Prototype photo fun

[BerkshireSteam]

CN yard in Green Bay WI

Elsewhere in Tittletown, the old GBW mainline in town heading west, now CN

CN main heading west from the yard behind Duck Creek mini golf

The Crivitz WI passenger depot, former Milwaukee Road trackage now Escanaba & Lake Superior

I would love to someday model this depot in it's present condition. I think it's extremely modelgenic.

E&LS main heading north just outside of Wausaukee WI, note the dark ballast

E&LS main in Wauksaukee, looking south

Next time I'm through the area I plan to get a pic of the Wausaukee sign next to the tracks, and some more photos of the Crivitz depot and the small 'yard' there. You can see the interesting looking high-ended gondola's and there is also a small cut of 4 old iron ore cars spotted there, they haven't been moved in the last few months since I've been there so I think it's safe to say they will still be there. As for the cars in Wausuakee, I don't know why they are there. I've been all over that little town and see NOTHING that has a siding or can be rail served so it may just be storage, although one of the 3 bay covored hoppers is marked with a big "FEED" painted on the side.

[IVRW]

Here is a good photo I got on the way back from the airport:

A UTA train heading to the UTA Light Rail Frontrunner (commuter train) station.

A prototype toy train (supposedly a 1/3 replica, but I doubt it)

A railyard in AZ.

And then a ye olde espee

A train leaving the UPs Roper Yard

A nice panorama of the locomotive facilities at the same place

Another leaving train

And the leaving end of the same train.

Thats all folks!

[BATMAN]

 A good idea for a thread. Prototype photos from a modelers perspective. Here is a few from this amateur modeler/photographer.

Taken just north of the Canadian/US border at Crescent Beach B.C.

 

 

 

 

And the pushers.

 

 

 

                                                                                              Brent

[chpthrls]

Hi M/W

Good shot of CN 4028. I'm in the middle of doing a rebuild on a GTW GP-9R based on a Walther's HO model. The big difference between the CN geeps and GTW is CN didn't remove the dynamic brakes. I'm also not sure if they repowered their 9's as the GTW did. I'm finding that it would have been easier to do the rebuild starting with a GP-15 shell, but, it wouldn't be nearly as much "fun".       Gerry S.

[superbe]

 I believe this is an Alco S 6

Bob

[Margaritaman]

[salt water cowboy]

 OK..I'll jump in! But it's too late and I'm too tired to post descriptions of these, so is you have any questions give me a shout here and I'll answer 'em in the morning! These are all recent pics I took in my town. Many of the pics have to do with making chocolate!

Matt

 

 

[BerkshireSteam]

chpthrls

Hi M/W

Good shot of CN 4028. I'm in the middle of doing a rebuild on a GTW GP-9R based on a Walther's HO model. The big difference between the CN geeps and GTW is CN didn't remove the dynamic brakes. I'm also not sure if they repowered their 9's as the GTW did. I'm finding that it would have been easier to do the rebuild starting with a GP-15 shell, but, it wouldn't be nearly as much "fun".       Gerry S.

Just for you chpthrls, my short video of 4028 doing yard work. Apparently CN is using this unit now for yard work instead of one of two old WC SW1500's. When last seen one was still in WC maroon paint, the other was in CN paint. IIRC one of the SW's road number was either 1600 or 1602. I had more pics but most were lost when somehow my old photobucket account was black flagged due to inappropriate conent and closed. I lost about half my railfanning photo's so now I'm starting with only a handful. I do have some of a GTW locomotive, still in the beautiful bright orange nosed light blue scheme. I can't remember the road number but I do believe I tracked it down to a GP9r. I can't remember because I had some pics of a GTW GP38 AND a GTW GP9r and I can't recall which one's I have saved (the other was lost from photobucket). Eventually with in the next week or so I will have all my railfan photos on bucket so I can share them on this thread.

I also have a video of a BNSF Dash 9 idling but the sound didn't turn out too well. Evidently my camera's microphone is more sensative than my ear because I had no problems hearing the prime mover idling or the air brakes cycling but the video is mostly the wind howling. I took it because the unit kept making a weird sound, the rpm would seem to dip a tad and then a metal-on-metal screeching noise like when someone tries to start a car that is already started happens. If I would have had my timing right and did my video 10 minutes later I would have cought the sounds of the Dash 9 being shut down too. This weekend I will try to get out to the yard to get more pics and video if it's not windy. I want to get 4028 again, you can't hear it in the video but it definetly still has the 567 prime in it. Enjoy the clip.

[UncBob]

 

 

 

[Robby P.]

 I love some of these pictures.  Very nice.

 Here is a few from me.  

