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  1. SP 9811

    SP 9811 TrainBoard Member

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    Norden , SP Donner Pass, east end, showing the original Central Pacific main, with the 1923 alignment lower to the left. Summer 1992. No train though.. SP Norden 5.jpg
     
  2. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Bridge over the Brazos River in Thompsons, Texas.
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  3. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Waiting to catch the Amtrak Crescent in Lynchburg, Virginia. June, 1994.
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  4. badlandnp

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    Waiting for a train just east of Miles City, that didn't show up before it got too dark for my camera.
    Looking west,
    PIC_0113.JPG And east towards Tussler siding.
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  5. Kurt Moose

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    Ex-Milwaukee Road?

    Or NP?:rolleyes:
     
  6. Hardcoaler

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    From 10/20/1990 at Nortonville, KY where the CSX (L&N) and PAL (IC) cross in the western part of the state. I saw the red signal and either just missed a train or one was due. I waited around a while with nothing, so packed it in and moved on.

    1990-10-20 002 Nortonville KY - for upload.jpg

    Long ago, a depots stood here.

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  7. Hardcoaler

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    From January 1981, a wintry scene near Green Pond, NJ. Once an important (and remote, as circled in green on the map below) interchange point between the CNJ and NYS&W in northern NJ, Green Pond's function came to an end in 1971 when a washout closed this segment of the NYS&W and soon thereafter, CNJ service as well. As shown here, the abandoned rails of the NYS&W remained in place.

    1981-01 Green Pond Jct NJ - for upload.jpg

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  8. SP 9811

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    On SP's Saugus Line, MP 425 a classic SP Cantilever guards the ghost of the long gone siding at Paris. Acton CA. MP425 Paris-Acton.jpg
     
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  9. HemiAdda2d

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    It's nearly midnight in sleepy Granville, ND. We're east of Minot on the Devils Lake line. Amtrak 8 and a following eastbound grain empty have passed, but no other trains on the scope. Faint auroras looks like an ominous green fog on the horizon.

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  10. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Any ideas for the date on this map?
     
  11. Hardcoaler

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    It's very old, am guessing about 1890 perhaps. The NYS&W's Wilkes Barre & Eastern RR extension to the anthracite region doesn't yet appear and the L&NE is identified as the Pennsylvania, Poughkeepsie and Boston. Love the branchlines! Just above Green Pond is the long gone branch to Macopin Lake, from which ice was harvested.
     
  12. Mike VE2TRV

    Mike VE2TRV TrainBoard Member

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    The Pennsylvania, Poughkeepsie & Boston existed from 1887-1895! So the 1890 guesstimate is right on.

    Before that it was the Pennsylvania, Slatington and New England.

    Some railroads have an interesting family tree, even before the "super-railroad" became a thing.:)
     
  13. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Near Blue Ridge, Virginia on the NS. July 13, 2017.
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  14. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Wortham, TX 12-28-23.
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  15. Grey One

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    @HemiAdda2d In your picture from Dec 19 on this page there is a rather boxy structure. I'm guessing it is some kind of grain storage? or?
    Reason I ask is it is very similar to my 'K-Cup box' buildings. The lack of windows would make it even easier to model.
     
  16. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Yup, called a grain elevator. Along the Texas gulf coast they were known as rice dryers. Maybe because they kept the rice dry and out of the rain. :whistle: I was able to build one of those in N Scale.
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  17. Grey One

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    @r_i_straw Thanks! I think I could abstract one of those and use it for one of the Grandure Valley exports.
     
  18. Todd Hackett

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    Ran across this one the other day and thought of this thread.
    BNSF East Scenic, West Cascade tunnel.
    Even though we had a 'green', nothing happened for more than an hour of waiting. You can almost see the West Portal.
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    And that light above the East Scenic sign shows that the ventilation is on. Go figure. Bridge is Highway 2.

    Later
     
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  19. Hardcoaler

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    From 10/19/1993 at Mexico Tower at the east end of the former B&O yard at Cumberland, MD with only a cut of cars in sight. :( All of this has much changed today. I think Mexico still stands, but is no longer in service.

    1993-10-19 007 Cumberland MD - for upload.jpg
     
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  20. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Todd, that East Scenic shot is mint! Love the heavy snow (but that's normal for that spot anyways), but I never knew about that light for tunnel ventilation running. That's neat! I'm assuming you had to chain up to reach that spot?
     

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