Random Railfan Prototype Photos For All

Hardcoaler Mar 26, 2015

  1. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Very cool , Russ!
     
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  2. BuddyBurton

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    UP 1111 East leading MNPPR.
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    Finally got this unit leading a train.

    Most people get drunk, others want sex but as for me, I go Railfanning.
     
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  3. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Shooten trains. Give em a head start and then we'll hit em from behind.
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  4. Hytec

    Hytec TrainBoard Member

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    :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
     
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  5. Mike VE2TRV

    Mike VE2TRV TrainBoard Member

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    Or as Uncle Fester would say, "I'll shoot'em in the back!".:LOL:

    Cannons and trains - what a great combo - It worked for Buster Keaton.:)
     
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  6. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Filling the tender water tank one bucket at a time.
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  7. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    I'm pretty sure we all called our siblings this name....:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

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  8. gjslsffan

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    Holy smokes! Thats the back to the future image of a loco they used. Well less the water buckets and all. But what a great photo.
    Never ceases to amaze me the amount of photos from "back in the day". And that is way back on that day.
     
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  9. Mike VE2TRV

    Mike VE2TRV TrainBoard Member

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    The solution to no water towers along the way: Take'em with you!:)

    They could use a bigger bucket.o_O
     
  10. Hytec

    Hytec TrainBoard Member

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    Apparently the concept of a siphon was yet to be learned.
     
  11. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Blunt truck from an Alco S2 retrofitted with roller bearings.
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    From a scrapped unit? Being used for?
     
  13. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    We bought them from a scrapper to replace the worn out trucks on this unit. We remounted the old bearing box covers for aesthetics.
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  14. Mike VE2TRV

    Mike VE2TRV TrainBoard Member

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    Nice. It's not every day that one sees an operating Alco switcher on Blunt trucks.
     
  15. badlandnp

    badlandnp TrainBoard Member

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    Not enough light for a good quality photo, but it was a nice sunset! PIC_0093.JPG
     
  16. r_i_straw

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    J. W. Burnfin and his railroad section gang, Spindletop, Texas 1904.
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    Train - CSX 7685-IMG_7950 (12182011).jpg

    CSX main viaduct crossing Monument, approaching the Mad River (northbound), Dayton, OH.
     
  19. Hardcoaler

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    Former SAL Alco C-420 1376 works at Knoxville, TN in April 1979. These units were flogged daily and yet muscled through. I recall seeing a C-420 throttled up shoving a heavy cut, wheels having lost adhesion and slowly spinning with smoke pouring off the wheel surfaces.

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  20. BNSF FAN

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    Cleburne TX - Jan 2009

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