Random Railfan Prototype Photos For All

Hardcoaler Mar 26, 2015

  1. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Yup. Between Kerrville and Boerne (pronounced Bernie).
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  2. Doorgunnerjgs

    Doorgunnerjgs TrainBoard Member

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    More than likely it was SA&AP. From an 1893 map of the line. It is the second station south of Kerrville.

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  3. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Somewhere in California.
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    That's all I know.
     
  4. Mike VE2TRV

    Mike VE2TRV TrainBoard Member

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    I'd bet the guy holding it up is saying, "Hey, guys... A little help?"

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  5. Hardcoaler

    Hardcoaler TrainBoard Member

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    In the early 1980s Jersey Transit adopted a new jazzed-up paint on its locomotives, derided by some as the "Disco Scheme" recognizing a popular music trend at the time. Here are two examples, the 4113 at Dover, NJ (09/1982) and the 4159 at Suffern, NY (10/1983).

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  6. Hardcoaler

    Hardcoaler TrainBoard Member

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    Along the former CNJ mainline in rural Hunterdon County is Whitehouse, NJ. In 1980 I found WH Tower still standing and was able to clamber upstairs and find the interlocking levers somewhat intact. I don't know if any of this remains today. NJ Transit provides passenger service here on what it calls its "Raritan Valley Line".

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  7. Hardcoaler

    Hardcoaler TrainBoard Member

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    Fun Fact - Until 1913, the plucky little Rockaway Valley Railroad connected with the CNJ at Whitehouse, NJ. The 25 mile long railroad primarily earned its keep as a peach hauler until a blight brought an end to operations.

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  8. BNSF FAN

    BNSF FAN TrainBoard Supporter

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    More NJT - Dover NJ 2009
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  9. Hardcoaler

    Hardcoaler TrainBoard Member

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    Whoa BNSF FAN! Nice shot. (y) Things have sure changed in the years since I stomped around there.
     
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  10. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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  11. Kurt Moose

    Kurt Moose TrainBoard Member

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    Chevy Corvairs!!

    Ol' Ralph Nader loved those!:ROFLMAO::D
     
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  12. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Yeah. Made him rich and famous. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
     
  13. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    "Frosty Bakken Bomb"

    A dense ice fog envelops much of North Dakota, and frosts everything in sight, including this eastbound CP loaded oil can crossing the frozen Souris River in Minot.

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  14. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Mixing up some TAs for the Rock.
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  15. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    WhoA!!!!!!!! That's mint! Seriously, builder photos of TAs under construction at EMC?!?!
     
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  16. BuddyBurton

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    Bagged another CN SD40-2W leading the Cedar Rapids local today.[​IMG]



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  17. Kurt Moose

    Kurt Moose TrainBoard Member

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    What's really cool about this shot is the progress in the noses-look from bottom to top how the nose is constructed, very interesting!(y)
     
  18. Hytec

    Hytec TrainBoard Member

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    I was not aware of the TA locomotive. Though I may have been pulled by one on the RI/SP Golden State between Chicago and Tucumcari, NM in November 1945. I built a Strombecker wooden model of the "Rock Island Rocket". Was that also a model of the TA?
     
  19. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    They were used to pull their short articulated train sets.
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  20. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    It may have been. If the model was just called the Rock Island Rocket it may have been a generic representation of all the Rockets. The little pocket streamliners were as follows. The Peoria Rocket from Chicago, Illinois to Peoria, Illinois, The Des Moines Rocket from Chicago, Illinois to Des Moines, Iowa, The Texas Rocket from Fort Worth, Texas to Houston, Texas, offering an alternate schedule on the route of the Sam Houston Zephyr, The Denver Rocket from Kansas City, Missouri to Denver, Colorado for less than a year, then became The Rocket from Kansas City to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma from March, 1938 on and last but not least, The Kansas City Rocket, Minneapolis, Minnesota to Kansas City, Missouri (2 trainsets).
     
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