Good Morning Barkeep and All Present; coffee, please; round for the house and $ for the jukebox. We’ll play some CCR first, “Green River,” followed by “She Got the Ring and I Got the Finger,” and last (for Boris) “19th Nervous Breakdown.”
Tom: Enjoyed the GN material. When I lived in Nashville, I “railroaded” now and then with a fellow who had family in North Dakota and rode the “Builder” at least once a year to see them. He was my introduction to Rocky’s Road. It lived up to advance billing when I got to ride the “Builder” a few years later. My son puts ketchup on everything (except breakfast cereal and he’s trying to figure out a way to do that) – I told him if he did, he’d be eating out on the back porch with the K9 Korps.
The read lead story was a good one as well; at least you didn’t say pass the !@#$ butter.
BTW, I remember telling somebody underground one time to make something “fast” to another piece of equipment; we stopped everything for simultaneous translation. Did you ever tell someone to “tunk” an object, or how about use just a “dight” of grease on a fitting? All fine NE expressions. Remember, a “gam” is not just a leg, and “skin to skin” is not what it sound like, either.
Mike: Wonderful URLs; they always set me going and recalling stuff when I look at them.
I especially enjoyed the items showing the P&R locomotive as well as the UMRR equipment. An excellent book on Civil War railroads is titled Victory Rode the Rails. You might enjoy it.
I recall mentioning Burnside’s horse in a piece I posted awhile back re Providence and the NYNH&H. The south end of his horse is the first thing one saw upon exiting the old station in Providence. I was looking at the picture and speculating on how that piece was aimed. He was a pretty decent corps commander but an abject failure as an army commander. Some of my ancestors fought under his command during the “recent unpleasantness.” He had a strong connection to Rhode Island although he was originally from Indiana. Those of you who are interested in weaponry may recall that Burnside had a design for a repeating rifle which he went bust trying to manufacture.
The FTs in the Montana shot are the demonstrator units. Dark green with dark yellow livery.
NYC 25 and 26 generally met near Buffalo, not necessarily in the station. Anyway a classic picture in the best sense of the word.
Pete: Thanks for the wide-ranging comments.
Nick: Last but not least. I assume we save the Birney trolley for the weekends?
Herewith some Reading material. I like to sort locomotives by date as it gives us a better picture of what was going on
Reading Company
Diesel Locomotive Summary – By Date
r/n
Bldr.
Model
Date
Notes
98
AGEIR
1926
Orig. RDG 50; scr. 1949
99
1928
Orig. RDG 51; scr. 1954
10-15
EMC
SW
1937
r/b to SW900m’s
40-41
ALCO
HH900
Scr. 1962
16-18
SW1
1939
RDG 17 scr.
97
St. L-FM
Orig. RDG 35; scr. 1953
60-70
BLW
VO660
1939-1942
1
19-22
EMD
1940
RDG 20-21 scr. 1975
71-89
VO1000
1940-1944
2
50-52
ALCO-GE
S1
Scr. 1964
90
NW2
53-54
1941
3
23-24
91-92
RDG 91 scr; 92 ret. In 1975
55-59
1944
4
250 a,b -259 a,b
FTA
FTB
1945
Tr. To EMD for GP30s
42-47
S2
1946-1947
5
26-39
DS4-4-1000
6
101-104
1947
7
260-265a,
260-265b
F3A
F3B
1948
Tr. To EMD for GP35s
300-305a,
300-305b
FA2
FB2
Tr. To ALCO for C424s
304-305b sold to ALCO for L&HR
700-729
1948-1949
8
266-283a
266-271b
F7A
F7B
1950
900-905
FP7A
530-554
560-563
576-589
AS16
1951-1953
9; all scr. By 1969
1. RDG 60 blt. In 1939; RDG 61-63 blt. in 1940; RDG 64-67 blt. in 1941, RDG 68-70 blt. in 1942. RDG 60 scr. 1961; RDG 61-70 r/b to SW900m’s in 1961, r# RDG 1501, 1505, 1506, 1504, 1502, 1507, 1508, 1503, 1509 and 1510.
