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It's TEAM TRACK TUESDAY January 29, 2019 FINAL WEEKLY EDITION!   Sorry to be late with this thread today, however, sometimes work beckons all my attention.  

After nearly 2 and one half years of  the weekly TEAM TRACK TUESDAY thread, the challenge to create new team track material each week has become too great for me.   My ability to come up with new scenes has been pretty much exhausted. Whew!!  So with that, I think its time for TTT to come to a close.  As they say in show biz " shows open and shows close".  Please read on.

 I've totally enjoyed viewing scenes by all those who have contributed over the time TTT has run!    Members of the OGR Forum are a immensely talented and creative bunch of folks and many of you have made some outstandingly stunning creative contributions over the life of this thread.  Mark Dif and Brainsilvermustang have been regulars from almost the start of TTT..... thanks guys!  

When I began this thread it was my intention for members to possibly become inspired by the idea of changing team track scenes on their railroads, thus opening up a new dimension and regular rhythm of creative play for all involved.  A by - product would be that by sharing our scenes each week on TTT we could inspire one another.   I certainly hope this thread has done just that.  

Having said the above, if anyone would like to take over starting the TTT thread each week, please feel free to have at it.  If not, I will continue this thread on a non-regular periodic basis and call it ON THE TEAM TRACK!  ( I'm sure my creative juices will flow again or the Muse will strike or whatever)   

Meanwhile my photo this week is of empty team tracks ... as team tracks sometimes are in the real railroad world.   Please do go ahead and post any photos of team track operations on your railroad.  As always real world railroad  team track photos are welcome too!   Thanks again for stopping by the TEAM TRACK and perhaps I'll see you on the TEAM TRACK sometime in the not so distant future! IMG_0074

Cheers and Happy Railroading,

Patrick W  

CEO - The Free State Junction Railway 

" Where the music is sweet and the trains always run on time"

Home Office - Patsburg, Maryland 

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Trumptrain,

I’m sorry to see your posts go. Tuesday always is a very busy day for me and I only have one finished team track on my layout which is why I couldn’t participate often! I’ve always considered TTT and SS to be original threads before the barrage of “what day is this “ threads! I play in a band that rehearses on Tuesday. We could use a trumpet player to blast out those high notes now that you’ve got more spare time! Anyway, thanks for the weekly threads. I did get a lot of inspiration from yours and the other photos that were posted. Here’s a final photo of my team track! Thanks!

NYC 8504 slowly pushes a box car to the ramp while the boys waiting to load the are thinking “hurry it up would ya “!

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Patrick, Thanks for two and a half years of great stories and pictures.  TTT was a prime example of why many of us got involved with toy trains all those years ago.  A toy and our imaginations would transport us to wherever we wanted to go and transform the world around us into whatever we wanted it to be.  Your posts and all who contributed was truly inspirational.  Alas with no layout I was only able to admire but not contribute.  I'll be looking forward to OTTT.

Thanks for 2 and a half years of creativity Patrick - although I wasn't always able to "stop by" during the week, I appreciated the posts very much.

I do understand the "fatigue" side of this, SWSAT is coming up on four years and it's hard sometimes to get it going every week - even though I've always had help.

 

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Thanks guys for all your kind words!  Remember the team track has not disappeared into the weeds and will still appear as ON THE TEAM TRACK periodically.   

Rich Murnane - it was your creation of  SWSAT that inspired TTT.  Thanks for the inspiration ... and WOW coming up on 4 years with SWSAT is quite a momentous occasion!!  Congratulations!! That anniversary will be a great celebration of switchers for sure!!  I'll see you this you this Saturday riding the switcher!  

NYC Z - Man - your scene shows the classic team track!  I like it very much and I love the B&M boxcar spotted next to the K line unloading ramp!  Very cool!

Coach Joe - thanks for stopping by as always!  I love what you said about toy trains and imagination ... awesome!

Brian - as always you come up with the perfect prototype photo! " refueling" Thanks again for all your weekly contributions to this thread!

