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  1. Hardcoaler

    Hardcoaler TrainBoard Member

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    Yep! :) This vantage point was used for a lot of Binghamton photography over the decades. Note the JC 214 milepost to the left of the locomotive, an Erie relic counting the miles to Jersey City, NJ. The 3000 is a C-430, former NYC. The caboose to the right is D&H. [05/28/1983]

    1983-05-28 004b Binghamton NY - for upload.jpg
     
  2. badlandnp

    badlandnp TrainBoard Member

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    Not a train. Really! The Boone Scenic Valley RR crew following the cart travelers west. We waited for the trains for a while, nigh an hour, and the train stopped short of the bridge! Heard the whistle and the radio chatter, but it was a half mile walk to get here. Ah well, the evidence of the river having been higher was worth the walk, and it was nice walk. PIC_0219.JPG
     
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  3. Mike VE2TRV

    Mike VE2TRV TrainBoard Member

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    Interesting vehicle...:)

    Looks like a four-man golf cart or stretch-limo go-kart turned into a speeder.:ROFLMAO:

    I can imagine some scale shop mechanic with an imagination cobbling something together with a golf cart. Maybe even a hi-railer...:sneaky:

    I love wacky stuff like this on a layout that makes people ask "What the heck is that?!?!":ROFLMAO:

    Cool photo!(y)
     
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  4. badlandnp

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    They are whacky looking! The crew gets a powered one, the guests get pedal powered ones!
     
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  5. r_i_straw

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    Still waiting for a train to come by.
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  6. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    That's usually me, trackside, after arriving moments after a train passes.
     
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  7. Hardcoaler

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    From 03/12/1990 at Phillips, TN, this was once a mainline bridge on the SOU's Rathole. Upon completion of the line's massive reengineering project in 1963, the bridge found continued employment linking the Brimstone RR with the outside world. The coal-hauling Brimstone eventually closed and the rails were removed.

    1990-03-12 002b Phillips TN - for upload.jpg
     
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  8. Hardcoaler

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    From 10/04/1981 at Ashley, PA was the remains of the CNJ's yard tower and office, as built in 1956 and 1957 during a modernization program. The roundhouse is seen as well. I have no idea if any of these structures remain, but I kind of doubt it.

    1981-10-04 001b Ashley PA CNJ Yard - for upload.jpg

    1981-10-04 002b Ashley PA CNJ Roundhouse - for upload.jpg
     
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  9. Mike VE2TRV

    Mike VE2TRV TrainBoard Member

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    Snooped around Ashley PA with Google Earth and saw nothing. A few promising spots, but to no avail.

    I suspect your doubts are justified.:(
     
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  10. Kurt Moose

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    Love small roundhouses like that, sad it's all gone.
     
  11. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    On the line from Gatwick Airport into downtown London. July 1970.
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  12. SP 9811

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    SP Palmdale No.2...Palmdale CA
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  13. SP 9811

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    Long abandoned SP siding near Ave. R, Palmdale CA
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    SP Lancaster CA team track, rails date from 1915
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  15. Hardcoaler

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    From May 1983, the Lackawanna's landmark Tunkhannock Viaduct in Nicholson, PA, completed 1915 and owned by NS today.

    1983-05-28b Nicholson PA Tunkhannock Viaduct - for upload.jpg
     
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  16. cbg

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    Looks like someone really lost track of where they were going....
     
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    An old cantilever guards the east end of the long gone siding at Paris, out on the SP Saugus Line...Acton CA
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  18. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Out along the old Katy Northwest line near Duke, Oklahoma. Has not seen a train in a while. Michael North photo.
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  19. Mike VE2TRV

    Mike VE2TRV TrainBoard Member

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    There seems to be a blue hopper car parked on the rails beside one of the silos. Must be the end of the active line.

    Was operated by the Hollis & Eastern, 13 miles long, to serve a wallboard plant in Duke, OK, with connections to AT&SF in Altus, OK. That's a nice little short line to model!
     
  20. BNSF FAN

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    On the CSX at Cowan TN
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