2. RDG 80-81 blt. in 1940; RDG 82 blt. in 1942; RDG 71-75, 83-85 blt. in 1943; RDG 76-79, 86-89 blt. in 1944. RDG 72, 76, 77, 79, 82-87 scr. RDG 71, 73-75, 78, 80-81 r/b to SW1200 m’s, r# RDG 1712, 1704, 1703, 1705, 1707, 1702, 1701, 1713 and 1714.
3. RDG 53 sold to W.A. Smith.
4. r/b to SW1200m’s in 1959; r# RDG 2706, 2708, 2711, 2710, 2708
5. RDG 42-45 blt. in 1946, RDG 45-47 blt. in 1947. RDG 42 and 43 sold in 1964 to Republic Steel; r# 337, 338; RDG 46 and 47 sold to Republic Steel; RDG 44-45 scr.
6. RDG 34-39 blt. in 1946; RDG 26-33 blt. in 1947. RDG 26-27, 30-39 tr. To EMD in 1966 for SW 1500’s; RDG 28-29 sold to P&BR r# P&BR 360-361.
7. RDG 101-102 sold to PNC in 1974; RDG 103, 104 sold to A. Merrilees.
8. RDG 700-714 blt. in 1948; RDG 715-729 blt. in 1949. RDG 700-715, 717-729 scr. 1969-1970; RDG 716 scr. in 1975.
9. RDG 530-550, 560-563 blt. in 1951; RDG 576-579 blt. in 1952; RDG 551-554 blt. in 1953.
Hi Tom and all.
A pint of Bathams please RUTH after the great feast NICK prepared last night.
NICK Liked the "Light Pacific" comment.. The regulars at Our Place would surely enjoy the 5 inch models in Pickering.Mike has posted a great link to a British web-site with preservation scenes, any idea where Jinty 47383 is in the photo on the site. I think I know the other locations.
will the Zepplin ever be the same with BORIS and his new friend aboard,lets hope than can locate ROB.
MIKE Great old photos in the links. Many thanks to the British link.It was great to see Mallard running, she done very few trips when she was put back in steam as a 40th anniversary of her record run in 1938. A great photo of the three A4s at York. The one in the middle which was acting as long scrapped sister SILVER LINK the first of the class, is actually #60019 BITTERN which is due to return to steam soon.
Good pics of the Tanfield Railway with the great industrial locos. it really is like stepping back in time when you visit there, with the 150 year old engine shed. I have found a link to the railway.
http://www.tanfield-railway.co.uk/PostNuke/index.php
CM3 It looked like the Reading Company was an early user of diesel traction. who was AGEIR.
Its amazing how the expressions vary in different parts of the country refering to workshop terms and different pieces of equipment. Just 40 miles from where I lived in England, in the Black Country it was like going to another country.
TOM.I remember the red lead, the red primer paint we used was called 'Bradford Red'. it was a great paint but I think it has been banned now.
Very interesting link to the Amtrak Cascades, they look stylish trains. I guess the structure on the first car behind the loco on the cars roof is to help cut down wind resistance.
Well as the weekend is nearly here I'll have another and a round please RUTH.
Good morning Tom and all! I'll have a light breakfast please before hitting the door for another Saturday of work. Only been able to to some rudimentary cathing-up on the doings here, but I'll get through it all soon enough. To answer Pete's almost week-old question, yes, the Woostock station is primarily used as a cafe, and a place to excape inclimate weather. No tickets are sold there. There are only a dozen or so Metra trains that stop in Woodstock each day, and there is only one other station further northwest (Harvard) on the Metra northwest line. The UP runs along the same rails. I have no idea how frequently. Very appropriate posts on 911 day (loved the 1949 Freedom train), and some very excellent efforts on the KCS theme gentelmen. I'll get the little bit I have on that line posted later today. I was particlulry impressed with Mike's post, who obviously spent a loooong time putting together his submission. . Everyone here has been very supportive of my absence these days, and I thank-you all for that. Here is an ENCORE from my humbled self, and I will be back!
