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Hardcoaler Mar 26, 2015

  1. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Neat old Cadillac!
     
  2. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Texas & New Orleans 2-10-2 #990 near New Iberia, Louisiana in 1949. An SP company photographer was waiting to shoot the Sunset Limited when this freight preceded it. John R. Signor Collection.
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  3. Rip Track

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    A lot of glass on them poles.
     
  4. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    And a lot of copper strung between them as well.
     
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  6. Hardcoaler

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    July 1983 at North Adams, MA. We arrived too late to catch the head end.

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    Who knew that Atlas would someday immortalize the same caboose number in N Scale?

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    Approaching KCS-led eastbound UP stack train.
    Norway, IA

    August 14, 2022


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  8. Hytec

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    Favorite is B&M Fitchburg Division. Though my memory is 1947-1953 during the Minute Man era and FT's, F2's, and F3's. Rode over that bridge and through the Hoosac Tunnel in October 1952 on B&M #6000, the Minute Man.
     
  9. Hardcoaler

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    Neat memories you have! (y) With CSX now owning PanAm and already owning the former Boston & Albany main, I wonder what will happen to PanAm's Hoosac Tunnel route? Things have changed so much in New England that I hardly know what's going on up there. NS keeps some kind of presence in the region, but I'm not sure how.
     
  10. LegomanBill

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    An assortment of cars seen on a road trip from June, Part 14

    Illinois Central Coach-Lounge 3345 (ex-MP 874), Union, IL
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    IC 6-6-4 Sleeper "King Cotton", Union, IL
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    CB&Q 9900, Chicago, IL
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    CB&Q Baggage-Buffet-Coach 505, Chicago, IL
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  11. Mike VE2TRV

    Mike VE2TRV TrainBoard Member

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    That's a gorgeous machine. :love:

    And the best-looking photo of it I've ever seen. Bill, you got the lighting, angle and exposure exactly right. It looks like it's standing at a station, at night, waiting for the conductor's signal to speed off.
     
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  12. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Amazing how well she looks. If only other such historical equipment looked this good today.
     
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    The train shed at the York, UK station.
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  14. Randy Stahl

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    Naked as hell. I was thinking about turning this from a GP-9M into a GP-9LS. Paint the engine block Chevy engine red, chrome the roung covers, add some neon ground effects, ceramic coat the exhaust stacks. Any other ideas?
     
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  15. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    How about some ridiculously ugly big wheels, a stupidly loud stereo and a useless ugly oversized spoiler?
     
  16. Hardcoaler

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    Another lineside detail that's largely passed into railroad history is the telephone box, here on the former N&W Pocahontas Division at Rodderfield, WV, 02/02/1998.

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  17. Randy Stahl

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    Ok, I could do fat 40 wheels with some mods to the brake rigging making wheels about 43 inches. I got PLENTY of power for speakers and sub woofers. Imagine Ozzy and crazy train blasting at 18,000 watts...of course no cab heaters with that kind of power usage.

    no idea where to put a spoiler.

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  18. Pastor John

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    What? No Dukes of Hazard "Dixie" horn?
     
  19. Randy Stahl

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    I'll compromise, I'll tune some Airchime 5 chime horns to "walk the line" by Johnny Cash, does that work ?
     
  20. MetraMan01

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    While you got the red paint out, maybe some flames on the side of the cab…


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