Mo. this evening. The days are getting shorter sorry for the dark pic. 

For today: " Down on the farm."

Pennsyltucky backwoods railroading:

I took this Pic about a mile from Ed Abbey's (author of Desert Solitaire) boyhood home (Home, Pa on the Indiana branch of the BR&P RR). He wrote this old branch-line into his most literary work, A Fool's Progress.

Here’s one of my favorite All Nations cars I restored by repainted and decaling it.  

I love those All Nations Kits too.   Lee,  You did a beautiful job on this car'.. Nice work'.,