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badlandnp Apr 7, 2015

  1. badlandnp

    badlandnp TrainBoard Member

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    Here's a couple of videos from the car. I mostly tried to capture the sounds of the loco as it worked,







    I rode in Bluebird, which was built from a flatcar. Neat!
     
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  2. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Very nice! I have been to Keystone a few times while in Rapid City area for soccer tournaments. I need to add this to the agenda for the next trip. I hear there's a grade exceeding 4-5% on that line. Just how steep is it?
     
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  3. badlandnp

    badlandnp TrainBoard Member

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    5% to the top of Tincup Hill. On the way back from Keystone towards Hill City. Impressive sounds!
     
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  4. BNSF FAN

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    Those are cool videos. Maybe someday I'll make it up there to see the rr in person. :)
     
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  5. badlandnp

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    When I first got there on the 15th, I walked around and drooled at stuff. Lotsa neat old stuff!! PIC_0190.JPG PIC_0192.JPG PIC_0194.JPG PIC_0195.JPG PIC_0199.JPG This is the 110, nosed out from the roundhouse and in reserve, I suppose. They do plan a double header with both of the steam loco's on Oct 3rd! Hmmmm..... PIC_0205.JPG The CNW car is the only known drover car left, recently restored. PIC_0207.JPG The former NP 1639!! Yay! An NP wood caboose!! PIC_0208.JPG
     
  6. badlandnp

    badlandnp TrainBoard Member

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    And today I had to go back!! What can I say? It's a steam Loco!! Functional, working and emitting sounds and smells as a steam locomotive should! Oh yes!!!

    We rode in the vestibule car, fun to watch the aisle moving around!
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    Then we sat and waited for the next trip to depart, alongside the #7 which is retired from service and parked for display, sadly.
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    And it looks like the 104 is getting a bit of work done seeing as the steam dome is off,
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    Two videos tonight, just for fun!



     
  7. Mike VE2TRV

    Mike VE2TRV TrainBoard Member

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    That's just plain beautiful.:)
     
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    got to convince the girlfriend that we have to ride this...
     
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  9. badlandnp

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    Tell her there is great scenery, wildlife and ......Shopping!

    What a difference a year can make! Same plate as last year, significantly more weathered,
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    A couple inside the M&StL bay window caboose,
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    An excellent painting of the Empire Builder,
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    And some views of the HO model RR in the museum on site.
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    And last, but not least, the lone GP9,
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  10. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    I remember watching NP trains passing my grade school with a caboose such as pictured. Even more memories, as my family used to vacation on the Olympic Peninsula every summer. Before they rerouted Highway 101, it paralleled the Rayonier main along a famous four mile tangent. Got to see a bunch of their various steamers lugging logs, including these two Mallets. If only I had a camera back then! But we were happy to just hang out of the car window and try to get the engineer to whistle for us. Which they would usually do!
     
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  11. Mike VE2TRV

    Mike VE2TRV TrainBoard Member

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    That's an interesting one. And clean!:)

    The louvers on the access door under the cab say GP7, but the engine hood says GP9.

    A little looking up reveals it was originally a GP9, C&O 6178. It changed hands a lot since then... sometime in that interval, some GP7 parts were grafted on there. As I mentioned, interesting!
     
  12. BoxcabE50

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    When the Milwaukee was doing their GP9 into "GP20" rebuild program, they added louvers. After that happened, there were a lot of people who thought they'd discovered proof the MILW owned a batch of GP7 units. Ha ha. Fooled them!
     
  13. Doug Gosha

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    I bet they vented their frustration after that, huh.

    Doug
     
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  14. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    That GN Empire Builder painting is on Gassman Coulee Trestle. Larry Fisher, I think?
    Here's a couple shots I grabbed while in Hill City. I didn't see the steamers in town, and didn't get a shot of the one stuffed and mounted near the 1880 train site. I think I was tired, it was too hot, or the engine was badly lit. Or all 3!

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  15. badlandnp

    badlandnp TrainBoard Member

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    I did a few recordings, sideways out of the window of the car we were in, the Edward Gillette, just for the sounds!! And to catch the rod motions. Here's a link to a couple of them,



     
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    badlandnp TrainBoard Member

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    Wait! Hemi! You missed live steam!! For shame! :D Well, I enjoyed it enough for the both of us!! And then some!! So here's a couple of other videos of it all.



     
  17. BoxcabE50

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    Weird. These last several videos are all showing sideways.
     
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  18. badlandnp

    badlandnp TrainBoard Member

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    I took them sideways, my camera picks up sound better that way, I got a nice bit of the steam/smoke plume as well as the running gear.....and I have no editing stuff to turn them in my 'puter. Lots of excuses, mostly.

    :rolleyes::rolleyes:
     
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  19. Doug Gosha

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    Oh, so THAT's it. I was wondering how they got the track and trains to stick to the sides of the cuts!

    :D

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  20. badlandnp

    badlandnp TrainBoard Member

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    Oh that?!! :whistle: That's the new highly effective mag-lev system in use in portions of the Black Hills!! You ever been to the Kosmos site? It explains the situation!!
     

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