I saw a lot of those back in the late 1970s when I spent my school lunch hours sitting on the bench, emptying my lunch box, in front of the station at Ste-Thérèse. Diesel fumes, clattering wheels over joints, and the wonderful sounds of Alco 251 engines gurgling contentedly... Happy times...
In the Railroad Museum's Rolling Stock Hall, Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain 16 awaits visitors. A steel underframe underpins its wooden structure. The piece was originally built in Altoona in 1913 and saw service on the PRR before being sold to the H&BT.
Intriguing about the H&BT caboose is the lettering "Sax Wt 29200". A 29200 lb saxophone?? Nice caboose.
Yikes, a 29200 lb saxophone? You'd have to hook it to the trainline to get the CFM to blow it, I'll bet.
Now that's some fancy calligraphy! That's a great connection to the location and the person who filled this form way back then.
I've posted this picture some years before on a different thread, but I'll add it here. From 02/1976, PC 23128 is a former PRR N5c Cabin Car, seen at Bensenville, IL. The PRR began building these in 1942, with 199 completed. These were of a durable design; 169 went on the serve CR. The stencil reads REBLT 12-66.
This is why I enjoy the collecting of these artifacts. History, operational information and more. I have actually had some folks who penned these make contact with me, via my website. Exchanges from those emails have been quite fascinating, to say the very least. Penmanship variations are from all across the spectrum. Some appear as though they completely flunked their cursive training- and I wonder how train crews could possibly decipher those messes! Some look as though they are master artists, with such flourish and style it is beauty to behold.
Isn't that Stan Laurel sitting on top of the caboose, leftmost of the three? Where's Ollie? Neat old photo. One can see the pride in the crew.
L&NE bobber caboose 502 at Bath, PA. Stencil reads RPKD-LNE-TAD 8.5.46. The TAD is for Tadmore Yard which was located in Bath. [Photo by Donald Furler, 09/01/1946]
They haven't put enough ballast down to cover the plastic sides yet... That must take tank-car loads of Scenic Cement to set all that ballast in place...
