Darn, forgot this 2010 photo. This tank is a stone's throw from U.P. double mainline (formerly S.P) in the little town of Elmira, Ca. Passed by it yesterday while cycling and wasn't surprised that the taggers have gotten to it, but that might add interest if modeling the present day.
Hello these are from Castalia Ohio an old stone house and barn.
and this is a school Have a nice day Frank
and this is a school
Have a nice day Frank
Hello here is a old barn with a rusty roof have a nice day Frank
have a nice day Frank
Hello here is a old barn this is in Mantua Ohio Have a nice day Frank
Mike
Check your PM.
YGW
The ATSF steam engine overhaul facility in Albuquerque NM July 2014.
Machine Shop
Overhead crane support detail
Machine shop end views
More ATSF engine facility Albuquerque NM July 2014:
Backside of machine shop and transfer table
Machine shop right, transfer table center, boiler shop left
Boiler shop and transfer table
Boiler shop end
Piping detail
Thought it was about time to post on this thread again. Below is a BR&P (Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh) station that I drive past twice a week in Shelocta, PA. Obviously it's seen better days but I enjoy seeing it, nonetheless:
https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling
Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
Hi, Tom!
Nice of you to resurrect this fine 'ol thread!
Years ago I visited the square roundhouse of the Lakeside & Marblehead Railroad near Sandusky, Ohio.
It almost has the same "Mission" style of the Santa Fe structure!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakeside_and_Marblehead_Railroad
Happy Holidays to All! Ed
Is it constructed out of limestone, Ed? From the appearance it looks like regular brick but painted. I saw a number of house in and around Sandusky that were made out of limestone.
Tom
Yes, Tom, local limestone. Take a look here for some photos in her heyday of this relatively large shop for such a small operation. I knew a fellow, Bob Zephyr, who was a fireman on the L&M. What a great railroad to model! The wye coming off the busy NYC Main at Port Clinton, all those neat 0-6-0s, a gaggle of Shays and the lakeside scenery! They even had a McKeen motor car!
http://www.mhpress.com/LMRR.pdf
When you open this great .pdf collection of photos, scroll to page 28 and again on 35 and take a gander at what that enginehouse looked like in 1903-4!
Sadly, the engine house was torn down just a year after I took those photos.
Somewhere I have a photo of the Lakeside depot I'll try to post... it was built in the LS&MS style.
Take care, Ed
Yes, the Lakeside & Marblehead would be a fascinating and challenging railroad to model. It was affiliated with the Shay-operated, narrow gauge Kelley Island Lime & Transport Co., which operated quarries on Kelley Island in Lake Erie and shipped the stone to a dock at Marblehead, Ohio. The standard gauge L&M served the Marblehead dock, as well as additional mainland quarry operations on the Marblehead peninsula, hauling the stone to a NYC interchange at Danbury. The large stone enginehouse at Marblehead had smaller narrow gauge stalls for KIL&T Shays (visible to the left) as well as larger standard gauge stalls for L&M standard gauge engines.
The Marblehead peninsula was also served by the interurban Toledo, Port Clinton & Lakeside Railway, later Ohio Public Service.
L&M's steam roster consisted of one early 4-4-0, followed by a succession of 0-6-0's. Toward the end of steam, the road had second-hand 0-6-0 number 4 (2nd); NYC design 0-6-0's 6, 7, and 8; and Lima-built ex-G.I. 0-6-0 number 9, which could be modeled using a stock USRA 0-6-0 as a starting point. The road dieselized in the late 1940's to early 1950's using two GE 70 tonners, followed by an SW7 and two SW8's. The line ceased operation in the mid-1990's.
Passenger service on the L&M was provided by a variety of equipment including a 1910 gasoline powered Fairbanks Morse Model 24 motor car and the "Red Devil", a 1916 55-foot McKeen car seating 48.
The definitive book is The Lakeside and Marblehead Railroad, by Dean K. Fick, Montevallo Historical Press, Inc., Columbus, Ohio, 2000 a.d. Most of the foregoing information comes from that excellent book.
(edited)
Tom, & Tom...
I came across my photo of the Marblehead depot taken in 1998:
Below is the same view in October 2008.
Much of the text and photos from the excellent book you mention, Tom, are available in the publisher's link I provided above. It is in a .pdf format so any page, or all of 'em, can easily be printed.
Regards, Ed
I don't have pictures of anything, but I did see (on the internet today looking at a map from 1957) an old resemblance of a concrete ramp and foundation that housed a freight warehouse for trucks and trailers for piggyback services. Now it's a huge parking lot in downtown Tucson, AZ.
I was on that historical ariel map website to help me to model the NYC in 1957-65 in my own home town.
Part of it is helping me modeling accuracy.
http://www.downtowntucson.org/2012/09/student-housing-for-franklinstone-hits-a-city-council-road-block/
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
A rather dreary day to capture pictures...but it was warmish, not raining, and a short jaunt from where I live.
Another BR&P station; this one in Indiana, PA:
It's currently being used as a restaurant and is situated right along a single track freight (coal) main, running north/south through town, operated by the Genesee & Wyoming.
Across the parking lot is another building owned by an auto business but I am not sure if it was associated with the station, or was originally a gas station that was fixed up more recently to look as if it was part of the station:
Lastly, I enjoy building details so I've included the light fixture, window, and roof supports on the south side of the station: