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briansilvermustang posted:
Brian;
Those are stunning pictures - do you know what station(s) they are???
Pensy Power on the Great Northeastern Railway.
Below, Pennsy Power on the 12" = 1 foot scale Pennsylvania Railroad in Sunnyside Yards.
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Bennington Curve on the Pennsy up the Hill from Horseshoe Curve (L). Big Ten on the D&RGW starting up the Front Range for Moffat Tunnel (R)
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geysergazer posted:
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: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.
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briansilvermustang posted:
Nice photo. A thousand words are there for one to think up.
This is sad....4935 looks fresh from the shop compared to this one
Wow. Gives new meaning to the term "dead line".
briansilvermustang posted:
By the star on the front of the pilot, I am guessing this is somewhere in Russia. It's got to be a cold place in order to have enough time to create such a masterpiece.
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Steamer posted:This is sad....4935 looks fresh from the shop compared to this one
I’ve heard of weathering, but THAT is ridiculous!!!
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lee drennen posted:
It appears to be GP15-1, Lee, not that you were asking what it was.
Thanks for posting the picture, Lee. I like the livery.
I think there is still a pair of them somewhere on the Puget Sound & Pacific but I haven’t seen them for quite awhile.
Larry
Larry. Here’s some more pics I took Thanks for pointing that out I have no clue what it was maybe a gp38 if it was a truck that would be different. It’s owned by the patriot railroad a switching co. that works around the metro area
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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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I remember watching that train whenever we were up at my Grandpa's cabin .
briansilvermustang posted:
Hey, nice picture of the GM&O Alco RS3, interlocking and depot at Delavan, IL. Looks like post 1972 merger of the IC and GM&O since the Northbound on the Peoria Dist. is lettered Illinois Central Gulf. The GM&O 1520 is on the "Jack Line". Thanks for posting Brian!
Rusty
Two photos of Metroliners I shot in the late seventies. The one without the cooling blisters on their roofs is near Zoo Tower. The other revamped liners is along the I95 corridor in Tacony.
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For something a little different, here is a shot I took in Reading Terminal on Market St. in Philadelphia in 1972.
Bob
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Patrick just what is that Green and Black beast?
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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briansilvermustang posted:
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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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.
Beware posting pics of your trucks. I joined in on one of those threads and posted pics of my 83 cabover Freightshaker... and soon the truck pics were deleted.
Enjoy the truck pics while you can!
Andre
yup...they'll be gone by morning
Yes we remember that day we’ll when I post my trucks I make sure it is train related anymore.
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Good morning!
Motive power on the Dents Run Railroad:
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
Passenger service was normally handled by this Brookville Locomotive Works doodlebug.
Lew
Lew
I really like that rail truck
laming posted:Beware posting pics of your trucks. I joined in on one of those threads and posted pics of my 83 cabover Freightshaker... and soon the truck pics were deleted.
Enjoy the truck pics while you can!
Andre
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Dan Padova posted:
Now Dan, theres A LOT of HUMOR in this photo and all of it is GOOD! LOL!!
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
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Patrick, those guys unloading at the team track are gonna need some serious help with that lumber.
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briansilvermustang posted:
Sweet!!!
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Wow. I knew a guy who hauled coal in a 26' dump trailer behind an H model. IIRC it had a Mack Quadraplex transmission. 4X4, two four speed boxes in a row so 16 gears. He said all you did all day was shift gears.
Lew
LaramieJoe posted:
I will take your word. The wife said she was on a cruise to Mexico
lee drennen posted:
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.
geysergazer posted:Wow. I knew a guy who hauled coal in a 26' dump trailer behind an H model. IIRC it had a Mack Quadraplex transmission. 4X4, two four speed boxes in a row so 16 gears. He said all you did all day was shift gears.
Lew
Thanks Lew
My dad drove one of these had a triplex in it
Steamer posted:lee drennen posted: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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I like how the Hogger is leaning forward as if helping the 5632 along.
Lew
Brian, nice pic of some real railroad operations. The operator watching as that freight goes in the hole. I can almost hear the chant of that 567.
