Midweek Photos 3/15/2017

Nice photos.  Thanks for posting.  I'd gladly pay to ride behind that pair of Reading FP7's.  Or any of the Alcos.  I would love to sit in the seat and smoke up the town while switching out a long cut of cars with that RS3.

Green trains:

Borden Tunnel posted:

Green trains:

(Drool.)  Oh, how I would love, just once more, to sit in the seat of an old Alco and kick some cars in the yard.  I may just have to pay Nevada Northern for the privilege.

On the way home today I was happily surprised by a Rock Island covered hopper still in it's blue paint!  BNSF (Frisco) heading south towards Springfield Mo.

Nathan

Love it, Borden Tunnel!  Just in time for St. Patrick's! 

Some green from my files:

Ed

Former MP flat turned boom car

From the B&O Museum in Baltimore.

trumptrain posted:

From the B&O Museum in Baltimore.

I'm thinking about all the hours this Western Maryland RS3 spent at 15 MPH in Run-8, as a helper or a road engine on WM's mountain grades.  Many who view it in the museum would be surprised to learn how hard it worked on really tough assignments when it was in service as first-line road power.

I'm thinking about all the hours this Western Maryland RS3 spent at 15 MPH in Run-8, as a helper or a road engine on WM's mountain grades.  Many who view it in the museum would be surprised to learn how hard it worked on really tough assignments when it was in service as first-line road power.

You got that right, Tom. Her and her sisters, just in a fifty mile radius of my home spent lots of time on three percent grades hauling lots of coal...to markets, and to the power plants near here.

Ed

Number 90 posted:

trumptrain posted:

From the B&O Museum in Baltimore.

I'm thinking about all the hours this Western Maryland RS3 spent at 15 MPH in Run-8, as a helper or a road engine on WM's mountain grades.  Many who view it in the museum would be surprised to learn how hard it worked on really tough assignments when it was in service as first-line road power.

Tom, you are so right; the WM RS3 fleet made their fame in deepest West Virginia, but later in their service lives they became real jack-of-all-trade locos.
Where I grew up in Frostburg, Md., the RS3 would occasionally run on the Connellsville Subdivision, most notably as helpers on the 22 miles of 1.75% from Cumberland,MD. to Deal,PA. (WMSR runs about 2/3 of this trackage today)
I also saw WM RS 3s in switching around Cumberland,MD., and also on the light-railed remnants of the former Cumberland & Pennsylvania and Georges Creek & Cumberland coal shortlines in the Frostburg area, and in the Georges Creek  valley. This was during the years 1968-76.

Here are WM RS's in various roles