Oh, MAN !!! That's a 3 dimensional History book you've come up with ! Is that covered hopper permanently grounded (track/trucks gone)? LOVE the sign on the ditcher. These machines would be great subjects for SS Ltd, Alloy Forms or Woodland Scenics in Horribly Over sized or Normal scale...or scratch projects in a scale one can SEE (O,G,F). Keep up the inspiration, Thanks ! Bob C.
Hello I thought it was time to bring this thread back up front. Here are a couple house's. These are in Twinsburg Ohio the blue one is on RT 14 just off the square and the gray one is on the square.
Have nice day Frank
Boy, do I love Victorian-style homes! Thanks for posting these, Frank. As soon as I saw them I knew exactly where they were located; just down the road from Sedlak's.
Tom
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Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
I am in the process of doing sort of the OPPOSITE of this thread. I have built up a personal library of photos of interesting places to model. Now I am sorting the two-thousand or so of local and regional interest as a historical photo collection I am donating to a major university archive. But I am scanning the ones I have any distant expectation of using myself, or wanting to share. Many I have already uploaded on my railimages account.
I located a place out-of-state to send these... Cammie G.Henry Research Center. Northwestern State University, Watson Memorial Library · Natchitoches, LA
“This picture taken by Joe Uhrbah, the undersigned May 27, 1949, at Natchitoches Louisiana. Camera located 50 feet east (struck through out in a different color ink) west (struck through) west of Pavie Street crossing and Texas and Pacific tracks, facing east west. Joe Uhrbach.”
(I can't recall who makes the kit of the little commercial building at right-- or is it a kit at all? The house at the left side of the street is obviously a kit but has been disguised with asphalt shingles printed in a brick pattern over the scribed sheetwood...)
“This picture taken by Joe Uhrbah, the undersigned May 27, 1949, at Natchitoches Louisiana. Camera located 375 feet north of Pavie Stret crossing of Texas and Pacific tracks, and looking south. Joe Uhrbach.”
Stamped: Uhrbah’s Photo Service
Phone 4471
Natchitoches, La.
I would guess these were taken for possible use as exhibits in a court case, but there are no markings to indicate they were actually used as such.
This is part of my local collection- the Port of Corpus Christi Tule Lake vertical lift bridge for highway and rail traffic, opened circa 1959, photographed by me July 1970, demolished
Tracks at the port barricaded to protect against storm surge in Hurricane Allen, August 1980. (I call this my watergate picture...)
Most of the photos on my railimages account however are not local historic places, but ones that I have actually used in my modeling, such as this house belonging to a custe cousin that already has made its way into a model of sorts
...if a dollhouse can be considered a model...
Hello this is a cool thread so I thought I would add a snow shot for those of you you model snow.
This is the NS yard in Twinsburg Ohio there is about 4-5'' of snow down. Have a nice day Frank
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
Some older vintage shots...
I have now completed, as I posted earlier, donation of about 1250 photos to the Texas A&M University Corpus Christi library archives, including photos I took over the last 45 years of railroads, local scenes, news events, TV station operations, old houses, buildings, and motion picture production in Corpus Christi and surrounding South Texas towns. The university has just put on line a sample of about 100 of the photos and a searchable finding guide to all 1250.
I am a bit proud of it and want to show off. (I will claim I am just "sharing.")
http://rattler.tamucc.edu/dept/special/Anthony.html
Pictured is a Winchester & Western (short line) Locomotive crossing U.S. 50 West of Winchester, VA. The The W & W was nick named the Weak and Weary due to it's slow speed and wobbly tracks. It is now owned by the Unimin Corp and hauls sand from the Unimin mine in Gore Va. It also shifts cars for CSX.
The W & W is no longer the weak and weary.
Happy Railroading
Bob
Don't Ever Give Up
leighant I have now completed, as I posted earlier, donation of about 1250 photos to the Texas A&M University Corpus Christi library archives, including photos I took over the last 45 years of railroads, local scenes, news events, TV station operations, old houses, buildings, and motion picture production in Corpus Christi and surrounding South Texas towns. The university has just put on line a sample of about 100 of the photos and a searchable finding guide to all 1250. I am a bit proud of it and want to show off. (I will claim I am just "sharing.") http://rattler.tamucc.edu/dept/special/Anthony.html
That was very kind of you to do that...
0-6-0 Have nice day Frank
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
0-6-0 Hello this is a cool thread so I thought I would add a snow shot for those of you you model snow. This is the NS yard in Twinsburg Ohio there is about 4-5'' of snow down. Have a nice day Frank
Maryland and Delaware, Cambridge Maryland run around track/team track (I'm standing on the loading dock)
Team Track crane at York, PA. Recently dismantled.
Junction with the MDDE, NS Delmarva Division at Seaford, Delaware.
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
Hello yep Mike that is the yard if you look back at page 3 you will see the same yard. I took a pic of it in Sept 09 and it almost looks like same cars setting there just with snow. I drive past this yard on my way to work and see some movement but not like it used to be. Have a nice day Frank
Does anyone know if their is a model kit available of the Grafton Ohio tower? I am trying to Model Grafton Ohio on my HO layout.
Sunbury PA 4-7-2012 Pic of old Pennsylvania RR bridges crossing the Susquehanna river between Sunbury and Northumberland PA........which are still in use.
Here is a pic of an old coal dock sitting in Northumberland PA.
The old Reading Co. station in Northumberland PA.......the right-of-way is to the left of the stop sign........directly behind where I am standing for this pic is this........
Old signal bridge still standing watch.
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
How does one get around the Rail yard in Alberta in winter.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Scottie Does anyone know if their is a model kit available of the Grafton Ohio tower? I am trying to Model Grafton Ohio on my HO layout.