RPM Cobra - nice photo!  The arrows coming and going  Most appropriate! 

Clarence - so happy to hear that TTT provided inspiration for you to scratch build accessories! 

Thanks to all the others who commented this week and again thanks to all those who contributed photos and commentary since the start of TTT ....   be it once or once in a while or just by showing up to take a gander at the weekly happenings on the team track.  It was truly all of you who made this thread a great run!   See you all on a team track somewhere down the line!

Patrick- this was, and will continue to be, a great thread. I can honestly say that finding this thread was what inspired me to build my Team Track area. It has been fun, but hard to keep up each week. Your creativity, and collection of cars, trucks, people, and "stuff" for the scenes you created each week is amazing.

Keep it up- I'm sure you will get inspired again soon.
Thanks for all you did to keep it going.

Bob

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trumptrain posted:

Thanks guys for all your kind words!  Remember the team track has not disappeared into the weeds and will still appear as ON THE TEAM TRACK periodically.   

Rich Murnane - it was your creation of  SWSAT that inspired TTT.  Thanks for the inspiration ... and WOW coming up on 4 years with SWSAT is quite a momentous occasion!!  Congratulations!! That anniversary will be a great celebration of switchers for sure!!  I'll see you this you this Saturday riding the switcher!  

NYC Z - Man - your scene shows the classic team track!  I like it very much and I love the B&M boxcar spotted next to the K line unloading ramp!  Very cool!

Coach Joe - thanks for stopping by as always!  I love what you said about toy trains and imagination ... awesome!

Brian - as always you come up with the perfect prototype photo! " refueling" Thanks again for all your weekly contributions to this thread!

RPM Cobra - nice photo!  The arrows coming and going  Most appropriate! 

Clarence - so happy to hear that TTT provided inspiration for you to scratch build accessories! 

Thanks to all the others who commented this week and again thanks to all those who contributed photos and commentary since the start of TTT ....   be it once or once in a while or just by showing up to take a gander at the weekly happenings on the team track.  It was truly all of you who made this thread a great run!   See you all on a team track somewhere down the line!

Thanks Trumptrain the selling point for me was the mustang in the drive through

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   2/19   "T T T"...         have a good one...

Great pictures BRIANSILVERMUSTANG but it looks like the old model T's are so lite weight you could load them by hand ?

          that's for shipping, they get their V-8's and 315's at their destination...

 

 

 

 

That model T has mustang motors

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                                      Happy "TEAM TRACK TUESDAY" !

 

 

Brian

Thanks  for posting this I’ve been looking for years for pics like this  of the Mopac There’s one of those containers sitting by our shop that’s kind buried but you can still see one full side of the Mopac logo I will try to get a pic of it one day and post it 

FDFBCF3A-6D33-4071-B95A-011BABD674CEB2B38F13-8945-4D6C-848D-F8999B15274F Patrick  

thank you for this thread I just bought a crane and start posting here but sounds like it’s not total gone. Here’s my bosses “team track” Operation they bring boxcars in loaded with  roofing shingles unloads them on some flatbeds and deliver them throughout the city.  I’ve been meaning to post this for a while but I always forget it.

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                  2/26  " T T T "      have a great day everyone !

 

         ran across this freight building and loading dock,

                                in Holgate, Ohio  Saturday on our road trip...   pretty cool !!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    someone else's road trip in 2009....  http://www.n8rrb.com/trains/trips/02152009/

         

 

         On the east side of Defiance are a couple of large customers, one looks like a steel mill and the other an autoparts supplier. A small yard also parallels the B&O main. An unknown CSX locomotive was coupled to caboose CSXT 900001 on the spur into the plants. Further east is Holgate where the B&O crossed a N&W (ex-NKP, Toledo St. Louis & Western) line. A depot/freight office sits on an angle at the former diamond location and is used by CSX MofW.

 

                                                        here it is in 2000...

