"OUR" PLACE - SEE NEW THREAD!

[wanswheel]

Hi Tom and everyone, a Schaefer in a bottle if you got it.

Here's some more. Too many, I know. Maybe it'll be a slow day. Take your time.

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics47/00058358.jpg Group photo of Civil War veterans and Union Pacific's 'Iron Horse.' Vets get up steam for the National G.A.R. Encampment at Des Moines. September 17, 1926.

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics47/00058359.jpg G.A.R. band members start to march, June 5, 1930.

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics35/00052033.jpg I don't know what this is, I forgot to annotate.

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics32/00050825.jpg Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth, arrive in Los Angeles on the Southern Pacific Lark for the Rose Bowl Evangelistic rally, September 8, 1950.

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics42/00055682.jpg Mrs. Knute Rockne, wife of the late Notre Dame coach, and the famous "four horsemen" of football fame, arrive in Hollywood where the gridiron stars will make their motion picture debut in Universal's "The Spririt of Notre Dame", which will star Lew Ayres. From the left: Mrs. Rockne and the "four horsemen" - Harry Stuhldreher, Don Miller, Jim Crowley, and Elmer Layden. They chose Studebaker for their transportation. The idea for the story was conceived by Rockne who was enroute to Universal City when his plane crashed. Photo dated: November 28, 1931.

http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics48/00043989.jpg Members of a Coast Guard Spars honor guard eat lunch on the platform of the Glendale Southern Pacific station while awaiting the arrival of the Hollywood Bond Cavalcade, returning from a nationwide tour in which Cavalcade stars sold more than a billion dollars in war bonds. Photo date: September 27, 1943.

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics17/00028226.jpg FDR

http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics16/00027709.jpg Ansel Adams pic

http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics40/00039739.jpg Henry Huntington's hearse, June 2, 1927.

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics27/00048169.jpg 7-Up antique Santa Fe observation cars
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics24/00031881.jpg Los Angeles SP Arcade Station 1891
http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics14/00006919.jpg First trolley in Los Angeles, Pico Street and Maple Avenue, 1887.

http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics37/00053355.jpg Clyde Barfoot
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics42/00055879.jpg Babe & Lou
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics38/00053539.jpg Ted Williams
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics35/00052403.jpg Billy Martin, Joe DiMaggio & Ed Lopat
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics35/00052044.jpg Yogi & Lasorda
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics35/00052169.jpg Willie Mays
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics35/00052338.jpg Mickey & Dean Chance
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics38/00053943.jpg Jackie Robinson & Van Heflin
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics42/00055793.jpg Edwin & Campy
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics35/00052282.jpg & Gil Hodges
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics37/00053464.jpg Ralph Kiner & Dixie Walker
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics35/00052345.jpg Dizzy Dean
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics35/00052256.jpg Stan the Man
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics35/00052107.jpg Yastrzemski
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics42/00055882.jpg Majeskie
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics35/00052096.jpg Brett
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics29/00049000.jpg Big bat
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics38/00053968.jpg the Babe boxing
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics39/00054015.jpg Joe Louis
http://jpg3.lapl.org/pics05/00022010.jpg Vin Scully
http://jpg2.lapl.org/pics35/00052066.jpg LETS GO METS!
Mike

[siberianmo]

G'mornin' Gents!

What a storm system rushed through here last evening - winds clocked at 70+ mph - lotsa damage to homes, etc. Fortunately, we came through with nothing more than wondering if we'd be heading off to the land of Oz![:O] Ah, springtime in mid-Continent USA . . . .

Yes, Doug it was a fine Sunday Photo Posting Day! and another THANX to all who took the time and made the effort to Post Pix or send them to me for Posting![tup][tup][tup]

Theme for tomorrow is in the SUMMARY - Missouri Pacific![tup] You must've just overlooked it - as a matter of fact, it's been in the past several SUMMARIES. Whatever it is that YOU'RE drinking, I'll have a double![swg]

That must've been some loooooooooong game that the SOX played last night. There was a time I'd sit through rain delays, but no more - rather be in the car heading home and catching it on the tube. That's what happens when one gets O-L-D! Anyway, the Champs started off on the right foot, eh[?]

Nice finale with the Tunnels series - one of my favorites! Traveled through those Hudson River tunnels many times while riding trains to & from Manhattan many years ago. Good stuff![tup][tup][tup]

Regarding today's "Comedy Corner" in the SUMMARY - those comments should be evidence of why we shouldn't really take any of the opinions and comments made by our so-called "stars" very seriously. It makes me want to head for the lee side whenever the news media plays up the utter crap being said by the likes of these "mush heads."


Another "invitation" to stop by "my other Thread" - any offerings most appreciated.[tup]

I'll be behind the bar for the day, so whadilyahave[?]


Tom[4:-)] [oX)]

[Anonymous]

Good morning Tom and all. I'll have my usual two light breakfasts please, and a poncho for this very wet morning.

I think we had another great pix day yesterday. Rob, really great stuff! Do you guys still have that rotary interurban? Nick, I don't know the engine types from the Union Station pix. I tried to look it up on their website, but no help there. Nice links and pix from you too Mike. Thoroughly enjoyed the Lionel pix Mr. Tom. Nice touch on the comedy corner in your morning post! DId I miss something? We have no theme tomorrow?

