@trumpettrain posted:FOR TODAY: A morning drive by the team track reveals covered hoppers. I can only imagine the Boraxo covered hopper holds enough detergent for 25,000 loads of laundry ... lol !
WOW Patrick, your up early to get the shot of the Boraxo hopper! I know your up early cause its 4am here! lol
@trumpettrain posted:FOR TODAY: A morning drive by the team track reveals covered hoppers. I can only imagine the Boraxo covered hopper holds enough detergent for 25,000 loads of laundry ... lol !
Wow Patrick'.. Boraxo'... I haven't seen that in years'.. My Mom used it years and years ago'..... My wife informs me, it is still sold in certain stores'...
As usual, great shot from you'... BTW. I received my new set of the brass band from Alan. They do look much better..
Twenty-mule team Borax! Death Valley Days!
I've got one of those models in one of theses boxes in the train room.
@Mark Boyce posted:Twenty-mule team Borax! Death Valley Days!
Dick Powell....... right Mark ? 🤔
@Dallas Joseph posted:Dick Powell....... right Mark ? 🤔
Dick Powell, I had to think on that. I remember The Old Ranger and I see Ronald Reagan hosted and acted too. I looked it up and saw Dick Powell hosted and acted in The Zane Gray Theater and did act in some Death Valley Days episodes. We didn’t get a television until 1963, but watched at my grandma’s house. Having grown up on the farm in the 1890s and handled the team pulling the wagon, she liked seeing the horses trot or prance, but didn’t like it when there was a chase pushing the horses.
Well, that got off topic, but the Boraxo car is great!
@Mark Boyce posted:Dick Powell, I had to think on that. I remember The Old Ranger and I see Ronald Reagan hosted and acted too. I looked it up and saw Dick Powell hosted and acted in The Zane Gray Theater and did act in some Death Valley Days episodes. We didn’t get a television until 1963, but watched at my grandma’s house. Having grown up on the farm in the 1890s and handled the team pulling the wagon, she liked seeing the horses trot or prance, but didn’t like it when there was a chase pushing the horses.
Well, that got off topic, but the Boraxo car is great!
I would add my 2 cents, but that was before I was born!
But what a great looking Boraxo Hopper!
Back in 1977. I was in Death Valley on a road trip. To my surprise there is a locomotive for the borax mines there at a visitor center and the thing that blew my young mind was there was FISH in a spring fed stream there also. Scottys Castle in the valley was the same way. Fun to visit but not for me.
We didn’t have a television when I started first grade in ‘62. Kids talked about shows I couldn’t see. We did have one when John Kennedy was assassinated over a year later.
Robert Nidiffer digs up some ash near the ET&WNC right of way, near the interchange with the main line to Johnson City.
Residents of Stoney Creek often wonder what he does with the buckets of ash he walks off with, but with wartime rationing in effect, it's one of the few things that is easy to obtain...
@p51 posted:
Robert Nidiffer digs up some ash near the ET&WNC right of way, near the interchange with the main line to Johnson City.
Residents of Stoney Creek often wonder what he does with the buckets of ash he walks off with, but with wartime rationing in effect, it's one of the few things that is easy to obtain...
The monochromatic photo really is amazing Lee . 🤓
I guess it gives me an impression of a real time........kind of like looking at photo albums of my dad or mom from around the WWII era .
@Dallas Joseph posted:The monochromatic photo really is amazing Lee . 🤓
I guess it gives me an impression of a real time........kind of like looking at photo albums of my dad or mom from around the WWII era .
Thanks, that's exactly what I'm working for.
In fact, I'm writing a book which would feature such photos presented as "found" photos from the 40s.
Sorry been gone for a bit I’ve been training a new Driver and I’m exhausted when I get home from work. So here we go I’ll try to catch up later. All your pics look great.
Lee, nothing like a 50's version "Studebaker!"...I've heard training is probably more stressful than driving...
Wish I had more New Haven rolling stock...my grandfather put in 40 years with them...lots of great memories of the "line!"
@Capetrainman posted:Wish I had more New Haven rolling stock...my grandfather put in 40 years with them...lots of great memories of the "line!"
👀 I see a good looking chick on the back of that caboose'... Would there possibly be elicit activities taking place in the yard'..... Great shot'..... and another good looking scene....👍
@Capetrainman posted:Lee, nothing like a 50's version "Studebaker!"...I've heard training is probably more stressful than driving...
Yes especially Training a Over the Road driver Intermodal work who’s never done it I feel like I’m back to reality here now. Thanks for the complement and likes guys
Looks like some activity in the Chessie yard, unrelated to yard operations is taking place'...👀.
FOR TODAY: On this overcast morning, Patapsco and Back Rivers VO1000 assigned to scrap yard duty gets the job done ... as Mr. Bo ( a Baltimore landmark of the National Bohemian Brewing Co ) keeps an eye on things! 
