I see the similarity, Tom.
Here is an interesting 1935 promo video from Chevrolet showing the features of the Evans Railbus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6z3LJjP8aE
There were crazy motorists back then? 1:05 . Who knew!
I found a color photo here, since renumbered 800.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Erie-RR-Rail-Bus-800-4x6-color-photo-/400927479424?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5d5923d680
I don't have too much reference material on the Erie but I'll keep my eyes peeled for any further information.
Looks like the car went on to the New Hope & Ivyland Railroad!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Hope-Ivyland-RR-Rail-Inspection-Bus-8x10-color-photo-2-/161221971217?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2589940d11
Thanks, Ed
I was quite surprised to see in your link to CP ships, that the CP and the Union Steamship Company of New Zealand, jointly owned the MV Aorangi.
I saw that also. Now I want to know how that came about. But alas, the Honeydo list is calling.
Keep those photo's coming Ed. I am quickly finding out that You-Tube isn't the only place to find obscure video's. We may actually find some moving pic's of the Erie #300.
On the last page Mark (NP2626) was off to see "The Black Hills Central" I am glad to see he made it and got to ride behind the Mallet.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
No. 300 looks very similar to an Evans Roadrailer, but I never knew the Erie owned any. I've always thought this would be an interesting model to build and operate, but never found scale drawings. I know Roadrailers were operated by Washington & Old Dominion, Bellefonte Central, and a number of other lines.
Tom
I had (re)discovered a stack of 8x10 photos from my collection and came across a few interesting subjects. I'll post some here over the next few weeks and see what you fella's think.
One of the more interesting ones is below. The Erie #300.
Erie Railroad Photo; Collection of gmpullman
The caption reads:
Susquehanna, Pa. — H.J. Wecheider, division engineer of Hornell, makes an inspection trip in his "300" special car motorized and equipped for making various tests. Here he is shown in the Susquehanna shop yards with (left to right) Wecheider, E.H.Ness, Cleveland, superintendent of work equipment who built the car; J.L. Leonard, track supervisor of here; H.F. Pierce, master carpenter of Hornell and R.J. Pierce, assistant division engineer of Hornell. File: Sept. '41.
I'm curious about the E.H. Ness of Cleveland. Any relation to the Cleveland safety Director Eliot Ness?
This photo is from the Erie Railroad publicity department. I wonder if anyone else has any further information or photos of the "300"? Sure would make a neat scratchbuilding project!
Enjoy, Ed
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Mark, that is a great photo. It would be great to see more about that connection. Lots of RRs obviously had close associations waterway connections. For me, the interest lies with the Stern wheelers of the CPR in British Columbia. I have previously mentioned I spent my Summers in a place called Kaslo B.C. There is a stern wheeler on the beach there now as a museum, its last voyage was 1957 the year I was born. Lots of remnants remain from when the Great Northern Railroad (narrow gauge) would meet up with the boat at Kaslo. The CPR later took over the operation.
There are lots of ghost towns to explore in the region.
More reading.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaslo_and_Slocan_Railway
A couple of video's
The Moyie near the end of her life was used to push rail barges full of ore cars down the lake.
The CPR had a vast marine arm, however it is the multitude of stern wheelers that can make for some good modeling.
I have no idea who built or owns this model, or where I got the photo.
A list of the CPRs ships.
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/cp.shtml
I've been looking at some historic railroad and other history of my region lately.(Northern Nevada...Carson City and Lake Tahoe to be a bit more specific) I think the shot I posted last week of the Glenbrook got me going. I also remembered a lake steamship called the S.S. Tahoe, scuttled in 1940, that was rediscovered in Lake Tahoe in the early 2000's. I found a photo that shows a Victorian Age view of the railroad pier in Tahoe City, California where the railroad and the steamship share the view with people in period attire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Tahoe#/media/File:SS_Tahoe.jpg
The railroad's name escapes me at this point, but it was originally built in the very late 1800's as a narrow gauge line to connect Lake Tahoe in Tahoe City to the Central Pacific at Truckee. The line was later standard gauged, and eventually abandoned in 1941...IIRC.
Mark H
Modeling in HO...Reading and Conrail together in an alternate history.
Bear, I love the way the viaduct amplifies the sound of the train as it chuggs across. Unfortunately that is hard to reproduce when using plastic bridge parts. I will be in Alberta for a while this summer, so will try and get some pic's and video's at the viaduct. I hope there are lots of trains that day.
Someone sent me this, so why not.
I’d like to say “Come on in the waters fine”!! (But only if you’re a polar bear}.
rrinkerWHY does the fireman come down the mid ladder instead of bailing out fromt eh front with the engineer?
Dramatic effect Randy, dramatic effect.
In my 36 years with the feds, I was involved as an advisor on many training films and/ or manuals. These hired stoops would bring in good looking model types instead of using our own good lookin guy's and gal's. They would have on fresh out of the package coveralls and if a vehicle was involved, it would be a brand new one. I thought most of them were a complete waste of time. These films rarely depicted reality. Everything always went perfectly in the film.
Got to love Shorpy. I wish there was more Canadian Pacific stuff on there. There is a little more every time I look though.
I may have to follow Bear into the boat building business.
http://www.shorpy.com/node/10185?size=_original#caption
BATMANToday I found a different photo of the same kind of car.
Seek and ye shall find.
