Yeah, if you're doing a Western it's nice to have a 4-4-0 handy, even if you have to back-date it a bit!
At least it had slide valves to add to the authenticity. We can overlook the air pump.
Per Overmod's comment, Jewett also built the interurban cars for the late, lamented North Jersey Rapid Transit line. They scrapped them too.
L&PS Electrification
January 15, 1916
Floor plan and elevation interurban combine.
Awww... nuts !
FIXED BELOW
Car 2 leads two wooden trailer cars and another powered car showing the popularity of travelling on L&PS. Berner-Maguire Collection
Michigan Central diamond St.Thomas circa 1915-20
Car 4 and another one stopped at Port Stanley. c.1915. Wells Fargo and Co. Express Note board and batten construction later stuccoed. See below.
London & Port Stanley radial railway station in Port Stanley, Ontario. Al Howlett Collection.
Cars 6 and 2 at St. Thomas 6/1/1950
Car 8 trailing another car and box car, just west of the CASO station. 1956 Note that motorman is in far car and brakeman on far end of box car being switched.
MiningmanAwww... nuts ! FIXED BELOW
Whatever it was you did -- TELL DAVE KLEPPER. He has a similar problem a lot of the time, and your fix may be useful to be his fix.
What I did was send it/ forward the article to my gmail account ( and also my work email) and low and behold it appears "normally". Then I copy it from there instead of the original source and it comes out normal. Dosen't seem like much but it works.
In the photo of the Michigan Central crossing in St. Thomas can anyone tell me what "the leaning tower of Pisa" to the left in the photo would have been used for? Very interesting!Thanks!
GS
GeoffS In the photo of the Michigan Central crossing in St. Thomas can anyone tell me what "the leaning tower of Pisa" to the left in the photo would have been used for? Very interesting!Thanks! GS
Cement factory?
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
The "Elevator" setup is used for screening incoming materials - based on the color it's probably rocks and sand but similar towers were also used for coal. The big stuff gets caught at the top, a smaller mesh screen in the middle and an even smaller one at the bottom. I guess anything that made it through the bottom screen was "sand".
Thanks rcdrye and Penny for responding. Very interesting. I am going to assume most everything in the photo is LONG gone!
Geoff
rcdryeThe "Elevator" setup is used for screening incoming materials - based on the color it's probably rocks and sand but similar towers were also used for coal. The big stuff gets caught at the top, a smaller mesh screen in the middle and an even smaller one at the bottom. I guess anything that made it through the bottom screen was "sand".
Think of this as being like a gravity-fed 'launder' for coal. (You probably wouldn't see a setup like this actually used for coal as there'd be too much trituration at that angle of drop as the separation was being made -- I think this is for concrete aggregate, as he said.)
I think the multiple downpipes are to reduce the load on the system that gathers the aggregate; it doesn't help to have a lot of gravel up at the top of the arrangement. I presume the loading 'skip' runs up the back side of the tower on a cable arrangement, and trips automatically at the top.
In Mining we call them grizzlies . That can also refer to a horizontal steel latticework where big chunks of ore/rock can be pneumatically hammered.
GeoffS--Yes mostly everything is gone . The CASO is gone along with that diamond. The wire is gone too. Track is still there... CN operates on it, Diesel, London to St. Thomas and the Port Stanley Terminal Railway operates from St. Thomas to Port Stanley.
rcdrye The "Elevator" setup is used for screening incoming materials - based on the color it's probably rocks and sand but similar towers were also used for coal. The big stuff gets caught at the top, a smaller mesh screen in the middle and an even smaller one at the bottom. I guess anything that made it through the bottom screen was "sand".
Gentlemen: Thanks for the new information. I didn't think much of what is in the photo would be there so many years later, but, in the imagination it's a cool thought.
I wish I could find before-and-after pictures of some of the dramatic industrial changes that occurred after the early '60s in the area I grew up ... and passed through going from northern New Jersey to Kingston/Wilkes-Barre in those years.