Here is the last part of the Tunnel series:

Tunnels by Henry B. Comstock June 1947 Railroad Magazine

Busiest underground trackage on a heavy-duty railroad passes through Pennsylvania Railroad’s twin tubes under the Hudson River. Junction of the last shields on October 9th, 1906, was followed by a regular train service four years later.


No story of railroad tunnel work would be complete without some mention of underwater passages. On the basis of cost, the Pennsylvania’s Hudson and East River tubes head the list of achievements in this field.

When Gustaf Lindenthal’s ambitious bridge route proposal bogged down around 1900, PRR investigated the possibility of under-passing the two great natural barriers. Because a large portion of any such tunnel would lie, not through hard rock, but silt, cast-iron sleeves were proposed, made up in twenty-three-foot sections, bolted together and lined with two feet of concrete. Many engineers were dubious. They believed that the weight of the heavy trains would depress the entire structure, setting up terrific stresses at the joints and jeopardizing railroad operation. To prevent such action, the original contract called for the use of numerous screw piles – long pipes which were to be driven through holes provided in the bottom plates of the shell. In actual practice, however, it was found that such tubes showed little tendency to shift, rising and falling no more than an eighth of an inch with the tides, and settling only slightly during the first year or two of operation.

The real danger in this and similar shield boring, is reserved for the tunnel workers; not the structure. Faced with the constant prospect of breaking 9out of hard rock into mud or sand, the engineer calls the air-lick to his aid, depending on its artificial pressure to hold back the soft earth and moisture. Working under such conditions is exhausting at best – disastrous, when the silt is thin enough to “blow,” letting down a column of river water from above.

It is high tribute to Vice-President Rea, who integrated the vast one-hundred million dollar New York terminal improvement project, and to the staff of brilliant engineers assisting him, that the assignment was carried to a safe and successful conclusion in 1910.

Today there are more than fifteen hundred railroad tunnels in the United States. They range in length from the thirty-foot Bee Rock bore, located in Cumberland Valley Division of the Louisville & Nashville, to the great Cascade corridor already described.

Southern Pacific maintains more smoke holes exceeding a thousand feet in length than any other American carrier; its fifty long bores totaling twenty-three miles of covered trackage. Then, in order, come the Baltimore & Ohio (thirty seven tunnels, or 81,324 feet); the Pennsylvania (thirty tunnels, or 97,246 feet); the Louisville & Nashville (twenty-five tunnels, or 48,512 feet); and the Norfolk & Western (twenty-one tunnels, or 43,801 feet). Four other lines, the Great Northern, the Canadian Pacific, the New York Central, and the Chesapeake & Ohio, show aggregate totals of 78,286 feet, 52,494 feet, 49,359 feet and 48,242 feet, respectively, but with materially fewer individual bores.

Of the more than four hundred tunnels in this “thousand-foot-plus” category, only forty are now electrified. In the light of modern developments it does not seem likely that their number will be greatly increased. For the widespread adoption of the Diesel locomotive has changed the operating picture. It is not that these oil-guzzlers are smoke-less. Far from it, and any tunnel gang can testify. But within their protected cabs, an engine-crew can thread the longest smoke hole in comfort.

Take our old friend from the Hoosac. When the Boston & Maine set about Dieselizing its Fitchburg Division a couple of years ago, the big motors growled at undiminished speed past the stubby juice jacks standing by the North Adams terminal. Blue haze columned up through the steel nostrils of the new high-capacity ventilator which had just been installed at the top of the central shaft. Remotely-controlled variable-pitch propellers sucked the fog out of the corridor at the rate of 270,000 cubic feet per minute.

That was the beginning of the end for straight-electric, as well as steam power, on the Route of the Minute Man. Before you read these lines the last of the catenary poles at Hoosac will be burned off level with the ground – the first subterranean electrification project to bow to the new invader.

On the other side of the ledger there are unofficial reports that the Pennsylvania will start work shortly on extension of catenary west of Harrisburg. Included in this white-coal assault on the Appalachians, plans call for an eight-mile tunnel near Hollidaysburg. The object would be to eliminate the spectacular but difficult Horseshoe Curve. It will be a strange quirk of destiny if America’s longest tunnel is buried deep in the bosom of the same flinty mountain which bears the scars of our first diminutive railroad bore.

Wartime enlargement project in Southern Pacific’s tunnel No. 6, between Santa Margarita and San Luis Obisco. Supplementary bore above it will carry smoke away.


Not the least of Europe’s reconstruction problems will be restoration of masonry at much-bombed tunnel mouths. Here a Slovakian arch is shored up, prior to resetting of the stones.


[:I] A blonde was driving to the store when she saw a guy with 2 monkeys. She pulled over and asked if he needed help.
"Yes I do. My car broke down and I need to get these monkeys to the zoo. If I give you $50 will you please take these monkeys to the zoo for me?" He told her.
"Sure," she replied. So she put the monkeys in her car and drove off.
When the guy got his car fixed he started driving towards the zoo when he came across the same blonde walking down the streets holding the monkeys hands.
"Hey I paid you $50 to take them to the zoo," he told her when he pulled up beside her.
"We did go to the zoo. But we had money left over so now we are going to the movies," she replied. [:I]

[siberianmo]

from: www.viarail.ca


We open at 6 AM. (Don’t ask how we do that!)[swg]


MONDAY’s INFO & SUMMARY of POSTS


Monday once again and time to enjoy a <light> or <traditional> breakfast from the Menu Board, a pastry of two from The Mentor Village Bakery, and some freshly ground and brewed coffee! What are you waiting for[?][tup]


Daily Wisdom

You cain’t hurt a tongue by speakin’ softly.[swg]


”Our” Place” ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION is Wednesday, April 12th!


