T&NO 266 started out as Pacific Lines #1436. This Southern Pacific Class E-23 Eight Wheeler was built by Schenectady in August of 1898 and sold to the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway in April of 1902. It was scrapped in 1950.
I posted a Google Earth view of the CP St-Luc roundhouse, and traces on the grounds show it was much larger than it is today. At the time, CN said, to paraphrase Crocodile Dundee, "You call that a roundhouse? Now this is a roundhouse!": Turcot-Glen_then by Mike VE2TRV posted Mar 9, 2017 at 7:28 PM All of 57 stalls in a full-circle roundhouse that has just two narrow passages to enter and exit the massive structure. One can see that the smoke plumes cast shadows on the neighboring CP Glen yard and roundhouse (there are NO diesels in this view!). To the west (left) of the Turcot facility is the Turcot yard, a flat-switching yard that was later replaced with the Taschereau yard, right next to the CP St-Luc yard. All this has been demolished, alas: Turcot-Glen_now by Mike VE2TRV posted Mar 9, 2017 at 7:33 PM The Glen site is now the host of the University of Montreal hospital centre (CHUM), while the majestic Turcot roundhouse was demolished to make way for a sprawling (and now crumbling) highway interchange built in the 1960s as part of the massive highway projects leading up to the Expo 67 world exposition. The huge yard to the west also fell to highway projects.
Wharton, Texas back in the 1914. Wharton was on the old SP Victoria Sub which was built as the New York, Texas and Mexican Railway in the 1880s.
This fine old photo is not mine. It shows the Lehigh Valley's Penn Haven (PA) Junction Tower at the junction with its branch to Hazleton, PA and near its crossing of the CNJ deep within the Lehigh River gorge. For many years, this busy location was accessible only by rail, but as you see from the automobiles, a road was eventually put in. Today the LV main remains, but the CNJ along with all of the structures, is long gone.
The Cane Belt Railway built through Glen Flora on its way to Wharton and Matagorda, Texas in 1900. It came under control of the Santa Fe in 1903 and operated as part of the Gulf Colorado & Santa Fe until it was fully merged into the Santa Fe in the 1948. The tracks through Glen Flora were pulled up in around 1990.
A view looking west and one looking east along the old riverbank spur. It serviced the old power house, elevator, water treatment plant and a couple of warehouses in the past. The warehouses were fed by the riverboats until the late 1890's, I think. Two of them are still in use, one by the BNSF signal crew, and one by a lumber yard. Looking at the ice on the river and it just seemed like a couple of nice shots with the cold snow on the disconnected track.
Now THAT would be cool. I may have mentioned this here before, but some years ago my wife and I were in VA and came across a roadside garage sale where an N&W PL signal was displayed. I stopped to take a look and was surprised at the SIZE of the thing. Up close, it was HUGE. I decided then that a l'il dwarf signal would be best if I ever found one. I do have a concrete whistle post in the yard and man, it's heavy. It took three guys to lift it and I had to drag it behind my pickup to get it to its spot in the yard. Heavens knows how I'll ever move it again.
Have picked up one of those three light heads for a fella, and they are BIG and HEAVY! The posts are heavier as well as the large concrete bases they have under them. You didn't pick up the N&W PL signal?
No, I let it be. However, I do think it would be neat to find a dwarf N&W/PRR PL or a B&O CPL someday. It was suggested that I seek one with an aluminum case to lighten the weight even further. I had a late friend who actually bought an old-skool pistol grip interlocking machine. It gave new meaning to HEAVY. He put it in his basement, got it working just fine and for all I know, it may still be there.
Saw a purty sunset the other day and tried to capture it, but we all know how that turns out. It still looks nice tho!
This was probably 15 or so years ago - Doyle had repainted the 4449 to plain black, not sure what the deal was. Anyhow as I remember, BN had an employee excursion. It went through town with no fanfare except that distinctive whistle. I followed along - and this was taken someplace around Ephrata, WA. I titled it "A Small Adjustment". A bit later on, when they were done with whatever maintenance they were carrying out, I got this one as it pulled away: Here's a completely unrelated shot - this was taken up around Trinidad Hill, near Quincy, WA. It's interesting as you can see the complete train looping around the looooong hill:
Nice photos of 4449 and Trinidad Loop. On the 4449, that is probably a pneumatic grease gun in use. I have never railfanned Trinidad Loop. But have been through there on Amtrak. Unfortunately, every time except once has been too dark to see much. The one time I was falling sleep and missed most of the transit.