Lew
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My first submission to this thread. A son congratulating his father upon retirement, both Frisco engineers. It is a bit of a shame the locomotive was not in Frisco paint. I worked with both of these wonderful guys.
photo credit: SF Thompson, Jr
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Apples55 posted:
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:Apples55 posted: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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briansilvermustang posted:
Love the whole scene. The switcher leaning on the curve, the semaphore and building and especially the black VW. I had a used black VW with an accordion sunroof back in 1969. Oh the memories!
briansilvermustang posted:
Brian or anybody:
What RR is this, and where is it located? I really like that scene, too.
Andre
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Eggcellent, Lee! That H Model is wonderful. The guy I knew pulled a coal bucket with the twin-screw version.
Lew
laming posted:briansilvermustang posted:
Brian or anybody:
What RR is this, and where is it located? I really like that scene, too.
Andre
Black Fork Junction ~ DT&I. See the Railfan & Railroad link, LAMING.
http://railfan.com/the-ironton-run/
Rusty
Tnx, Rusty!
geysergazer posted:Eggcellent, Lee! That H Model is wonderful. The guy I knew pulled a coal bucket with the twin-screw version.
Lew
Lew
thanks haven’t heard twin screw since my dad passed away thanks
Thanks Brian for the C&O post
I'm so old I remember pulling mobile homes with the snub-nose version of that tractor. That was a weird old truck. Air brakes, a gas V8 and an Allison automatic.
Lew
Ya, the only way to get a Coke, ginger ale or 7-Up was in a Highball.
Lew
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.
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.
Tnx, Tom! I see the Southern car (much newer than the Vermont car) follows the new regulation-no ladders to the roof.
Lew
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Improbable "railroad" bridge:
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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This 19X25 painting hangs on our living room wall. Friends who were living in Cheyenne bought it for a buck at a yard sale.
Lew
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My Sis in the cab of a B&O F. At the old B&O station in Pittsburgh. An excursion train waiting to start up the hill towards Sand Patch. The bridge overhead is the old PRR Panhandle line crossing the Monongahela. That bridge is now used by the T.
Lew
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can't help but wonder how much booze it took for that to seem like a good idea......
Eggcellent, Brian! I've never seen it done as was before my time.
Lew
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Young gazer examining a UP F.
The Park Special had just arrived in Victor, Id on that morning. Off the Tetons and Yellowstone!
Lew
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briansilvermustang posted:
Great photo Brian!
"Aerial view"
Turning 90 degrees and looking out the window, light planes pass by (from left to right) at about 50ft altitude approaching our airport runway. You almost look level out the window. The jets (charters and private) are a bit higher but on a steeper glide path (est 75-100ft).
Lew
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briansilvermustang posted:
Great pic. The guy on the right is really in style !
That B&A bobber would look great behind a K-Line B&A tank engine.
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Brian, what a beautiful pic. A scene repeated many thousands of times through the years in NYC and Chicago.
Lew
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Brian, you've rolled out the original red carpet.
briansilvermustang posted:
Aside from any other thoughts about that era, I have always admired the code of dress. Suits, ties, overcoats, hats and classic garb for women. From our vantage point of sweat suits and worse, those years look attractive.
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thanks Larry ! like seeing your photos too ! nice view from that theater car...
Picked these up from the Guinness Ambassador at the Church Hill Irish Festival (Richmond, VA) this past weekend. Imagine the Magooville townsfolk's disappointment to find out they are all empties.
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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.
Then 2yr old Granddaughter in 2005:
B&P nee B&O nee BR&P about two miles North of Adrian (according to USPS, Montgomeryville according to the name on the old BR&P station and Gumtown to the people who live there). Dad bought the reproduction railroad lantern for the occasion.
Lew
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Yesterday, my sisters, on a road trip, rode the Durango-Silverton. Funny thing, I think they actually thought I wanted pictures of them.
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briansilvermustang posted:
I wonder if this is the same OB that I seen at the Museum of Transport near St.Louis, a few weeks ago? Also, thanks for posting, Brian!
Rusty
Ran across these pics I took waaaaay back in '98, standing on the platform at Johnstown. Taken with the second digital camera model Kodak manufactured (1 megapixel).
Triple Crown Roadrailer comin' atcha'!
Next was the reason I was on the platform:
Lew
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here's some more Roadrailers and Amtrak Lew...
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Brian, I see what you did there
Lew