Midweek Photos - 11/9/2017

We can only dream of what might have been.  Thanks for posting.

Caught the old Lewisburg and Buffalo Creek Baggage car in the process of being repainted yesterday. Looks like it will soon be joining the Penn Valley Railroad roster in PRR colors. First photo is of the baggage car still in the L&BC Green. Second photo is form yesterday.

Running trains all summer means it's time for the winter maintenance season...

A photo taken shortly before departing for the final day of running for the season on October 30th.

The following weekend I started my winter task of doing the maintenance on the whistles for our three operating locomotive.  Usually this involves lapping the valves, doing a general cleanup and inspecting the pieces before putting them on the storage shelf for the winter.

The whistle for our 1873 Mason 0-6-4T Torch Lake following it's winter maintenance work.  As far as we know, the bell and some of the other parts of the whistle are some of the few remaining pieces from it's original construction.  We had to have a new whistle bowl cast last year due to excessive wear in the valve of the original piece.

A piece of the 5 chime whistle that goes on our smaller 4-4-0 was found to have a slightly out of shape hole, so it's shown here in the lathe while I true up the bore a bit.

Spent a Saturday morning at Horseshoe Curve back in October.
Besides the parade of trains and helper movements, it was interesting to watch the reaction of a large family of Amish folk who came to picnic all day. The elder was friendly and they didn't seem to mind all of the pixels being expended around them. 
Amtrak got the biggest response, a long and loud westbound was intently watched, but a lowly helper gets minimal attention...

All images by Warren W. Jenkins; 10-15-16

Dirty Canadian Pacific visitors to Pittsburgh, PA last week:

Here is the depot (office) at Valley Nebraska. Valley is west Omaha 25 miles and 10 miles east of Fremont.  Fremont is a very small town but an interesting RR point.  It does have a major industry with Valmont just west of town.  Valmont manufactures center pivots and power/light poles.  Usually there is a switcher or pair stationed there.  Also of interest is there lies the junction for the line going Southwest to Lincoln Ne and then  I believe to Kansas City.  This line does not see a great deal of traffic as it is now hard to catch a live one on it.  This fall day, I did manage to snag a photo of one appearing to come off of the line from the southwest and waiting for orders.  I attach a couple of shots of a nice pair of engines, the model of which I am unsure, but looking pretty in the sun in any event. 

Turn up your volume on this one. Don't you just love to hear this girl hissing/sputtering air?  Valley Ne.

Made it out to Helmstetter's Curve on the Western Maryland Scenic last Saturday.

The train route now is to back up to near Sunnyside, just below Woodcock Hollow, where

they have picnic tables set up, allow the passengers to relax and then go back to Cumberland.

Here are a few shots I make at the curve. It was brisk, and I'll bet it was nice in the caboose!

Ed

I have 2 sets of photos this week.  The first set were taken at the Carrie Furnaces site in the Swissvale/Rankin area of Pittsburgh along the Monongahela River this past Saturday:

They conduct tours and other events (like the beer fest I was at ) at the site.  I highly recommend taking a tour of the site for anyone in the area.

Andy

And the second set from this past Sunday.  Spent a long and beautiful day rail-fanning in the Sandpatch/Mance/Fairhope region in Southern PA:

Even saw a bald eagle at the overlook site (he flew out of sight before I could get a picture, tho).

Andy

Andy,

I like that Conrail boxcar as an office.

Hello My friends, You sure got some very nice photos of your railfanning they are very nice too see and you got a lot of road names too. That is very interesting to me and also like the railway museums you went too they very cool my friend. Thanks longbow57ca.

Two more I took on the way home from work this week.

Old Carroll Park and Western Railroad's Deadwood Flats Depot.

North Shore SW1500 No. 1946 returning from Berwick heading towards Bloomsburg.

berwickrailfan posted:

Two more I took on the way home from work this week.

 

Old Carroll Park and Western Railroad's Deadwood Flats Depot.

 

North Shore SW1500 No. 1946 returning from Berwick heading towards Bloomsburg.

Great photos everyone. As many times as I made the trip to and from Weaver models in Northumberland, I never saw a train running along the river route along Rt 11. I saw plenty of action in the yard outside the restaurant in the old station downtown though. 

Don

Wow!  Great pics.  Here are a couple I've had on my phone for a while.  These guys run through Lake Villa, Il. from time to time on the CN old Wisconsin Central line. Check out that first blue colored brute.  It's unusual.  Well, I guess they all are kinda rare.  Keep the sunny side up!  Cheers.

As always, great shots, everyone! I have been occupied with other things this week, so only now am I back to posting a few to tide us over until next Wednesday.

Quite a few items were moved in and out of the Steamtown locomotive shop last week to make some room for winter projects.  As a result, this 1916 2-8-0, number 15 from the Rahway Valley RR was placed on this track outside for the first time in about 5 years.

She was placed near the sand dryer, over by 1905 4-6-0 number 44 from the New York Chicago and St. Louis RR. 

Daylight Savings Time ended, and we are back to Standard Time.  This allowed me to get this twilight photo of the Steamtown parking lot.