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Hardcoaler Mar 26, 2015

  1. Akirasho

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    Nice lashup in the last two photos.:)

    Cool to see the distinctive roofline of a GP30 in there... but where are the radiators? Nooooooooo... it's a road slug!! :eek:

    Makes me want to do the sackcloth and ashes thing...:(

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  4. r_i_straw

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    Still waiting for some snow down here so I can make one of these in the front yard.
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    Just digging old stuff up. Part of a doubleheader years ago with 261 if I remember right, Canadian Hudson 2816. My memory has gone so bad, can't give date, but I remember Doyle McCormack to my surprise was running her.

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    Snow, you say?
    Soo Tower, last week.
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  7. Doug Gosha

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    That is one GORGEOUS locomotive!

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  8. Mike VE2TRV

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    That's cooler than cool! Just plain cold, but really cool! That one gets my vote for 1st prize at the snow carving contest. :cool:

    Reminds me of the one who carved a complete car out of a snowbank on the side of the road. That was a traffic stopper...

    You got that right! CP had some of the finest looking non-streamlined steam locos - they just cleaned up the outside clutter and added some maroon and other accent colors.

    Hogging a CP Hudson, restoring an Alco PA... That guy knows how to have fun!:)
     
  9. HemiAdda2d

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    "Dawn's Early Light"
    Amtrak 7, led by heritage unit 184, makes an early arrival in the Magic City, Minot, ND, and is about to cross under a Great Northern Railway-era footbridge across its "old yard" that predated Gavin Yard to the east.

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  10. Grey One

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    While I was out looking for 'Trains in the Rain' I ran into a couple of rail fans playing chicken, er, I mean 'seagul'. awk, awk, awk.
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  11. Mike VE2TRV

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    That one's taking a huge risk of running a-fowl of the laws of physics....:D

    *groan* :whistle:
     
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    Just waiting last night...... PIC_0643.JPG
     
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    Sunday, December 12th, dawned clear but 25 degrees colder than Saturday. An EMD SD70ACe leads NS 10K on its cross-Pennsylvania trek from Conway to Allentown through Wyo JCT. DSC01088.JPG DSC01094.JPG DSC01095.JPG
     
  14. HemiAdda2d

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    A NW hopper in 2021?!? Nice catch!

    "Profile"
    The unmistakable profile of rail head, web and base mingle in a corroded, disarrayed pile near Gassman Coulee Trestle at last light.

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    And an untagged NW covered hopper late in 2021. It must run to places with good security.
     
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    The cotton was sprouting in the fertile soil of the Brazos "Bottoms" last spring as a UP train heads north on the old MoPac outside of Hearne, Texas.
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  17. Mike VE2TRV

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    There are a lot of different rail weights in there. The smaller ones look like they're about 2/3 (or less?) the size of the taller ones. They must have come from several different places. Upgrade to welded rail, upgrade in rail weight, or just plan abandonment.

    Nice and crisp photos! :)

    I like the Reading & Northern hoppers. For a fraction of a second I thought they were WM but then I started "Reading"... need more coffee.:coffee:

    And the N&W hopper! it must have come through a time rift or something. Apart a bit (OK, a lot) of grime, it's in pretty good shape. No "art" to boot.
     
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  18. Sepp K

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    I seem to recall that the Reading & Northern 4 bay hoppers are ex-DRGW.
     
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    Although overcast, today's weather was unseasonably warm at the restored and relocated ex-Reading station at Annville, PA. I hope these pictures are sufficiently random. NS 10K included yet another old yet untagged NW covered hopper. There's no missing the reporting marks on this repainted Reading & Northern box in NS 19G, which also included two long pipe loads spliced by a spacer flat. DSC01146.JPG DSC01200.JPG DSC01203.JPG
     
  20. r_i_straw

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    New rail for when KCS was rebuilding the old SP "Macaroni Line" between Rosenberg and Victoria, Texas in 2008.
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