Info for the Day:

Railroads from Yesteryear – Missouri Pacific (MP) arrives Tuesday!

* Weekly Calendar:

Wednesday: Pike Perspective’s Day!
Thursday: Fish ‘n Chips Nite!
Friday: Pizza Nite & Steak Nite!
Saturday: Steak ‘n Trimmin’s Nite! – and –
ENCORE! Saturday


SUMMARY

Name …..…………… Date/Time …..…..………. (Page#) .. Remarks

(1) siberianmo Tom Posted: 02 Apr 2006, 01:22:21 (291) Sunday’s Info & Summary

(2) siberianmo Tom Posted: 02 Apr 2006, 01:49:34 (291) Acknowledgments & Comments

(3) barndad Doug Posted: 02 Apr 2006, 07:02:53 (291) 5 Pix & Joke!

(4) barndad Doug Posted: 02 Apr 2006, 07:25:52 (291) 5 Pix & Joke!

(5) siberianmo Tom Posted: 02 Apr 2006, 08:54:05 (291) Now Playing at the Emporium!

(6) siberianmo Tom Posted: 02 Apr 2006, 10:22:29 (291) 6 Pix from Nick!

(7) siberianmo Tom Posted: 02 Apr 2006, 11:29:13 (292) 2 Pix from John!

(8) LoveDomes Lars Posted: 02 Apr 2006, 13:17:30 (292) Lars Report & 4 Pix!

(9) barndad Doug Posted: 02 Apr 2006, 14:14:39 (292) Pix & Video URLs!!

(10) siberianmo Tom Posted: 02 Apr 2006, 15:07:44 (292) 7 Pix & Acknoweldgments

(11) trolleyboy Rob Posted: 02 Apr 2006, 17:53:49 (292) Pix comments!

(12) wanswheel Mike Posted: 02 Apr 2006, 17:54:14 (292) URL & Pix!

(13) trolleyboy Rob Posted: 02 Apr 2006, 18:05:14 (292) 4 Pix!

(14) trolleyboy Rob Posted: 02 Apr 2006, 18:21:52 (292) 6 Pix!

(15) nickinwestwales Nick Posted: 02 Apr 2006, 19:55:14 (292) Pix Comments & Descriptions!

(16) siberianmo Tom Posted: 02 Apr 2006, 21:31:19 (292) Pix comments, etc.


[tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup]

Comedy Corner

Brain Cramps

Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?

Answer:"I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever,"
--Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA contest.


"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff."
--Mariah Carey


"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life,"
--Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for federal anti-smoking campaign.

[tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup][tup]


The Mentor Village Emporium Theatre

NOW SHOWING:

Double Features and Three Stooges Short Subject!

. . . Sunday, April 2nd thru 8th: Eight Men Out (1988) starring: Jace Alexander, John Cusack & Gordon Clapp – and – Field of Dreams (1989) Kevin Costner, Burt Lancaster & James Earl Jones. SHORT: The Big Idea (1934).



That’s it! [tup][;)]

Tom [4:-)] [oX)]
Proprietor of “Our” Place, an adult eating & drinking establishment!



THINK April 12th –
The 1st year Anniversary of ”Our” Place!

[siberianmo]

Good Evening!

A fine Sunday Photo Posting Day! and many THANX to all for your contributions![tup][tup][tup]

Glad to see Nick back with us - presume all is well with the "little one!"[tup] Great efort with the Pix descriptions! Good show . . .

Rob I was hoping you'd show up and you didn't disappoint! FIne stuff from the trolley archives![tup]

Loved that Penn Station shot from Mike - brought back lotsa memories for me as well![tup] 1956[?] The year I entered the service . . . traveled to boot camp by train from that fine station in NYC.

Doug I really enjoyed those Chicago Union Station shots from this morning. Every time I've visited that place, I have been unsuccessful at getting Pix from the platform areas. Next time I'll have to get you to run interference for me, eh[?][swg]

No "hidden agenda" with the SOX - it's right up front![swg] Go Cards!
American League[?] Hmmmmmmmm - I'll have to think about it.[%-)]


See y'all in the AM . . . . Nite![zzz]

Tom[4:-)] [oX)]

[nickinwestwales]

Well howdy guys,various things ,but first -JOHN-Ain`t he a little beaut !!-[tup][^][tup]Can`t decide who he takes after most-he has Robs smile,Lar`s eyes,Toms upright & dignified posture,my teeth.........It`s a puzzle to tell[swg]-many congratulations to your lady & yourself and thanks for `sharing the moment` with us -now those Lego trains,I could get right behind some of that-"Limited only by your imagination" used to be their slogan when I was a kid-ahh-happy memories
LARS-That hits the spot for me my man-It was shots like that of slightly grubby red nose zebra F units in stunning landscapes that turned me onto modelling Canadian outline-a decision which has brought me by long and unexpected journeys to this fine company-nicely done [tup][tup]
DOUG-Nice work with the disposable ( can I say that ??)-Whatever happened to building for future generations as opposed to slinging it up for a price......
Those bi-levels look a tight fit under the bridge-real nice underground atmosphere shots on the METRA & Amtrak power-are the METRA units F40`s or `59`s?-Havn`t had time to open the vids yet but will report back as soon as [tup]
[4:-)][oX)]TOM-Love that Lionel,brings back memories of summer afternoons on the back lawn watching the family pet beagle chase a pair of Hornby `0`gauge clockwork loco`s around as much of the garden as I could cover with track........[^]...

