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Midweek Photos 1/25/12 --->

Tim O'MalleyTim O'MalleyOGR Forum Member
No real "action" shots this week, but I did get to document some restoration progress the past week. All of these were taken at Steamtown in Scranton.

Looking much like a Lionel Hudson, here is faceplate and smokebox door of Boston & Maine no. 3713 Big Grin


This is the serious end of the operation. New sheet steel added to the fireman's side of the firebox, along with riveting that was completed later the day I took this shot. The engineer's side is also riveted to the back head and the boiler. Bolts are holding the sheets to the mud ring until the inside firebox is ready.

Another restoration project is Baldwin Loco Works shop goat, 0-6-0 no. 26. Recent additions are the firebox door. A few hydro tests have already been performed on the boiler. She is sound.

These pieces will operate the ashpan. Bit by bit, she is coming together.

OK, so I do have an "action" shot this week. Using the wheel lathe to grind down the axle to the proper tolerance. The machine was turning at about 8-10 RPM.



Post your exciting photos of real world railroading here. Only 11 months to Christmas. I apologize to anyone who clicked on here earlier only to find my excuse why photos were not up. I'm certain your own pictures will make up for my delay.
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T Two23OGR Forum Member
Great shot, JD. I think the footprints in the snow really help the shot too. Great light = great photo. Shoot the light, not the train!

No snowplows this year because....no snow! OK, very little snow. It was beginning to look like a very boring winter. Fortunately, BNSF sent a Loram grinder down the Marshall sub, where I caught it near Holland, MN. The last time they ran a grinder down that line was summer 2010, on a very windy and hot day. They set about 8 miles of track on fire from the sparks! I think Roadmaster Tom is still "hot under the collar" about that one! So, they ran it in winter this time. Fire danger on a cold, foggy day is just about zero. Note they ran the hoses at the rear anyway, just in case!










For those of you not familiar with grinders, make sure you stay back a ways. I suggest >30 ft. Those things can chuck rocks at you hard enough to hurt! I always give them respect.


Kent in SD
Ed MullanEd MullanOGR Forum Member
We don't seem to get out to do much railfanning these days, but did manage to make it up to Sand Patch the 25th, yesterday. We have a daughter who lives near Meyersdale, and visited up there. Wife and I spent just 35 minutes at the Deal Road Bridge, which crosses over the CSX row just on the west side of Sand Patch Tunnel.
We took the "least traveled" route up there, and passed this on the way, far out in the country where you'd never expect to see one of them:


I'd have gotten some closer shots, but these big fellas did not seem to want me to come closer:


When we got to the overpass, almost right away came Q368, all out, headed east and climbing the west slope:


A west bound passed as we where taking photos of the 368, and CITX 2795 was in the locomotive consist. It came to Union Pacific as a SD45, and was converted to a SD40M-2:


We cross the road on the over pass and catch 368 as it splits the signals and heads for the west portal of Sand Patch Tunnel:


Ten minutes or so, and we hear another eastbound approach. For those who like hard working SD40-2's, the sound is terrific. Both of these trains were down in the fifteen, ten mile and hour area, working all out.


Another fairly rare leaser in the loco consist, an ex Burlington Northern
SD 40-2,HLCX 7149, one of two SD40-2's to be converted to use natural gas.
It's my understanding the other unit is still on the BNSF roster. Of course, 7149 now burns diesel:



The scanner indicated yet another eastbound coming, a container train, but we had to leave. A lot of fun in around a half hour. I'd like to spend a day there some time.

Ed Mullan
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