G'day!
I see this Thread is doing quite well without me! That's a good sign, fer sure, fer sure!
Here's an end of the week submission . . . .
Enjoy!
Tom
Hi Tom nice to see you ending the week appropriatly with a caboose. CM3 I lovbe that shot of L&PS #12 it's a meaningfull shot to be sure,also nice to know thatr our museum has near sister car #8 fully operational and restored , 8's the queen of the museum fleet. Heres today's shot it will blow up nicly as well. It's a shot of the NS&T's Lakeside yard in Port Dalhousie with the streetcars dropping off passengers for their conections to the cross laker steamer to Toronto.
enjoy Rob
All kinds of great stuff in that foto from Rob! Ahhhhhhhh, "back in the day"!!
From my personal archives . . .
VIA Rail's eastbound "Canadian" at Jasper, Alberta, Canada
I do love Jasper one of my favourite spots the last time we went west , that and Lake Louise, here's another shot from the old NS&T, this one's from the frieght ops end. NS&T's Welland Ave freight yard, my dad's uncle worked as a mechanic in the NS&T shops on Welland Ave.
Yes, Jasper 'n all parts of Alberta's mountain country is "my kinda place," fer sure, fer sure! We're looking forward to our trip from there to Prince Ruppert aboard VIA Rail's "Skeena" - no date yet, but it WILL happen!
One from the archives . . .
Canadian Shield - from the dining car aboard VIA Rail's westbound "Canadian" <personal foto>
Ahoy Cap'n Tom!
So what's NOT to like about the mountains - especially when viewed from a "traditional" dome car like the California Zephyr of old, or VIA Rail of today.
Love that shot through the dining car windAH!
Mine for this Christmas Eve . . .
LOVE this photo - whoever took it should be given accolades, ovAH 'n ovAH! Thanks for permitting us to ENJOY it, ovAH 'n ovAH!
Until the next time!
Lars
Yes Lars - that's a "keeper" in all respects!
'til Wednesday . . . .
Merry Christmas!
Now THAT's a fine looking postAH for this time of yeAH!
Here's mine for this day aftAH . . . .
CP FP9A #1416 (photo: Ted Ellis)
Pretty good for the season, huh Youbetchaboots!
Love that shot of CP in the snow - very seasonal, fer sure, fer sure!
For the day after . . .
From the Revelstoke Park observation dome in New Brunswick, Canada aboard VIA Rail's eastbound "Ocean" <personal foto>
G'day gents. I love the continuing shots n posters from both of you gents.I agree Lars that platform shot is a "keepah" !
Here's mine for this boxing day night.
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)
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 )
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.
work safe
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
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)
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
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!
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
Rob
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)
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
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).
Surprised to see not one, but two our bar guys "in" today . . .
A year's end Pennsy . . .
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
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>
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.
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.
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
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)
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.
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.
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