Waldorf and Statlers Photo Of The Day!

[BATMAN]

Well, this could have made for a bad day for a train crew. Timing is everything!

[BATMAN]

The hyperloop. It's well on its way to becoming a reality. My personal view is that for passenger travel it will be short lived, however for movement of goods it could spell the end of container trains. Imagine ordering those LED's from China and having them the next day!  Speed of delivery for all us internet shoppers is a major competitive factor.

If you want to help your kid excel at the physics/science fair, build this with him.

Maybe animate something on the layout with it.

[SouthPenn]

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I presume that Batman and family is cruising the great Canadian Wilderness with the Bat-O-Van (over there is it called a caravan or trailer??), hope they’re having a good break.

 

Anyhow I have just been lent the book “Where Rails Meet the Sea” by Michael Krieger, and upon a quick flick came across this photo.

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ACYTom was right about the photos location, and so without further ado here’s the full caption.

 

“The Union forces at City Point, Virginia, renamed the expanded terminal railroad, the City Point and Army Line. It was operated by the U.S. Military Railroads, which had brought both engines and cars by barge from the north. Shown are the City Point enginehouse and three of its 4-4-0 locomotives. The President, built by Eastwick and Harrison, had been taken over from its former owner, the Winchester & Potomac Railroad. The locomotive and its backward-facing tender are pushing a line of cars loaded with fill to enlarge the embankment.”

There is no explanation regarding the tender.

Cheers, the Bear.

 

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I'm guessing that the tender consists of two water tanks (one on each side) and the woodpile runs the length of the tender. The engine looks like something that was built 25 years before the picture was taken, and things were done very differently back then.

 

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I have seen another picture of what I believe is that same engine and cars being loaded with dirt. There are maybe 8 men taking dirt from an embankment and throwing it on the flat cars. Maybe it is in the same book? 

[gmpullman]

The head brakeman gets a real workout dancing around that setup to throw all the switches! Come to think of it, maybe they're all spring switches and no one has to hit the ballast?

Neat Stuff! Ed

["JaBear"]

So you don’t have enough room for a decent radius “Y”.

 

Cheers, the Bear.

[steemtrayn]

Try THAT with a diesel-electric.

["JaBear"]

“It’s all very well Full Speed ahead and damn the torpedoes, but I just hope the switches have been correctly set.”

 

 

Boston floods, 1915, photos by Leslie Jones.

Cheers, the Bear.

["JaBear"]

steemtrayn

This pic and more info here: http://members.trainweb.com/bedt/bedt/BEDTRosters.html

Thanks Dave, in some ways I wish I hadn’t asked, I spent far too much time browsing but it was a good excuse for a second coffee.

Cheers, the Bear.

[gmpullman]

I have an insatiable thirst for photos and information concerning the MESTA Machine Works in Homestead, Pennsylvania and while searching for additional resources recently I came across a collection of 165 photographs that may be of interest to the industrial archaeologists here...

http://digital.library.pitt.edu/images/pittsburgh/mesta.html

I'd sure like to be able to see these plates in much higher resolution but they are certainly clear enough to gather some useable insight.

There are some interesting views of the idyllic Pennsylvania Railroad station and some great pictures of interesting flat car loads!

The Pennsylvania Railroad collection is yet another interesting group of photos!

http://digital.library.pitt.edu/images/pittsburgh/pennrailroad.html

Enjoy, Ed

[steemtrayn]

This pic and more info here:

http://members.trainweb.com/bedt/bedt/BEDTRosters.html

I remember seeing this while driving a truck on the highway in the background.

["JaBear"]

steemtrayn

 

 

So much for locomotives never going on to car floats. I presume this is New York but anymore info on this please Dave?

Cheers, the Bear.

[steemtrayn]

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I presume that Batman and family is cruising the great Canadian Wilderness with the Bat-O-Van (over there is it called a caravan or trailer??), hope they’re having a good break.

 

Anyhow I have just been lent the book “Where Rails Meet the Sea” by Michael Krieger, and upon a quick flick came across this photo.

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ACYTom was right about the photos location, and so without further ado here’s the full caption.

 

“The Union forces at City Point, Virginia, renamed the expanded terminal railroad, the City Point and Army Line. It was operated by the U.S. Military Railroads, which had brought both engines and cars by barge from the north. Shown are the City Point enginehouse and three of its 4-4-0 locomotives. The President, built by Eastwick and Harrison, had been taken over from its former owner, the Winchester & Potomac Railroad. The locomotive and its backward-facing tender are pushing a line of cars loaded with fill to enlarge the embankment.”

There is no explanation regarding the tender.

Cheers, the Bear.

