They are installing CTC on the Davenport Sub. Eventually all of the CP in Iowa (Bluff-Sabula Jct & Pingree Grove-East Savanna) will get CTC. There are sections of CTC that have been installed: West Savanna to Deer Creek (including Sabula Jct) CP 198(South Yard Limit Nahant)-Heinz Fruitland-Cotter Rutledge-North Yard Limit Ottumwa Laredo-North Yard Limit Knoche Yard. Everything else between that is Track Warrant Control.
Wow, that's a nice shot. Does the 1309 fit on the Frostburg turntable? I think I recall that it does (?), but I'm guessing it must be a tight fit.
They moved a turn table to Frostburg from Hagerstown that it fits on, but the track leading up to the turn table from that spot has a hump preventing the engine from crossing the street. We talked to the road foreman two days later (he was railfanning Altoona when we were) and he said they are talking to the city about whether the street can be torn up to realign it.
She is. Because the turntable is not, its a push pull operation. She pulls up to frostburg and pushed back down the hill.
A couple of things caught my eye in the yard at the RR Museum of PA this week. PRR 1670 is getting some stabilization, and not all the history there rides the rails. Sometimes it is the rail.
Oh, that's neat. As my wife and I walked the indoor exhibits, I was left to wonder why a PRR B-6SB wasn't saved. Now I know that there is one! We were told at the ticket counter that the museum was open until 4PM, but when we tried to see the outdoor exhibits, the door was locked and we were informed that it closed at 3:30. That kind of pissed me off, as we'd set aside a half hour to see what was there. Upon entering the gift shop, we were told that it closed at 3:45! Seems that someone in charge should make 4PM the uniform closing time for everything as advertised.
I am fascinated by that kind of thing. I once, in 1998, found some rail in Rochester, MN with an 1898 date code on it - the year my grandfather was born. And to think it was in that location probably all that time because it was part of a bit of unusual track alignment which was there in the nineteen thirties as indicated on a track diagram from then. Doug
From the mid-1970s, spotless MILW 991833 caboose at a cold and wet Rondout, IL. I wonder if those trucks came from retired passenger equipment? A very cool touch.
Two different types were built for these, I have a couple of these in N-scale, (bought 'em from Boxcab now that I think about it!).
I just noticed that they appear to be friction bearing trucks, but maybe those lids may hide roller bearings? Really neat that the MILW built the trucks with cabooses in mind, even engineering two designs per Kurt. (This negative was one of those impossible to fully clean dust magnets, hence all of the white specs! )