 

 

[GTW6401]

Some good ole Huron and Eastern Action around the Flushing Michigan Area Don

[shayfan84325]

 A year ago I got to go "hands on" with a few lumber cars.  We were closing down the plant and we had a few gazillion board feet of lumber to ship to Wisconsin.  We had laid off so many people that the shipping manager and the HR guy (me) had to load the lumber onto railcars and schedule shipping.  This is a shot of me after we loaded the first car (of 28).

 

Granted, the picture isn't great (it was taken with my phone).  This duty got me in the best shape of my life.

[Anonymous]

 Crosoe - something maybe a little more "exotic":

 

Ffestiniog Rlwy train leaving Porthmadoc for Boston Lodge and  Blaenau Ffestiniog, just entering the causeway called the "Cobh". The train is headed by a Double-Fairlie loco on 2 ft. gauge, with the name of "Merrdin Emrys", Welsh for "Merlin", looking like this:

 

[steinjr]

 

 Speaking about exotic (for Americans): 2-6-2T engine #7 Prydz running around a Sunday morning museum railroad passenger car consist at narrow gauge UHB museum railroad depot at Sørumsand, Norway:

 

 The engine was built in Kassel, Germany in 1950, and was the last new steam engine bought by the Norwegian railroads. It ran in regular traffic on the Urskog-Holand line (UHB) narrow gauge branch line until the 57 kilometer (35 mile) branch line was abandoned in 1960.  These days the engine runs trains a few miles up and down the old narrow gauge track as part of a museum railroad run by local volunteers.

 Smile,
 Stein

 

[GRAMRR]

Sand service at the P&LE engine facility, McKees Rocks, PA

Shop Goat on transfer table @ Collinwood, Cleveland - Conrail/ex NYC

[Bdewoody]

CSX Taft Yard near Orlando, Fl.

[IVRW]

Bob, where is the yard, Im in Florida right now and I would like to visit it.

[Geared Steam]

45 Ton at The Texas RR Museum in San Antonio

 

 

 

Baldwin 2-8-0 Texas RR Museum in San Antonio

[UncBob]

 

[dragenrider]

I like this thread!

Does this look like the Atlas model?

[Grampy1]

Alberni Pacific Railway, Baldwing 2-8-2T pulling a tourist train to McLean Mill on Apr 23/10.

 

 

[Anonymous]

ME class 146 pausing in Tostedt station, en route to Hamburg.

 

Should the loco look familiar to you - it is NJT´s ALP 46A´s sister!

[BerkshireSteam]

car markings

prototype switche

I don't know what it is but I thought it was interesting so snapped a pic of it. If anyone knows what it is and/or what it's for, please chime in.

For anyone who thinks ballast is perfect. Mind you, this is area was redone last spring when CN did some tie replacement.

GTW geep.

I just like this one because it's kind of artsy.

[blownout cylinder]

A few things from this little one---

Plastics plant storage facility

CP GP9u

Small trestle bridge thingee

[trolleyboy]

chpthrls

Hi M/W

Good shot of CN 4028. I'm in the middle of doing a rebuild on a GTW GP-9R based on a Walther's HO model. The big difference between the CN geeps and GTW is CN didn't remove the dynamic brakes. I'm also not sure if they re-powered their 9's as the GTW did. I'm finding that it would have been easier to do the rebuild starting with a GP-15 shell, but, it wouldn't be nearly as much "fun".       Gerry S.

CN did not re-power they left the original prime movers in,they did fix any problems with generators or prime mover but left them intact,they still have that nice 567 sound.There are some subtle differences on the CN rebuilds though as they were rebuilt for different jobs.The GY or yard series still have the dynamic blisters and fan but the brake system, was removed .Many of these are set up with remote control systems as well and have extra flashing beacons installed on the side of the car body lights The GH or hump units have slave controls added for control of the hump slugs,and the GR's are pretty much s built and do allot of transfer work and you even see them in consists on the odd train when more power is needed or CN is moving them to a different yard for local use.

 

Here are a few more GP pics I've snapped over the years to maybe help you out.

 

 

 

 

hope these help

Rob 

 

 

[0-6-0]

Hello I have few photos that will fit here nicely. First is a switch heater

this is a short single

I think these are bar code readers?

I had to take a pic of this even the real RR use small pieces of track

This came by as I was taking pics

and for you guys that need more power here is a substation

Have a nice day Frank

[GRAMRR]

N&W Class J, 611 eastbound through Perry, OH on ex-NKP main.  I believe I shot this in the late 70s.

Old wrecker minus the boom at McKees Rocks on the P&LE, also in the late 70s.  I've never seen a wrecker with an operator's cupola on top.  Would be a neat model.

[BRAKIE]

One of my favorite photos.

 I took this photo in '06 in Tiffin,Ohio on the Northern Ohio & Western.

 

[fiatfan]

 Trackwork in a residential neighborhood.

 

Tom

[CSX_road_slug]

 This is one of my favorites.  From my youth, railfanning in Baltimore (1973):