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In the department of a-prototype-for-everything, seen here is the Shawmut version of a unit coal train (wherein loading is taking place with the "train" in continuous motion under-power):

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Those two SW 9s are dragging that cut of hoppers under the operating conveyor belt. I see a Crummy on the mainline so I assume once the last car in the cut was full they pulled onto the main, backed down, coupled on to the Crummy and headed North.

IIRC this was a mixing for pollution-dilution effort. To the right was a barge dock on the Allegheny River as well as a good sized pile of coal from local strip-mines. IIRC the barge coal was low-sulfur being brought in from who-knows-where and it was being mixed in with the local high-sulfur strip coal to bring the sulfur content down to meet then-current EPA regs.

c. mid-late '70s

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Wow, so many beautiful pictures, neat scenes, nice layouts. Trumptrain, I like the sunrise scenes, so innovative, Lee Drennen, the truck man, get Well, it’s nice to see your back here with those beautiful pictures of that nice Steamer going full speed ahead, CLIFFORD, neat pictures and a really nice layout, it’s a Wow. Geysergazer, Lew, the B&O hits home, one of my favorite diesels and color scheme. Wow. Happy Friday Everyone. BD1F5EA9-5854-4C77-B5A0-FFBA7BC937E90935BA37-D703-4D31-A862-7A79C9A83E19

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@lee drennen posted:

Larry thanks for the well wishes I hope to get back finishing some Piggybacks and trucks soon

Lew you are so right that’s dangerous. After I loaded the pic that’s when I saw Big Joe napping.

Reminds me of a antidote a coworker told me back in the '70s.  He was working at a coal mine back in the '60s and decided to take a nap in the bucket of a front end loader.  Well, you can imagine what happened next.  He was fired, but it all turned out well.  He got a clean job working at the power company in the telecom department where I worked with him.  He was a good guy and had matured a lot since his days at the coal mine.

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Reminds me of a antidote a coworker told me back in the '70s.  He was working at a coal mine back in the '60s and decided to take a nap in the bucket of a front end loader.  Well, you can imagine what happened next.  He was fired, but it all turned out well.  He got a clean job working at the power company in the telecom department where I worked with him.  He was a good guy and had matured a lot since his days at the coal mine.

Now Mark that would be spooky

Saw the Amtrak test train along the new route from Tacoma to Nisqually today, including the infamous DuPont curve, but going VERY much slower than the speeds they'll run normal trains at eventually.
No clue when they'll start running trains there again...

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At the top of the shot below, is where the train went off the tracks in 2017:20210117140357_IMG_149420210117142356_IMG_1431

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P51, Lee, great pictures of a passenger train, concrete ties and seamless rails, smooth rolling and I’m sure it would be fun riding. You live in a great part of the country if your able to see the trains you show here on the forum. Thank you. Trumptrain, the lighting is right, the B&O AB is beautiful and rolling through some really nice scenery, downtown and around, Wow. Lee Drennen, good old St. Louis, a city like no other, I grew up in Flora, Illinois, so, I can appreciate your pictures, keep on trucking. Was that a UP Genset switcher you posted awhile back? Great pictures. Happy Railroading Everyone A488F8F3-AA4B-451D-953D-E0B6FCF6BB93093D419D-9DAF-4EFE-A892-A098577ABBEC162A7D1C-92E2-4FC0-B700-EEA968B5E3BA

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