a picture a day....

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.

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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 

briansilvermustang posted:

 

 

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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