Hello again gents , nice to see all the chilly equipment still making it's appearance over here. Curt some nice Classic CPR stuff as well thank-you .Here's another bit of "cool" equipment for you guys as well.
* OERHA Collection
A Montreal and Southern Counties heavy snowsweeper ( it's a converted express freight motor)
Rob
Here's some miscellaneous pics that i took with my Megxon S-304 camera. The first photo is quite a historical engine, the Canadian Pacific "Countess of Dufferin" one of the pioneering engines made for CPR by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1877, she was brought to Winnipeg on a barge
Ahoy Cap'n Tom!
Let it SNOW <sez he in the Florida Keys!>
Alaska RR 2004 print
Until the next time!
Lars
G'day!
Rotary snow plows <sweet>!
Trains 'n winter go together . . .
The Canadian Shield <personal foto>
From VIA Rail's dining car window of the westbound "Canadian"
Enjoy!
Tom
Interesting "stuff" continues with the snow removal equipment . . . Sorry Rob, but as I said, "You can't drive a railroad spike with a tack hammar!"
How 'bout this one??
A rotary snowplow from the Oregon Short Line on display at the Mid Continent Railway Museum in North Freedom, WI. (Photo: Sean Lamb - wikipedia.com/ShareAlike)
G'day guys. Wow Tom , maybe you should send that over to Fergies Place so he can help the people that got the five feet of snow I don't think it had a flanger, just about everything else mind you. Funny story, that was the first locomotive that the Cornwall street railway bought but it didn't have the pulling power to move their freight trains. So it was converted to a snowsweeper instead of them running out to Maguire Cummings or Brill for an expensive off the shelf purpose built sweeper. Speaking of sweepers here's another one,
Hamilton Street Railways biggest Maguire Cummings sweeper.
enjoy Rob
Wanna remove some snow - try this one! <grin>
UP #900081 at the St. Louis Museum of Transportation <Kirkwood, MO>
<personal foto>
Good Morning.
Could have used a beastie like that on our street yesterday. Anyway, that is truly a sweeper that is a sweeper! Chain drive - excellent - and wings as well. I'd like to "get out and get under" to see if there's a flanger hidden in there somewhere - doesn't look lie it, but it's hard to tell from the photo angle.
work safe
Hey nice to see Shane and the Larsman taking it all in over here as well. Way to Go on the Niagara painting Tom.
Herer's a bit more exotic traction eye candy for you guys.
The Cornwall street railways sweeper car #1
Love those paintings! More - more - Encore!
It's not quite 60 degrees "F" down here in the Keys . . . expect a warm-up tho . .
Good seeing Rob picking up the slack ovAH here 'n the return of Shane too!
Good Morning; Nice Niagara painting - it makes me feel cold just looking at it. Also some more exotic traction.
Incidentally, back in the day, the "Lake Shore" handled transcon Pullmans (both ways) between San Francisco and New York. It was a 10/6 car that connected with the California zephyr at Chicago.
Yes sir I do appreciate that one. What a great print 5x for that. Lars should get a big grin out of it too. here's another
Goes along with this afternoons bar post.
Judging by the "subject line" of trainmaster's Post - I'd say he dug up that response from a loooooooooong time back. We've not called this Thread THAT for some time . . .
However, nice that he stopped in - saw him at the bar once - welcomed him - but . . .
Hey Rob! Good stuff contuning over here . . . here's one you'll appreciate!
New York Centrals Lake Shore Limited departs Chicago's La Salle Street Station (Courtesy of Artist: Gilbert Bennett - www.xmission.com)
Hi Curt thanks for popping in hopefully we will see a bit more of you with some nice new photo's etc to share
Here's a shot for today.
A fairly recent shot of the now 104 year old VIA Brantford Station
Ah, the Royal Alexandra, i was too young to even see it, but i'm sure my Grandpa would've been in there a few times, from what i've heard it was a grand hotel. Too bad they tore it down, the CPR main station survives as the Aboriginal Centre of Winnipeg.
Happy new year Tom looks to be a great start to 2008 my hockey team won their first one of the year and it's snowing.Neat shot of the St loo museum as well
Here's my first offering of the year.
The Gloster cars in a happier moment.
My offering for the start of 2008 . . .
