Time to kick off the holiday edition of Weekend Proto Fun! This is winter wonderland style in Chattanooga TN on Dec. 26, 2004. Going to be 70ish again this year here in the southeast for Christmas. Here's wishing you all a joyful holiday weekend!
I don't have a whole lot of snowy pictures. This one dates from 03/10/1995 at Twin Branch, WV on the former N&W main.
Lots of UP power suddenly showing up on NS lines in the Carolinas too. Note sure if it's end-of-year account balancing or if NS is in genuine need.
Many long years ago at Huntingdon, BC. A pair of British Columbia Hydro & Power Authority SW900 units were getting fuel:
12ish hours ago, A brief respite between waves from the atmospheric river hitting NorCal this Christmas. Donner is still getting snowed on and the next wave has now moved in.
A Christmas Treat-UP 1111 MidDPU on train MCHBO in Fairfax, IA. Christmas Day 2021 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Could very well have been just that. Canada is a source of helium imported into the USA. I did not make any notes.
The helium car design that I'm familiar with had (has?) only five banks of tanks, as shown below. There may have been a design with six or even seven banks of tanks. Though those cars would have needed three axle trucks due to added tank weight. Helium tanks are extremely heavy having to restrain gas pressures of at least 4,000 PSI. The car in Ken's photo is an excess-height car. So, a seven-tank stack is conceivable. We can't see the trucks, which could have three axles. Or the car could have four two-axle trucks.
With what looks like to me, the banding holding the cylinders together, it may be some kind of special bulkhead flat car used for hauling short sections of pipe similar to this.
"Sort of" prototype. My wife and I visited the Cleveland Zoo today and I was excited to see narrow gauge tracks I had forgotten about. Unfortunately, any sort of rolling stock was locked in the engine house/equipment shed for the winter. It's been a couple decades since we visited with our children, so I don't remember if is a miniature mall-type railroad, or something bigger with narrow gauge tracks. Sent from my SM-A716U using Tapatalk
Maybe these should fire a few dusty neurons: https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/ohio/cleveland/zoo-train-cle/ https://www.clevelandmetroparks.com...ons/exhibits/attractions/boomerang-line-train There are a few videos on YouTube too. The train runs from April to October, weather permitting.
