Welcome back to the Memorial Day weekend edition of Weekend Proto Fun! Lets kick off the weekend with this southbound CSX freight rolling through Kennesaw GA at 5:20PM Eastern time today, Friday May 27th. Heard the horn as I exited the office so drove around bacy to see what my be rolling by. He is what I found. Enjoy! and have a great weekend!
Wow, that decal IS crooked... How'd that get out of the paint shop?? That Circle Branch shot is GOLD! Got any more??
Been there done that. Back when I was in high school, my dad scratch built a C&NW pacific in O scale. He lost interest and never finished it. A couple of years ago I decided to finish it up adding details like running boards, hand rails, air tanks, a headlight, a pilot and a few other things. I found the Champ decals he had bought for it so was able to paint and decal it. About a year ago I pulled it down off the top of the book shelf in the main house at the Armadillo Ranch to move it to the new bedroom I had finished out in his old train layout room that I was decorating with train stuff. (We call it the train room) I had it up on a new shelf for display and thought, "That ain't right." Fortunately he had bought two sets of decals so I was able to correct it.
It's prototypical if the 1:1 guys do it. Even EMD delivered some switches to CN/GTW with the "tilted wafer" logo tilted at the right angle but the wrong way. They also delivered the first GP38-2 with the CN cab (5560) with black road numbers (instead of white/light gray) on the red background. To err is human, even for railroad people. So even if we goof it up, it's more than likely someone did it in 1:1 scale. If not, make something up that explains it. Then it magically becomes prototypical.
The RR wanted the Circle Co-Op to build a super elevator to justify running 125 car grain trains. This would have required rebuilding/replacing all of the trestles on the line. But the Co-Op chose not to. The line is all there, but only used for excess car storage at this time.
When I was a kid, I had (and may still have somewhere) a storebought CMStP&P logo silk screened logo on pressboard that I stupidly hung straight, not angled. Some years later I found my error and made a correction.
Yup, usually up to Wolf Point on the hi-line because they get a better price up there. Which will probably keep them from building their super elevator also. The only true potential to reopen the line will be if Montana gets on board with oil drilling and gets busy with Bakken drilling. There is already a little bit of drilling up there and an upload ramp for oil to trucks. Not much hope there.
This is the correct orientation I came across today while leafing through some old folders full of travel stuff that my mom had squirreled away many years ago. The C&NW was our "Home Town" railroad with the Flambeau 400 and Ashland Limited north and southbound daily and the Wisconsin Lake Special northbound on Saturdays only and southbound on Sundays only.