a picture a day....

A quick escape into the trainroom and then back to the home office...

Well its memorial day weekend on the Leonartown and Southern and not only that but the town business's are starting to open up after the COVID-19 closings.  Things are starting to get back to normal although Small Town will miss its normal Memorial Day parade and BBQ.  Here are a couple of pictures taken along the line this weekend.

All those business's opening including the new McDonald's and folks going grocery shopping at the Red Owl.  Here in Small Town, its really busy and poor Officer Sullivan is having a hard time keeping the traffic flowing.  He's beginning to think he might be willing to go along with the town council who wants to install one of them "new-fangled" traffic lights (not so new really in 2020 but Officer Sullivan has been Small Town's only policeman since 1958).

Well, parade or not, It's Memorial Day and the flag flies proudly over the Town Square and  Station Park.

Happy Memorial Day everyone

Don McErlean

Who said men are the only "Rail Fans" ? 😍

A little railfanning from the rear vestibule'...

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For today:  " It's 1952 and a Western Maryland BL2 meets a Pennsy GG1 at the station."

 The only prototypical place where this meet could have happened would have been Baltimore's Pennsylvania station, but highly unlikely as WM used both of their BL2s in freight only service in 1952 and in later years yard switching in Hagerstown.

 In my imagination, here in Patsburg, this meet is a daily occurrence.  In reality, all Western Maryland passenger trains stopped at Pennsylvania Station in Baltimore and none would have had a BL2 at the point.  It is possible, and one will never know,  that a BL2 may have been used to shuttle freight cars to/from the WM freight terminal located in the Mt. Vernon section of the city.... which means that the BL2  would have passed through Penn Station.     

For today: " As seen by a boy on his bike." 

the champs fight it out

                                     hope everyone had a great weekend !!

Two eastern giants of the B&O, and C&O waiting patiently.

For today: " Hard working fellas." 

For today: " Destine for the scrap yard."

Pennsy E6 Atlantic #460 "The Lindbergh Engine" as photographed through the fence at the Pennsylvania RR Museum Strasburg, PA- Sept.1977. This engine is now cosmetically restored and inside the museum.  

                                                                        MY PHOTOS

A passenger train is leaving Christopolis Union Station and entering the curve on mainline track #2 by the scrap yard on its way to its destination.

For today:  " Empty boxcars soon to be picked up by the local freight." 

@Bill T posted:

Bill, Could you give a closer view of the two green devices between the track and street?  What are they?  Also, are the yellow poles at each street corner sign posts?  I haven't seen them before.  Thank you.

@Mark Boyce posted:

Bill, Could you give a closer view of the two green devices between the track and street?  What are they?  Also, are the yellow poles at each street corner sign posts?  I haven't seen them before.  Thank you.

The green structures are LCCA Bilboards with pictures of LCCA sets and the yellow light posts are MTH 4 sided mainstreet light posts.

Thank you, Bill.  Funny, I couldn't tell what the billboards are from the end view.

I took these yesterday evening...

anticipation

For today: " On the way in to Patsburg." 

@trumpettrain posted:

That is a great shot, love it!

Menards rolling stock

@p51 posted:

That is a great shot, love it!

Thanks so very much Lee!   

Great photos everyone! Been awhile, so its nice to get on here and see some wonderful shots! Thanks again for sharing them!