A lot of members' avatars have a train, or something train related. Trouble is, they're too small for me to see exactly what they are. Anyone care to elaborate what their avatar is, and it's significance? My avatar is a drumhead(?) from a train *I think*(?) in the Colorado Railroad Museum(?). The significance is, that I'm a dummy and don't know how to put an avatar on my account. So, I asked the best photographer on the forum for help. Chris- CopcarSS kind enough to give me a nice, colorful avatar
Thanks to Chris / CopCarSS for my avatar.
This month it is Rigby from the "Regular Show".
As far as significance? Rigby is cool - and I always have something animation-related on here.
It's been fun. But it isn't much fun anymore. Signing off for now.
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Mine is a pin with our railroad herald and the legend "Trains are Good," a refutation of a group who feels our ROW would better serve the public as a hiking trail.
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
Don't have one - I'm still in Murphy's Witness Protection Program (in my case sometimes the "Witless" Protection Program).
Uhhh...its me, myself and I.
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Me leaning against a Jackson (Harsco) 6700 tamper that was tied-up on a dead siding for the holidays at Phoenix, AZ about 3 years back. They're wonderfully productive and useful machines (as long as they're working . . . ) and don't get enough attention in the railfan or induustry press, IMHO. I'd rather have or spend quality time on one of them than a locomotive !
- Paul North.
Brother Carl - owner of the Lounge - gave me mine many years ago. Mookie must spend a lot of time at the beauty shop, since she is pink. But what you probably can't see is that she is holding two milk pails with the inscription "Will Work For MilK".
And that is true - for a glass of milk, I would provide the cookies
(thanx BC)
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Mine is my RR's logo (CMBY RY) with the "B" and "R", and the "Y"'s interlaced one above the other. The Steam Locomotive headlight crosses the bottom of the "RY". Different renditions of the logo have various phrases in the beam of the headlight. Early on it was "The Straight line Short line". Presently it is "Semper Vaporo" ("Forever Steam"). There have been others, but they were so short lived that I don't remember them.
{Sorry, the host site lost all my images. Not only that, but I changed the avitar to the front of a wood burning steamer that I drew using MS Paint.)
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
Mine is Durango & Silverton 481 taken on the high line last spring. The book Narrow Gauge in the Rockies by Beebe and Clegg had an engraving of a southbound D&RG train on the high line and I'd been wanting to see that ever since buying the book in the early 1970's.
- Erik
My avatar is a photo I took of the former CPR Shepard station, which was relocated to Heritage Park during an eastward expansion of Calgary's City Limits. At one time it was the first manned station east of Calgary, on the transcontinental line. Named after the Langdon & Shepard Engineering Company, which built the original mainline from Winnipeg, MB to Calgary.
Why I picked it, is because it is the same structure type as our station at Irricana, where I lived from 1956 to 1965. In Canada, unlike on US RR's, close to 90% of the stations on the CPR were also the homes of the Station Agents. Due to space constraints in the park, the low end of the building to the right of the chimney, which was the freight shed, was shortened by about one third of its' length. This was an actual prototypical reduction performed on many stations during the first two years of WWII when there was a desperate shortage of finished lumber for use in military buildings. It was done on a Subdivision by Subdivision basis but the project never got as far as the stations on the Langdon Sub. where Irricana was situated.
If you could blow up the photo big enough, you would see two windows on the second storey above the office. Those would have been where my parents bedroom was. My brother and I had bedrooms on the back side of the floor. On the main floor at the far left, was the waiting room, which ran from the front to the back of the building. To the right of that, on the front half of the floor was the office, and the heated freight room. Behind those two rooms, along the back, were our kitchen, dining room, and living room. We had a nice yard out back. We moved out in January 1965. In an absolute surprise to my Dad, the notice of closure of the station was posted on April 1st and it was closed on July 1, 1965. The Sub. was abandoned and the station demolished about 1973.