@Quarter Gauger 48 posted:👀 I see a good looking chick on the back of that caboose'... Would there possibly be elicit activities taking place in the yard'.....
Wow, I really didn't notice that until I read your post!
Either I really love my wife (which I do) or I'm getting old (which I'm getting there, I guess)...
@p51 posted:Wow, I really didn't notice that until I read your post!
Either I really love my wife (which I do) or I'm getting old (which I'm getting there, I guess)...
I think your like me you love your wife
great photos everyone!
Lee, sorry your having to work so hard, but its nice to see you posting again!
Paul and Ted you guys should get together and just start a special train run, that way it wouldn't take the crews room in the caboose!
Patrick, sure looks like there really going to busy as I see alot of scrap!
Thanks everyone for posting!
@trumpettrain posted:FOR TODAY: On this overcast morning, Patapsco and Back Rivers VO1000 assigned to scrap yard duty gets the job done ... as Mr. Bo ( a Baltimore landmark of the National Bohemian Brewing Co ) keeps an eye on things!
What a great scrapyard photo. Everything but the kitchen sink. ( I'll bet it's in there knowing you Patrick 😉 )
@mike g. posted:great photos everyone!
Lee, sorry your having to work so hard, but its nice to see you posting again!
Paul and Ted you guys should get together and just start a special train run, that way it wouldn't take the crews room in the caboose!
Patrick, sure looks like there really going to busy as I see alot of scrap!
Thanks everyone for posting!
Thanks Mike I appreciate that I’ll try to get back in the groove soon hopefully by SWSAT lol.
mike g, you could get a Lionel locomotive with Bluetooth and run it with the LionChief app on your smartphone. You don’t get all the features that you do with Legacy but more than running conventional and it’s sure a lot cheaper.
Larry
@Dallas Joseph posted:What a great scrapyard photo. Everything but the kitchen sink. ( I'll bet it's in there knowing you Patrick 😉 )
Thanks Dallas! Yes the kitchen sink is somewhere in that pile ... lol !
FOR TODAY: Very early this morning as the first rays of sunshine pierce the darkness. ( photo taken using natural light ... click photo to enlarge. 
Larry, thanks for the head up, but I am a MTH guy. Everything I have is MTH and that what isnt is rolling stock.
Patrick, WOW what a great shot!
Very busy today sorry so late. Yesterday I dropped this Chassis to be stacks. You have to Parallel park the Chassis to be stacked to make the Yard mans job easier. Trust me they remember who takes care of them and who just don’t care.
@trumpettrain posted:FOR TODAY: Very early this morning as the first rays of sunshine pierce the darkness. ( photo taken using natural light ... click photo to enlarge.
Love those early morning natural light scenes on your layout Patrick. 
I'm still looking for the kitchen sink Patrick . 🙄
@lee drennen posted:
Very busy today sorry so late. Yesterday I dropped this Chassis to be stacks. You have to Parallel park the Chassis to be stacked to make the Yard mans job easier. Trust me they remember who takes care of them and who just don’t care.
Taking the extra step'.. to help others is first rate... and seldom done these days' You are a true asset to your company'.. lee, and a class act'..✔👍👌
@Quarter Gauger 48 posted:
Thanks Ted that means a lot and uplifting. This is something my Dad instilled in me he also was a Trucker for 43 years. There’s just a hand full at my company that cares and takes pride in there work. Wish everyone at my job did my life would be easier
@lee drennen posted:Thanks Ted that means a lot and uplifting. This is something my Dad instilled in me he also was a Trucker for 43 years. There’s just a hand full at my company that cares and takes pride in there work. Wish everyone at my job did my life would be easier
👍 I was raised the same way'... I think our modeling also shows that extra attention to detail...😁
Here’s today’s. Some MoPac action
Lee, thanks for your work ethic's! I remember when I use to load dump trucks some just wouldn't care and thats why they would get dirt or gravel down the side of there bed, others who cared wouldn't get a drop of dirt on there trucks!
Great photo of the Missouri Pacific engine! Heck we just might be in Missouri next spring! Maybe I will be able to see the real thing!
@mike g. posted:Lee, thanks for your work ethic's! I remember when I use to load dump trucks some just wouldn't care and thats why they would get dirt or gravel down the side of there bed, others who cared wouldn't get a drop of dirt on there trucks!
Great photo of the Missouri Pacific engine! Heck we just might be in Missouri next spring! Maybe I will be able to see the real thing!
Mike I used to Dump Truck also in my younger days always made the High Lift operator easy. It would be neat to see you and say hi
@lee drennen posted:Mike I used to Dump Truck also in my younger days always made the High Lift operator easy. It would be neat to see you and say hi
Were going to be going to some place near Joplin.
FOR TODAY: Friday afternoon in downtown Patsburg ... the land of pleasant living! 
Patrick, looks like a block partygoing on.
Patrick, great photo! Looks like a town party is getting ready to happen!
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