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Posted by Overmod on Friday, November 12, 2021 5:48 PM

I have never seen it given as anything but 'telltales'... in the published railfan literature.

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Posted by Lithonia Operator on Thursday, November 11, 2021 11:23 AM

I thought it might be tell tails. But since that's also a sailing term, I thought maybe I got that from sailing and that it wasn't really the RR term.

(In sailing, they are pieces of light material sewed onto sails to show how the wind is flowing over the sails.)

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, November 11, 2021 10:10 AM

cv_acr

"Tell tales" is the only one I've ever heard.

Ditto, but I won't rule out other possibilities.

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Posted by cv_acr on Thursday, November 11, 2021 8:53 AM

"Tell tales" is the only one I've ever heard.

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Posted by BaltACD on Wednesday, November 10, 2021 10:41 PM

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One of my shots includes one of those things that warned brakemen on top of cars that it was time to hit the deck because a close overhead clearance was near. A pole with a horizontal bar from which hang tendrils to strike said brakemen.

What do you call one of those?

Tattle Tails, Tell Tails and likely a dozen other names depending on what area of the country you are talking about.

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Posted by Lithonia Operator on Wednesday, November 10, 2021 10:05 PM

One of my shots includes one of those things that warned brakemen on top of cars that it was time to hit the deck because a close overhead clearance was near. A pole with a horizontal bar from which hang tendrils to strike said brakemen.

What do you call one of those?

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Posted by blhanel on Monday, November 1, 2021 4:06 PM

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Thanks, Brian.

Did your digging show the timetable for those two trains during June? IIRC, they left about an hour apart. If I knew which one departed Chicago first, I would have a real stab at this. Even as I shot them, I did not know which was which. I guess I just missed one W'bound on the 16th.

 

Didn't encounter that info, but I do know that the WB SWC is always due into Fort Madison at 6:38 PM, IIRC, which is about an hour later than Galesburg.  Of course, all bets are off if they're running late...

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Posted by Lithonia Operator on Monday, November 1, 2021 3:40 PM

Is a CSX train going from Thurmond WV to White Sulphur Springs southbound or eastbound?

Balt?

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Posted by Lithonia Operator on Monday, November 1, 2021 3:38 PM

Thanks, Brian.

Did your digging show the timetable for those two trains during June? IIRC, they left about an hour apart. If I knew which one departed Chicago first, I would have a real stab at this. Even as I shot them, I did not know which was which. I guess I just missed one W'bound on the 16th.

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Posted by blhanel on Sunday, October 31, 2021 9:14 PM

I like to watch the Fort Madison VRF camera occasionally, which the SW Chief passes.  Did a little digging, and found this article about Amtrak returning 12 long distance routes to full daily service, with both SW Chief and CZ included- the CZ was on May 24 and the SWC on May 31.  So, in June you should have been seeing both on both days. That being said, I seem to recall that although the SWC usually had the baggage car on the rear, sometimes they would put it up front and sometimes there wouldn't be one at all (bi-level combo car instead).

https://media.amtrak.com/2021/03/with-increased-demand-and-congressional-funding-amtrak-restores-12-long-distance-routes-to-daily-service/

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Posted by Lithonia Operator on Sunday, October 31, 2021 8:49 AM

Back in June, I shot three Amtrak trains, westbound, not far east of Galesburg, over two days. All were in late afternoon.

One train ran both days, with the baggage car up front.

The other train ran only one day (I think), with the baggage car on the rear.

I lost my notes.

My theory is that the train with the forward baggage car is the CZ, because I think it was daily. So the rear-baggage-car one has to be the SW Chief, because I think it was thrice weekly.

Make sense?

 

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Posted by rdamon on Saturday, October 30, 2021 12:14 AM

Found this ..

 

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Posted by Lithonia Operator on Friday, October 29, 2021 10:05 PM

I'm not totally convinced it's the same building. I've looked for views of the Franciscan building from the water, and can't find a single one. And the pix I do find of that building, to my eye, is just not as big as the one in my photo. But ... they are probably one and the same.

