Midweek Photos 10/12/2016

The silence at sunrise....Fostoria, Ohio

From a few years back...

Here are a few photos taken at the East Troy Railway Museum in Wisconsin last Saturday afternoon. South Shore car # 13 arrives after its run, South Shore #s 25 and 26 arrive for the evening dinner train, and a shot of Lauber's Ice Cream store and the 1935 Lauber hearse outside. Lauber's was the main reason for our visit, since it will soon close for the season.

I have never seen South Shore cars in maroon and grey paint.  Is this an authentic paint scheme?

Number 90 posted:

I have never seen South Shore cars in maroon and grey paint.  Is this an authentic paint scheme?

No.  Those are East Troy's Dinner Train cars.

Rusty

Number 90 posted:

I have never seen South Shore cars in maroon and grey paint.  Is this an authentic paint scheme?

Tom, I don't think that South Shore ever had that livery....the museum just wanted to make the dinner train cars "stand out" from the rest of the collection.

Thanks for the info, fellows.

I took some photos of the CJN station in Wilkes-Barre. It was recently purchased by a developer who plans to fully restore it. Demolition is under way to remove all the additions form its former days as a night club and hotel complex. 

The complex was begun by local business man Marvin Roth, who brought in several box cars to use as hotel rooms. He also envisioned rail service to Scranton, and eventually New York. After his passing, the complex was purchased by Thom Greco who abandoned the hotel rooms and brought in a diner, and turned the place into a night club in the 80's. He abandoned the club, and at some point, Luzerne County purchased it for over 5 million, and sold it for less then 1.5 million. 

As progress continues, I will post more photos. I doubt that much in the line of exterior work will be done until next spring.

Don

Tim O'Malley posted:

Welcome to Wednesday.  Longer nights and shorter days are upon us, making photography of the railroad scene... interesting to say the least.  If you are new to rail photography, you might want to go after tourist or excursion trains.  They mostly run in the middle of the day.  

On Sunday, October 10, the 21st annual Steamtown Marathon took place in Lackawanna County, PA.  The race begins in Forest City, and encounters the old railroad routes of the NYO&W, D&H, NYS&W, and ends in Scranton, home to the DL&W.  Steamtown NHS paid tribute to the race by re-naming their steam engine 26.2 for the weekend. We see her passing the Marketplace at Steamtown and a Delaware Lackawanna freight train.

As 26.2 cleared the yard, it was time for my ride, Central of New Jersey RS3 no 1554 to take me to Tobyhanna, PA.  

Clods are finally clearing as we arrived at the 1908 wooden structure, which was all decorated for fall.  

 A walking tour took us about a half mile to Mill Pond no. 1, where authentic ice harvesting takes place in January. The walk takes us under a portion of the DL&W right of way. 

This 1905 Boston & Maine boxcar holds many of the tools needed to cut the ice. 

The ice house is a miniature version of the ones that dotted the mountainous territories of the northern states where ice was commercially "grown" to guarantee safe icebox ice for families living in cities all year round.  Some were so large, the ice created it's own weather patterns inside.  This made them easy targets for lightning storms, and fires were the natural result of that.  Lightning rods were very important to keep the electrical storms from doing much harm.

Bak in Scranton, the RS3 poses in the afternoon sunshine with younger cousin M420 no 2045.  This Montreal Locomotive Works unit from around 1974 is the only wide cab unit on the D-L roster in Scranton.  

I have to get ready for work.  Time now for you to share some of your photos of railroading as you see it.  Have a great week.

 Why is the Boston & Maine boxcar painted for the Lackawanna?

Jon  

Hi Kool Jock. It just is. Just like if you bought a white house  and wanted to paint it blue. The owner decides what to do with it.  The box car is owned by the Leonard family, and they painted it.