Setouts and pickups by W.F. Knapke – Aug 1935 Railroad Stories
Among the many things vastly improved by the railroads since they were first used are torpedoes – “guns” or “caps” to the boys on the road. The first one I ever saw was crudely made of paper and sealing wax, with no means of fastening it to the rail. You laid it on the rail, slapped a little mud on it to make it stick, if there happened to be any handy, and if there wasn’t, you trusted to luck.
Then the railroads invented a new kind of tar-dipped torpedo. Through a hole in it a wooden peg had to be pushed into the opening of a rail joint. But since only one space in ten would match up with the peg, the idea wasn’t so hot.
After that came the round, tin-box kind, with lead straps to clamp to the rail. Next the “turtle back,” much the same, but larger and rounder. Some of them had steel springs instead of lead straps. When one of these “wheel busters” exploded, hunks of tin and gravel were scattered for yards. After a number of men visited the company sawbones to have debris removed from their anatomies the present fiber case was developed, and the gravel omitted from its contents. The new ones are just as loud, and they’re a lot safer.
During the time of the steel spring variety, some unsung genius invented what was known as the torpedo fork. The device was much like a four-pronged pitch fork, with the space between prongs Nos. 1 and 2 and 3 and 4 a little wider than the head of one rail. To use it, you put a torpedo between 3 and 4. Then you reached over the rear caboose railing and let down the prongs so they straddled the rail. When the torpedo hit the rail head, the springs were loosened by the impact and caught on the rail.
* One of the few things in common used by the railroads which does not have a nation-wide slang name is the fusee. Once in a while it is referred to as a “torch” or “candle,” but they are rare. Moreover, fusees have undergone a few changes. There used to be certain types, such as the ”fifteen-minute,” which burned red five, green five, and white five minutes (back in the days when green was caution and white meant clear). But, of course, they are no more. There used to be the five-minute red fusee, for use on the freight trains only (don’t ask me why). Somewhat different was the type with a cap in its head, and which you banged down on the rail to light it. This was fine unless the rail was wet, when you lit it with a match if you could. But outside of these freaks, fusees are about the same today as they always were.
* Once a crew overlooked their orders, two engines smacked each other on the nose, and the “big hook” came to pick up the pieces. Among the pieces was the tank of one engine, too damaged to proceed on its own trucks, with its flare board ripped along the seam joining it to water compartment. It was loaded on a flat car, but darkness had fallen by the time the wrecker was ready to return to the terminal, where, upon its arrival, the entire train was shoved on a track close to the back shop.
Later the same night a passenger train sped over the same track. The postal clerk was alert to catch the mail sack from its crane, and he swung out his catcher. Nothing on the crane.
“Doggone sleepy-headed postmaster,” muttered the clerk, “wonder he wouldn’t wake up and get on the job.”
But when the second, third and succeeding cranes were passed and there were no mail sacks on any of them, the clerk got busy on the telegraph wire, and a little later operators were awakening track walkers and sending them out along the right-of-way, searching for the missing mail.
In spite of a diligent and continued search, the pouches were not found, and the mystery of the missing mail sacks bade fair to go down to posterity. But a couple of days later an employee passing between the wall of the back shop and wrecking train looked up, and there were the missing mail sacks, all nicely wedged between flare board and body of the damage engine tank. The flare board had evidently bent out from vibration, or was not noticed when it was loaded, and stuck out enough to gather in the mail very neatly.
A young lady came home from a date, rather sad. She told her mother, "Anthony proposed to me an hour ago." "Then why are you so sad?" her mother asked. "Because he also told me he is an atheist. Mom, he doesn't even believe there's a Hell." Her mother
Good afternoon Tom and the rst of the gang. time for a CR and a round for the house.
Move completed still will take some organizing but have more than double the space.
Donated several boxes of raw data to Railroad museum after placing it on CDs so much more compact and easier to stare.
Should be back on line next week from home soon as the tech comes out.
Have beeen reading the forum nice to see the return of several.