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Posted by blhanel on Friday, October 29, 2021 9:44 PM

Yep, it's a big building alright.

Peekskill - Google Maps

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Posted by Lithonia Operator on Friday, October 29, 2021 7:30 PM

It must be the Franciscan Sisters building (which Brian Hanel deduced was in a different shot of mine) in Peekskill. My notes say Peekskill bkgd, shot from Cortlandt; but from the map, it does not appear that the shooting vantage point I think it is, is in Cortlandt. It doesn't look like Cortlandt goes up that far north. On the map it's shown as south of Peekskill, but I guess it also wraps around to the north.

Heck, I'm going to go with my caption notes, and your input, and forget about it.

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Posted by Lithonia Operator on Friday, October 29, 2021 7:09 PM

rdamon

Looks like this ..

 

 

 

 

That seems to be it. Do you know what we're looking at? I take it the view is slightly east of south?

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Posted by tree68 on Friday, October 29, 2021 6:35 PM

Perhaps here?  N 41 16' 59" W 73 56' 0"

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Posted by rdamon on Friday, October 29, 2021 6:11 PM

Looks like this ..

 

 

 

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Posted by Lithonia Operator on Friday, October 29, 2021 5:12 PM

New puzzle.

This is along the Hudson. My notes (which are sometimes dubious) say Peekskill is in the background, but photos I've found of Peekskill don't show a building as impressive as the one we see beyond the engine.

I'm not sure if that building is on the east or west side of the river. I'm on the east side. There is an east-shore facing-south photo angle which would juxtapose a railroad causeway with Peekskill (which is also on the east side). But I cannot identify that building, or find anything that looks like it in Peekskill.

Any guesses?

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Posted by tree68 on Thursday, October 28, 2021 11:43 AM

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Odd that's called a "shelf." Seems like a "vertical extension" or something.

It's called a shelf because there is a horizontal portion of the coupler - the shelf - that's there to keep the couplers from separating if they are not aligned vertically.

The illustration shows both a top and bottom shelf.

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Posted by Lithonia Operator on Thursday, October 28, 2021 6:56 AM

Odd that's called a "shelf." Seems like a "vertical extension" or something.

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Posted by BaltACD on Wednesday, October 27, 2021 11:39 PM

There are both Top and Bottom shelf couplers as well as coupler that have both Top and Bottom shelves.

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Posted by Lithonia Operator on Wednesday, October 27, 2021 11:08 PM

Yeah, I guess Zug solved it first. But I didn't know what he was talking about.

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Posted by Lithonia Operator on Wednesday, October 27, 2021 11:02 PM

Brian solved it. It's a shelf coupler like this.

I have never knowingly seen a coupler like that.

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Posted by SD70Dude on Wednesday, October 27, 2021 11:01 PM

I agree with Zug and Brian.

Here's some comparison photos of different coupler types:

https://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/14785

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Posted by BaltACD on Wednesday, October 27, 2021 10:51 PM

I think the light is playing tricks with the shadows in the picture with some shadows being lighter and/or darker than others.

From what I can see there are no shelf couplers on either car.  The area you marked looks to be a ray of light that has been 'prismed' by some other aspect of the scene - an aspect that may not even be in the frame of the photo.

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Posted by blhanel on Wednesday, October 27, 2021 10:41 PM

The tank car on the left apparently has the different style couplers associated with tanks meant to prevent uncoupling during derailments(?).  If you do a Google image search on tank car couplers, you'll find examples.

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Posted by Lithonia Operator on Wednesday, October 27, 2021 10:28 PM

This is embarrassing, since I took the photo and can't tell what I'm looking at. This is my last try. I've marked the area that confuses me.

Compare with unmarked pic.

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Posted by Lithonia Operator on Wednesday, October 27, 2021 10:03 PM

Convicted One

All very nice pictures, L.O. 

 

Thanks so much, CO! I had somehow missed your comment when you posted it.

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