PROTOTYPE Weekend PROTO Fun! 12/29/2017

YoHo Dec 30, 2017

  1. YoHo

    YoHo TrainBoard Supporter

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    Long day, late night, so I'll be uploading something tomorrow.
     
  2. co_riff

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    On the Ohio River Sub. Q-316 and the Q-317 meeting.

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  3. r_i_straw

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    In the last three decades, the railroad photography work of Jack Delano has become better known in the rail fan community. He was not really a railroad enthusiast, only a passionate artist with photography as just one of his many tools. Most of his railroad photos were taken during a short period in the 1940s. His job as a photographer with the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information during World War II required him to take photos of trains and the people who kept them going. His artistic skills and access to every aspect of the railroad industry allowed him to compile an awesome portfolio of train photos. Being government property, the photos are now on file at the Library of Congress. Of the 15365 images attributed to him there, only a small portion are of railroad subjects. However, a great many of those are gold. Here are just two of them.

    The yard master at the Santa Fe yard office in Amarillo, Texas in March of 1943.
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    Locomotives over the ash pit at the roundhouse and coaling station at the C&NW Railroad yards, Chicago, Ill on a cold day in December of 1942.
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  4. Hardcoaler

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    From 10/20/2017, an NS southbound stack train passes by at Parker's Lake, KY:

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  5. HemiAdda2d

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    With high temperatures reaching only -5°F, and lows plummeting to -28°F with- 45 windchills, I've not left the house unless necessary.

    Here's some 2006-era Christmas cheer from Cheyenne:

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  6. Eagle2

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    Who needs Elf on a Shelf when you have Santa on a Shield!
     
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  7. RailMix

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    Backdropped by part of Michigan Agricultural Commodities' Marlette, MI elevator, Huron and Eastern power is tied up on a cold Saturday morning a few years ago. HESR 8802 is a former GP40 rebuilt into a GP38AC that came to HESR with the absorption of the Central Michigan Railway.

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  8. GP30

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    A&O GP38-2's 3805 and 3806 rest on New Years Day by the office in Buckhannon, WV. 3807 lurks in the background behind the shop.[​IMG]


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  9. BoxcabE50

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    You must be getting up in years now. Ha ha. A much younger Hemi would have ventured out for a few photos and some frostbite. Older and wiser now, right? :)
     
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  10. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Nah, just lazy! I have the gear to withstand double digits below zero cold, too lazy to put it all on and go out!

    New Years Eve, Amtrak 7 was 3 hrs late westbound. 3 lead units tells me it was a heavy with holiday traffic.

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  11. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    I am curious- Could you post a bit on this operation? Background/history? System map? In our proto forum for such operations? (Class III?)
     
  12. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Yup. This proves you are older and wiser. Ha ha! :)
     
  13. RailMix

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    Will see what I can put together.
     
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  14. BoxcabE50

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    Cool! I will be looking forward to such a topic! :)
     
  15. RailMix

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    OK. There ya go, Box. It's there.
     

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