As to todays topic just mention those three ACF built recreation cars after their PRR service went to the Ice Follies where they were converted to tunnel cars for further service and I believe they are still in that service today.
TTFN Al
PSST PSST Leon, over here by the bar. Here's a bag of money to pay for many and several rounds of whatever the gang would like. yes indeed I have returned, appologies galore my friends our two day trip stretche dto almost 7 ! happens, we went north to visit some family after the wedding and well , long story short we have just got back in.Tom,BK, Lars,I did get your email and responded thanks for the concern,thanks everyone else as well. I do hate not bieng here regularly !
So forst off , I'm shocked and happy to see all the out pouring towards my birthday last saturday. thank you one and all for the kind words and urls and photo's and the like.had I known I would have tried to make it in, but it was the old rehearsal party/ dinner for the asaturday wedding ( nuff said ) I imagine that it was similar to the dinner party that Nick had By the way Nick happy aniversaur and a happy 17th bealtedly to the bar as well. 5x for everyone staying the coarse and keepimng things cooking along.
Tom-frostbite it is eh good choice, imagine a californian came up with that I concider myself well and truly tweeted for last tuesday, mind you teh KCS day seemed to go without too many difficulties,amazing the power of this plcae and it's denizens / customers.Oh I've ordered some approppriate,chicken wire,tile and heating and refridgeration units to allow Leon and Boris amd Mr Copperkettle to assemble a suitable containment area for the "critters" we are going to dub it area 52 and include a westcoast juice bar in honour of it's suggester ! Great next pieces to your bridge series they were good reads to be sure. I espeacially liked the Firth of forth bridge. In my minds eye I can see Beattie's battle cruiser squadron heading out to see before the dodger bank and Jutland engagements during WW1. Nice rememberance of 911 form you and lars and everyone else as well, hats off to all of you
Doug-wow thanks for taking the time out and expanding upon my meger articles on the AirLine, great stuff sir. I do hope that there is light at the end of your having to work two jobs tunnel.Hopefully noyt an express train either
Nick-To answer your week old question, the angled red stripe was the first of the F unit barricade stripe paint jobs, and IMHO the nicest of the CN F unit "modern" paintjobs. FA's and C Liners were also painted this way.Mind you I still vote hands down for the calssic green and ellow frieght and Grenn yellow and Black passenger schemes , as the truly proper and Classic paint schemes.
Lars / BK `I want to thank you two for the wonderfull brithady wishes as well,the pictures and the sentiments truly have warmed the chocles of my heart.I have to say that 35 was a challange for me ( half way to 70 ) alot to take in when one thinks of it. Mind you I haven't lost my sence of humour. My sister who is 45 got to bugging me about it and i calmly stated that yes,I was indeed half way to 70 but she was half way to 90 !. Once I came back to, she found it humourous as well !
Mike- Thanks for the birthday wishes and urls as well.You kinda covered all my likes in one fell swoop. Much appreciated sir Again thanks to everyone for all their well wishes and support it really has ment allot.
Tom/BK/CM3/Lars-I was dismayed to hear about the photo hub-bub. I guess we all shall ahve to place closer attention to what we pull upSo much for giving credit where credit is do. For what it's worth, I fully understand the frustration and where you folks are all comming from on this subject.A retooling of sunday needs to be concidered. Our own or each others photo's only unless we do get the green light. We don't want Bergie killing our vibe here after all.On a lighter note the penguins in Hamilton eh The city did build a twenty thousand seat areana downtown 15 yeasr ago which to this point only has housed jr B and two different AHL teams, Montreals farm club the Bulldogs currently occupy it, and they and the Toronto Marlboroughs the maple leaf farm team are already hated enemies. My brief hearing of this story has the teams name being canged to the Steal Hawks if te Penguins move ( this was the name of Hamilton's long gone OHL team of many decades past )At least the scenery won't be much different, one steal city to another. Mind you a propsed move of the Colorado Rockies to Hamilton before there settling in New Jersey was strongly opposed by the Buffalo Sabres as they feared a major loss of their fan baase should hamliton get a team. Coarse that was then this is now.