I've seen that one before, but never noticed before - if the prime mover is on fire, WHY does the fireman come down the mid ladder instead of bailing out fromt eh front with the engineer? Hmm, engine room is full of smoke, think I'll walk through here and then ACROSS between the two motors to get off when we stop.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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In the second photo, it appears there may be two winch cars side by side. I could see two stacks in the second photo and then realized it must be two seperate cars. The chimneys also seem two be layed flat for transport as I would think there would be height issues. It looks like in the first photo the stack is on its side on the roof of the car. I wonder how much anchoring of the car is required once the winching starts. Just thinking of the physics of the winching of a prefab bent up from laying flat makes me think that they must have had to clamp the car to the rails somehow, or maybe leaving the loco attached was enough.
I think it is something I would like to take a crack at building someday. I have penciled it in for 2056.
I came across this while looking for info on firefighting trains being used to fight forest fires. Not quite what I was looking for. Gotta love these old films.
In those days, I'd expect a lot of MOW equipment would have been custom built by the railroad themselves. Maybe using a stock steam engine and hoist, and control mechanism, but then the car fitted and built up by the railroad. They may look similar but not identical because there's only so many ways you can build an enclosed hoist and still have the cables some out the front. The fact that they are enclosed probbaly has more to do withthe harsh weather than anything.
Way back on page two I posted this photo and wondered what the odd lookig car on the trestle was.
December 12,1897
Today I found a different photo of the same kind of car. Apparently (according to the caption) it is used for lifting "prefab" trestle bents. If you look closely at the photo you can see cables going out from the front of the car.
January 25, 1898
The two cars seem to be different. I wonder if it was a CPR creation or other railroads had them as well. I wonder how many CP had.
Mark, that engine is a beauty! I bet they are very careful when loading the wood in that tender. I would not want to be the one responsible for putting a ding in the paint.
Bear if when I get back down your way I'll bring some fire water from here and we can compare notes.
Speaking of fire.
Back in the early seventies when I was in high school, I would spend my summers up in Kaslo B.C. with my suppose to be retired Uncle and Aunt. We would spend a lot of time out on the lake fishing. One day after a rough day out on the lake fishing with my Uncle, we were sitting on the deck of their home looking across the lake taking in the afternoon thunder storm when a huge bolt of lightening hit the top of the mountain two miles across the the lake, about thirty minutes later we noticed smoke rising from the same spot. My Uncle asked me to hand him the phone and he called my Aunt who was in charge of dispatching the water bombers in that part of the Province. About forty minutes later a huge four engine bomber flew low right over our heads (on purpose I'm sure) towards the fire on the other side of the lake. The target was hit and the fire was out just like that. Start to finish was less than an hour and a half. What a system.
My suppose to be retired Uncle was often pressed into service with his pickup truck driving everything from helicopter fuel to food up to the firefighting camps when we would have bad fire seasons. It was all a well paid adventure when I tagged along.
This year is going to be a bad fire season and got me thinking of those times and how I wish I was young again so I could roll up my sleeves and help out. I also remember how often the railroads were/are put into service to help where they can.
I came across this video. They need a 1-4-0 to turn the loco.
Back in December I posted a link to a local newspaper that did an article on a near fully restored narrow gauge locomotive called the Glenbrook that is in the Nevada State Railroad Museum. While in Carson City today...guess what I got photos of.
Yes...the Glenbrook. And what a beauty.
The mid part of next week we are going to be in the Black Hills and plan to ride the 1880s train out there. Does any one know how to make sure we get on the Malley's train?
NP 2626 "Northern Pacific, really terrific"
Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association: http://www.nprha.org/
Great stuff from Strasburg. I hope to get there one day.
Like our friendly Bear. I also enjoy two fingers of my favourite good quality firewater on occasion.
I sat down with same to scan You-Tube.
Now either the beverage at hand has me seeing things, or the Kiwi's just don't get the railroading thing. Maybe it's a Government operation......Ya, that's it.
Maybe because of the overly enthusiastic grades in N.Z. They needed 15 pushers to get the new one to its new home.
At least the scenery is as good as it gets. I can't wait to get back for another visit. Bear, if I decide to travel by train, which engine do I get to sit in????
Some found footage I took in 06' at the Strasburg Railroad.
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/60361449@N02/
Anthracite Modeler - YouTube
How about a night at the office. A cab ride that's a little different from most.
It is seven parts, so it should be good for a week of morning coffee's........Or a bakers six pac
Well I had a PM pour in. Customer complaining there was not a video posted for this mornings cup of coffee. I may not be around later to post, as weekends are always nuts around here. So here is a little logging action for tomorrow mornings cuppa.
No watching early now.
The engine is under steam, but there are no wtaer hoses or anything visible on what should be the loco side of the tender - so there's probbaly some reason it's hooked up that way. Wonder if it's just chained together or ther drawbar really is connected at the opposite side.
Well done Tom. I noticed it right away and maybe thought it was just a storage track, maybe off a turntable. I then noticed the flat cars in front and had second thoughts. I wonder if that is ash on the flatcars in front or something else.
Brent:
I've seen that picture before and never noticed the anomaly. I think it's the first time I've seen an operating steam loco with a reversed tender. I think the photo was taken at City Point, VA, but will defer to anybody with better information.
Randy, that is a pretty cool little machine.
In the civil war photo above there is something amiss. Now maybe you have all seen the pic before and just gave it a. Or you truly did miss what is/was amiss.
Duplicate post.
OK, I want that steam speeder. That would be awesome fun to run.
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