 

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I'm guessing that the tender consists of two water tanks (one on each side) and the woodpile runs the length of the tender. The engine looks like something that was built 25 years before the picture was taken, and things were done very differently back then.

[steemtrayn]

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[gmpullman]

JIM

I'll gladly send you a copy. I believe I only have the one view.

Did you know that you can download imsges right from Photobucket in their original resolution?

Just click the image and at the Photobucket site look for the download icon.

Here's another ERIE blast from the past:

Erie President Paul W. Johnston on board Erie business car #1 in Cleveland Union Terminal, Date unknown.

Regards, Ed

[Jim K]

Ed, Thank you for posting the Erie Railbus picture. I have been trying to find any pictures of the Erie #300 and have several. I am in the process of rebuilding the actual railbus in Stewartstown PA. We purchased the railbus in rather sad condition 2 years ago. It will take some time and allot of effort to rebuild it but I am fortunate to have obtained the original drawings for the bus that were used to build it. I would be interested in purchasing any pictures you have of the railbus. Thank you, Jim Kuhlman

 

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[BATMAN]

Lucky guy Ed!

On one of my trips to England I saw a couple of excursion Steam trains. While I don't know what engines they were, I do remember them "flying by". They really move over there even on tourist excursions. Personally I prefer the more layed back, slower steam trips offered on this side of the pond. The old folks don't lose their teeth when they stick their heads out over here.

[gmpullman]

BATMAN

The Flying Scotsman. The first locomotive to hit 100MPH and holds the record of the longest none-stop run for a steam locomotive

... and, admittedly, the only LNER locomotive I've seen running in my neighborhood!

I watched him "fly" through the eastern suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, USA back in 1972! I didn't have a car then but it was worth the five-mile bike ride to see such a historic event.

 

Glad to see the Flying Scotsman back in steam!

Thanks for posting the teaser   Ed

 

[BATMAN]

Here's one for Cuda Ken. Found them here.

http://www.trainweb.org/oldtimetrains/stories/Drake_Street_memories_2.htm

 

[BATMAN]

The Flying Scotsman.

The first locomotive to hit 100MPH and holds the record of the longest none-stop run for a steam locomotive

(422miles).

Just out for a run after a ten year long restoration.

Lots of video's on You-Tube. Here is a teaser.

[BATMAN]

I found a bunch of photo's showing the "sleeper, dining and parlour car" replenishment stores for Canadian Pacific in Vancouver. They have pic's of linen stores, meat stores, food stores, toiletries, porters stores and a few others.  The one that caught my eye is the Wine stores.

This is one store I wouldn't mind minding.

 

[BATMAN]

While checking out photo's for my current roundhouse project, I often saw wood planks set in the floor perpendicular to the pits. I never thought much about them until I came across these pic's. I don't think I'll add them to my project though, I'm not feeling that creative.

Here you can see the rail and planks in place.

On this side the rail and planks have been removed.

Wheel jack in the pit. I'll have to get me one of those.

Still learning.

[BATMAN]

Okay! All you guy's that complain that the hobby is toooooooooooo expensive, can save a fortune by watching this film and learn how to run your railway in an efficient manner.

Also learn how to keep the wife happy at wash up time.

If you look closely you can catch a glimpse of Brakie, I think this is where he got his start.

[BATMAN]

I would think this guy would have needed a whole lot of downhill to be able to get this thing up to speed to make the jump.

I wonder how it turned out.

 

[gmpullman]

Something goofy was going on with the sanders on the second unit. Why was the sand coming out of the rear sander?

The engineer has two choices, lead axle sand on the first truck only or sand will be applied to the leading axles on all engines in the direction of travel.

Guess you had to be there...

Ed

[rrinker]

 Damn that sounds good with my subwoofer on....

I was always under the impression that the sanders are linked throught he MU connections, however maybe there was a problem with that unit.

                      --Randy

 

[BATMAN]

So my question for today is, cannot the track sanding to avoid wheel slip be done remotely from the lead loco? You will see the guy running back to the second loco before the sand appears to start falling.

[BATMAN]

Thanks Bear. You should all come for a ride. With the Canadian dollar in the tank it must be cheap, cheap, cheap, to do so for all you out of country types. We could really use your money.

Wade is the family member who got us our free trip on the Rocky Mountaineer. If you come up and get him as your train manager, say I sent you. (I want another free trip)

Here is a little video with Wade in it.

[mbinsewi]

The new issue of TRAINS has an article about the Mountaineer.

Mike.

["JaBear"]

Here’s one for Batman. I guess it’s a bit like taking coals to Newcastle but this has just started showing on New Zealand TV.

Cheers, the Bear.