a picture a day....

The Milwaukee Hiawatha passing through on the Seattle & Yakima RR

For today: " The mighty Pennsy and Harvey the switch tender."

trumptrain posted:

For today: " The mighty Pennsy and Harvey the switch tender."

Pat, what happened to the finish on the cabin car?

Ron

PRRronbh posted:

trumptrain posted:

For today: " The mighty Pennsy and Harvey the switch tender."

Pat, what happened to the finish on the cabin car?

Ron

Ron - bought the cabin car used at York for $10.00 with that blem in the finish.... thinking this car would be a great weathering project.    I later ( after this photo ) weathered the entire car.   I think this photo gives the car an already believable " weathered" sort of look.  

Still messing around with my new camera and got a neat shot with the H10 today. The engine was running at a leisurely 45 speed steps, but with 1/8 second shutter speed it's easy to make her look like she's going mile-a-minute speeds.

Well the "roach coach" has arrived at General Storm and Dash at lunchtime.  The driver obviously is not too good a reading signs and has missed the big "Danger" sign and is still on the tracks...lets hope he has his scanner tuned to the RR frequency and gets a good warning about on coming trains.

Have a good week everyone

Don

sidehack posted:

Ray - fabulous photo!! 

For today: " B&O switch job at work."

My 1st B&O:

Sarge finally allowed the lantern to be lit in the shed at the far end of the Army compound. Let's just hope he doesn't climb onto anything high enough to see all the rust on the roof!

Bill T posted:

I love passenger station scenes and yours is a GREAT one!

For today: " Western Maryland Consolidation."

"The Icon":

"Tracks&People":

"and Katz": 

USO, Sharky's Loans and Plaza Liquors

           Marci's photo...

geysergazer posted:

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Lew, those look like very active tracks, the rails are almost polished.  I was taught by the real train people I know never to walk the tracks between the rails and at least 5-foot on the outside of them.

Ron

PRRronbh posted:

geysergazer posted:

"The Icon":

       

"Tracks&People":

       

       

       

       

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Lew, those look like very active tracks, the rails are almost polished.  I was taught by the real train people I know never to walk the tracks between the rails and at least 5-foot on the outside of them.

Ron

Ya, those shots were all carefully staged with due awareness and close familiarity with the particular sections of the particular railroads. I and mine are anything but foamers.

But, yet, you are still trespassing on railroad property.

Rusty

Caught this guy trying to hide in some containers in East St. Louis Illinois 

You are teaching that little child to not respect railroad tracks.  someday she might wander away from you to play on those nice shiny railroad tracks never understanding how big and fast a train is and how tiny and hard to see she is.  Oh well it's none of my business...….ODD-D

Diverging Clear posted:

But, yet, you are still trespassing on railroad property.

Rusty

Yes, but so what? Really. People "trespass" all the time. People "trespass" on our 30 acres all the time. So what? What matters is whether damage was done by the trespass. People ride those infernal "quads" across our land and make ruts but we accept this minor damage because tempest in a teapot. Similarly with Dad&I "trespassing" on various&sundries railroad properties down through the years. Tempest in a teapot.

I guarantee that no Dads, Granddaughters or even cats were injured in the taking of those pics. You don't know me and you assuredly did NOT know my Dad and therefore you know zero wrt our studied situational awareness at the time I took those photos. 

Thought I would give you two For Tuesday this is a pic of my new Lionel Standard O Flat Car I got in the Mail yesterday I wasn’t long putting it to work

OK, I see where this is going. Another pointless argument that will result in another great thread getting closed for getting "off topic." Can we all calm down please?

Anyway, here's a shot I took last month of the H10 in front of some rock walls I had just wrapped up. I'm working on another section of rock wall that's about 2 times the length of this one, and it will make up the rugged backbone of what will eventually become Horseshoe Curve.

Lee, I always find it fitting seeing K-Line containers near the railroad!  Brady's Hobby Shop in Greensburg, Pennsylvania even has one in their parking lot for extra storage.  

I need some more refurbishing on my postwar body to be able to run like the F3!  

Mark Boyce posted:

Lee, I always find it fitting seeing K-Line containers near the railroad!  Brady's Hobby Shop in Greensburg, Pennsylvania even has one in their parking lot for extra storage.  

I need some more refurbishing on my postwar body to be able to run like the F3!  

I’ve hauled many K Line Containers and pulled there chassis’s. They were merged in with a NYK and MOL to create the company ONE network you know those pretty pink boxes with the big white word ONE on the side very sad I’ll miss the MOL Gator packing the container on the shoulder 

Odd-d posted:

You are teaching that little child to not respect railroad tracks.  someday she might wander away from you to play on those nice shiny railroad tracks never understanding how big and fast a train is and how tiny and hard to see she is.  Oh well it's none of my business...….ODD-D

You cannot possibly have any idea what we were or were not teaching my Granddaughter that day because you don't know me, you assuredly didn't know my Dad and you have no idea what the circumstances were when I took that pic.

I assure you that no toddler morals were [too terribly] corrupted that day  but if you are troubled by my pics you can always just scroll on by. 

Also too, I put myself and my Family out there when I post these pics and if they are disrespected I will pull it all and keep my pics and memories to myself.

Well said Lew!

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