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geysergazer posted:

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This is exactly what I've said over the years in regard to who is taking photos of a train.

If it's a woman behind the camera, the kids will have to be as close as possible to the locomotive, usually taking a great deal of time to do so (to the annoyance of the other railfans who don't want a shot with her kids in it).

If it's a guy taking the shot, the kids will be next to him and out of the photo completely (or ducking into the shot quickly and getting out as fast).

p51 posted:
geysergazer posted:

614 at Somerset, Pa, c. 1980DSCN0652

This is exactly what I've said over the years in regard to who is taking photos of a train.

If it's a woman behind the camera, the kids will have to be as close as possible to the locomotive, usually taking a great deal of time to do so (to the annoyance of the other railfans who don't want a shot with her kids in it).

If it's a guy taking the shot, the kids will be next to him and out of the photo completely (or ducking into the shot quickly and getting out as fast).

At that particular moment no one wanted to get any closer to the 614 than my Dad and my Son were standing. Ross Rowland had just worked her so hard coming up the hill from Rockwood to Somerset (pulling a long excursion train of mostly heavyweight equipment, including a full-length Dome car) that the paint was still smoking on the smokebox and there was so much heat radiating that it was downright uncomfortable to get any closer.

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

 

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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:

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

Lew

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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

98B67CF3-778E-4712-B4AB-1CECDBD40D218F10D459-D22E-4ABB-9954-CD2A2F64F8E3Steamer 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. 

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sorry I have no idea. My Uncle drove truck from the late '70s until he passed away in 2015. I truly believe he took pics of every load he ever hauled! And most have nothing written on the back. He took beams into downtown NYC and Baltimore in the middle of the night quite often. He hauled beams to a bridge in Steubenville , Ohio near me next to the  PRR bridge that G3750 is modeling.

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Good morning!

Motive power on the Dents Run Railroad:

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When my Grandma and Grandpa married, Harry Whitcomb, the Engineer on the line, fired up this Heisler, coupled up a flat car with a table and chairs on it and transported the newlyweds down Dents Run and across the West Branch to the interchange with the Pennsy Low Grade where they boarded a train for (ultimately) Niagara Falls.

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Dents Run RR crossing of the B&S (Buffalo and Susquehanna) and the bridge across the West Branch of Sinnemahoning Creek in order to interchange with the PRR Low Grade.

 

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Passenger service was normally handled by this Brookville Locomotive Works doodlebug.

Lew

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geysergazer posted:

Good morning!

Motive power on the Dents Run Railroad:

                DSCN3462

When my Grandma and Grandpa married, Harry Whitcomb, the Engineer on the line, fired up this Heisler, coupled up a flat car with a table and chairs on it and transported the newlyweds down Dents Run and across the West Branch to the interchange with the Pennsy Low Grade where they boarded a train for (ultimately) Niagara Falls.

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Dents Run RR crossing of the B&S (Buffalo and Susquehanna) and the bridge across the West Branch of Sinnemahoning Creek in order to interchange with the PRR Low Grade.

 

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Passenger service was normally handled by this Brookville Locomotive Works doodlebug.

Lew

Lew

I really like that rail truck 

briansilvermustang posted:

 

 

                      ROADWAY trucks on a train...

 

 

                        a  ROADWAY truck train...

 

 

 

          hey Lee,  these one's would look good on your train layout ...

 

 

 

 

 

Brian 

you are a mind reader,  I was just thinking  this week about making Revell white 3000 into a roadway truck I have the decals to make it  and put it on the layout 

LaramieJoe posted:
lee drennen posted:

EB2835AD-5230-40D3-AD9C-FE411EFD9412My sister in law took this for me while she was on a cruise last summer I have no clue where it is 

I am 99% confident that it's a port on the Yucatan Peninsula. Hidrosur is a Mexican company, if memory serves. 

I will take your word. The wife said she was on a cruise to Mexico 

lee drennen posted:

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Dad pulled a freight box in one of those before moving up to an F Model, then went to coal buckets. I remember him putting one arm thru the steering wheel and working both shifters. No air, no power steering, am radio,no air ride,had to read a road map, probably kill most of the guys driving today.

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Steamer posted:
lee drennen posted:

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Dad pulled a freight box in one of those before moving up to an F Model, then went to coal buckets. I remember him putting one are thru the steering wheel and working both shifters. No air, no power steering, am radio,no air ride,had to read a road map, probably kill most of the guys driving today.

That’s the way it’s done dad taught me that if you ever get both sticks out of gear just pull off the road and start over 

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jhz563 posted:

Well used rail in south central PA, strange white stuff everywhere!IMG_5404

You live in PA and you find that white stuff “strange”??? There’s a rodent from Punxetauney who would like to talk to you 😂😂😂

A lot of people would like to have a chat with that rodent along about now. January in March indeed. 5 degrees here in the Beautiful Berkshires this AM.

Lew

geysergazer posted:
Apples55 posted:
jhz563 posted:

Well used rail in south central PA, strange white stuff everywhere!IMG_5404

You live in PA and you find that white stuff “strange”??? There’s a rodent from Punxetauney who would like to talk to you 😂😂😂

A lot of people would like to have a chat with that rodent along about now. January in March indeed. 5 degrees here in the Beautiful Berkshires this AM.

Lew

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geysergazer posted:
briansilvermustang posted:

 

 

From the car that pic was taken in the late '60s-early-'70s. One does wonder what the guy is doing up there.

He's passing hand signals being given by another Trainman who is out of sight of the Engine Crew.  That way, movement can be made regardless of curvature or other obstacles to the Engineer or Fireman's ability to see the employee who is controlling the movement.  This has not been done (nor allowed) for years, as radio handsets have made it unnecessary.

Improbable "railroad" bridge:

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What is wrong with this pic (taken on the old Western Maryland between Meyersdale and Deal)? That long span couldn't possibly support a train. After abandonment DOT pulled down two bridge spans in order to remove one pier so the highway (see the guard rail?) could be widened. To complete the Great Allegheny Passage Railtrail a new curved span was dropped into place. All it needs to support is bicycles 

Lew

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The automobiles in that above PA S-1 are mid-1930's except possibly the nearest one to camera, partially obscured  by bystander.  That may be a 1939 or 1940 Studebaker....or possibly a Hudson.  Its headlights are not clear...if sealed beams, car would be 1940, when they were introduced. Of course, if during WWII, older cars stayed on road and photo could be later, but not earlier than 1939.

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