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Fellows, pictures of the day, Bill T, neat Katy SD70,  a terrific trio of beautiful diesels, Wow!,  Trumptrain, nice group of folks waiting for the train, Nice Budd units, Lee Drennen neat cars and trucks, running beside the track near a beautiful train,   sidehack, cool scene, I love see trains coming out of unique places, out of nowhere, next to neat buildings, coming out so close the floors are probably rattling, P51 Lee, Cool train looking like it’s powered by a 44 tonner, looks like a really neat excursion train, neat passenger cars, beautiful country scene.... Hope everyone has a great week. Happy Railroading EA570984-E827-49AB-B3F9-1CE89B1C97BA

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Lee (P51) Is the tourist train running on former MILW Road? I see a MILW style target on the switch stand in picture #3.

Rusty

Yep, the mainline from Tacoma came into the old  NP/GN main to Portland at Chehalis WA less than a half mile away (though the interchange is now gone). This line connects to that and used to extend toward the coast but now ends about 9 miles from this shot.

Here I am working that switch the week before:

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Lee (P51) thank you for the information. It's good to hear, and, see it's still intact, and has a use, even today. Is this location where you run-a-round your train? I also like the center cab switcher, it reminds me a lot of the one on your layout.

Rusty 

Funny thing, I haven't run that Whitcomb center cab since I got my Baldwin class 10 trench engine.

As for the location, yes its a passing siding we use to move the locomotive to either end of the train. There are two passing tracks at the other end of the run as well.

https://steamtrainride.com/

Lee (p51) I followed your progress on your trench engine, it needs to be broke in, so, it seems the center cab is your stand-by locomotive, for now?

And, those chevron arrow targets from the MILW are not hard for me to spot. The ICRR then ICG and now the CN still use a solid red arrow target on their mainline switch stands.

Thank you for the link to the museum, I enjoyed checking out the site, I added it to my list of favorites.

Rusty

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Lee (p51) I followed your progress on your trench engine, it needs to be broke in, so, it seems the center cab is your stand-by locomotive, for now?

The Baldwin is pretty well broken in now, which happened not long after it appeared in the review in OGR earlier this year.

The Whitcomb prerty much only exists as I wanted a Army locomotive that I could switch with at each end. My ten wheelers are no good for switching except for the tender ends as the front couplers swing too wide on curves other than the main line.

Once Bachmann made the class ten trench engine, I then had EXACTLY what I'd wanted all along, a short military steam switcher.

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If this had come out first, the Whitcomb wouldn't be on a shelf under the layout at all as I'd never have bought one.

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Bill T. Love those Lionel FA’s 

Larry. Thanks for the complement always liked those Corvairs 

Lee. Great looking vintage pics 

thanks guys for all your likes and complements  

Yep, the PW Alcos are fun to run. The 210 is a set I received for Christmas many decades ago. The 211 is a new acquisition, seems like I have been on a Postwar kick this past month. Fun to run and don't cost an arm & leg to acquire.

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