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Hardcoaler Mar 26, 2015

  1. Hytec

    Hytec TrainBoard Member

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    This Big Emma tender was parked at Gulfport, MS in October, 1972. IIRC, it was supporting a steam pile driver.

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  2. Hytec

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    I believe this was the steam pile driver that the Big Emma tender was supporting. Though a smaller tender was attached to the driver at the time.
    This also was at Gulfport, MS in October, 1972.

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  3. Hardcoaler

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    CSX piledriver at Prattville, AL in March 1989.

    1989-03-19 PILEDRIVER CSX Prattville AL - for upload.jpg
     
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  4. badlandnp

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    A really long mixed train pulled out of Glendive eastbound, with a GP38AC and a GP60B in the consist back on 9 July.

     
  5. Hardcoaler

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    MILW baggage/express/storage cars, the first at Elgin, IL in 04/1980 and the other at Watertown, WI in April 1987. The first car was built in 1938 at the Milwaukee Shops. Happily, it now resides at the Illinois Railway Museum and has been fully restored with her original number 1307. The second car dates from 1947. It too has been fully restored and lives on at a museum in Montevideo, MN.

    1980-04 EXPRESS MILW Elgin IL - for upload.jpg 1987-04-16 EXPRESS MILW Watertown WI - for upload.jpg
     
  6. HemiAdda2d

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    Milwaukee Road, you say?

    I have so little of anything MILW rolling stock related, so here's a bandit I found in Minot, ND while traveling there for business back in 2008.

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  7. Hardcoaler

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    Monon baggage/mail storage car 2205 was found at Knoxville, TN in October 1978. It was acquired in 1948 and converted from a WW-II troop car. The Monon picked up quite a few of these almost new cars at bargain prices.

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  8. Akirasho

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    I've posted the first pic before, but added an additional view

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  9. Akirasho

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    Short Stack!

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  10. Akirasho

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    Short Stack Too!

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    Monon 2205 was subsequently assigned to MOW use and given number 80067.
    The car is now at the North Alabama Railroad Museum, located in Chase, Alabama, just east of Huntsville.
    http://northalabamarailroadmuseum.com/wp/museum-equipment-roster/

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  13. Akirasho

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  14. Hardcoaler

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    Thanks Point353. (y) Quite a history on this car and I'm happy to know that it still exists.
     
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  15. Hardcoaler

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    Given that we've recently placed a few photos of piledrivers here, below is a steam-powered piledriver as seen in the mid-1970s working on the ICG (former GM&O) near Maplesville, AL. The photographer is unknown. I'm thinking that it was given to me by someone who worked for the ICG, but I can't recall. We can almost smell the coal smoke here.

    1970s PILEDRIVER GMO Maplesville AL - for upload to Trainboardg.jpg
     
  16. BNSF FAN

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    Georgia Central in Macon GA - 2005 - You have to like that the replaced the "O" with a peach. :D

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  17. badlandnp

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    It has to be said . . . . "Well that's just peachy!!"
     
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  18. Point353

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    As a scheduled service, the Santa Fe Super C train would run even if there was only one car.
    Somewhere I've seen a photo of it consisting of just a single F-unit, one piggyback car and the caboose.
    This photo, with one F-unit, three TOFC cars and a caboose comes very close:
    http://condrenrails.com/ATSF/ATSF-20-Super-C-Galesburg-IL-7-13-68-1.jpg
    The Santa Fe must have had a lot of confidence in the reliability of their F-units to be putting only one loco on such a high priority train.
     
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  19. Doug Gosha

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    One thing about peaches is fresh ones from down there are SO much better than the typical ones we get up here.

    One time, a local church had a fund raising sale selling peaches that had been directly trucked from Georgia, non-stop. I was there doing some work on their network and one of the ladies offered me one. It was absolutely delicious!

    Doug
     
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