There were sections of approach to the Garden State Parkway that had whole industrial complexes built OVER them, all served by a web of rail connections. There was a place PA state route 115 stopped and made a right-angle turn over a bridge crossing a boiling canyon of trains -- which I couldn't see, being too short as a child. This was one of the FIRST places I went when I could drive... only to find a great deal of concrete retaining and bridging and only one sleepy track. Then that track was gone, and the whole bridge was taken out, and the Jersey Central was gone, and then double track on the old DL&W, and then through traffic on the DL&W ...
Gone now as if it had never been; it's even hard to figure out where it was, let alone how it was.
The "elevators" used for coal separation were usiually at a flatter angle, and most often at the mine head. They were often used for "retail" coal intended for single car delivery to coal yards, small foundries and other places that have disappeared from the commercial/industrial landscape.
In Los Angeles there was an area in the industial section called 'The Patch' with railroad ally's. This kind of thing is mostly gone now.
Triple Diamond crossing !
2) Drama! " the sky suddenly turned black and out of the darkness ...and so forth.
3) New York Central trying to look classy amidst its declining empire.
4) Battleship Gons!
5) CP Rail Double Deck Commuter in Montreal area. All decked out!
Got your spiffy horns, cute bell, stripes, lights, the works!
6) No Hockey Playoffs ... remembrances though!
Miningman2) Drama! " the sky suddenly turned black and out of the darkness ...and so forth.
Hiyo gul' darned silver!
OvermodGone now as if it had never been; it's even hard to figure out where it was, let alone how it was.
Oh some of it's still there. The Northern Branch, moribund to be sure, but still there. The West Shore, now CSX's "River Sub," the Pascack Valley Line, the Bergen County Line, the old Erie Main Line. And not all that much different from the way it used to be.
By the way, a friend of mine saw that NJ Transit Jersey Central "Heritage" GP-40 a few weeks ago on the Pascack Valley Line! Unfortunately he didn't have his camera with him.
Hey! Who's run off with my Lionel "Pennsy Torpedo?"
This is a scene from the 1936 movie Broadway Limited....
So it is a drama. It looks like the scene was filmed during the afternoon with filters to suggest night.
Here is an extract with most of the critical train scenes.
The full movie, and a different 1941 movie are both available on Youtube:
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=youtube+movie+broadway+limited&docid=608015455864947116&mid=A9350EB36B93053BB248A9350EB36B93053BB248&view=detail&FORM=VIRE
And a postwar Lionel advertisement to start with.
Peter
Dang you guys and gal are good. History here I tell ya, history!
I knew about the Virginian battleship gons, but not the N&W and C&O. I also found a picture of a PRR example.
Different six-wheel trucks were used by each railroad's version. I was familiar with the Buckeyes used by VGN. The weird truck under the N&W car was an oddball even in the N&W fleet, most of which used a Lewis model similar to the Buckeye. The truck under Pennsy's lone car of the type looks almost like it came out from under a passenger car, and was the same kind found under the tender of streamlined K4s 3768.
http://prr.railfan.net/freight/classpage.html?class=G23
The design of these predated the "Bathtub" coal gon by around 50 years. The cars fell out of favor as the tidewater dumpers were gradually converted to work with standard 70 ton hoppers in the 1940s, and most were out of service by the early 1950s.
M636CSo it is a drama. It looks like the scene was filmed during the afternoon with filters to suggest night.
About as effectively as the use of such filters in Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space.
But it's sure evocative of Snoopy's dark and stormy night...
Overmod About as effectively as the use of such filters in Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Let's hear it for the absolutely worst movie ever made. Ed Wood's work (?) is my younger son's guilty pleasure.
CSSHEGEWISCHLet's hear it for the absolutely worst movie ever made.
I'm not fully convinced that Underdog has since replaced it.
It might be added that Plan Nine with the simple addition of an MST3K soundtrack is one of the most entertaining movies ever made. Something you really couldn't say about Underdog...
I'm still part of the jury that's still out on that perpetual contender Thomas and the Magic Railroad. With some work and less Britt, that might have worked as a movie.
The post-CGI Thomas stuff is all pretty much awful. We still haul out the "live" ones for our grandsons every once in a while (on VHS, no less). Pretty funny to think of them choosing George Carlin as the narrator for a kids' show (The seven whistle signals you can't use on television...)
Twas Ringo first.
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