Seems like a remarkable inefficient way to move a dozen galvanized troughs. The guy who invented intermodal must have been considered a genius.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
rrinkerComments on the video on YouTube claim it's not Chicago,
The Scherzer rolling lift bridge and the double Bascule bridges sure look like Chicago in my opinion.
Youtube commenters should always be taken with a grain of coal!
Ed
Here you go - seem to have been built in 1916. Here is an article from Railway Journal:
https://books.google.com/books?id=Y5npAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA5-PA16&lpg=RA5-PA16&dq=erie+railroad+gasoline+locomotives+chicago&source=bl&ots=5DG_lUoBWq&sig=Ixa0vgLlFm8S_FFaVYlCbEtfmvQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjdqMqHzJzZAhXCqFkKHVhmCJYQ6AEIQzAI#v=onepage&q=erie%20railroad%20gasoline%20locomotives%20chicago&f=false
If anything - it looks similar to the little 4 wheel 'diesel' American Flyer had in their HO line (I have one around somewhere). Comments on the video on YouTube claim it's not Chicago, but the two Railway Age articles say otherwise - there's one linked in the video which has another view of the loco, and then there's the one I found about the locomotives themselves. Yeah, it was for Chicago. The articles even say why Erie use car floats there.
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Someone tell me about the engine loading the barge, please.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
BATMANNow I have to get a couple.
Should be an easy task!
http://www.accurail.com/accurail/ART/4300/4328.jpg
BATMANIs this one Chicago Milwaukee?
...Saint Paul and Pacific?
Neat old photos
Cheers, Ed
From the Archives.
I found these visitors most likely in for repair at Vancouver in 1916. A long way from home. Now I have to get a couple.
Click for big pic.
Is this one Chicago Milwaukee?
Note the GN delivery wagons and boxcar also in 1916, in Vancouver.
Thanks, Overmod, it is something that warrants more research.
Gettin steamy in 1988.
The Merrickville (Zig Zag) tunnel is still there, and I don't see any interior piping or attach points for it that would match 'steam radiators', or signs that there is radiant pipe in the concrete lining (which I suppose is more likely). Perhaps someone with more time or patience, or access to NYO&W material, can find the actual arrangement used. Presumably despite the liner there was extensive water incursion through the tunnel roof during winter weather...
This tunnel was notable in 1890 for having been driven through, over 1600' long, in only seven-odd months. Elon Musk's Boring Company might have trouble matching that performance with modern TBMs.
A short clip that mentions a steam plant that keeps the tunnel from icing up. How was the heat distributed, through rods inside or mounted on the outside of the concrete?
Another detail for my layout, I have some spare chimneys in the parts box.
Ed, back in 1966 Dad stopped at an elevator in Saskatchewan and ask for a look see. They were busy and the guy running the place had his kids working flat out and I remember his kids that were barely older than I were going up and down on their manlift dealing with all sorts of things. I really wanted a turn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBRfULXzg94
I enjoyed the Grain Elevator film, Brent. One of many at the NFB to enjoy.
I recall being in one of the elevators on the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, and seeing the "single-man lifts" they had inside*. I only got a glimpse of a kind of hand rope "dumb waiter" type of lift in the film.
The one in Cleveland was a continuous moving belt with steps that a man could ride to the floors above and get off at any level desired, similar to a bucket conveyor but different.
The safety agencies would go nuts in a place like that with the un-guarded flywheels on the Rustin & Hornsby engine and the way the operator put the belt dressing on. You don't get away with loose clothing around there!
We had one of those single-car movers at the GE plant where I worked. Once you got the car rolling, one or two guys could keep 'er rolling for a pretty good distance. Funny he didn't set the hand brake after he stopped the car against the wood chocks.
*Possibly a Humphrey Man Lift?
https://www.humphrey-manlift.com/
Thanks, Ed
Some cool pics to go along with the tune.
I was thinking the same thing Mike. There is a video that shows a lot of boxcar winching, however, I can't seem to find it.
Wow Brent, I guess great minds think alike? , or what ever that saying is. I just posted this on the thread about the grain elevators.
I think it's a great video, and no such thing as too much of it.
Mike.
My You Tube
Something a little different.
Holy lash up.
A cool collection of shots.
There is a train washer in some shots. I suggested to Rapido, they make a train washer using the steam technology from their "oh so steamy steam car", They didn't think it was a very good idea.
At one point there is a very wimpy looking bridge going over the tracks. If I saw that on a layout I would think it was really underbuilt. Must be for light transit rail.
First one to spot a little Lion gets a free bag of popcorn.
I wonder if they ever set that old wooden railcar on fire.
- awesome!
Simon
Well, the soundtrack is to die for.
Get your popcorn and watch out for Larry (Brakie) Switching in the Toledo yard.
Not your typical day in the cab.
Hot off the press.
Here's some NYC posters I stumbled across...
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
Browsing the ever popular YouTube...
Pure History! Fox Movietone outtakes of New York Central's Commodore Vanderbilt and other history of the 5344 —
Never to be repeated in history...
Enjoy, Ed
A little bit of EMD ephemera...
RPO_EMD by Edmund, on Flickr
Those were the days...
This post was originally posted in the General Discussion "Show Me Something" thread...
I love big locos so here's some...
That is an A-B-A set of DD35s
Followed by...
A-B-A U50s
But wait there's more!
Four DDA40Xs and a GP40
And more!
An A-B-A set of C855s...
(Don't ask me why the A units a long hood first!)
And here's some more!
Another A-B-B-A set of two GP35s, two DD35s, and a test car from an old F unit...
More still!
The UP coal turbine!
A few more!
GN W-1s whose running gear was used for the UP coal turbine...
Some more!
N&Ws Jawn Henry steam turbine electric...
Four left...
A Pennsy E2C electric...
Three left!
Two Centipedes on Horseshoe Curve...
Two left!
Virginian EL-2Bs
Last but not least!
Illinois Centrals Center Cab Transfer Diesel...
Or...
That's all folks!
P.S. this isn't rail related but goes in sync with the that's all folks above...
AND this IS rail related...
The PeaceKeeper Rail Garrison boxcar...
I'll let some others post for a while! That's all for now...
I wonder if an “unreliable” ham was one that was transported in an ordinary boxcar?
At our house, the unreliable ham was the one that showed up as dessert was being served
Love the calliope! I could listen to that all day
gmpullmanYou just can't beat a "Reliable" Ham!
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