MODELING Weekend Photo Fun, July 29, 2016

r_i_straw Jul 29, 2016

  1. r_i_straw

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  2. HOexplorer

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    Another oldie. Jim

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  3. Josta

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    A short Union Pacific freight passes the Sunkist Farms siding one day in 1962:

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  4. dti406

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    Nothing much done this week, have to get by with repeats on old club pictures!

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    One of my favorites, PRR Alco C628 & C630 heading up the hill with 36 ore cars!

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    PRR FM C-Liners with a coal drag!

    Thanks for looking!

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  5. marty coil

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    Last night I finished a Sac Northern braced caboose #1641 It's the 2nd of two WP styled braced 'hacks.......

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  6. Candy_Streeter

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    Industrial area

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  7. Hytec

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    Candy, that's a great scene. I especially like the poor tree that obviously has suffered from the chemical vapors rising from the drums and canisters. I hope this is not indicative of scenes remembered from beautiful downtown Bridgeport.....:eek:
     
  8. Candy_Streeter

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    Bridgeport was a great industrial giant in it's day but no more. Over 400 factories I've been told. Today it's full of open spaces. Big lots of land where factories use to be but today there is nothing on them. I have seen lots of old pictures, like this one. 1908 I think. Do you see the roundhouse?
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  9. r_i_straw

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    Wow, if a hostler messed up and crashed through the back wall, the locomotive would end up in the river.
     
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  10. Candy_Streeter

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    Yes the back wall was right on the river
     
  11. Hytec

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    Bridgeport may have been a heavily industrialized economy, but the residential area looks lovely and loved based on the cemetery(?) archway, and homes ranging from mansions to bungalows. Do you have any information on the ownership of the rail yard, e.g. New Haven, Central Vermont, etc.? BTW, looks like a four-masted schooner moored upper central near what may be a power plant. There still were many sailing vessels trading the Atlantic Coast and Long Island Sound in 1908.
     
  12. Candy_Streeter

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    The New Haven. In the old days there was track everywhere!!
    That is a power plant. That place is called, Steel Point
     
  13. Randy Stahl

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    I think Bridgeport is still rail served to an extent by CSX. Maybe its primary purpose is to serve the power plant ?

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  14. Candy_Streeter

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    CSX coal trains do come in.
     
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    This is the area of the roundhouse. This map is 1917 bridgeport 1.jpg
     
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    The Archway is the entrance to Seaside Park
     
  17. Tom L

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    Minneapolis and St Louis RR plug door boxcar in N scale. Modified the side sill on a Micro Trains car to more closely match the prototype. I always liked these cars. They were probably the last new cars the MStL got, coming in the late fifties.
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  18. BoxcabE50

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    Yes. It looks as though that area might have been built on land fill?
     
  19. Eagle2

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    Some wonderful rust effects...powders of some sort?
     
  20. RailMix

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    Looks kinda like the back of a place where I used to work. Very nice!
     
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