Before there were air brakes, crew members had to ride atop the cars to manually set the brakes when the engineer up in the locomotive whistled a STOP signal. There was typically one brakeman for every three cars so each had to set the brakes on the car that they were riding and then jump to the other cars that they were responsible for to set those brakes. Not a fast way to stop a train. But then they were not going all that fast to begin with. Still, it was a very dangerous job. The General Sherman, a Baldwin 4-2-0, was named after General Sidney Sherman, a hero of the Battle of San Jacinto and a founder of the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos & Colorado Railway in 1853. The BBB&C was the first railroad to operate in Texas, the second railroad west of the Mississippi, and the oldest component of what would become the Southern Pacific Railroad. Running on the show NTRAK layout at the Oklahoma City Train Show in December of 2017. It has a DCC decoder under the wood pile in the tender.
Good morning from sunny and cold Northeast Ohio! Cars I completed this week. ] One of several hundred Wabash built Panel Side Hoppers (Athearn rib side hopper with Pikestuff Panels installed) these were built in 1948 and remained in service until the N&W merger of 1964 when they were disposed of. McKeen Models ACF Exterior Post Boxcar kit, added end of car cushioning from Moloco, wire grabs and sill steps, Plano walkover platform, grab over the platform, extra reinforcing under the plug door. The St. Mary's Railroad (11 miles long) rostered several hundred varied IPD cars and managed to keep using them after the IPD boom collapsed in the early 80's. Will head north of the border with an old picture of Bowser GMDD SD40-2's with a grain train of my painted Canadian Wheat Board cars at the Strongsville Club Layout. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
With my N Scale train table build complete, I had to celebrate by laying out an oval of track just to run a first train on the Delaware, Susquehanna & Northern RR v3.0 (my third DS&N RR). A layer of 1/2" foam will be added before tracklaying begins in earnest.
Good morning all, Today I present a link to a new YouTube video I uploaded. It's a combination slide show and video segments celebrating the Southern Pacific. The song has been used in many videos but I think this might be the first N scale version. Some of the content has been seen before here on the Weekend Photo Fun thread but some is new and all the video segments are new.
A few pictures from the "Sipping and Switching Society of Raleigh, NC" A great, modular railroad I always enjoy visiting at the show. The Raleigh show is this weekend and I went yesterday.
There was a train show in Utah this weekend. I was there with the Rio Grande Modeling and Historical Society.
Off-roading along the Sebring Model Railroad Club railroad right of way probably sounded fun before this crew dodged a freight, drove into standing water, and broke an axle. Now, getting a recovery vehicle is going to be a real problem. Sent from my SM-A716U using Tapatalk
Spent the weekend at the Utah NMRA Train Show. With the D&RGW Modeling and Historical Society. Some photos of the equipment I had there ..
