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lee drennen posted:
Number 90 posted:

Lee, what does that say on the side of the hood of that Model B?  I can see that it has the big hood and radiator, so it is obviously not a common gasser or Maxidyne diesel.  Would this one have a large block Cummins?

It’s a Mack B81 and it says Thermodye Diesel. Maxiidye engines came out later thanks 

Lee, a guy I knew owned&drove Coal Buckets. He had one of the first Gold-Bulldog Macks (then new Maxidyne c. 1968) in the area. It was hard to get used to the idea of a Mack with a (5) speed transmission. Just 5 gears. Period. And you gritted your teeth a little listening to it lug down to almost nothing before the driver would downshift.

"The Mists of Time":

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The name on the motorcar shed is "Montgomeryville", the sign on the Post Office says "Adrian, Pa" and the people who live(d) there have always called the place "Gumtown". My Dad's folks's place is 90 degrees to the right and beside the tracks. The bridge is a steel trestle and is 100ft down to the creek below. I watched my cousin walk across that railing one day in the misty past. When I said "Mark, you are crazy. Its 100ft down off the side!" his response was "But it's three feet down off the other side."

You are looking downhill in the pic. As a kid visiting my Grands I watched a lot of B&O Fs and Geeps struggling up that hill. Almost always a pair of F Pushers in Notch 8 shoving hard with a cloud of traction sand blowing out from underneath.

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I took this earlier today.

My office is closed for 2 weeks for the virus and a state mandate against any gatherings of 250 or more people. So, while my employer scrambles to figure out a way for us tonwprk from home, I got to do this and get paid.

I'm going to pay for this in OT eventually as the work isn't going away while I'm not doing it...

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p51 posted:

Today, I took my first run on the Chehalis railroad, as a trainee Brakeman. I helped couple and uncouple cars, flipped a couple of switches, and interacted with the passengers, for their Saint Patrick's Day train.

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Nice photo Lee! I wanted to let you know I just watched a video of your layout I'm a Bud light video on YouTube! Very nice!

"Squeaky-clean windows".

The Rio Grande was serious about passengers having a good experience riding the California Zephyr through the Rockies. When the Westbound CZ pulled into Denver early AM it proceeded slowly through a car washer which had apparatus to wash the Dome windows (5 Domes in the CZ consist of course):

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No dirty windows on the CZ!

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And this is what it was all about:

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(Glenwood Canyon)

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