Well folks not an entirly adequate catching up but suffice to say thanks one and all for keeping the thread moving ever upward, and with it's constant and consistant excellant content.Leon let it be known that I will be paying for te rounds Monday tuesday and Wednesday to atone for my absence.
Rob
PS Oh Al-Nice to hear that you will soon be back amonst the living round here, I have alraedy updated my reading glasses. LOL
PPS -Lars No need to take a collection for computer equipment. I've made a few ipgrades and should be good for another 6 to 12 months. ( he knocks on his head for luck and throws salt over his shoulder )
Dave-just caught your post. Interesting update on your investigations into the Moneta yard. Neat little sanpshot of what was and what is.Always intersting to note how important many former traction continued to be of use and indeed were exopanded to serve the needs of their easrtwhile vanquishers. I can think of two or three spots along the old NS&T that are still being used and upgraded similarly today.We may indeed be long losts, you never know. I had two great uncles that wre part of the Canadian Pacific fleet during WW2, who knows. Another job for the good inspector perhaps.
ENCORE ! ENCORE ! ENCORE ! ENCORE ! ENCORE ! ENCORE ! ENCORE !
A classic index update to get everything back into it's proper place,This is a new format as reformatting the old one was beyond my comprehension, wiht the new and improved forum software.
CLASSIC ADS
CLASSIC DIESELS
CLASSIC JUICE
CLASSIC STEAM
Wierd Tales from The Trolley Barn
There we have it the "new" research guide according to Rob
Good morning one and all, and especially Rob! Man .. when you return, you really return! I too am looking forward to a retuen of my own. Worked jobs 1 & 2 for a while yesterday, and will work jog 2 today. It's cloudy as heck out here, but I'll slip out to the contruction site and see if anything was accomplished yesterday. Before leaving, here's a little something that would have been shared on theme day
Business car No. 120 of the Kansas City, Fort Smith & SOuthern was named "Bird in Hand." The railroad was founded in 1887 by Matthias Splitlog, a wealthy Indian chief, and in 1893 it bacame part of the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf, which in turn became the Kansas City Southern in 1900. Car No. 120 was built by Jackson & Sharp at their Wilminton, Del. plant in 1889; this photo is from the builder's glass plate negative.
G'day Gents!
It's Sunday breakfast - brunch 'n lunch 'til 2 PM! So, c'mon in and enjoy the banter!
What to my aging eyes should appear Several Posts from trolleyboy Rob! He's baaaaaaack and forgiven! Yes - "the Committee" has suspended its investigation in light of Rob's willingness to accept the responsibility for leaving many of us in the lurch - so to speak. That - plus buying the drinks on Monday - Tuesday 'n Wednesday clearly puts him back in good graces! Welcome back, Bar Chandler - and of course you do NOT qualify for remuneration from the "tub" for days missed at work! <grin> Back!
Now - we are NOT going to erect a chicken wire contraption for the "critters" With a thousand smackers in the bank - we will go 1st Class! The Bar Manager and Proprietor have overrulled in this matter! Sorry 'bout that!
Good seeing Left Coast Dave pop in on Saturday with a most inclusive Post! Got a kick out of your commentary and enjoyed your "educational" info as well. Pacific Electric LIVES!
Doug from the barnyard - as always, good to have you onboard and providing some fine input for our Sunday Photo Posting Day! Love that "funny" - I recall once upon a time when checking out the stern section of a lovely thing while walking in opposite directions - crashing into a parking meter. Felt like a &#^$ fool, not to mention turning beet red when several people saw me do it! Happens.
Rob - it appears that you and coalminer3 CM3 have come up with a way to circumvent the formatting problems on the Forums. That Index of yours looks great - so what's the secret Ship me an Email - I'd love to know . . . .
A word on the NHL - screw Buffalo and Toronto with any "concerns" they have over putting a team in Hamilton. These guys simply don't get it - what's the point in maintaining franchises that run in the red - season after season I think the REAL ANSWER is not to move these "weak sisters" but to close 'em up. That's the way to do it - trim ship - the league has far too many teams in far too many places that once the luster wore off just can't keep up the required financial pace.