Before I forget,thanks to all for enquiries,after a sleepless night all round,small one seems recovered....I won`t bore you with details.....

Right,picture captions ( then sleep-lots of sleep...)
1:-A last one from the 1970 catalogue-top right is the `train set` engine which set the ball rolling,below it is the second member of the fleet ( long since sold and still regretted )below that,one of the few models in the range I have never aquired.
The first two formed the core for my first `proper` layout which might make a Pikes Perspective Postcard from across the Pond sort of a Post later in the week.
Up until now we have had individual models in close-up,now for the larger context
2:-The shop-window display,I havn`t checked ,but I would imagine every item in that years catalogue is in there somewhere--It was years before I twigged that the tracks don`t all carry on behind the mountains and all join up-another illusion bites the dust...
3:-From the `shows you how` bit-on the opposite page is the 2-D trackplan,with all the components marked and on this side the full 3-D realisation-with a fair attempt to put the models in the right context with each other ( Although PETE will be able to spot all the anomalies I feel sure.
4:-Back in the real world,some overlooked pix from C.I.E (Irish Rail) as a postscript to Mentor`s St P.`s W/end.
Top L & R-Mid-morning Dublin-Rosslare Europort service arrives at Rosslare Strand
Btm L:-Looking north,towards Dublin. The Waterford line turns off to the left.
The passing track looked not to have been used for some years-there is some evidence of a small goods yard behind the Waterford platform-this would have needed to connect to the passing track as a headshunt ( drill track ??) as the branch line curves at too sharp an angle.
Also,the signals at the platform end give priority to the branch traffic with the loop signalled as a siding from both ends.
Extra detail-the branch `home` signal is visible (although partly lost in light flare) to the right of the platform `starter`,to the right of that the Up loop `starter`,Up main `starter` & Down main splitter are visible ( but only with a magnifying glass).
The blue building on the Dublin platform is the signal cabin
Btm R:-Still with me ?-good [^]-Looking towards Rosslare Europort-Bit of a mystery here,Y-point in track suggests equal priority yet signal arms give the branchline priority over the main...[%-)]..human interest bit-the cottage we rented was just the other side of the bridge you can see further down the line
5 & 6:-Here we are in the delightful Mid-Wales university town of Aberystwyth,home of the Vale of Rheidol Rly.
A short run through only here but as we are due to visit with the in-laws over Easter some up-to-date pixs will be available
5:-top L --#7 ` Owain Glyndwr` takes the 10.30 out past the yard limits on a beautiful summers day
5:-other 3, on an early spring day,diesel #10 is busy shunting coaches whilst #7 takes on oil & water,blows off a little steam and poses with her shine showing prior to taking up the 14.00 to Devil`s Bridge
6:-top 2-on a freezing cold autumn morning #9 `Prince of Wales`s driver had spotted me hanging around with a camera and was delighted to `put on a show`,even though the train was virtually empty..lovely man[^]
6:-Btm L-#8 `Llewellyn` at Devils Bridge-the spur to the left usually spots a spare coach or 2 and the old goods yard was on the right
6:-Btm R-close up of #10-just back from an M.O.W run,first truck contains generator,second one tools and other five cut brush etc.
--most wagons appear to be from R.N.A.D Trecwn stock,as mentioned a few weeks ago.
Will update as soon as info is to hand-
Enjoy the day of rest chaps---JOHN-sleep is for wimps [swg]
See you all soon,nick, [C=:-)]

[trolleyboy]

Hello again here's afew more shots from the museum's achieves.



Brantford Street Railway travelling u der CN's Murray street overpass c1940



LE&N express car 622 at the Brantford Station c1955



NS&T City car # 328 in St Catharines On C1942



Small Peter Witt car 2666 at the TTc Hillcrest shops c1952



Brantford Street Railway car on Terrace Hill c1939



Montreal and Southern Counties sweeper c1955

enjoy Rob

[trolleyboy]

Okay a couple of shots from the "trolleybarn"


Grand River railway class B Baldwin-Westinghouse steeple cab at Preston ontario 1960



Niagara St Catharines and Toronto rotary snowplow # 18 at the Welland ave Yard. 1955



Montreal Transportation Commission (MTC) car #2132's builders shot at the Canadian Car and Foundry Plant in Montreal. 1927



Cornwall Street Railway snowsweeper # 1 at 7th street in Cornwall. c1947


enjoy Rob

[wanswheel]

http://jwtrains.com/images/627_web.JPG

Souveniers of 1956: the LV 627 and Penn Station. Nine years old and awestruck by the height of that ceiling.
He sure is a cute baby!

[trolleyboy]

Good afternoon folks. Some nice shots as per usual from the gang assembled.

Doug those Union and ogilvie street station shots are A one, thanks for the video urls as well.

Tom Loved your nostalgic pictures again as well. Looks like the western pacific boxcar as the original blueman from the blueman group inside of it.[:D]

John Cute little guy you've got there. No conductors hat yet for him[?]

lars Glad tto see you servived the birthday bash, thanks for those great shots of the supercontinental as well.

Rob

[siberianmo]

Even though ”Our” Place is CLOSED on SUNDAY’s we do observe Sunday Photo Posting Day!

That's quite an innovative submission, Doug! Looks like the wanswheel "touch" has begun to sprout wings![swg] Great "stuff" indeed![tup][tup][tup]

Thanx to Lars for the kind words and great Pix![tup] Sounds as if the B'day Bash doesn't want to quit at your house![swg] Enjoy!!


