Show us your RR memorablilia

JASON Dec 8, 2005

  1. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Here is a waybill for shipping some sort of extracts and 3 barrels of peanunts in 1895.
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  2. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Sure it is. I like the look of pride the worker has. And also the interesting details on that car. Especially that brake wheel.

    :D

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  3. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Neat and rare paper from a Colorado & Southern predecessor company. There's not a lot of UPD&G stuff out there!

    :D

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  4. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    This one is not so old. :D From the day the restored Galloping Goose made its first run.
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  5. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    I have very little..

    I have a complete knuckle, found at Palmer Lake, CO on the Joint line; a small mess of abandoned BN RR signs from a former GN line in North Dakota, spikes, a few small slices of rail from various locales, and more than a few scrapes and dings on my truck to prove it. I would like to get some ETT's, just for info in making layout rules, and such, like the real RR's. I also want some china eventually.
     
  6. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Just plop it on your flatbed scanner and upload an image so we can see it. :D

    Here is an REA waybill from 1962. A sealed foot locker shipped from Wisconsin to Corpus Christi, Texas.
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  7. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Just plop it on your flatbed scanner and upload an image so we can see it. :D
    </font>[/QUOTE]I can do you one better, I have a pic of a broken knuckle I found near Larkspur, CO on the Joint Line:

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  8. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    I have a couple on my RRdiana FS list. Drop me a PM?

    :D

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  9. Charlie

    Charlie TrainBoard Member

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  10. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Got a match?
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  11. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Check out the FTs.
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  12. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    [​IMG] Ohio Match Company. Now there's a familiar name.

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  13. Stourbridge Lion

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    Need to borrow one of mine?

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  14. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    A few from my favorite railroad:

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    Left to right: Left- Issued 1947-1952. Center was issued either 1957 or 1958. Right- Freight promotion issue, possibly 1960's.

    :D

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  15. MP333

    MP333 TrainBoard Supporter

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    Southern Pacific car seal:
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  16. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Maybe this belongs on the "Take a closer look" thread. :D But, this is all that fit on my flatbed scanner. [​IMG] Know what it is?
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  17. MP333

    MP333 TrainBoard Supporter

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    Hemi is not crazy, I too have some thin slices of rail:
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  18. slambo

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    I haven't forgotten my philately days, I'm still in them. I was pretty happy to find these covers at a reasonable price after writing the article on the Pioneer Zephyr and getting it to Featured Article status on Wikipedia. Check with The Rail Philatelist; that's where I bought them and he had several of each cover at the Cincinnati show (although I only saw one with a perfin).

    I've got another RPO cover from the last run of PRR's Jeffersonian (a train that I hope to model for NTrak layout operations) and the last RPO run between NYC and WDC; just got to get them on the scanner. eBay's got a lot of RPO covers at reasonable prices, and there are dealers at the local (near me) stamp shows that have large lots of RPO covers to sort through.
     
  19. watash

    watash Passed away March 7, 2010 TrainBoard Supporter In Memoriam

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    r_i_straw, That looks like the yoke on a Note Wand, called a number of things, "Long Hand", "Flying Order", and was used by a Station Agent standing by the track to hand off a note to an engineer or fireman who was passing through "on the fly", (without stopping).

    I thought I had a photo of this, but can't find it now. Sorry.
     
  20. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    You bet I do! It's one of many variants made over the years. This one mounts in a stand, trackside.

    Hoop up those train orders! This is a delivery fork. Some folks will call it a high speed delivery fork. Which it could do. But "High Speed Delivery Fork" was also a brand name. Those two are not necessarily the same.

    :D

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