Now, having said all of that - I'd love to see Hamilton with a franchise. It's a hockey city in a hockey Province in a hockey country. A no brainer, fer sure, fer sure!
Given that this IS Sunday and the bar is CLOSED - I'll go my way and hope y'all have a good day!
Boris - keep the food coming, coffee fresh 'n hot and Mentor Village Bakery case stocked . . .
Watch for the featured flicks at the Emporium Theatre!
Tom
Even though the bar at "Our" Place is CLOSED on SUNDAYS -
We do observe Sunday Photo Posting Day!
NOW PLAYING at the Mentor Village Emporium Theatre!
. . . Sunday, September 17th thru 23rd: City Slickers II (1994) Starring: Billy Crystal, Jack Palance & John Lovitz – and - Crocodile Dundee II (1988) Starring: Paul Hogan & Linda Kozlowski. SHORT: Slippery Silks (1936)
City Slickers II – The Legend of Curly’s Gold (1994)
PLOT SUMMARY: The second part of City Slickers begins after the death of Curly. It is the 40th birthday of Mitch Robbins and the day begins quite good until he returns home (after a hard day at the radio station) and finds his brother Glen, the black sheep of the family, in his sofa. Nevertheless he is about to have a wonderful birthday-night with his wife when he discovers a treasure map of Curly by chance. Together with Phil (from the first part) and unfortunately with Glen he tries to find the hidden gold of Curly's father in the desert of Arizona instead of attending a meeting in Las Vegas. The adventurous journey reveals many surprises until everything seems to be over when the map gets lost...
from: www.imdb.com
Crocodile Dundee II (1988)
PLOT SUMMARY: Mick and Sue continue where they left off in "'Crocodile Dundee". New York gangsters are pursuing Sue, so for her safety, Mick takes her back to Oz. When the gangsters follow them, Mick demonstrates his outback skills once more.
SHORT: Slippery Silks (1936)
PLOT SUMMARY: Featuring Moe, Larry and Curly Mr. Morgan borrows a valuable antique Chinese cabinet worth $50,000 from the museum, wanting an exact duplicate made, only to have three bungling carpenters (the Stooges) destroy it. After the Stooges flee, they find that they've inherited their Uncle Pete's dress shop, the "Madame de France." Mrs. Morgan has the new owners put on a fashion show for her friends, where Mr. Morgan finds the vandals who ruined the cabinet and exacts his revenge!
Mr. Morgan borrows a valuable antique Chinese cabinet worth $50,000 from the museum, wanting an exact duplicate made, only to have three bungling carpenters (the Stooges) destroy it. After the Stooges flee, they find that they've inherited their Uncle Pete's dress shop, the "Madame de France." Mrs. Morgan has the new owners put on a fashion show for her friends, where Mr. Morgan finds the vandals who ruined the cabinet and exacts his revenge!
from: www.threestooges.net
Enjoy!
Although these most probably have been viewed on earlier Pages, they remain some of "my favorite things" and worthy of taking another look . . . . (Plus they are MINE with no fear of hurt feelings, etc. over their display!)
Pacific Central Station in Vancouver, BC
GO Transit in Toronto, ON
Mt. Robson in the Canadian Rockies
VIA Rail's Glacier Park car at Sioux Lookout, ON
Great pix Tom. Here are some more pix of the town of Woodstock. We actually have a distinctive square. You might even remember seeing some of these buildings in the Movie "Groundhog Day".
Approaching the square. Notice the brick streets
Entering the square
One gazebo and the civil war memorial
The other gazebo in the square. Classic music plays throughout the square
This replica 1841 mountain Howitzer was the type of cannon used by McHenry County infantry troops during the civil war 1861-1865. It's short range and manueverability made it ideal for the rugged terrain and close combat situations.
I had better sneak a train-related picture in here. Any idea what this is?
Good aftrenoon gentleman's and Boris.Just thought I would make an appearance at a more civil hour.nice crop of shots from Tom and Doug today,and all none contendable ones too Good thing just in case the forum police are watching.
