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!
Alberni Pacific Railway, Baldwing 2-8-2T pulling a tourist train to McLean Mill on Apr 23/10.
I like this thread!
Does this look like the Atlas model?
The Cedar Branch & Western--The Hillbilly Line!
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ME&O
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19 Years old, modeling the Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Cascade Railroad of Western Washington in 1927 in 6X6 feet.
CSX Taft Yard near Orlando, Fl.
Sand service at the P&LE engine facility, McKees Rocks, PA
Shop Goat on transfer table @ Collinwood, Cleveland - Conrail/ex NYC
Chuck
Grand River & Monongah Railroad and subsidiary Monongah Railway
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.
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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:
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.
Phil, I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.
I love some of these pictures. Very nice.
Here is a few from me.
"Rust, whats not to love?"
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.
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.
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.
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
San Dimas Southern slideshow
I believe this is an Alco S 6
Bob
Don't Ever Give Up
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
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
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!
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