PROTOTYPE Weekend PROTO Fun! 4/1/2016

SNE Apr 1, 2016

  1. SNE

    SNE TrainBoard Member

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    Caught some switching in Pawtucket RI his am... Good way to end the week!!



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  2. YoHo

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    Hot shot Passenger train highballs through Richmond Ca.




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  3. YoHo

    YoHo TrainBoard Supporter

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    April Fools!

    That was taken at the Great Train Show in Richmond at the old Tank plant.

    My actual prototype shot, which I actually got, in the last actual week is not nearly as nice. I tried to race to Rocklin Road before the gates went down, but missed it, so I was on the wrong side with direct bright sun shining down. Phone camera grab shot while I was out shopping.

    Still, it's a photo, of a train. A really really really really long UP Manifest heading up Donner. DPU 3x3x0. All screaming in run 8 and we haven't even gotten to actual hills yet.
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  4. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    To continue in the shadows, silhouettes and headlights theme, here is mine. :D
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  5. Hardcoaler

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    I like our less-than-perfect-light theme. Here's NS Train 135 in twilight at Jarratt's Tunnel, getting underway again having stalled on the Blue Ridge grade on the "Loops" east of Asheville, NC from a diesel failure. The first three units were cut off a westbound coal empty and run east to rescue this train. The sound was magnificent!

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  6. Hardcoaler

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    April 1st is also Conrail's birthday. How can that have been 40 Years ago already?
     
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  7. co_riff

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    NS cut the rails at mp116 and mp66, about 50 miles of track not being used. This goes from Hobson Yard to above Athens,Ohio.This is the NS West Virginia Sec.

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  8. Hardcoaler

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    That's the same technique NS used on both ends of the Saluda, NC grade. Sad to see. Not sure why they didn't go with derails -- would have been much simpler. Maybe having the segments absolutely and unquestionably disconnected earns beneficial property tax treatment and/or FRA regulatory relief. I just don't know.
     
  9. BoxcabE50

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    Are we looking at future abandonment?
     
  10. BoxcabE50

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    Wow. This is an interesting point to ponder!
     
  11. BoxcabE50

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    OK. Following the low light theme, here is a slide scan from twenty five years ago. The sun was just setting, so it confused my camera a bit. The Anacortes Local in western Washington:

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  12. Mike VE2TRV

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  13. Hardcoaler

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    Nice shot Ken, despite the light. When BN was formed, I thought their logo and Cascade Green were the coolest thing on wheels. It also got me to thinking of a BN TV ad that I recall seeing on NFL football games. We lived in Chicago at the time.

     
  14. badlandnp

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    Box - Just got to love that whiteface paint job, it really made the colors stand out!
    Russell - Thanks for an awesome mood shot!
    Mike - While you are mesmerized by the action....don't touch it!!
    Caught this inspection train as it came into Glendive from the north, Sidney branch, and then got it leaving town eastbound, in great "into the sunset" lighting! :rolleyes::rolleyes: PIC_0887 (1).JPG And from behind a fence and bushes as it entered the wye.
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  15. Hardcoaler

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    That's one TALL signal mast!
     
  16. BoxcabE50

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    I wonder what they were inspecting?
     
  17. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Yeah and the head on the signal mast is pretty huge too. ;) It appears to be along side another track much closer to the camera so must be an optical illusion. Kind of like when a guy holds a snake on the end of a stick toward a camera to make it look much bigger than it really is.
     
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  18. Randy Stahl

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    Looks vaguely familiar..

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  19. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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  20. Mr. SP

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    Caught this westbound BNSF at Skykomish Wa. a couple of years ago 259159609.jpg
     

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