Is this photo from Wheeling too? If so, that's WR Tower in the distance. If it's Wheeling, the depot was said to have been the largest passenger terminal owned and operated by a single carrier. It also housed Wheeling Div. offices and a crew dormitory. The station still stands serving West Virginia Northern Community College. The viaduct that carried the tracks is long gone.
Some serious muscle-flexing going on here! And one huge boiler to feed all that muscle. To say that those B&O Mallets were impressive would be an understatement.
I read about that earthquake, and seen photos of the streets of Anchorage in the aftermath of the quake, but this is the first time I've seen a photo of what it did to the rails. In a 9.2 quake, there's nothing solid to hang on to. Not even the ground. It's like the soil is turning itself inside out. The most I've felt was a 6.0ish back circa 1989-1990, and the epicenter was about 200 miles away. I was a security guard on a construction site, and as I sat in my office in a trailer, the whole thing shook. The sound I most remember was the change door on the pay phone rattling, ding-ding-ding-ding... Someone else on the site described it as the feeling of a heavy bulldozer rolling by. It lasted about 20 seconds or so. I was about to ask, do you know this guy? There seems to be a family resemblance...
Was that the quake that drained a harbor? I recall seeing footage and pictures of boats laying on the bottom of a harbor after the sea drained away.
That quake caused a Tsunami where I live, killed 12 people....in California https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Crescent-City-tsunami-1964-Alaska-earthquake-12517983.php We had a quake last December that did significant enough damage to my layout that it had to be taken down.
Taken yesterday by my wife at Canton, NC, Blue Ridge Southern switches the moribund Evergreen Paper mill. That's BLU's office with the blue roof, built by SOU long ago. Sadly, operations at the mill ended Friday the 9th. Canton calls itself "Papertown" with production having been started there 115 years ago. This was no outdated mill; it had been modernized throughout its life. Its product was juice and milk containerstock. My wife said there were three automobiles in the mill's employee parking lot. My heart breaks for everyone there. Photo from WLOS, Asheville, NC
Hard to click "like" on that one, but nice pic though. Looks like a cool place to model for a RR empire to serve. Sad that another business is going under, and all the lives effected from it. It'll be a trickle-down effect the whole community will feel very soon.
First train ride back in the US-MARC 846 from Greenbelt to Baltimore. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
