A rather dreary day to capture pictures...but it was warmish, not raining, and a short jaunt from where I live.
Another BR&P station; this one in Indiana, PA:
It's currently being used as a restaurant and is situated right along a single track freight (coal) main, running north/south through town, operated by the Genesee & Wyoming.
Across the parking lot is another building owned by an auto business but I am not sure if it was associated with the station, or was originally a gas station that was fixed up more recently to look as if it was part of the station:
Lastly, I enjoy building details so I've included the light fixture, window, and roof supports on the south side of the station:
Tom
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Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
I don't have pictures of anything, but I did see (on the internet today looking at a map from 1957) an old resemblance of a concrete ramp and foundation that housed a freight warehouse for trucks and trailers for piggyback services. Now it's a huge parking lot in downtown Tucson, AZ.
I was on that historical ariel map website to help me to model the NYC in 1957-65 in my own home town.
Part of it is helping me modeling accuracy.
http://www.downtowntucson.org/2012/09/student-housing-for-franklinstone-hits-a-city-council-road-block/
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Tom, & Tom...
I came across my photo of the Marblehead depot taken in 1998:
Below is the same view in October 2008.
Much of the text and photos from the excellent book you mention, Tom, are available in the publisher's link I provided above. It is in a .pdf format so any page, or all of 'em, can easily be printed.
Regards, Ed
Yes, the Lakeside & Marblehead would be a fascinating and challenging railroad to model. It was affiliated with the Shay-operated, narrow gauge Kelley Island Lime & Transport Co., which operated quarries on Kelley Island in Lake Erie and shipped the stone to a dock at Marblehead, Ohio. The standard gauge L&M served the Marblehead dock, as well as additional mainland quarry operations on the Marblehead peninsula, hauling the stone to a NYC interchange at Danbury. The large stone enginehouse at Marblehead had smaller narrow gauge stalls for KIL&T Shays (visible to the left) as well as larger standard gauge stalls for L&M standard gauge engines.
The Marblehead peninsula was also served by the interurban Toledo, Port Clinton & Lakeside Railway, later Ohio Public Service.
L&M's steam roster consisted of one early 4-4-0, followed by a succession of 0-6-0's. Toward the end of steam, the road had second-hand 0-6-0 number 4 (2nd); NYC design 0-6-0's 6, 7, and 8; and Lima-built ex-G.I. 0-6-0 number 9, which could be modeled using a stock USRA 0-6-0 as a starting point. The road dieselized in the late 1940's to early 1950's using two GE 70 tonners, followed by an SW7 and two SW8's. The line ceased operation in the mid-1990's.
Passenger service on the L&M was provided by a variety of equipment including a 1910 gasoline powered Fairbanks Morse Model 24 motor car and the "Red Devil", a 1916 55-foot McKeen car seating 48.
The definitive book is The Lakeside and Marblehead Railroad, by Dean K. Fick, Montevallo Historical Press, Inc., Columbus, Ohio, 2000 a.d. Most of the foregoing information comes from that excellent book.
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Yes, Tom, local limestone. Take a look here for some photos in her heyday of this relatively large shop for such a small operation. I knew a fellow, Bob Zephyr, who was a fireman on the L&M. What a great railroad to model! The wye coming off the busy NYC Main at Port Clinton, all those neat 0-6-0s, a gaggle of Shays and the lakeside scenery! They even had a McKeen motor car!
http://www.mhpress.com/LMRR.pdf
When you open this great .pdf collection of photos, scroll to page 28 and again on 35 and take a gander at what that enginehouse looked like in 1903-4!
Sadly, the engine house was torn down just a year after I took those photos.
Somewhere I have a photo of the Lakeside depot I'll try to post... it was built in the LS&MS style.
Take care, Ed
Is it constructed out of limestone, Ed? From the appearance it looks like regular brick but painted. I saw a number of house in and around Sandusky that were made out of limestone.
Hi, Tom!
Nice of you to resurrect this fine 'ol thread!
Years ago I visited the square roundhouse of the Lakeside & Marblehead Railroad near Sandusky, Ohio.
It almost has the same "Mission" style of the Santa Fe structure!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakeside_and_Marblehead_Railroad
Happy Holidays to All! Ed
Thought it was about time to post on this thread again. Below is a BR&P (Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh) station that I drive past twice a week in Shelocta, PA. Obviously it's seen better days but I enjoy seeing it, nonetheless:
More ATSF engine facility Albuquerque NM July 2014:
Backside of machine shop and transfer table
Machine shop right, transfer table center, boiler shop left
Boiler shop and transfer table
Boiler shop end
Piping detail
The ATSF steam engine overhaul facility in Albuquerque NM July 2014.
Machine Shop
Overhead crane support detail
Machine shop end views
Mike
Check your PM.
YGW
Hello here is a old barn this is in Mantua Ohio Have a nice day Frank
Have a nice day Frank
Hello here is a old barn with a rusty roof have a nice day Frank
have a nice day Frank
Hello these are from Castalia Ohio an old stone house and barn.
and this is a school Have a nice day Frank
and this is a school
Darn, forgot this 2010 photo. This tank is a stone's throw from U.P. double mainline (formerly S.P) in the little town of Elmira, Ca. Passed by it yesterday while cycling and wasn't surprised that the taggers have gotten to it, but that might add interest if modeling the present day.
Tstage, Nice thread to bring back, enjoying it immencely.
thanks and regards, Peter
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
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!
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/
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.
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!
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
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 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
Old concrete coal dock siting in Birdsboro, PA.
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.