a picture a day....

For today: " Rufus Quigly, the Yardmaster waves hello." 

The three staggered photos on the wall tell a familiar story: waiting for a train.

Top left, seven year old gazer posed on the Rock Island Line, followed by train-in-sight and at the bottom-right the Imperial is bearing down on us:

The cowboy was Buster Holt and he was showing us where his horse had bucked-off the edge and into Grand Canyon.

Just added some shrubs under the railing. 

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

                    Johan, way to C O O L shot of your vintage switchers! Thanks for posting.

PAUL ROMANO posted:

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

                    Johan, way to C O O L shot of your vintage switchers! Thanks for posting.

Paul. Thank you. I am glad you like them. They are Shark Bay Railroad Alco HH660 #150 Anchor & Shark Bay Terminal FM H10-44 #250 Chum.

Johan

HudsonORailRoader posted:

Just added some shrubs under the railing. 

Very nice, simple yet so realistic, well done

Great photos of your layouts everyone! Keep them coming as they give some great ideas!

For today:  " A Pennsy A5 just passing through the station with bell clanging.  Only one person turns to notice as steam locomotives are still a daily part of everyday life in 1949." 

NYS&W Train #SU100 at Beaver Lake, NJ. Ex- BN SD45 #6364 leads three more SD45s. Feb.86' 

                                                                         MY PHOTO

  Hotel Charles

The Birthplace of Basketball, Springfield, MA

The darned thing won't start!!!!!!

Here is the problem around the Leonardtown and Savannah...Governor Kemp just closed Georgia and required all the restaurants and bars to shutter and folks to eat at home.  Well what are we going to do with a Refer full of Blue Bell Ice Cream - we can't take it back to Texas! ... So we decided to give our neighbors and friends a treat and distribute it to the neighborhoods via the "ICE CREAM MAN" trucks that ply the streets.  The kids are gonna love this!!

Keep healthy everyone - we will get through this

Don McErlean

The BR&P tower at Falls Creek, Pa. PRR Low Grade is the other track.

I took the pics in '99.

For today: " Out of the tunnel and over the bridge."

A view of the city of Christopolis in the distance over the scrap yard.

geysergazer posted:

The BR&P tower at Falls Creek, Pa. PRR Low Grade is the other track.

         

I took the pics in '99.

         

Lew, Great photographs!!  I knew I should know where Falls Creek is, but couldn't place it until I looked it up on Google Maps.  Just outside of DuBois!!!  What is wrong with me that I couldn't remember?????

PS:  DuBois is the French version of my family name!  It means "of the woods or forest"  

Mark, that makes me wonder how Boyce Park got it's name. It sure is woods. But I'm pretty sure Boyce Road (which runs through it) is much older than the park. Huh. Maybe that is how the road was named: road in the woods.

I sure wish that tower could have been saved and re-purposed because of the interesting architecture but like so much stuff it was simply discarded and forgotten once it's original purpose was fulfilled.

For today:  " B&O wagon tops!" 

Doing some work on my layout, day time pic and night pic.

One from the archives:

p51 posted:

What a great photo and terrific scene

Alco 420's

Alco HH660 #150 Anchor.