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Gregg posted:

 

I think the pipe may be a steam line , ground air line... maybe even water.    I've never heard of a switch controlled by air . (outside of our model stuff) 

There are plenty of air operated switches  New York city transit has hundreds of them  Here is a video of a pneumatic switch in operation

Gregg posted:

I think the pipe may be a steam line , ground air line... maybe even water.    I've never heard of a switch controlled by air . (outside of our model stuff) 

No. NOT a steam line nor a what line. Remember that the photo is in Chicago. That line is WAY too small for steam, nor is it insulated for either steam or water.

Just because you never heard of air operated switch machines, does NOT mean they didn't exist. As Number90 stated, LAUPT had ALL air powered switch machines, plus the DL&W had ALL air powered switch machines in Hoboken Terminal, Grove Street Tower, and Summit Tower, to name just a very few on the DL&W.

Well thanks for the update ...  Never too old to learn something new about railroading.  Who said they didn't exist. I didn't . I just said I've never heard of one.

Ever see one on the main line outside of a terminal? OK what is the white pipe thingy?

No mention of Air switches in any rule book  I've run across.

Anyway . . . back to our topic . . . two thumbs up to Mr. Muffin for making Monon diesels available.  I'll bet that Ben's H10-44 is a good runner and that F-M prime mover sound is very soothing.  I have an old PS-1 MTH Santa Fe H10-44, that Chuck Sartor modified for me with a PS-2 kit, that is a really good engine, but the latest release should be even better.  Enjoy it, Ben.

Chicago, Indianapolis, and Louisville (reporting mark: CIL  and then later MON - Monon) engine colors were based on the school colors of universities along their lines.  The freight black and gold -- DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana (by coincidence, also Purdue's colors).  The passenger red and grey - Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana (colors are similar to Indiana University, but not the same).  The "Monon Bell" is the trophy for the football game between DePauw and Wabash.

BTW - beautiful engine. If I wasn't a steam era person, I'd probably get one.

JOHN g from the raritan valley high raiders modeled the pipes on his modules.  Look great. Here are some pics

They're rugged little buggers.  So much more unusual than a common NW2 or S2.  My early MTH 10-44 ( only horn and bell equipped ) recently received Legacy electronics .  It has now become a viable switcher around the storage tracks on the layout, able to haul anything up the unreasonable grade out of the yard.  I just spent 2 hours doing exactly that.

Bruce

Daughter goes to University of Indiana in Bloomington, the "Hoosiers" but she has nothing to do with football or basketball.

They still have the bicycle race, its some time in the spring. She has nothing to do with it.

Have gone to Mr. Muffins on the way back to Chicago. Have also passed thru West Lafayette, home of the Boilermakers. I take the back roads so that I can stay awake and see parts of the US I might not ever get to see again; truth be told, only so many decent ways from Bloomington, IN, to Park Ridge, IL. (There's a Bloomington in Illinois, home of Illinois State University and State Farm).

"D500,

I see you are in Alabama. Is there a Crimson Tide and, if so, from whence does it emanate?

Scrapiron" 

Mr Iron:

I stumbled across this thread again today, and I don't want to seem rude, so I shall answer by admitting that, though I am not only in Alabama, it's where I was born (Mobile) and have lived all my life (excusing a very brief stint in Winston-Salem NC), I do not care for football. There, I've said it. Don't tell anyone. I'm not even sure that it is legal to live here and not be a football fan. If anything, my sport of choice is baseball, and I don't follow that anymore, either. Go Yanks - believe it or not.

The "Crimson Tide" comes from the color of "Bama's" jerseys - red/maroon, and, I believe, and old radio broadcast from the 1930's(?), wherein the announcer described Alabama's line coming down the field "like a crimson tide". Or so I have heard.

The fact that here on the Gulf Coast there is sometimes a red plankton bloom out at sea that is often referred to as a "red tide" is not related to the "crimson tide", but it's funny, nonetheless.

Why Bama's team logo is an elephant is not known to me. Stomping and such, I suppose. 

# D500   as i clean up the spit take of coffee on my hawaiian shirt, " don't tell anyone....... not football fan..." roflmao... not bad for a train guy. Great humor sir. the best (<Salute>

They came out terrific - thanks to MTH.... Clyde at Stockyard Express custom ran an NKP too.... I only made 54... that was a mistake.... could've sold twice that.... 

I thought the rods moved also, looked like a lever of some type to change direction when they left the tower.

For those not familiar with air switches, look up the DA10 by us&s (or its modern equal the quick switch from AAA).   There is a modern version of this in many hump yards today on BNSF that would include Argentine ks, Galesburg il (until last year), bartow ca, gm yard (Oklahoma city), Flynn yard (Oklahoma City).  Also inflat yards such as Cicero Il and Barstow CA NX system (receiving departure yards).