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Posted by BATMAN on Sunday, March 26, 2023 10:02 PM

Track fiddler

Here ya go Brent.

Got an extra one, so just put it in your wallet just in caseLaugh

 

TF

 

LaughLaughLaugh

Thanks, TF that's better than spending Crandells hard-earned cash. LOL. 

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Posted by John-NYBW on Sunday, March 26, 2023 7:51 PM

It seems I'm always late to these discussions. For what it's worth, the Ohio Central has a branchline from Newark, OH to Mt. Vernon, OH. It parallels Ohio Route 13 throught the towns of Vanatta and St. Louisville. There are several places were the tracks are between Rt. 13 and homes and the driveways have to cross the tracks. Only one train a day goes up and down that line and it is a slow order track so there's not much of a hazard. I think if you lived in one of those houses, you would be used to checking for a train before you cross the tracks. 

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Posted by Track fiddler on Sunday, March 26, 2023 7:26 PM

Here ya go Brent.

Got an extra one, so just put it in your wallet just in caseLaugh

 

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Posted by BATMAN on Sunday, March 26, 2023 6:01 PM

selector

I'll cough up $100 toward your bail if that works for you, Brent. 

I'll need it back, tho...Whistling

 

Thanks, Crandell. Don't rush down to the courthouse too fast, give me three or four days to rest and relax in the hoosegow first. There has been a lot of request for my time lately, I'll have an excuse to say no.Laugh

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Posted by selector on Sunday, March 26, 2023 5:33 PM

I'll cough up $100 toward your bail if that works for you, Brent. 

I'll need it back, tho...Whistling

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Posted by BATMAN on Sunday, March 26, 2023 5:01 PM

dknelson

Well if you do go to jail over this, your friends on these Forums will send you a cake with a file hidden in it.  It's the least we can do.  

Dave Nelson

 

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Thanks Dave.

Just don't send me one of those tiny ones you use to file rail ends with or I'll never get out.LaughPirate

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Posted by dknelson on Sunday, March 26, 2023 4:56 PM

Well if you do go to jail over this, your friends on these Forums will send you a cake with a file hidden in it.  It's the least we can do.  

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Posted by BATMAN on Saturday, March 25, 2023 2:26 PM

Track fiddler

Then the Troll wins? Crying...Laugh

 

PS   Wonder how long it takes this Ol' Thread to get clickedLaugh

TF

 

I still hope he comes back to clear things up.PirateLaugh

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Posted by Track fiddler on Saturday, March 25, 2023 2:08 PM

Then the Troll wins? Crying...Laugh

 

PS   Wonder how long it takes this Ol' Thread to get ClickedLaugh

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Posted by BATMAN on Saturday, March 25, 2023 1:27 PM

snjroy
Perhaps Brent could post the link in his initial post

I am not sure where they came from as it was a long time ago, but I think a friend of my wife Emailed them to her when we were house hunting saying it would be a perfect house for me. There is a link to railpictures above in a previous post if anyone wants a look see.

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Posted by snjroy on Saturday, March 25, 2023 1:01 PM

I prefer to post a link pointing to the source, except for the pictures that I took myself. Perhaps Brent could post the link in his initial post, as the thread itself is worth keeping. Made me laugh quite a bit!

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Posted by cx500 on Saturday, March 25, 2023 11:34 AM

The troll has not even taken the trouble to make his claim believable.  The date of 1986 is probably correct, as posted.  He could not have taken it in 1983 since in that year the locomotive still carried its original number, 7027.

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Posted by BATMAN on Friday, March 24, 2023 8:18 PM

Track fiddler

Honestly Brent.  I'm thinking it was just some troll bouncing around on the internet getting his kicks, and you happen to be one of the victims.  As York John discovered more truth to the matter,  you certainly shouldn't worry about it my friendSmile

 

TF

 

 

I thought that right from the get-go. Google the name and get zip. Not worried in the least.Cowboy

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Posted by Track fiddler on Friday, March 24, 2023 8:09 PM

Honestly Brent.  I'm thinking it was just some troll bouncing around on the internet getting his kicks, and you happened to be one of the victims.  As York John discovered more truth to the matter,  you certainly shouldn't worry about it my friendSmile

 

PS   Nice looking start to that mountain of yoursYes  Hopefully I'll not be ruffling any feathers transferring a copy to my railroad logLaugh

 

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Posted by BATMAN on Friday, March 24, 2023 7:53 PM

York1
I found it interesting that the two different individuals both claim copyrights.

Maybe we can get a live stream and watch those two duke it out. Let's get ready to rumble!!!!Laugh

Is John losing money by having his photo seen elsewhere or does he just want his pat on the back? Regardless, I will respect his concerns.