Continuing with Tom’s Nostalgia! from past weeks, here are a few more Pix from what I remember of my childhood Lionel trains! As previously mentioned, those trains are long gone, but thanx to internet sources, the Pix remain. So, take a trip with me through what just may be the only remaining “evidence” of the trains from my yesteryear . . . .


(1) Lionel #2458 PRR auto box car (1946-48)



(2) Lionel #6452 PRR gondola w/barrels (1948-49)



(3) Lionel #3451 operating log car (1947-48)
(this car should have been included with my “original” set on page 273)




(4) Lionel #364 conveyer log loader (1948-57)




(5) Lionel #3474 WP operating box car (1952-53)




(6) Lionel #6472 refrigerator car (1950-53)




(7) Lionel #6002 NYC gondola (1950)



That concludes the Lionel Trains from my childhood – if you’ve missed any, check out the URLS: http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?page=273&TOPIC_ID=35270
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?page=281&TOPIC_ID=35270


ENJOY! [tup]


If you are browsing, how about letting the guys know that you’ve enjoyed their efforts!


Tom [4:-)] [oX)]


THINK April 12th –
The 1st year Anniversary of ”Our” Place!

[Anonymous]

Good afternoon gents. I think Tom is trying to say something to me with the timing of the Black Sox film at the emporeum? Still .. compliments on the movies, and thanks for posting Nicks pix of model adds and assorted train scenes as well as pictures of John's baby. I forget ...did we name him CM4?

Great Super Continental pix Lars!

Now for something a little different ... not jut pix, but videos!

German freight train
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5863058011960402395&q=german&pl=true

German ICE highspeed
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5497297861035859149&q=german&pl=true&auto=true

1910 train wrecks into auto
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5707021991823592492&q=train&pl=true

Train chasing at Daggett, Ca.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4360162034832389620&q=train&pl=true

Train approaching Bombay
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3310474316183561023&q=train&pl=true

CN 306 through McGivney
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3828341487036407478&q=train&pl=true

Bullet Train
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-782561498373809240&q=train&pl=true

Waterloo and city train
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2280167377332521222&q=train&pl=true

Hitachi train in Australia
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1789522414623648644&q=train&pl=true

Inner city train in Hanoi
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6941673554768419330&q=train&pl=true

Train arriving at Amsterdam
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3829467082574783263&pl=true

[:I] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1108474708529983988&pl=true [:I]

[LoveDomes]

G’day Tom and fellow travelers WISHING that the bar was open!!


Been quite a weekend as family and friends descended en masse for my 66th on Friday. Yesterday was more of the same, and from the looks of things, aside from gaining 100 pounds, I think the ‘good times’ are continuing.[tup] My wife says I snored in Church! (P.S. I don’t REMEMBER being there!)[wow]


Tom You surely provided quite a ‘spread’ with those Nostalgia submissions yesterday and I’m sorry that you had to “hold the fort” by yourself for so long. Just couldn’t find the ‘puter![swg] Glad to note that others appreciate your efforts as well. This bar of ours surely would go the way of so many other threads without you!

Nice Pix from Doug – Nick ‘n John (over in Korea!) So, now “Uncle Lars” can say he has kids on all of the populated continents!![swg][tup]

Best to all who I’ve missed, especially those of you who took the time to fete me on the combined B’day Bash with Doug back on the 13th![tup]



Something from Canadian Railroading of days gone by . . . . especially for Tom and the other guys who appreciate Canadian railways![tup]



CN "Super Continental" eastbound at Jasper (1972)(from: www.trainweb.org) Photo: Chris Guenzler




CN "Super Continental" at Jasper (1976)(from: www.trainweb.org) Photo: Chris Guenzler




CN "Skeena" at Jasper (1976)(from: www.trainweb.org) Photo: Chris Guenzler




CN “Super Continental” route map



Until the next time![tup]


Lars

[siberianmo]

Even though ”Our” Place is CLOSED on SUNDAY’s we do observe Sunday Photo Posting Day!


A couple of pictures from jlampke John who is in Korea, spending time with his family:


John’s newborn son . . . What’s all the fuss about[?]




John’s daughter’s Lego trains!



Thanx, John! Enjoy your time with those who love you!!


If you are browsing, how about letting the guys know that you’ve enjoyed their efforts!


Tom [4:-)] [oX)]


THINK April 12th –
The 1st year Anniversary of ”Our” Place!

[siberianmo]

Even though ”Our” Place is CLOSED on SUNDAY’s we do observe Sunday Photo Posting Day!

Once again, Nick has “come to save the day!” Check these out:

1



2



3



4



5



6



Thanx Nick [tup][tup][tup]


If you are browsing, how about letting the guys know that you’ve enjoyed their efforts!

Enjoy![tup]

Tom [4:-)] [oX)]


THINK April 12th –
The 1st year Anniversary of ”Our” Place!

[siberianmo]

Even though ”Our” Place is CLOSED on SUNDAY’s we do observe Sunday Photo Posting Day!


NOW PLAYING at the Mentor Village Emporium Theatre!