                                https://www.west2k.com/ohstations/henry.shtml

 

 

 

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lee drennen posted:

FDFBCF3A-6D33-4071-B95A-011BABD674CEB2B38F13-8945-4D6C-848D-F8999B15274F Patrick  

thank you for this thread I just bought a crane and start posting here but sounds like it’s not total gone. Here’s my bosses “team track” Operation they bring boxcars in loaded with  roofing shingles unloads them on some flatbeds and deliver them throughout the city.  I’ve been meaning to post this for a while but I always forget it.

This post illustrates the versatility of the Team Track. You might find almost any type of car with almost any cargo spotted on a team track. For several years a team track in Somerset, Pa would periodically have a tank car spotted that tank trucks would load from. It was glycol being used in some local process. Sorry I never took a pic because I model that now on the Plywood Empire Route.

Lew

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          3/5  " T T T "...          working on the team track...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brian strange thing I noticed is that the Southern pulled a ton of those Rail Box cars!   And I saw where Southern was storing them and had to move a bunch to another yard.    I wonder if they owned Rail Box??

EDIT: UGGGG I googled Rail Box.    Its a co-operative company like Trailer Train ... 

Jim

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geysergazer posted:

Ya, Railbox was a way to get around old ICC regulations that said once empty a car had to be returned [empty] to it's ownership railroad. By pooling ownership each car when empty was simply sent on to the nearest customer with a load, a lot more efficient with a lot less empty car-miles.

Lew

Lew 

I  remember when I was a kid seeing those new rail box box cars these days they’re doing that with Container chassis like Happag Lloyd and so on. used to we had to return the chassis back to the Depo or get a chassis from the Depo for an evergreen box or a Happag box or OCL box now they have a pool we’re all them no matter what the steamship line it is they’re all in one pool called the Midwest chassis pool so you can put an Happag box on hangin chassis and so on  it is so much easier and time saving now in the old days it was a pain to drive all way across town to get a certain chassis for a certain box you would spend up to three or four hours just get your load or empty ready and then drive three hours to your customer 

geysergazer posted:

Ya, Railbox was a way to get around old ICC regulations that said once empty a car had to be returned [empty] to it's ownership railroad. By pooling ownership each car when empty was simply sent on to the nearest customer with a load, a lot more efficient with a lot less empty car-miles.

Lew

Lew,  I'm not sure that was an ICC regulation.  Per diem rules are the incentive to get foreign cars off a railroad.  The local freight agent would accept loaded cars going over or towards the owning railroad.  Assigned boxcars were an exception.  Automobile manufacturers reached an agreement with the railroads that loaded cars could move in any direction.  The pool of cars assigned to an assembly plant was negotiated each year.   John in Lansing, ILL

ATTENTION: TRUMPTRAIN...

Regarding the photo of the semi-trailer parked on the tracks...

TRUE STORY...my brother-in-law's son actually did just that on the first day on the job after completing commercial driver's license school...he was fired at once...thankfully there was not an accident...no trucking company would hire him afterwards...wonder why?...

howard...

Not as good as most photos above, but here you go.

I think I posted this in the past, but, when you get old, you also meet new friends every day....

Lionel 9700 bc; PW trucks; my paint/decals/weathering. The car was done a long time ago - before I went mostly 1:48 (and before a lot of 1:48 was around). Photo is recent-ish - custom Dodge Airflow dump truck with scratch styrene dump body is by a friend and styrene master. He still regrets selling it to me.

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Guys...this is a great thread....!  Since it is like several others with a multiple theme made up of more than just traditional equipment pictures, and mostly individual scenes, it will be moved over to the photo albums category as have other threads of similar nature that are not primarily discussion threads.  Keep on posting...beautiful stuff here!

OGR CEO-PUBLISHER posted:

Guys...this is a great thread....!  Since it is like several others with a multiple theme made up of more than just traditional equipment pictures, and mostly individual scenes, it will be moved over to the photo albums category as have other threads of similar nature that are not primarily discussion threads.  Keep on posting...beautiful stuff here!

Thanks for the heads up Alan.

 

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