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Posted by Mark R. on Friday, March 24, 2023 7:41 PM

I suggest looking up the "Fair Use" clause in the copyright laws. Smile, Wink & Grin

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Posted by York1 on Friday, March 24, 2023 7:33 PM

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I have seen this photo in a bunch of places. Not wanting to step on any toes I have deleted it from my files so it won't happen again. I see photos I have taken personally all over the place, I have no idea how they make their way around the internet nor do I care.

 

I think it's nearly impossible to protect photos on the internet.  I imagine that if I was serious about it, I would put some kind of watermark on the photo like some art sites do.

I only posted my comment because I found it interesting that the two different individuals both claim copyrights.

I also find it interesting that certain railroading sites provide copyrighted photos, but provide BB copy codes so the image can be copied and used on other posting sites.

 

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Posted by BATMAN on Friday, March 24, 2023 5:03 PM

York1

This exact same photo is on RailPictures.net with a listed copyright to "M Leachman" dated 1986.

https://www.railpictures.net/photo/710177/

 

I have seen this photo in a bunch of places. Not wanting to step on any toes I have deleted it from my files so it won't happen again.

I see photos I have taken personally all over the place, I have no idea how they make their way around the internet nor do I care.

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Posted by York1 on Friday, March 24, 2023 4:53 PM

This exact same photo is on RailPictures.net with a listed copyright to "M Leachman" dated 1986.

https://www.railpictures.net/photo/710177/

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Posted by BATMAN on Friday, March 24, 2023 3:52 PM

My apologies John, I cannot remember how I ended up with the photos. Administration, please delete the thread.

I have deleted the photos from my original post.

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Posted by Steamscene on Thursday, March 23, 2023 6:42 PM

[quote user="BATMAN"]

Oshawa Ontario, 1986.

Shouldn't there be crossing gates on that driveway?Laugh

  

  

 Be it known that the photos above are not the property, nor were taken by "Batman". I, John Vincent is the photographer. Without giving me, the photgrapher credit, this is a copy right infringment. These photos have been downloaded from another train site and have not included the description , and my copy right info, and passed onto the Kalmbach site.

  The date of the photograph was not 1986, but 1983

 

 

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Posted by wjstix on Thursday, September 13, 2018 9:51 PM

It would appear the railway crossing crossbuck is there because that is where the rail line stops running down the middle of the street - presumably allowing cars to run on either side of it - to cross the one lane of traffic when taking the curve. The "driveway" referenced is very narrow, more likely a sidewalk from the street to the front porch of the house. 

I lived for my first 46 years in a house in Richfield MN that was almost that close to a rail line; it was across the street so roughly where the sidewalk on the left of the second picture would be. However there were no houses on the other side; it was a farm and then the athletic field for Holy Angels High School (if there's any Larry Fitzgerald Jr. fans out there).

Anyway, except for having a couple hundred books on railroad history, memberships in a half dozen railroad historical societies, a basement full of almost 50 years worth of model railroading buying and building, and a grandkid who calls me "Papa Choo-Choo", I can't say living by the train tracks all those years affected me at all....

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Posted by BATMAN on Thursday, September 13, 2018 4:46 PM

snjroy

Maybe the engineer lived in that house and just parks in front of his house Smile.

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Posted by snjroy on Thursday, September 13, 2018 4:13 PM

Maybe the engineer lived in that house and just parks in front of his house Smile.

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Posted by kasskaboose on Thursday, September 13, 2018 2:47 PM

Is that picture actually real?  My kids would love to have a ral line parked along the street.  There goes the neighborhood!

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Posted by dknelson on Thursday, September 13, 2018 10:56 AM

Oh yeah Neenah WI

And if you think that's bad you should have seen the Soo Line on Division Street in Oshkosh WI, just a few miles south of Neenah.  

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Posted by davidmurray on Thursday, September 13, 2018 10:23 AM

rrinker
Not sure what I'm looking at. It's a driveway, considered a private crossing, not a public one, so nothing more than a railroad crossing sign is really needed.

Randy:  The train came along one street, went around a curve beside that house,  and up Ritson road.

When the railline was put in Ritson was two lanes, when the street was expanded to four lanes if occupied the rail line, but both were used for years.

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Posted by davidmurray on Thursday, September 13, 2018 10:17 AM

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Are the tracks and the neighborhood still there? A lot can change in 32 years. I wouldn't mind moving to Canada to live there and watch the local.

That was the route that served the Oshawa, Ont GM fabrication plant.  I was working there when a new owner decided he would not pay the tax to keep the track in place.  CN removed the track, that owner went bankrupt, two other owners failed, and the pland closed six years later.

The track is gone, the GM plant is gone, twenty feet down for cleaning, and the area is now retail operations, including Costco.  A coiple of lumber yards north of the GM plant lost their rail connection, and part of the route is now a paved walking/bike path.

 

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