Eight Men Out (1988)

QUOTE: PLOT DESCRIPTION
Writer/director John Sayles' dramatization of the most infamous episode in professional sports -- the fix of the 1919 World Series -- is considered by many to be among his best films and arguably the best baseball movie ever made. This adaptation of Eliot Asinof's definitive study of the scandal shows how athletes of another era were a different breed from the well-paid stars of later years. The Chicago White Sox owner, Charlie Comiskey (Clifton James), is portrayed as a skinflint with little inclination to reward his team for their spectacular season. When a gambling syndicate led by Arnold Rothstein (Michael Lerner) gets wind of the players' discontent, it offers a select group of stars -- including pitcher Eddie Cicotte (Sayles regular David Strathairn), infielder Buck Weaver (John Cusack), and outfielder "Shoeless" Joe Jackson (D. B. Sweeney) -- more money to play badly than they would have earned to try to win the Series against the Cincinnati Reds. Sayles cast the story with actors who look and perform like real jocks, and added a colorful supporting cast that includes Studs Terkel as reporter Hugh Fullerton and Sayles himself as Ring Lardner.

From: All Movie Guide


Field of Dreams (1989)

QUOTE: PLOT DESCRIPTION
"If you build it, he will come." That's the ethereal message that inspires Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) to construct a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield. At first, "he" seems to be the ghost of disgraced ballplayer Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta), who materializes on the ball field and plays a few games with the awestruck Ray. But as the weeks go by, Ray receives several other messages from a disembodied voice, one of which is "Ease his pain." He realizes that his ball field has been divinely ordained to give a second chance to people who have sacrificed certain valuable aspects of their lives. One of these folks is Salingeresque writer Terence Mann (James Earl Jones), whom Ray kidnaps and takes to a ball game and then to his farm. Another is Doc Graham (Burt Lancaster), a beloved general practitioner who gave up a burgeoning baseball career in favor of medicine. The final "second-chancer" turns out to be much closer to Ray. That "magical" field in Dyersville, Iowa still draws thousands of baseball-happy tourists each year.

From: All Movie Guide


Three Stooges Short Subject: The Big Idea (1934)
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b222/siberianmo/Movies/12f534e4.jpg

QUOTE: Featuring Ted Healy and His Stooges
Ted Healy is the President (and sole employee) of "Big Ideas Theatrical Productions" in Hollywood. Desperately trying to come up with the "Big Idea" for a new picture, Healy is constantly interrupted by a stream of intruders using his office as a shortcut, a cleaning woman who uses his office as a dumpster, and three musicians who march in to play a tune every few minutes.

If you are browsing, how about letting the guys know that you’ve enjoyed their efforts!


Enjoy![tup]

Tom [4:-)] [oX)]


THINK April 12th –
The 1st year Anniversary of ”Our” Place!

[Anonymous]

Inside Union Station – the benches are long gone, as the main hall is frequently rented for parties and presentations


The famous staircase where the movie “Capone” with Tom Hanks was shot


Amtrak engines on the Union Station North concourse


Really bad picture of a newer Metra engine


Here's a shot, obviously taken from inside the train of the North Chicago station, on the way to Kenosha Wisconsin


[:I] A blonde comes home one day to find her house had been broken into. She goes to the neighbors house and calls the police department. The dispatcher answers the phone and says, "9-1-1 what’s your emergency?"
The blonde replies, "My house is broken into and I need to make a police report."
The dispatcher tells the blonde that she will dispatch a unit and they will be there in a few minutes. A K-9 unit is only a few blocks away and arrives on the scene first. As the officer is getting his K-9 partner out of the car, the blonde runs from her home to the neighbors house again. Again she calls 9-1-1. The dispatcher remembering the phone number ask what the problem was this time. The blonde responds, "Don't you people realize that my house was just broken into and the only cop u could send me was a blind cop." [:I]

[Anonymous]

Good morning Tom and gang. Guess I won’t be having breakfast here today, as the bar is closed, but at least I can submit a few pix! Sorry you had such a rough day yesterday Tom. Today has to be an improvement. Is it too late to wish Carol a belated B’day from Chicago? Nice ENCORE’s yesterday. We were kept quite busy with preparation for a TaeKwondo tournament (it’s this morning) preparation, and went to see the Ice Age II movie …which was good!

There seem to be quite a few pix recently of train stations near y’all, so here’s mine! The following pictures were taken in Chicago 3 weeks ago with a disposable camera. I did not have my digital camera as I really hadn’t planned on taking the trip!

Ogilvie Station looking north


Metra train arriving at station


Looking back at station


Looking back at station


Ogilvie entrance from Monroe Street


[:I] Q. What is it when a man talks dirty to a woman?
A. Sexual harassment!

Q. What is it when a woman talks dirty to a man?
A. $3.99 a minute! [:I]

[siberianmo]

Good Early Morning!

Just about to close up the joint and figured I'd acknowledge the Posts from ENCORE! Saturday before setting the clocks ahead on hour. Doesn't everyone stay up 'til 2 AM to do that[?] [swg]

While it was a slow day for customers at the bar, we had our moments. I think I've broken the "personal record" for consecutive Posts - but what the heck, talking to myself has become a way of life here at the "Hit 'n Miss Bar 'n Grill."[swg]

I do appreciate the kind words of recognition from West Coast S Dave - pwolfe Wolfman Pete 'n trolleyboy Count Robulla Rob.[tup][tup] Makes the old heart feel a bit better knowing that there are guys "out there" who not only read and enjoy the submissions, but take the time to acknowledge them as well. Thanx!

