PROTOTYPE Weekend PROTO Fun 8/5/2016

YoHo Aug 6, 2016

  1. YoHo

    YoHo TrainBoard Supporter

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    Ugh, once again, no pictures, posting from the phone and my wife is now a week and a half late to have this baby, so no good times around this house. Someone post a picture of a train.
     
  2. Eagle2

    Eagle2 Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    As long as they don't have to induce...Good luck all around
     
  3. Mike VE2TRV

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    Why does this have to be the week you explicitly ask for a train?:p

    Maybe no trains, but a couple of parked speeders in front of my hometown station, back in August 1979:


    Note the signals on the roof (in addition to those in the distance which are green over red). And those cars! Seventies, baby!:cool:

    Today, this building is windowless, painted white, and serves as a radio shack for a cell tower. The new commuter station is across the tracks and about 100 yards south of there. It's this nouveau antique chic look that looks more like an overgrown bus shelter than a train station.

    Photo courtesy my Dad, Roger.
     
  4. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    OK, I believe this is a train.
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    3rd Street crossing in Rosenberg. East bound BNSF on track rights out of Houston slows to switch over onto the BNSF Galveston Sub to head north.
     
  5. Hytec

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    Just restored Mississippi Railway Consolidation #203 (Baldwin 1925) crossing the Bay of St. Louis, MS trestle in 1975.
    (Note the second tender of unknown heritage included as a water buffalo.)

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  6. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Interesting train order signal! The building seems very well kept! Was it still in active RR use? I see what appears to be a schedule board....
     
  7. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Worrying is no fun!
     
  8. BoxcabE50

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    Twins, awaiting next call at Whitefish, Montana. GP39-3 #2562 and 2563:

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  9. Hardcoaler

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    Back 26 Years ago in August 1990 when CSX's "Stealth" livery was in vogue, I shot this at Parkwood Jct., AL. This was the spot of the ACL's connection to the L&N main, about 15 Miles south of Birmingham.

    1990-08-31 Parkwood Jct A - for upload.jpg
     
  10. Candy_Streeter

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    This picture is a couple of years old. Yes that is me. This is the Valley Railroad at Deep River 20100605_10.JPG
     
  11. co_riff

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    New paint schemes for the new leaser of the EX NS West Virginia Secondary.

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    Curtis
     
  12. BoxcabE50

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    Nice scene. I am a fool for Fall colors. It almost looks like the air is crisp.
     
  13. BoxcabE50

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    Nice that Watco has pretty mush standardized on their paint schemes. When they do repaint.... It's easy these days to spot their operations.
     
  14. BoxcabE50

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    I like their "Stealth" paint, much more than other attempts.
     
  15. r_i_straw

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    image.jpeg The Austin Steam Train group picked up another Alco to help pull their excursions. Some day they will get their old SP 2-8-2 going again too.
     
  16. Mike VE2TRV

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    It was relatively well kept, though it showed its age. In the late 70s, it was still well used, and there was a station master on duty. Ste-Therese station was just about at the junction between the line going to Ottawa via Lachute and the one going up to Mont-Laurier via St-Jerome (the wye is just before the highway overpass you see in the distance, and there's a fair-sized yard beyond that overpass). CP stored their MOW rolling stock at Ste-Therese, and there was quite a bit of business serving the lumber mill (at the time, Commonwealth Plywood) just south of there. There was quite a bit of traffic going through, with the occasional long train (longest I remember seeing from that time had five locos up front and three mid-train helpers - boy, was I happy!). There still was some passenger traffic in the shape of RDCs, though I don't remember seeing them very often.

    I spent many a high-school lunch hour hanging around there, watching and listening to the MLW RS-18s that were assigned to this part of the system. I still feel a pang of nostalgia when I hear the contented gurgling of a 251 engine...:cool:
     
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  17. r_i_straw

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  18. BoxcabE50

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    I can see they have pushed out beyond that original damaged pier. Is this temporary? Or are the restoring the previous river bank?
     
  19. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    I don't know. They seem to be using the fill around it to work on added bracing beams between the steel pipe piles. They have demolished both piers down below the old cofferdam on the bank side pier and down to the top of the cofferdam on the pier out in the channel. I did not hang around long this afternoon...it was blazing hot.
     
  20. Candy_Streeter

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    It must have been. I'm wearing my blue sweater
     

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