The house my parents bought when we moved from Irricana into Calgary was finally sold last fall. It was surprising to my brother and me how much stuff my Mom had hung on to from our time in the station.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
"A Train is a Place Going Somewhere" CP Rail Public Timetable
"O. S. Irricana"
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Mine is, predictably and appropriately, the locomotive design that is the quintessence of mad-scientist 'advanced' steam technology.
The word is not 'Thunderbird' ... although a little of that might help the situation.
The word is "Gilderfluke". (And not a parody of Baldwin 60000, either...)
As Eli himself would have said, "if you can't have fun with yourself, life's missing more than a little something."
Mine is a picture I took about 30 years ago. Some time between April 1980 and November 1984. It was taken on the westbound Milwaukee Road's Wilton (IA) local, or "patrol" in MILW speak. It was taken about a mile or so west of Durant, IA, looking back towards Durant.
If anyone has been paying attention, you know I'm a big RI fan, so why a MILW picture? Well things aren't all they seem to be. Yes, it is a MILW Rd train. You may have a hard time finding the spot on a MILW map, though. Before April 1980, it was part of the RI's Chicago-Co Bluffs-Denver main line. Atter November 1984 it became the Iowa Interstate, who operates it still. The agent at Durant (a long time friend) and the crew on the train are all ex-RI, interim employees of the MILW Rd who operated Davenport to Wilton (steel mini mill) and on to Iowa City.
A bright spot in an otherwise dark time for a RI fan.
Jeff
Mine is Buddy, a half yellow lab-half? my wife and I had for nine years. I am considering asking my daughter to take a picture of me and replace Buddy with it after I move in with her and her daughter. All in favor say, "Yea;" all opposed say, "Don't frighten us!" She does have an industrial strength camera.
Johnny
Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy, #4017, National Railroad Museum, Green Bay, WI
"We have met the enemy and he is us." Pogo Possum "We have met the anemone... and he is Russ." Bucky Katt "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." Niels Bohr, Nobel laureate in physics
I have used several avatars over the eight years I have been registered here. The newest is a squinty version of this shot of my Sunset Models HO Canadian Pacific Selkirk 2-10-4 on my former layout's scratch-built (and real creosote-stained) scale trestle:
Crandell
San Diego Trolley at the Seaport Village station, taken May 10, 2005 a little after two in the afternoon. It's actually an out of service train that was heading back down to the trolley barns, maybe had been used for training or something.
Mine is an Athearn BB GP38-2 that I converted to what I call an early GP39-2 paper air filter box and all. It is painted and lettered for my model railroad, the Brookfield & Western. I built 7 of these for my RR about 20 years ago. Still have 5 more to go...... someday.
Dan Metzger
mine is a B&O caboose in Deshler Ohio.It's not near the trainpark but a city park near the pool north of town.It has been the subject of vandalism.So the Bartlow twp Historical society and local residents have come together to get the caboose moved.They have a place and a contractor to move it.They just need to get through all the other red tape so it can be done.
stay safe
Joe
ps mookie here is your milk(my great niece is bringing the girl scout cookies)
Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").
My avatar is a westbound South Shore train stopped at the old Hegewisch station, the only suburban stop in Chicago not served by Metra. I grew up about a block from the South Shore where it crosses the former CWI (now abandoned) and former NKP (now NS) near the Ford plant.
The bascule bridges at 16th Street in Chicago spanning the south branch of the Chicago River.
Rich
Alton Junction
Mine is UP's CNW Heritage #1995 on one of its first trips through Cedar Rapids, IA back in 2005(?). I got a picture of it crossing the Cedar River with two of its CNW bretheren right behind it pulling a mixed manifest to Council Bluffs. I must also give credit to Carl (CShaveRR), who alerted me to its pending arrival.
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
Its a PRR K4s.
2179- Y6b at Roanoke, in 1956. Picked this off Rail Pics. In my early years in S.E. Ohio I saw this engine coming up from Portsmouth to Columbus. Sometime 2179 was inthe lead, other time it was trailing. WhenI was track side I could wave at the engineer and he would wave back. This was in the days before it was not allowed to wave back. When I saw this engine on Rail pics, Avatar perfect. Y6bs evergreen in my mind.