We also enjoyed quite a URL listing from wanswheel Mike - great browsing and lots of effort. Good job and in keeping with your unique contributions to the Thread.[tup]

Hope the little one rebounds real quick, Sir Nick [C=:-)] - appreciate the fact that you took the time to think of us![tup] Kitchen is in good hands with Cindy "filling in" as ONLY she can![}:)][:-,]

Nice work with the ENCOREs Rob - just as good the 2nd time around![tup]

Loved the April Fool story, Pete - Just goes to show that no one really likes being the fool, eh[?][swg]

Glad you were able to pay a visit, Dave and not to worry, you'll find the solution to the hanging challenge - just about the time she changes her mind![swg]

A word for barndad Doug - Your Index is well done and in no way should you be even thinking about comparisons. Yours stands alone and for those keeping track of all the fine Posts, it's appreciated![tup][tup] Jokes on the other hand . . . . .

Okay boyz, that's it for this day! Boris ring the ding and I'll serve up last call. Then it's closing time and preparation for Sunday Photo Posting Day!

See y'all on Monday![tup]

Tom[4:-)][oX)]

THINK April 12th –
The 1st year Anniversary of ”Our” Place!

[siberianmo]

from: www.viarail.ca


We open at 6 AM on Monday (all time zones!).
(Don’t ask how we do that!)[swg]


SUNDAY’s INFO & SUMMARY of POSTS


We are CLOSED on SUNDAY! However, it is Sunday Photo Posting Day![tup]


Daily Wisdom

On a roundup, it’s ok to eat with your fingers. The food is clean.[swg]


”Our” Place” ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION is Wednesday, April 12th!


Info for the Day:

Railroads from Yesteryear – Missouri Pacific (MP) arrives Tuesday!

* Weekly Calendar:

Wednesday: Pike Perspective’s Day!
Thursday: Fish ‘n Chips Nite!
Friday: Pizza Nite & Steak Nite!
Saturday: Steak ‘n Trimmin’s Nite! – and –
ENCORE! Saturday


SUMMARY

Name …..…………… Date/Time …..…..………. (Page#) .. Remarks

(1) barndad Doug Posted: 01 Apr 2006, 05:39:53 (290) barndad’s Roundhouse Index & joke!

(2) siberianmo Tom Posted: 01 Apr 2006, 06:31:53 (290) Saturday’s Info & Summary

(3) siberianmo Tom Posted: 01 Apr 2006, 06:34:47 (290) April Fool’s Day!

(4) siberianmo Tom Posted: 01 Apr 2006, 07:55:37 (290) ENCORE! Saturday – Fallen Flag – Reading Lines

(5) siberianmo Tom Posted: 01 Apr 2006, 07:59:07 (291) ENCORE! Saturday – Ad SOO Line (1956)

(6) siberianmo Tom Posted: 01 Apr 2006, 08:02:56 (291) ENCORE! Saturday – Ad – Burlington Route (1949)

(7) siberianmo Tom Posted: 01 Apr 2006, 09:27:05 (291) ENCORE! Saturday – Ad – Soo Line (1956)

(8) siberianmo Tom Posted: 01 Apr 2006, 09:30:46 (291) ENCORE! Saturday – Ad – Soo Line (1956)

(9) siberianmo Tom Posted: 01 Apr 2006, 13:12:02 (291) ENCORE! Saturday – Ad – MoPAC (1956)

(10) West Coast S Dave Posted: 01 Apr 2006, 13:55:19 (291) lLeft Coast comments

(11) siberianmo Tom Posted: 01 Apr 2006, 15:01:31 (291) B’day Watch List!

(12) siberianmo Tom Posted: 01 Apr 2006, 16:12:38 (291) Acknowledgment & Comments

(13) wanswheel Mike Posted: 01 Apr 2006, 18:08:28 (291) URLs, etc.

(14) nickinwestwales Nick Posted: 01 Apr 2006, 18:28:50 (291) Nick in brief (not briefs!)

(15) pwolfe Pete Posted: 01 Apr 2006, 22:23:59 (291) Wolfman Howls – Inclusive Post & April Fool story

(16) trolleyboy Rob Posted: 02 Apr 2006, 00:07:36 (291) Inclusive Post, etc.

(17) trolleyboy Rob Posted: 02 Apr 2006, 00:19:01 (291) ENCORE! Classic Juice #20 – Hamilton Inclines

(18) trolleyboy Rob Posted: 02 Apr 2006, 00:31:49 (291) ENCORE! Classic Diesels #8 – CF7



The Mentor Village Emporium Theatre

NOW SHOWING:

Double Features and Three Stooges Short Subject!

. . . Sunday, April 2nd thru 8th: Eight Men Out (1988) starring: Jace Alexander, John Cusack & Gordon Clapp – and – Field of Dreams (1989) Kevin Costner, Burt Lancaster & James Earl Jones. SHORT: The Big Idea (1934).



That’s it! [tup][;)]

Tom [4:-)] [oX)]
Proprietor of “Our” Place, an adult eating & drinking establishment!



THINK April 12th –
The 1st year Anniversary of ”Our” Place!

[trolleyboy]

ENCORE ! ENCORE ! as posted on page 263
The last of the stuff for this week, enjoy. Hopefully we will see quite a few of you for sunday picture posting fun day.

Rob

CLASSIC DIESEL'S #8 THE CF7

The CF7

At the end of the 1960's the ATSF found itself with several hundred F7 frieght diesels that were out of a job. They had been bumped from mainline frieght duties by high horse power hood units , and their carbody configuration made them unsuitable for the branchline and local duties where they were needed. Santa Fe could not afford to to buy several hundred new units for this type of work and the F7's mechanically still had many usefull years left in them. So the Sante Fe decided to convert them ( F7's ) to hood units.Two factors influenced this decision : 1) The desire to keep the shop at Clerburne Tx busy , 2) The financial advantage of a capitol rebuilding program, whick let them treat the rebuilt locomotives as new, therefore enabling them to depreciate their value over a period of several years.

