a picture a day....

                                                            Coming & Going

 NYS&W stack train #SU100. Three ex-BN SD45s and one F45 at Beaver Lake- cold Feb.87'. 

                                                                 MY PHOTOS

This AM the crew was getting ready to park the dinner Train and head for interchange with that freight train:

For today: " MOW work train."

More coming and going shots- The Erie RR, New York & Greenwood Lake Branch diamond at Pompton Jct.  Semaphore mast has been knocked over by Jordan spreader, March 87'.  

                                                                       MY PHOTOS

This AM the crew had what counts on the Plywood Empire Route as a long train: 9 cars plus the old UP Crummy.

D&H inches through

For today: " When modern plumbing is not available ...  Barney does the next best thing!"

Wow - Bar GP7 : what a great scenic view and another BL-2 (one appeared in a prior picture in Western Md colors) ...we may actually have more BL-2's than the real railroads ever got (I think EMD only sold like 59 including 2 demonstrators).  However, that's OK, I know from my Lionel background we toy train guys have far far more steam turbines than the Pennsy ever had.  I got mine in '47 at the head of a work train, when I was 3 yrs old.  Not sure it was mine or dad's !!

Mr. Romano - thanks for the pictures.  You are obviously prowling my old boyhood stomping grounds, Sparta, Pompton, Greenwood lake.  Can't say I ever saw much railroad traffic then except the commuter lines although we lived in North Arlington and the next town over, Rutherford , had a train station right smack in the middle of town (Erie RR I believe) and I can remember my Dad taking me to ball games in NY on the train, even was steam powered then.

Thanks to everyone for the picture a day, I really enjoy it.  I will try to contribute when I can but my modeling skills are way below most of you.

Happy Holidays

Don

P51 :  I noted when I looked at the picture posted your signature block indicated you modeled in On30.  We have a house  on Tybee Island, Ga which was once connected to Savannah by the "Savannah & Atlantic Railroad" which opened for service in 1887 but went bankrupt nearly immediately.  In 1890 it was rescued and became part of the Central of Georgia RR and lasted until December 1933 but was more or less in trouble with the creation of the coast road in the late 1920's.  It handled little freight and mostly holiday passengers / commuters  from the city to the beach, in summer often needing double headed trains.  It had its own independent stations both in Savannah and on the route to Tybee with a total trackage of just 18 miles.  Locomotives were American type 4-4-0 converted from coal to oil to reduce smoke and these were run from the early 1900's to the roads closing.  They only had two engines and never really modernized except for the coal to oil conversion.

I have searched and find little vestige of the road today either in real life or even in pictures.  Yet the route crosses several streams and 2 rivers so must have had bridges-yet nothing remains.  Local history seems remarkably absent any information on the RR and the internet, while it does have some entries is pretty thin.

I am thinking of developing a model RR of this route because it would be small, not very wide (the real RR ran is an approximate straight line) and yet have some interesting buildings, trestles,and bridges.   My current thought is to use On30 although the line was not narrow gauge but the loco's and passenger cars were always small, light weight versions even in their day .  I don't have too much room and the space I have is narrow.

Just wondering if you thought that might work.  It seems that it would be possible to include more content then using full O'gauge  which would be much larger.

Thanks

Don

trumptrain posted:

For today: " When modern plumbing is not available ...  Barney does the next best thing!"

Patrick, that is also known in the other bizz as "trucker's toilet". If you stand very close to the tractor tandem no one can see your bits or that you are actually peeing. 

Yesterday it was 9 cars and this morning there are just 5 outbound cars:

Every day the switching work is a bit different on the PER.

Don McErlean posted:

Wow - Bar GP7 : what a great scenic view and another BL-2 (one appeared in a prior picture in Western Md colors) ...we may actually have more BL-2's than the real railroads ever got (I think EMD only sold like 59 including 2 demonstrators).  However, that's OK, I know from my Lionel background we toy train guys have far far more steam turbines than the Pennsy ever had.  I got mine in '47 at the head of a work train, when I was 3 yrs old.  Not sure it was mine or dad's !!

