It's still residing at the Age of Steam Roundhouse in Ohio. https://www.ageofsteamroundhouse.org/nickel-plate-road-2-8-4-no-763/ Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk
From 08/31/1996, the former SAL depot at Monroe, NC, built 1906 and used as CSX's yard office. Monroe remains an important junction for CSX, with a lengthy branch to Charlotte and Bostic (former Clinchfield interchange) diverting from its Hamlet, NC <=> Atlanta main line. The depot remains today and in photos I've seen, it's been renovated and looks great.
No joy today... I slept in (4:30 instead of 3:00). I opened a window and sampled the air outside... It was like my bathroom after a good, hot shower but without the heat. Any more humid and I would be drowning. I looked at the forecast for Lachute, and a high heat and humidity warning in effect - 30C but with the humidity more like 40C. Then I listened to the traffic station and lo and behold, highway 50 from Lachute to Grenville closed for paving the whole day (they absolutely had to do it today...). With the trucks and other traffic backing up to get off the highway at route 148, it was going to be horrendous. I decided to stay home and look for the next opportunity. Tomorrow looks reasonable, but I might do two other stations on the old CP line in the Laurentians instead, at Piedmont and Ste-Agathe. I'm keeping busy with another modeling project, not train-related: a 1:48 scale model of the Eagle Transporter craft from Space:1999. Lots of cursing, more glue on my fingers than skin, but a boatload of fun. I bought it as a contingency plan for days such as this. Better than watching the horsehockey on TV or getting stuck in traffic on a hot and muggy day.
Beautiful! I can picture somebody walking up to that ticket window to buy a ticket from, say, Monroe to Chicago. I wonder what it would have cost back in the day. "That'll be $1.50, maam."? Doug
Thank you Doug. You made me curious and I looked in my March 1945 Official Guide to find Monroe was served by ten trains daily. Wow. (Even by March 1954, eight trains a day remained.) 5 and 6 - Robert E. Lee with Coaches, Sleepers, Diner (Washington, DC <=> Birmingham, AL) 9 and 10 - Cotton States Special with Coaches, Sleepers, Diner (Washington, DC <=> Birmingham, AL) 11 and 12 - Nameless Coach Train (Hamlet <=> Monroe) 13 and 14 - Nameless Coach Train (Wilmington <=> Charlotte) 21 and 22 - Nameless Coach Train (Hamlet <=> Rutherfordton) I like too that the street side of the Monroe station proudly displays its owner's name.
That's awesome!! Loved that show as a kid, think I built a few models as well, especially the Moonbase!
A couple months ago, Amtrak had to set out a Superliner in Minot. Another bad order is also getting picked up by a local crew to drag back to the Gavin Yard carmen for repairs.
Took a trip down to Winterset to see the John Wayne birthplace museum, and spotted this nicely restored depot in Stuart, IA,
It was cool up north, 18C or about 65F, refreshing! Nice scenery and a pair of nice preserved stations netted: First off, Piedmont: Probably part of the station platform: The freight depot was also preserved: The only train here isn't going anywhere except where a kid's imagination goes: Finally, when I was about to leave, the sun came out for a final shot: Nice little place.
Now to Ste-Agathe, a bigger one: One end was rounded, turret style: The station platform from the round end: Another view: I like the eaves on these stations. It wasn't just what stations did, but how they looked. And they looked good!
That turret end is quite an interesting feature. Was this located at a place where two lines crossed? That sometimes explains this type of design?
It was just the single CPR line between Ste-Thérèse and Mont-Laurier. Maybe they just liked it that way.
An assortment of cars seen on a road trip from June, Part 7 PRR 10-6 Sleeper 8338 "Greenwood", Charles City, IA NP Baggage 234, Charles City, IA NYC Coach 3xxx, Madison, WI MTA Coach 24xx (ex-Santa Fe), Madison, WI
That's a nice one. It has a green (copper-clad?) roof like the one one the Gare Du Palais in Québec City. That one used to be a sort of "union" station between CN and CP before VIA took over. I wouldn't mind setting up housekeeping in there. I was looking for some more targets (other than Lachute) and the Joliette station on the CN main line came up. It's a big one built back in 1912 on the former Great Northern Railway of Canada - not the same GN that used to run through Minot! It's not very busy now, under VIA, as train travel to and from there isn't in demand. Even the ticket counter is only open a few hours a week. But in 2016 it was designated a Heritage Railway Station and thus protected from any dipstick with a wrecking ball. I thought, hey, there used to be a line up to Rawdon (home of lovely Dorwin Falls)... I learned that station burned down on March 30th 2015. A few years prior to that, it was damaged by flooding caused by a 250 foot beaver dam. Even the beavers had it in for it! So that one's off my list... But, researching the GN of Canada, I found that it was the builder of a huge bridge over the Ottawa River between Grenville QC and Hawkesbury ON (the western terminus of the regional railroad which almost went to Québec City). This was it in 1905: On Google Earth, if you tilt the angle just right, you can see vestiges of the abutment on the Quebec side of the river (the far shore in this photo), but that's all that's left. The Carillon power dam flooded this area out and the pillars aren't visible anymore. So maybe Sunday, Joliette (Monday's a backup) and Tuesday, another stab at Lachute Station and the flea market (hopefully they will be done with their paving on highway 50 by then...).