Not that I'm aware of, Scottie. I've seriously thought about using an existing tower kit (with a similar design) and just scratch-building the base with code 55 or 70 rail.
That would be a great project.
I have found some interlocking tower kits that are fairly close, sounds like kitbashing may be the best option. I might drive up to Grafton ans see if I can get some dimensions.
Old concrete coal dock siting in Birdsboro, PA.
Hello this is part of the Twinsburg Historical society and it is in down town.
and these are the tracks by my house they are getting new ties. Looking north looking south Have a nice day Frank
and these are the tracks by my house they are getting new ties. Looking north
looking south Have a nice day Frank
looking south
Have a nice day Frank
For a slight break from the recent recyled threads, I decided to resurrect this one again. Here's the lower half of the old Big Four Hi Tower (aka BS Tower) in Bellefontaine, OH:
Below is how the full structure stood for many years at the crest of the hill of this division point of the NYC:
Hello nice photos Tom I like the b/w one better.
A few pages back I posted a photo of a old brick bran. Well this past weekend I was able to go around it and take some phots of the back and side's.
This is the first photo a from a few pages back. same side front back side this is the back bottom of the silo there is a gully and thick brush about 10 feet from the back it was hard to get a good shot I was able to look in side the bottom and it looks like a old barn should suff all over the place. The up stirs was cool most of the wood was refinshed. Not if they still have partys there but it look ready to go for one. Sorry was not aloud to take photos of the in side to many people in there. They were haveing a yard sale. Thats how I got in. Have a nice day Frank
This is the first photo a from a few pages back.
same side front back side this is the back bottom of the silo there is a gully and thick brush about 10 feet from the back it was hard to get a good shot I was able to look in side the bottom and it looks like a old barn should suff all over the place. The up stirs was cool most of the wood was refinshed. Not if they still have partys there but it look ready to go for one. Sorry was not aloud to take photos of the in side to many people in there. They were haveing a yard sale. Thats how I got in. Have a nice day Frank
same side
front back side this is the back bottom of the silo there is a gully and thick brush about 10 feet from the back it was hard to get a good shot I was able to look in side the bottom and it looks like a old barn should suff all over the place. The up stirs was cool most of the wood was refinshed. Not if they still have partys there but it look ready to go for one. Sorry was not aloud to take photos of the in side to many people in there. They were haveing a yard sale. Thats how I got in. Have a nice day Frank
front
back side this is the back bottom of the silo there is a gully and thick brush about 10 feet from the back it was hard to get a good shot I was able to look in side the bottom and it looks like a old barn should suff all over the place. The up stirs was cool most of the wood was refinshed. Not if they still have partys there but it look ready to go for one. Sorry was not aloud to take photos of the in side to many people in there. They were haveing a yard sale. Thats how I got in. Have a nice day Frank
back side
this is the back bottom of the silo there is a gully and thick brush about 10 feet from the back it was hard to get a good shot I was able to look in side the bottom and it looks like a old barn should suff all over the place. The up stirs was cool most of the wood was refinshed. Not if they still have partys there but it look ready to go for one. Sorry was not aloud to take photos of the in side to many people in there. They were haveing a yard sale. Thats how I got in. Have a nice day Frank
this is the back bottom of the silo there is a gully and thick brush about 10 feet from the back it was hard to get a good shot
I was able to look in side the bottom and it looks like a old barn should suff all over the place. The up stirs was cool most of the wood was refinshed. Not if they still have partys there but it look ready to go for one. Sorry was not aloud to take photos of the in side to many people in there. They were haveing a yard sale. Thats how I got in. Have a nice day Frank
Grafton! Wonderful place & perfect for modeling! I've seen only one kit for a Big Four tower on stilts. That's strange, as there were so many of them in Grafton, Wellington, New London (Hiles), maybe Greenwich, Shelby, Marion, and probably a lot more places. The only kit I'm aware of is an older one that supposedly represented the Marion tower if I recall correctly. I think the manufacturer was JL . As I recall, the kit was sparse on detail, so I suspect you would do better to scratchbuild or kitbash it. Be sure to build the support structure from small rail and fine wire!
Thanks ACY for the reply.
It would be cool if I could find one of them kits. I'm not much for scratch building skills, but I could always add detail. I have been thinking about buying one of the interlocking tower lits and removing the lower level and then build the stilt platform. I did see a pic of a tower in Galion Oh that looked a lot like the Grafton tower.
I live near Ann Arbor and I heard that NKP 765 was headed up the old AA mainline to Owosso, so I checked it out and this is what I saw. The consist was NKP 765 & tender, N&W extra fuel tender, Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society Car, SS Burlington RR, (orange and green) GN dome car, SS Iowa Pacific dome car, SS ACL car, SS SCL car, SS W&LE car, SS NYC car, and two SS PRR cars with red windows. (SS= Stainless Steel) Wow that loco is amazing.
My Layout Photos- http://s1293.photobucket.com/user/ajwarshal/library/
Excellent thread and so helpful to us who do not live in the US.
Let's hope it doesn't go the way of the very helpful and terrific collection of adverts that was great until some spoil sport moaned about copyright infringement.
One additional rule I think would be of help, 'don't add quote to each post' otherwise the same photos get reproduced and reproduced and reproduced and that just takes up valuable space.
Thanks Tom!
Hello yes this is a cool thread. But let's expand it to the rest of the world. If there is something you think would be cool to add please do. I know most of the photos are of old stuff but if you think it would make a good model lets see it. Have a nice day Frank
Tstage, Nice thread to bring back, enjoying it immencely.
thanks and regards, Peter