PROTOTYPE Weekend PROTO FUN! 5/20/2016

YoHo May 21, 2016

  1. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Somehow this location looks familiar. :)
     
  2. Mr. SP

    Mr. SP Passed away August 5, 2016 In Memoriam

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    It's on the turntable at the Hoyt Street roundhouse. All is now gone there are condos there these days
     
  3. rch

    rch TrainBoard Member

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    I caught a handful of carbon black cars in the local team track yesterday, but this one was my favorite:

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  4. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Yup. I have a few photos taken there. I was looking at Google Earth a month or so ago. Hard to recognize that area now.
     
  5. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Demoted to a shoving platform, this old Soo caboose leads a reverse move on BNSF tracks bringing interchange traffic from CP.

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  6. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Yikes. No paint brush has come close to this car in a million years.

    I have a hard time seeing the sign "Soo Tower", when these days there is no tower. :(
     
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  7. rch

    rch TrainBoard Member

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    Is it common to have a scale test car in the drag like this or is it a rare occurrence?
     
  8. Manitobamodeler24

    Manitobamodeler24 TrainBoard Member

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    The "Conroe Yard" only 1 track and a gravel pit.
     

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  9. Hardcoaler

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    Soo caboose at Schiller Park, IL in happier days on 2/14/1976:

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  10. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Not sure. The scale test car is BN no less. On loan to CP maybe?

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  11. Mr. SP

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    How are they going to handle this car ahead of a caboose that isn't there?
     
  12. hoyden

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    That's where they're going to put the crew ping-pong table. It will be a challenging game especially over class 1 or class 2 track.
     
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  13. Mr. Train

    Mr. Train TrainBoard Member

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    Just wondering what these are used for I seen them on display never in use.

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  14. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    For testing and calibrating track scales.
     
  15. Mr. Train

    Mr. Train TrainBoard Member

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    Thanks

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