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helps keep the trains at play...... show us your picture...
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Western Maryland 734 entering Hellgate Bridge. Manhattan can be seen in a distance through the bridge on the "South Fork Railroad".
What a day this was...
The Great Thanksgiving Day Disaster (2016)! The Copper Cannonball laid over on her side! Oh the humanity of it all!
handyandy posted:What a day this was...
The Great Thanksgiving Day Disaster (2016)! The Copper Cannonball laid over on her side! Oh the humanity of it all!
I think I now where the former engineer of the Copper Cannonball is now....
Steamer posted:handyandy posted:What a day this was...
The Great Thanksgiving Day Disaster (2016)! The Copper Cannonball laid over on her side! Oh the humanity of it all!
I think I now where the former engineer of the Copper Cannonball is now....
Oh the humanity of it all!
Hey Bob, I'll flip you to see who goes first !!
twin bridges looking really good !!
briansilvermustang posted:twin bridges looking really good !!
Thanks a lot, Briansilvermustang. Those bridges were my first attempt at weathering simple toy Lionel bridges, and the result motivated me to dedicate a whole corner project (which will continue to be shown in subsequent photos) to their use, well beyond what I had originally envisioned and planned for them.
FrankM
PS. Thanks, also, for the several "Likes".
P.P.S. My Thanks, also, to mjrodg3n88 and BAR GO7#63, for the "Likes".
pick me, pick me !......
early morning Amrtak on it's way......
all year long....
Diverging Clear posted:
Diverging Clear, Thanks for your positive feedback. I appreciate it. All those products, including the suspect ivy, and the gravels, pylons, walls, and the "water" (produced by assiduously following the instructions for combining the ingredients and taking some liberties with the dyes) were purchased from Jim Elster's Scenic Express.
FrankM
Andy get to the clinic right away...they should have a shot for that.....
NS Executive train entering NYC via a lift bridge on the "South Fork Railroad".
mike g. posted:
Would you believe when I picked him up earlier this year, he was the first Star Wars toy I have ever bought? I always joked that I was the only toy collector on earth without any Star Wars, but as soon as I saw him, I knew where he had to go.
Chris, I still to this day do not have a Stars War toy! LOL
Those are not the droids we're looking for.
Great Picture Brian! Looks so real!
Docksider pulling power demo:
All postwar and postwar remakes. The log dump car. the horse car and the reefer are heavy operating cars, and the other ones aren't lightweights either. That little loco is a powerhouse!
Pete
Welcome to the Blueboard Central Division of American Flyer Lines
Hi J Daddy, Super use of available space, and the whole (above photo) landscape looks very handsome.
FRankM
good morning.....nice pictures everyone !
Machinist Herschel Haas approaches S2 2337 at the Caprock, Texas, engine facility, and prepares to check the brake rigging.
wow, nice control panel for your layout !
Larry, I sure am glad there are 2 chairs in your picture, cause it sure looks like too much for just one guy!
Mike, I really like your fueling platform, I also have one for my future layout and it really helps to see what others have done!
Guys
That is the control panel for the old Clinchfield RR. Way back
I was showing some visiting friends the local museum last week so I thought it would be nice to share some old old stuff. It's a nice little museum. I will continue one a day on the thread. The old box I posted last was a way they use to train guys (new employees) about the different signal meanings. Neat little homemade box.
Larry��
How about a twofer today? Note the brace for the legs of the sawhorse. I was preparing the upper level of my layout, when the sawhorse collapsed. I wasn't even near it at the time it went. All of my fake snow ended up on the floor. I got so disgusted that I went to Walmart and bought some white cloth material and used that instead.
An old favorite.....
I always loved this opening page Lionel catalog pic from 56.....I am a sucker for bow ties....
Peter
Clinchfield RR ticket window located at the museum.
Clinchfield Rail Road | |
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Dates of operation | 1902–1983 |
Successor | Seaboard System (later CSX) |
Track gauge | 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge |
Headquarters | Erwin, Tennessee |
strike a pose.....
one nice looking train !!
It's 6:30 a.m., and there's a lull in the activity at the Caprock, Texas, engine facility -- except in the locker room. The night shift is washing up, while the day shift employees are changing into their work clothes. The night crew left things in good shape. The engines for the locals are ready, the yard engines have fuel, clean windows and plenty of ice in their water coolers, and all road engines have been serviced and made ready. During the night, a three-unit FT A-B-B consist headed by the 175L arrived on the CTX, hours late because of a derailment in New Mexico. The 175 was replaced by three GP7's, which increased the horsepower by 9%, from 4050 to 4500. That doesn't sound like much, but the CTX will top every hill several MPH faster, and should arrive at Temple at least an hour earlier. The 175 will go out on a westbound freight this afternoon.
Passenger F7 A-B-B 307L-A-B will trade out with a two-unit PA1-PB1 Alco-GE consist on 2nd Number 3. West of Clovis, it will be up hill half of the way to Barstow, and the extra 500 horsepower will keep 2nd No.3 closer behind 1st No.3. 2nd 3 has the chair cars and more station work than 1st 3, thus the desire to swap engines during the station stop at Caprock.
Both consists pictured here have been fueled and serviced. Roundhouse Foreman Tommy Willis is frugal with compliments, but he's quietly proud of night laborers Estubio Cruz and Robert Hancock, who have left the cab floors of these consists clean enough to eat off of, and there is not one trace of a bug on the nose or windshield of either engine. That's the way they do things at Caprock engine service facility.
Heavy Traffic
How about some jets?
Loved them since childhood. My father grew up in Larchmont and could see the 4 track NH Main Line from my grandparents' yard.
Peter
Putnam Division posted:
Hopefully some of those memories are first hand.
An additional question for you, Peter...
Do you have any data on the short blade left hand semaphores that NH used? I've been looking for dimensions without success.
Regards,
Lou N
Almost missed posting a photo today. Clark W. Griswold got lost again, on the way to Phoenix, with Aunt Edna trussed up and strapped to the rooftop luggage rack. Here, the Griswold Family Truckster heads west out of Caprock, Texas.
am or pm.......