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Hardcoaler Mar 26, 2015

  1. Hytec

    Hytec TrainBoard Member

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    Russell, is the boy you?
     
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  2. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Nope, about the right age but I was living in New Hampshire back then.
     
  3. Kurt Moose

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    Dang, Russell! Thanks for sharing that, great piece of Americana that's long gone.

    Who's PA's were those?!:cautious:
     
  4. Mike VE2TRV

    Mike VE2TRV TrainBoard Member

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    That's a nice piece of history. Thanks for sharing, Russell.(y)
     
  5. BuddyBurton

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    UP Clinton Sub-Bertram, IA-August 7, 2022

    [​IMG]Eastbound manifest train at Bertram, IA on the UP Clinton Sub


    [​IMG]Westbound autoracks led by a pair of NS SD70ACe’s.

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    Pair of KCS Belles leading a Stack and Rack train.


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  6. MetraMan01

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    I love seeing borrowed power on the prototypes-gives me the excuse to run whatever I feel like running on my layout! Thanks for posting.


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  7. Hardcoaler

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    I've never seen a KCS. Yesterday's NS 238 had one on the point, so I went out in hopes of hunting it down ..... only to learn that 238 passed through town unusually early, long before sunrise. :( It'll likely return on 237, but trailing.
     
  8. Hardcoaler

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    From 04/15/1995, Asheville, NC in better times. These days, the roundhouse is gone, as is most of the traffic, including coal. Watco's Blue Ridge Southern runs to Asheville from Canton, NC daily to serve a paper mill and other industries on its line. To the east, one small NS local runs on the "Loops" and to the west, a manifest runs in from Knoxville/Bulls Gap, TN and goes back the next day.

    1995-04-15b 003 Asheville NC - for upload to TB.jpg
     
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  9. Hardcoaler

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    High Ridge Tunnel, one of seven on the Loops. With just one local running on this once important route, it's unlikely I'll ever capture a train here. This was once SOU's crossing of the Appalachians at 2,516 FT. NS has moved all east/west traffic to the N&W main further north. With Saluda 22 years out of service and the Loops down to one short train a day, the Blue Ridge is awfully quiet. :(

    2018-12-22 Ridgrecrest NC [High Ridge Tunnel West Portal] - for upload.jpg

    My wife and I caught this empty coal train climbing westbound through the Loops on 12/26/2014.

    2014-12-26b Old Fort NC Loops Westbound Empty Coal Train 1 - for upload.jpg
     
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  10. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Lets whip up some vittles in the diner kitchen. At the Rockdale Depot Museum in an ex Missouri Pacific dining car.
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  11. LegomanBill

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    An assortment of cars seen on a road trip from June, Part 12

    CN 24 Roomette Sleeper 2002 "Ingramport", Union, IL
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    C&NW Baggage-RPO 8202, Union, IL
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    UP Coach 5412, Union, IL
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    Milwaukee Road Baggage 1307, Union, IL
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  12. Mike VE2TRV

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    Amazing assortment of passenger rolling stock!

    Is that a FM H12-44TS peeking into the photo on the right? :)

    That one is great. Very distinctive looking with the horizontal ribs and portholes in the doors.(y)
     
  13. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    I knew they had a good amount of equipment, but no idea just how much. Wow.
     
  14. Kurt Moose

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    Is that a Turbine in the last pic, I see a tender from one!

    :eek:
     
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  15. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Yes.
     
  16. Doug Gosha

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    One of the saddest things in the railroad world is the demolition of a roundhouse. That and plated-over windows in passenger equipment (or cabooses, for that matter).

    Doug
     
  17. Mike VE2TRV

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    Amen to that. Take CN's former Turcot roundhouse, which got demolished in 1962 to make way for a tangled, poorly designed and poorly built highway interchange, which is now in the final stages of being replaced by yet another poorly designed and most likely poorly built highway interchange. Progress... o_O

    That roundhouse, the largest in Canada spanning 450 feet across, with its 56 stalls going nearly full circle save for two tracks entering and one exiting, could service 145 steam locos a day during the peak traffic levels of WW2. With the right wind, the massive pall of smoke wafted up and over the neighboring CP Glen yard and roundhouse, making it nearly night in the middle of the day.

    That must have been impressive to see.:cool:
     
  18. LegomanBill

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    It sure is!
     
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    An assortment of cars seen on a road trip from June, Part 13

    CB&Q Baggage 993, Union, IL
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    C&NW MOW Dorm X300902 (former Dorm-Bar-Lounge CD-70), Union, IL
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    WP Baggage 801 "Silver Beaver", Union, IL
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    Milwaukee Road Coach 542, Union, IL
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  20. badlandnp

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    On my way back from Iowa two weeks ago, we saw this at Richardton, ND's ethanol plant. It looks like an SD-7/9 rebuild,
    PIC_0305.JPG There's a lot of heat haze on this hi-zoom shot, it is a ways off! PIC_0303.JPG
     

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