From the "Our" Place Rendezvous II in St. Louis <personal foto>
St. Louis Museum of Transportation <Kirkwood, MO>
Good evening again gents, this is becomming a bit of a social place, but why the heck not eh Tom I've not seen that one before it's a good one to be sure Shane don't stir the pot I already have more equipment then will ever fit on the layout LOL. Here's one more for the road.
Grand River Railway 224 sister of our museum's 335 just down the road from me in Preston Ontario.
enjoy
Surprised to see not one, but two our bar guys "in" today . . .
A year's end Pennsy . . .
Good Afternoon - Nice selections of paintings, picutres, etc. Rob, you can safely model the Central along with the C&O and Wabash - ypu just have to pick your spots in Ontario (lol).
Tom I love that poster / painting. Something about the NYC lightening stripe scheme. If I wasn't such a CN/CP guy I'd model the central Here's my last one for here this year. Hope everyone has a super happy new year and a safe one as well.Tom if you and your wife are boared we will be home tomorrow night <grin>
A nice old shot of the TTC's St Clair Ave carbarn
A rare Sunday appearance for Moi . . .
Hey Rob! I know that lady . . . <grin>
My submission for this last weekend of 2007!
The eastbound 20th Century Limited near Breakneck Mountain, New York (Courtesy of Artist: Gilbert Bennett - www.xmission.com)
Another fine book from the book mobile lars good stuff speaking of which I think i smoked my last apir of socksHere's a final pic for this year on this site.
enjoy and happy new year
Don't have a clue what the trolleyMAN may be "into," but I'm at a loss to understand where he's coming from with that "soft shoe" stuff! <geesh> Who can get OH-FEDED on this site Certainly not I - unless of course one of those . . . shows up!
Ok - my finale for 2007!
Ohh another fine day here at the lonley thread, nice to see that some interactions actualy hppening as well.
Lars-nice caboose no worries mate I didn't take offence hope I didn't come off that way, I thought it was a legit question and I went into professer mode, no harm no foul as they say.
Tom-A nice wintery PRR pic thanks
Shane-Yes the MTA did have a great deal of snowremoval equipment, most of the large street railway systems did, the TTC bought an entrie calss of used snowsweepers ( the last one's they bought in fact in the 1950's ) They came VIA the Third Ave RR in New York but were originally bought by Boston from Russell plow in 1923. TTC retired them finally in the early 70's, we have the one survivor which arrived at the musuem in 1973. It might as well be todays picture.
A shot from Rendezvous one with Ted posing with S37
Here's one seen before but well worth viewing again <'n again!>
A brace of Pennsy F-units bring a train downhill into Altoona, PA.
(Courtesy of artist: Gilbert Bennett - www.xmission.com)
Don't expect a <youngstAH> like you would know this old adage - but it's been said "You can't drive a railroad spike with a tack hammar!" Kinda fits a bunch of circumstances . . . <grin> That's where I was coming from with the trolley-plow . . . Thanks for the elaboration.
I see our friend Shane swung by too . . .
One for the day - which MAY be my last for awhile (I'll try to get "in" tomorrow, but . . . )
MoPac Color Guide to Freight & Passenger Equipment
Good Morning:
MBTA (Boston) had an amazing variety of snow removal equipment (or it did when I was up there). One was a sweeper car and they also had flangers which could really take care of stuff. Lots of power and weight.
Afternoon folks. Nice F unit lars truly in my humble opinion one of the best of teh frist generation paint schemes. You would be supprised what TP-11 can do,four two hundred hp traction motors and she was close to 40 tons.She and her sister were built in 1944 to combat deep packed lake effect snow.She has the equvilent pushing power of approx 4 conventional snowplows mounted on city trucks. remebering that the TTC was contracted for street clearing by the city of Toronto up until the mid 70's. TP10 and TP-11 were the heavy hitters , 20 snowsweepers backed them up and two of three of the work flatcars had small light plows fitted to them seasonally,and used as were required.
here's todays shot
Some of the TTC's slumbering in the summer waiting fort the call to duty.Shot was taken in the 1940's at the TTC Roncessvalles ar barn from the OERHA collection ( Al Patterson photo )
Can't imagine that a trolley with a snowplow could generate the power needed to push any significant amounts of snow aside. But an intersting shot for sure from trolleyMAN!
Mine for the day . . .
CP #1400 (courtesy: www.trainweb.org)
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