The rebuilding process was complicated by the basic difference between cab units,such as the F7, and a hood unit. A hood unit is essentially a flat frame carrying a diesel engine,and a generator and controls, with sheet metal hoods protecting them and the crew from the weather. A cab unit was designed so that the sides carry part of the weight of the machinery. Remove the sides and the frame will sag. Fabricating new frames was a major part of the conversion process from F7 to CF7 .

At first glance, the CF7 looks like a GP7 that has had it's short hood lowered.It differs from a GP7 in having a shorter , short hood and a longer cab ; the side members of the frame are also quite different. Most of the CF7's were built with a curved cab roof ; the last 54 had an angled cab roof that can accomodate a roof mounted air conditioner.Mechanically the CF7's are tthe same as the GP7 1500hp 567prime mover and the assosiated gen set. All refurbished as needed, but the original as installed powerplant from their F7 days.

Sante Fe built 233 CF7's between 1970 and 1978. In the early 80's the road began to phase them out and discovered a ready market for them in the various short lines and regional railroads. Many are onto their third and forth owners, in may cases running with thier purcgasers longer than with their builder. The CF7 was likely one of the most ambitious rebuilding schemes attempted by a class one. eclipsd only by some of the switcher rebuilds and GP7 and 9 conversions done by the UP and ICG to name just two.



CF7 working for a shortline dinner train in Florida.

Enjoy Rob

[trolleyboy]

ENCORE ! ENCORE ! As seen originally on page 242

CLASSIC JUICE # 20 THE HAMILTON INCLINES

The city of Hamilton as you may or may not know is seperated by the Niagara Escarpment, so you have an upper and lower city, before the road access's ther were two incline railways built to help people get up and down the escarpment, or the mountain as it's locally called.

HAMILTON & BARTON INCLINE RAILWAY

The older of the two incline's, was the one at the head of Jame's Street. Built on a 31% grade , the line had two tracks of eight foot gauge, on each ran a car 36 feet long, 14 feet wide and 13 feet high at the lower end,each weighing ten tons. The structure was 700 feet long and the cars climbed 195 feet. About two thirds of the line was on a steel trestle which was at one point about 50 feet high. The two cars were not connected together as is usual on such lines, but each had it's own 125hp steam engine at the upper terminus, and could be operated independantly of each other.

They were however,normally operated in balance. each had two cables and two 10 foot drums, one drum for hauling the other as a powerfull emergency brake. The upperc terminus had in addition to the steam engines and their controls& boilers also had quarters for the operator and his family with the caaretaker living in a similar dwelling at the lower terminus. Passengers payed a 2c fare and were kept in a narrow cabin on the right side of the car while the left side of the car carried horse teams and buggies for 4c !

The first test ttrip was made in 1892 on June 3rd.Public service started on june 11th but was closed down after two hours because of a shortage of steam caysed by boiler foaming, but was successfully restarted the following day.

Very little change was made to operations over it's coarse of operation.Fares wer increaed in 1919 to 50c and 1.25 but defficets continued. The company offered to sell the system to the city in 1931 for $50,000 the original cost of the construction. The propsal was refused and the line shut down on Dec 26 1931. It did reopen the following March 1st when the city aggreed to bear and operating cost of $1000 per year. It was abandoned again in may of 1932.

The assets of the company were taken over by the city for non-payment of taxes in 1934.several; attempts to restart the service by the city were attempted before it was finally dismantled in 1942. The houses remained until 1947 when it was discovere that a family of 16 was living in the lower house !


THE HAMILTON INCLINE RAILWAY

This was the newer and larger of the two inclines, located near the head of Wentworth St. it opened in 1900.It was of similar construction to the James Street incline, 800 feet long and on a 40 % grade. The track gauge was 12'1 and a half inches. The cars were of similar out-line and were planned to carry single truck streetcars up the mountain to the upper lines,this never occured.

The duration of the trip was one and a half minutes. Fares never changed, 2c round trip for mountain residents, 8/25c for "downtown" residients. A new company took over in 1906 and ran it till the end.

Passengers had to cross two busy railway lines between the lower terminus and waiting streetcars.The original plans had visulized the incline manuvering level crossings of the Grand Trunk and the TH&B lines but thankfully the engineering wasn't possible.

The cars on this incline wer in balance, the two haulage drums were connected together and revolved in the same direction. The cable from one car was taken over the top of one drum while the other cars cable went out the bottom of the other drum. Thus one car would be pulled up at the same rate as the other was being reeled in.

On november 3 1913, the entire structure was badley damaged by a rockslide on te mountain,and during the rebuilding the opportunity was taken to rebuild the trestle more securly to the escarpment. They also converted it to electric drive at this time. Operations resumed in april of 1914 and electrification came a few months later. The actual power was provided by batteries, cahrged at night by the old steam engines.

The companies greatest prosperity occured in 1929-30 when the Mountain developement was advanced, but before proper road access was extended.Thuis incline lasted a bit longer than the Jame's street one, shutting down in aug 1936.Consatnt efforts to restart the line were made espeacially during the war as there still was no convienient road up the mountain,and about 2500 people made the 521 step climb up the mountain each day. The restart efforts were unsuccessful as the city refused to assume the lines defficet which was estimated to be $5000 dollars ! Supprisingly the strusture was not removed until 1949.


Rob