Tom-Loved the "reshows" of your classic VIA and passenger shots from vacations past also any of the city slickers movies are a okay with me. The trick to the formatting ( you are not going to like it ) I type everything new right into the reply window and use the format tools on the forums toolbar. I've not been able to cut and paste stuff successfully and use their toolbar with anything yet.
I was looking forward to using that chickenwire too.maybe and addition to H&H's little dress shop of horoors on the main street of the villiage
Doug-Loved your shots today too,espeacially the two humour pictures, that picture of the poor conductor checking out the ah caboose is espeacially good I'm gald to hear that you are looking forward to your unhindered return to the forums regularly. That's only good news for the rest of us.
rob
Okay a few passenger train shots I've snapped over the last ten years or so. In keeping with Tom's offerings of today.
The old VIA international limited at Komoka just outside of London Ontario c1997
Two shots of the VIA rail F40 painted in the CBC scheme. Brantford Ontario just this past April
VIA train 79 arriving Brantford May 2006
enjoy Rob
Tom-Oh just a thought. I aggree with you about the future of the NHL. I can think of at least 7 teams that have no business being in the league. As too Hamilton one would think it would be a slam dunk no brainer, same as Winnipeg for that matter. But what do we know we are after all the great ignorant unwashed that pay their prices.
Two or three more shots then I'm off to cook a couple of steaks nice 80 degree day here today
Home Hardware painted F40 at Bayview June 1994
Go transit Hamilton bound at Bayview jct June 1994
Go's Milton line trainsets at Guelph jct July 1995
Enjoy Rob
Good Encore day yesterday.
Thanks Doug for the Woodstock cafe info and Tom for the encores and the link to the AGEIR site, it is a wealth of info into the early days of diesel-electrics with some great pics as well. Love those 20 ton Box-Cabs.
Great news with Rob back and Al coming back soon.
Another good week at the Emporium and a good photo Sunday. Woodstock looks a great town Doug and some great Canadian pics from Tom and Rob.
This weeks photos from Alan are from his recent trip to Germany. Alan as supplied some notes as I have to confess I know very little about the railways there.
These two are at SCHONHEIDE There is a standard guage freight line near here and an abandoned part of the narrow guage crossed over it.
The next three are at the roundhouse at CHEMNITZ, there was a cavalcade of locos on the following day.
It is hard to believe that scenes such as these can be photographed in 2006. it must have been great to have been there. Hopefully they will enlarge.
Tom are you watching the Chiefs
Pete.
Until Monday!
Lars
A quick good evening to all. Seems lie a few more have slipped in on this I would say fairly active Sunday for that one guys.
Tom-Yes that is the train that Scott said was ours.Must have been sun shinning jusyt over his head that day. I'm not sure what the train number was on that superlinner train. I shot that picture at Komoka Ontario which is just outside of London ( windsor side ) It's the International from Chicago. VIA would pick up the cars from Amtrak and bring it accross the boarder and run the set through to Toronto.Now I shot that one in it had to be 96 or 97. We were at te Komoka train show which was in the old freight shed and station at Komoka which is now a small ( was then too ) rail museum.Komoka is not used as a stop by VIA so all the trains just run through from points farther south Sarnia or Windsor. I've not really thought of superlinners as replacements for the Budd equipment. It would seem to me to be a logical choice, although gov. bodies never make the logical choice do they,hence the "chunnel chuggers".
Lars-Soooo more penance for me yet to come eh oh well could be worse. Oh and yes I do get 5 weeks of vacation, mind you I've done my job for 18 years now and counting. It has the good with the bad same as anthingy else.Only 30 more till I retire ! I have a bit of the library left so no fear I'll have some pretty pictures that no one can complain about.
Pete- Wonderfull spread of German steam from your friend.Nice to see that many in operable condition.I'd hazzard a guess that these were taken and running in what was formerly East Germany Still that much steam no matter what the guage and or vintage is always nice to see
Catch everyone later , remember rounds on me the next two or three days !
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