Happy 4th of July weekend everyone. To start off this weekend's Proto Fun, here are a couple of old Alco switchers I found in Rosedale MS on Tuesday afternoon. Unfortunately the sunny side had some stuff in the way and the shadow side was a little better. Just happy to have been able to make a drive out to see them. These are on the Great River Railroad and Rock Island Rail is working with the Bolivar County Port Commission to try and restore rail service there. They have quite a job ahead of them.
The inside of a Santa Fe caboose. The Southern Pacific diner from the Sunset Limited that we are restoring.
Very unique scene. Does the track actually enter the building right at the corner of the structure? I've never seen a building with a cantilevered open corner.
From 7/22/1989 at Asheville, NC during the NRHS Annual Convention, NS 3214 and 2-8-2 NKP 587 swap tales. N&W 1218 is at extreme right.
The track runs right along the edge of the building. I have to say, that is the first time I've seen that type of building with a cantilevered corner as well.
One is definitely an S2, with the fat stack, and the other is either an S1 or S3. Hard to tell since someone conveniently put some stuff blocking the view of the trucks... A great find, if the other one is really an S1, that would make two Alco switchers with Blunt trucks on the same property! Both would be pre-1950, or 72+ years old. Now that would be doubly cool.
Just a ho-hum going away shot at Des Lacs, ND. Golden hour glint at the old GN yard in Minot as a grain train crawls into a storage track:
Here are a few pics from the Steam Up show at the Carson City Rail Museum over the 4th of July weekend. Nearly all locomotives are operational and were run around the site at various times.
Nice gaggle of teakettles! I like the way those machines were decorated with colors, and especially the polished brass. That was class!
