GP9 T&NO 240 Weathered Weathering experiment went awry. Still may do a little more. This #240 was a passenger GP9 placed in service in 1954. At the Union Pacific takeover 42 years later in 1996, some GP9s were still working on the Espee.
Flash, you may think it went awry, but I think it looks great. I've seen alot worse that were grabbed off the dead line for emergency power.
0-8-0 steams over a dry Columbia River, past an empty ore unloading dock, and off into a treeless Pacific Northwest mountain range.
The new shop is a two track service facility (light service) left stall has a peeler (wheel profiller) scrach built crane, have to get inside lights and outside flood lights in, Will use spring steel wire for wireing, should look like conduet. and build a trolly for the light overhead.
Ignore them? Why? All I see is a Theachapi Cab-Forward called in due to locomotive break-downs on the ATSF. Replacement power may well be waiting for the Cabby when it gets down there, but for the moment, the SP was on hand and the ATSF wasn't. Regards to the first picture: HOLY FRICK that's a lot of B units...what's the flat between the bagges cars? I assume this is the Fast Mail or something like it?
I suppose any passenger train could have carried them. A few years before the mail contracts disappeared, Santa Fe and a few other railroads took some old heavyweight cars, cut the tops off them and stacked special mail containers on them. Santa Fe Mail Container Flat cars - TrainBoard.com
It just low tide in an area where the trees have just been harvested. I love your ore dock. I have been working on one too but after seeing yours I may have to redesign mine. Eric
Thanks, Eric I designed it on the fly, taking elements from different prototype docks, and using extreme "selective compression" to have an ore unloading dock on the right, and a freight transfer dock on the left (still needs a hoist & detals). Not sure if it's structurally correct, but it looks good and fits the layout (23"x41"). Here's a close up (also at extreme low tide): It's designed to be functional / operational, but I'm not ready to deal with that mess yet, and my hands aren't steady enough to make those ore cars able to dump their load Still need to build the ladder from the deck down to the catwalk, and other little details. You can check out more details how I built it on my layout thread. And someday the river will flow, bringing a barge with it to carry the ore away.
Blogs up-dated Updated rail blogs today and tomorrow will have all mainline track on layout complete. SCALE WEST RAILS SDAE
First time in a long time that I have some "weekend photo fun" to share. I took #506 out to stretch its legs today. Gerry Leone invited me out to run on his Bona Vista Railroad. #506 put on a good show, pulling everything that we threw at it, included a consist that his locos had to team up to pull. I made a little video to poke fun at him over that: http://www.vimeo.com/21245785 We also recreated his NMRA Calendar photo, using #506 as a stand-in:
