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Let’s Go for a Trackside Walk • One Mile South & One Mile North

CN Yard •  Pontiac, Michigan • January 4th, 2019 • 41°F, Sunny, 3 hour walk prior to sunset.

All images shot with an iPhone 7 Plus & all images artistically enhanced with Adobe Photoshop.

1 CN Pontiac

2 Wheel Blocks3 Track Lock4 Sand Nozzle5 Amtrack Truck6 Coach End7 Yellow Step Stole8 Cafe Car Door9 Two Yellow Filters10 CN PTCv211 Pepsi12 Sunset

Fine Dining • Let’s get dinner before going back to the Man Cave, they even have an OGR Forum Reading Room. We are now 1.7 miles east of CN Pontiac Yard. • Like to see MENARD’S manufacture a White Castle.

13 White Castle14 Dinner15 CN Map

I photograph for the fun of rail-fanning & the joy of photography. • •  Gary: Have a great weekend.

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Images (15)
  • 1 CN Pontiac
  • 2 Wheel Blocks
  • 3 Track Lock
  • 4 Sand Nozzle
  • 5 Amtrack Truck
  • 6 Coach End
  • 7 Yellow Step Stole
  • 8 Cafe Car Door
  • 9 Two Yellow Filters
  • 10 CN PTCv2
  • 11 Pepsi
  • 12 Sunset
  • 13 White Castle
  • 14 Dinner
  • 15 CN Map

Happy Friday! 

Busy week on the layout. Made a bunch more changes. Decided to get a few more realistic buildings & replace the Plasticville. New signals & crossing signals arrived as well. The farm is being relocated at request of my cow/horse crazy kids to a new spot w/ a new Woodland Scenics barn & more grazing area for the cows. 

While not a big fan of 60's Lionel, I do have a few items from that decade. 230 C&O FA-2 leads 1961 set 1643 through the rural countryside 
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Decided to keep the 132 station ( albeit in repainted form) as I needed something to tie in w/ PW Lionel. It was relocated close to it's original spot, but I added a spur on the rear for REA shipments. With the layout of the station, it works well. The new signals stand guard looking north.

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Built a small hill to act as a scenic block between the 2 tracks 
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few more shots of the station & hill - 
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Added an MTH farm house in the back corner. Having a farm house was on my list of must haves. 
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With the land left vacant from the farm move, urban development quickly moved in & added a road & country post office. The grain bin & corn field will stay put however. 
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2046 gets a highball as she pulls out of the station w/ a set of 2400 series Pullmans. 
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My new kitten Beto loves hanging out when I'm working on the layout & running the trains 
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Lorenzo & Lucia watching some trains in TN - 
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A chilly Fall morning finds NS SD60E 7017 (ex NS SD60 6640) departing Roanoke's South Yard with coal train 820
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NS AC44C6M 4074 hustles the NS geometry train westbound through Richland, PA on the Harrisburg Line
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NJT ALP46 4627 leads a mid day local bound for Long Branch through Red Bank, NJ on the North Jersey Coast Line
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NS ET44AC 3630 brings a westbound coal train through Glen Lyn, VA on the western end of the Christiansburg District
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My last train photo of 2018 was a good one! A pair of ex Conrail EMDs lead a short local past Jersey Pike in Chattanooga, TN on the last day of 2018.
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