Y6bs evergreen in my mind
Mine is of Union Pacific 1995, the Chicago & North Western heritage unit, on its first revenue run, westbound through Lombard.
The picture was actually taken by my wife Pat, who bravely got out of our car in traffic, went into the middle of the intersection, and nailed it for me. I was too far back from the crossing to do it myself. The crossing is Elizabeth Street in Lombard, the one nearest our house (0.62 miles away).What you can't see in the picture is that it's followed by the two remaining C&NW-lettered Dash 9s, 8646 and 8701. Those two Dash 9s are still in their CNW paint and numbers, and currently working together between Proviso and West Chicago. I happened to see them yesterday, very close to this spot.Johnny: go for it!SJ: It still fits you!
Brian: I think you got yours on the same trip (for the locomotives) as I got mine.
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
Mine was taken a few years ago heading to a dirt strip in Iraq to recover a for lack of a clearer description a "crashed" bird.
Adrianspeeder
USAF TSgt C-17 Aircraft Maintenance Flying Crew Chief & Flightline Avionics Craftsman
My son and I racing at Road America in Elkhart Lake, WI.
On track racing is a hobby my railroad profession has financed for the past 25 years and I am honored that my son, after a number of years of participating in oval track racing, including stints as a fabricator for a couple of NASCAR teams, has seen fit to participate in the same class as the old man.
My son is fast, I am only half fast.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Mine is one of the logos used by the Northern Illinois University Huskies.
NIU is my alma mater.
Now if you don't mind I have to get back to my Orange.
Go Huskies. Forward Together Forward
Fan of - C&NW - Milwaukee Road - CGW -
My Avatar is a photo of the UPRR's Miniature Train Transporter ( used to haul the UP's #956. A 900 series E unit, and train cars, )
http://www.up.com/aboutup/special_trains/mini-train/about_956/index.htm
FTL:"...The locomotive number UP 956 was chosen because the miniature locomotive was patterned after a 900-series passenger locomotive and built in '56. The locomotive was made from a tow tractor used to pull luggage wagons at large passenger train depots. A "flat-head" four-cylinder gasoline engine powers the miniature train locomotive. The locomotive and rail cars run on rubber tires so the train can operate on any solid surface.
Until 1998, the miniature train traveled around the UP system in a pair of matched boxcars numbered UP 903014 and UP 903015. Each boxcar was stenciled with "Miniature Train Service." Today the train moves to each event in a custom trailer built exclusively for the mini-train..."
It seemed appropriate for an Avatar; After all; I retired, having spent 30 years in the Trucking Industry, as a driver and traveling rail fan,
Murphy Siding My avatar is a drumhead(?) from a train *I think*(?) in the Colorado Railroad Museum(?). The significance is, that I'm a dummy and don't know how to put an avatar on my account.
Indeed it is. It's the drumhead on the ATSF Obs. Car, Navajo. Here's another view that shows the context a little better:
Flickr Link
So, I asked the best photographer on the forum for help. Chris- CopcarSS kind enough to give me a nice, colorful avatar
*Blush* I don't think I'm quite worthy of that title, but thank you very much!
As for my avatar, this is what it looks like:
This was the first time that #346 was rolled out of the roundhouse after her rebuilding. I consider it one of, if not the best rail photo I've taken.
-ChrisWest Chicago, ILChristopher May Fine Art Photography"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration." ~Ansel Adams
Mine is one of several such actual (and large) regulatory parking signs attached to a chain-link fence at the corner of Calcutta and Export Streets in Port Elizabeth, NJ (PA NY&NJ).If you look at the Bing link of the area, you'll realize why the sign states "No Train Or Truck Parking Any Time" (although the linked view does seem to show 2 truck tractors parked in front of the fence). The signs were up as of March 2011 (stopped by on the way back from the WGH show at Edison), don't know if they still exist.The "NO" circle superimposed across what appears to be a cab unit coming toward the viewer is bizarre enough to rate (OTOH, the NO circle-over-truck symbol is rather common) - somehow I don't think that train symbol is in the current MUTCD...
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