Here's another fascinating view compliments of Shorpy!
http://www.shorpy.com/node/20206?size=_original#caption
Hundresd of details to study here:
Janey coupler stencil on box car end;
WOOD brake beam and possibly the bolster, too?
Mail crane at the crossing and a white on black crossbuck;
Nice detail for the control rods, it would appear the tower is behind the photographer; derail and accompanying signal;
Someone here was asking about wood signal masts a while ago... well, here 'ya are!
That's just a few off the top of my head... anybody else?
Ed
Given the trouble some of us have on our layouts with turnouts, just be glad we don't have one of these to deal with. How many tortoise's or tortie would we need per?
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Randy ---
Are you suggesting that's the ONLY problem???????
Tom
Of course it's meant to be silly, but it could never work. The middle two wheels being linked with a crank to the bottom 3 would all have to turn in the same direction. Except they also appear to be friction coupled which means they would have to turn in opposite directions.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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THE GILDERFLUKE LOCOMOTIVE (THE RAILWAY GAZETTE, 1931)
BATMANBear!!!!!!!!!!!??????????????
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
I wonder if the engineer has to get clearance from ground control to cross the active runway.
That's unbelievable. Even the best of crossings is rather bumpy - can't imagine what it's like for a plane to rumble across there at speed.
Bear!!!!!!!!!!!??????????????
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On their lunch break, the B&B crew had nothing to do so they devised a little game called "Catch the Lollipop".
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
-E-C-Mills What exactly was this for? A "Stairway to Heaven"? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q7Vr3yQYWQ Cheers, the Bear.
-E-C-Mills What exactly was this for?
A "Stairway to Heaven"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q7Vr3yQYWQ
Cheers, the Bear.
Ha oh very funny!
Ahhh, I remember playing that song over and over in my old band....
-E-C-MillsWhat exactly was this for?
This caught my eye this evening. What exactly was this for?
[Texas and New Orleans, Southern Pacific, Switchman's Tower, San Antonio, Texas] by SMU Central University Libraries, on Flickr
Well the thread on the Garratt Locomotives has piqued my interest. So I felt it was my duty to dig up some movin pictures. There is an abundance of You-Tube video's, here are a couple to wet your appetite.
Watch for the interesting water towers and what I am assuming is a tank car of water in between the two Loco's. Having a Garratt on the layout would most certainly draw a visitors eye. I think Canadian Pacific owned one in a parallal universe, didn't it??????
We have all had times when building our layouts, that we have had to stop and scratch our heads and figure out how to do something. I wonder how long I would be scratching my head if I had to build "the worlds highest railway"
Gee! What a cool thread.....
Last week we got a call from a family member who works for the Rocky Mountaineer. He asked if we wanted a free trip up to Whistler with a suite on the top floor of "The Delta Suites" hotel, and then back home on the train the next day, we could have it. So after a long .035647 second of thinking about it, we said, well okay if you insist.
So we left Thursday morning, had breakfast on the train and got up there around lunch time. Went out for a nice lunch and later on a really nice dinner. Got up the next morning and had an incredible breakfast and went for a 12 mile hike. Actually I found it a breeze as I have been getting myself in shape for my up coming shoulder surgery. (20 miles every day on the bike) Then we had another nice lunch and got on the train to yet another good meal. I did an extra 10 miles on the bike on Saturday to make up for the two day pig out.
I spent most of the way up and back hanging out of the train in one spot or another and really enjoyed being tour guide to the multitude of real tourist on the train. I have spent most of my life skiing up at Whistler on weekends, so other than being on the Rocky Mountaineer it all was familar.
In between wrestling the old blue hairs for a good spot I did manage to take some video with the phone. It is not great as those old gals throw elbows in a way that would make any hockey player proud.
Batman, thanks for posting the grain elevator pictures. Your straight road driving experience reminded me of my daughter's learning to highway drive in western Manitoba on flat straight roads with no traffic.
The old elevators will probably be gone in the next twenty years having been replaced by modern transportation methods and large concrete storage facilities.