Mr. Romano - thanks for the pictures.  You are obviously prowling my old boyhood stomping grounds, Sparta, Pompton, Greenwood lake.  Can't say I ever saw much railroad traffic then except the commuter lines although we lived in North Arlington and the next town over, Rutherford , had a train station right smack in the middle of town (Erie RR I believe) and I can remember my Dad taking me to ball games in NY on the train, even was steam powered then.

Thanks to everyone for the picture a day, I really enjoy it.  I will try to contribute when I can but my modeling skills are way below most of you.

Happy Holidays

Don

 

 

 

Don. Thank you. 🤝 I have a two BL2's. That Bangor & Aroostook #57 and Boston & Maine #1553. Bangor & Aroostook had a eight BL2's and B&M four. I really like those locomotives and it's would be a nice get those a couple more.

Johan

BAR GP7 #63

Love a scene like this, nice job!

For today: " Barrels of Fun" .... got this Lionel operating barrel car from Santa when I was in first grade .... it still works and occupies a special place on my layout today.  

Making sausage:

There's that old saying that you really don't want to watch sausage being made but the end product is sure yummy. Same thing with Fiddle Yards: they sure aren't pretty but are a foundation for satisfying model railroad Operation.

sidehack posted:

BAR GP7 #63

Love a scene like this, nice job!

Ray. Thank you. 🤝

Johan

                Blizzard !!

For today:  " Pure Power!" 

trumptrain posted:

For today:  " Pure Power!" 

Pure power? This GG-1 especially. 4876  was the locomotive leading the Federal in 1953 when the entire train lost air brake function and crashed into Union Station, Washington, DC. 4876 was cut in pieces, rebuilt in the Altoona, PA shops, re-painted in Tuscan red and ran in service into the 1980's. Trumptrain already knows this story. I posted this for those who do not know this piece of railroad history. Happy Holidays, all!

Thanks Randy for that history lesson/reminder!  Good thing Patsburg stations are run throughs not stub ends! 

Indian Tunnel Area

Don McErlean posted:

P51 :  I noted when I looked at the picture posted your signature block indicated you modeled in On30.  We have a house  on Tybee Island, Ga which was once connected to Savannah by the "Savannah & Atlantic Railroad" which opened for service in 1887 but went bankrupt nearly immediately.  In 1890 it was rescued and became part of the Central of Georgia RR and lasted until December 1933 but was more or less in trouble with the creation of the coast road in the late 1920's.  It handled little freight and mostly holiday passengers / commuters  from the city to the beach, in summer often needing double headed trains.  It had its own independent stations both in Savannah and on the route to Tybee with a total trackage of just 18 miles.  Locomotives were American type 4-4-0 converted from coal to oil to reduce smoke and these were run from the early 1900's to the roads closing.  They only had two engines and never really modernized except for the coal to oil conversion.

I have searched and find little vestige of the road today either in real life or even in pictures.  Yet the route crosses several streams and 2 rivers so must have had bridges-yet nothing remains.  Local history seems remarkably absent any information on the RR and the internet, while it does have some entries is pretty thin.

I am thinking of developing a model RR of this route because it would be small, not very wide (the real RR ran is an approximate straight line) and yet have some interesting buildings, trestles,and bridges.   My current thought is to use On30 although the line was not narrow gauge but the loco's and passenger cars were always small, light weight versions even in their day .  I don't have too much room and the space I have is narrow.

Just wondering if you thought that might work.  It seems that it would be possible to include more content then using full O'gauge  which would be much larger.

Don,

Sounds like a fine concept for an On30 layout. Go for it!

For today:  "Busy day at the freight terminal."

Also steady action at the coal yard

"Gantry Crane at work":

Eight cars for Interchange this AM:

For today: " Back in the day when Packard was a thing."  " Prepare to unload those Packard parts guys!" 

trumptrain posted:

For today: " Back in the day when Packard was a thing."  " Prepare to unload those Packard parts guys!" 

Pat, I love that Packard Box Car'..  Packards were great automobiles and of  the highest excellent quality and engineering of their day.  Hudson was their main luxury competitor .  The three merged, Studebaker, Packard and Hudson, but the big three killed all the private labels in the end... 

Caught a few minutes of that low Winter sun again this afternoon:

Notice how the light is picking out the doors&hinges on the hood.