Steam double header? Okay!
Two heads are better than one!
Shovel all the coal in, gotta keep 'em rolling!
Lets see more Large Steam. Double, triple, etc.
Here's two large steam but not coupled:
IMG_4492 by Paul Ahrens, on Flickr
And here's a double header (not large) steam:
IMG_4847 by Paul Ahrens, on Flickr
Can we see some more steam double / triple headers, please?
Paul
Modeling HO with a transition era UP bent
peahens wrote: "Can we see some more steam double/triple headers, please?"
Here are a couple of fairly large steam engines doubled up.
My 11-year old grandson loves steam engines. Any steam engine. Here he has NYC #5335, a Hudson at the head of a double-header with Pere Marquette 2-8-4 #1235 at the head of his mixed freight.
More steam double headers please.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
BRVRRMore steam double headers please.
A Pennsy S2 speeds by a pair of I1s slugging upgrade...
More Big Steam, please...
This is about as big as it gets on the Pennsy, an N1s 2-10-2 with a coal train, these engines were about the largest 2-10-2's made and spent their years hauling ore from the Lake Erie ports to Pittsburgh and returning with coal to be shipped north by lake freighter. The air tank on the pilot deck was second to none!
More big steam please.
Rick Jesionowski
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A Burlington 2-10-2 .
Please show more steam.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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Here is my little Virginia and Truckee Genoa from the 1800s.
Please show me anything, locomotive or rolling stock, old time or at least pre diesel era.
Here's some reefers. Not sure if they are pre-diesel, but they look old.
Let's see more reefers and icing platforms.
Here's an Athearn Blue Box reefer, modified to represent one of the CNR's 1939-built overhead bunker cars. It's shown at Hoffentoth Bros.' icehouse, in Lowbanks, Ontario...
Lettering is from C-D-S.
Show me more reefers at icehouses or loading docks, please.
A daily ritual on the NYB&W, icing the milk reefers.
More milk trains.
Just an observation, John, but the milk cars have no ice hatches, and as far as I know, the milk was in insulated tanks inside the car. I don't think that the cars were iced at all, although the milk may have been pre-cooled.I picked up a couple of Athearn/MDC milk cars at a nearby hobbyshop, on sale because such cars, especially lettered for American dairies, seemed to be uncommon in Canada. I removed the lettering and re-painted the cars, using C-D-S alphabet and dimensional data dry transfers to letter them for my own road...
I also modified a few Athearn Blue Box wood reefers, removing the steel ends and the steel roof and ice hatches, too...
Both types are used for milk service, using the insulated feature only, for milk in cans - those cars are usually in the first train of the day, freight or passenger, on milk routes. Both types are also used in fish service, with the lading in open boxes and top-iced (crushed ice applied over the cargo). These can run at any time of day, in the first train available or as part of an extra.
More insulated or refrigerated cars, please.
Wayne
doctorwayneBoth types are used for milk service, using the insulated feature only, for milk in cans - those cars are usually in the first train of the day, freight or passenger, on milk routes.
Also, the cleaned, empty milk cans have to be returned to the owners later in the day in the afternoon / evening train
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
doctorwayneMore insulated or refrigerated cars, please
Well... it IS insulated
And when filled, it sure is refrigerated!
Please show more "special purpose" cars— wreck train, heavy-duty flat, hot metal, etc.
doctorwayne Just an observation, John, but the milk cars have no ice hatches, and as far as I know, the milk was in insulated tanks inside the car. I don't think that the cars were iced at all, although the milk may have been pre-cooled.
Just an observation, John, but the milk cars have no ice hatches, and as far as I know, the milk was in insulated tanks inside the car. I don't think that the cars were iced at all, although the milk may have been pre-cooled.
Now I feel silly. I have a wide assortment of cars in my milk train and most of them have ice hatches. I assumed they all did and never even noticed that these do not. I do have one butterdish tank car which even I had figured out was not ice cooled.
gmpullman More insulated or refrigerated cars, please
More insulated or refrigerated cars, please
Don't Ever Give Up
NYBW-John doctorwayne Just an observation, John, but the milk cars have no ice hatches, and as far as I know, the milk was in insulated tanks inside the car. I don't think that the cars were iced at all, although the milk may have been pre-cooled. Now I feel silly. I have a wide assortment of cars in my milk train and most of them have ice hatches. I assumed they all did and never even noticed that these do not. I do have one butterdish tank car which even I had figured out was not ice cooled.
doctorwayne
Wayne .... I like your weed sprayer.
Specialized cars at the steel mill.
Please show a main line freght train.
Well, it's been way over 24 hours so I am reverting back to Dr. Wayne's request for specialized equipment.
Here ia a vinegar car also used as a pickle car. This particular car is detailed for a local home town company.
Below is a postcard of the plant back in the day. Please show more specialized railroad equipment. Bob
Below is a postcard of the plant back in the day.
Please show more specialized railroad equipment. Bob
Please show more specialized railroad equipment.
Bob
I have quite a few home road general service gondolas, but a couple of them are in specialised service delivering automobile frames from the manufacturer to an auto assembly plant. These cars are equipped with loading racks, are in dedicated service and cannot be turned due to loading and unloading requirements. They also have specific routing instructions which avoid areas where height restrictions are present...
If the business climate changes, the racks can be removed and the cars returned to general service.The car shown above is from Accurail, but the very similar one shown below is from Tyco, and its thicker sides and ends make its interior just a little too short and too narrow to accept the same load...
Show me some more specialised railway equipment, please.
More than a day with nothing specialized, this 70 ton pulpwood car from the Boothbay Railway Village collection was common in Maine, so it is a bit specialized.
Show me a freight car carrying a load
The local is making a pickup from the L&HR interchange track
Show more peddler freights please.
NYBW-John wrote: "Show more peddler freights please."
A short mixed freight negotiates the curve at the west end of the BRVRR layout.
No new request, so I'm guessing that folks still want to see freight trains. Here's a westbound freight that's just passed the crossing at Indian Line, headed for Lowbanks...
Show me a coal train, please.
South Penn F units with a coal drag heading south from Neelyton to Burnt Cabins.
More coal trains please.
SouthPenn wrote: "More coal trains please."
Here is one from the BRVRR website:
And a link to a video of the train in motion;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUu9QqJNj8g
Pennsylvania N1s 2-10-2 with a coal drag!
More coal trains!
dti406More coal trains! Rick Jesionowski
More coal trains in August SHowme!!