As per a nice comment, I have found that I find quite a few interesting photos online during research. I would not mind what so ever if you post other photos, so feel free to add to the thread.
Here's a post car made special to pound would posts a few feet underground level. I think this car is pretty much a crane that lefts and drops a weight on the post to sink it through the mud.
When you mix the Iditarod and trains.
I have to go, but I will post more later.
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Interesting I suppose. Its been posted before, but its one of my favorites.
That car is called a pile driver. I cannot read the roadname/initials on the side of it.
Do not look like usual sled dog breeds, so good thing the rails may make that load
easier to move than a sled (given they have the right of way)
Interesting I suppose. Its been posted before, but its one of my favorites.
Great photos.
Thank you for posting, Madison and RickO.
Ralph
Pretty neat pictures Madison.
Rick,
I've seen that once before, but never the caption, thanks for sharing. Its amazing just to see that towering over street. Wonder if they just pulled it back or brought in a crane.
On a side note, I do not have any interesting photos to share... Yet
Interesting I suppose. Its been posted before, but its one of my favorites.
If I remember the "technical facts" correctly, the Engineer pulled forward, after being cut-off from the arrived passenger train. Many of those tracks in LAUPT had "escape crossovers" at the ends, so that the locomotive consist could be cut-off, then "escape" through a cross-over to the open adjacent track, then return to the service facility.
In this case, the Engineer, pulled forward to clear the crossover, then cut-out the brakes on what was the inbound lead unit. The Engineer then walked back, all the way to what was the trailing unit, in order to "change ends". But, before he could cut-in the brakes again, the consist rolled away. FIRED!
Here is another interesting photo I just found....
It is of a photographer's car on the U.P.R.R.
That U.P. photographer's car has been offered as a model, at least in HO, but that is
the earliest tank engine I have ever seen in a photo. One does not think of the U.P.
as running tank engines.
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