Makes you realize how much of the chuff noise from a steam loco is caused by that exhaust blowing up the firebox and drafting the fire. With nothing but steam involved, it's just a quiet shhhhhh shhhhhh noise.
We were middle of the train, so on some of the curves through the Gorge you could see the head end pretty good. And on the wye at Pittston. Those way in the back, or right in the front cars, probably had less of a view, except those in the domes.
On saturday the train was actually backwards, the first class cars up front and the basic coaches in the rear. I was on St Augustine, a deluxe coach, nearly smack in the middle. After returning to Bethlehem, they turned just 765, so the train was in the 'normal' order of coach class up front and first class at the rear.
There really aren;t any good spots to do runbys, not where people can all line up along the tracks anyway. And NS rules say no runbys, plus no open vestibules. Considering the close clearnances in some spots - just below Jim Thorpe on the way back we went rather slow past a parked train because even a little sway would have meant sideswipe - it was that close. Had to be absolute bare minimum on track centers there, certainly no room for a man on the ground between the tracks.
I didn't have the chance to ride but the friends I was with did. It seemed the way they herded out around you really didn't even see 765, for the most part you wouldn't know the train was being pulled by steam. They liked the ride and all the there was no real chance to see the reason for going and buying tickets. I'm sure if they planned run-bys, which would be a bit of a ligistical nightmare with 20 cars of railfans, it would seem more worth it.
Think of it this way too, if it gets people intrested in this type of history its a good thing.
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Saturday, I was on that train. Great ride. The number of people out watching was incredible - on the way back south, I swear the entire town of Bowmanstown was trackside. From one end of town to the other (it's not a very big town), people lined the tracks both sides, at the crossing you couldn't move a car if you wanted to, and the diner parking lot was completely packed.
Now if half those people watching had bought tickets instead, they could have sold out a third, maybe even fourth, trip.
Video I took from Sunday of NKP 765 around Jim Thorp. The first clip is a whistle battle with Reading and Northern 425 which was across the river at the time at the Jim Thorp CNJ station.
This is when i went to ludington, MI to see marquette rail.
Snow Plow
The old maintence shed Ant the Geeps goint across the swing bridge
The old maintence shed
Ant the Geeps goint across the swing bridge
This week, a train stopped on the siding at the local train station with some special loads, wind turbine blades. From where I was I couldn't see how many cars but they were several. Might be interesting to model but not recommended for tight curves.
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Guy
Modeling CNR in the 50's
Tom, I don't think it is a beat loader as all you see out there are wheat and canola crops. I am still trying to find the video a friend told me about.
Bear, was that "Red October" going up the river along side those speeding steamers?
It was all I could do to not spring for some of the BLI Hudson offerings. I already stray far to far from what Canadian model railroading should look like.
The family had planned to stop at the "Spiral Tunnels" on the way back from Alberta and Hike/walk (when does a walk become a hike anyway?) to both the upper and lower tunnels. You know they must be some impressive engineering when even the wife thinks they are something to behold. Anyway when we arrived, there was just a wicked thunder storm going on and the rain was as bad as the worst you would see in the South Pacific or South East Asia. So the wife, kids and dogs went into the trailer and the wife went to work making one of her gourmet meals. I put on my Kevlar rain gear that the Government of Canada had provided me in another life time and stepped out into the monsoon.
While I was outside at the viewpoint I had the most interesting conversations with trainbuffs that had come from all over the world just to spend time at the Spiral Tunnels. It really was an enjoyable time ( if you were dressed right) Lots of Germans were there. Those guys must really like their trains
I took a few pic's, trying to keep the Nikon dry, but for the most part they aren't worth looking at. So in lieu of my failure, here are some "borrowed" items. For those of you that are wondering, what the heck I am talking about.
After nearly two hours of waiting for the weather to clear, we gave up and left. There's alway's next time.
Brent:
I don't know what is grown in that area, but I wonder whether the strange steel structure at Brant could be the remains of a beet loader. I've seen some that had a similar appearance. Or I could be way off base.