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Midweek Photos 6/18/2014

Tim O'MalleyTim O'MalleyOGR Forum Member

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We made it halfway through the week, and it is time for the Midweek Photo thread!  In Scranton, I found park electrician wiring up Union Pacific 4012 so that the BigBoy's headlight will be on during the day.  Power comes from a solar panel in the tender.

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Across the way, two RS3s sit side by side.  Reading Company 467 looks completely blank next to the spaghetti striping of Central of New Jersey 1554.

 

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ON Sunday, June 15, I was able to catch the excursion from Scranton to Gouldsboro on its return to Scranton.  What made this trip unusual is that the GP9, number 514 was MUed with F3 number 664.  This gives a glimpse of what a Nickel Plate-Lackawanna merger might have looked like if it happened in the 1950s.

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Passing the Mall at Steamtown and a freight brought in on Saturday night by the Delaware Lackawanna.

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The Geep could handle the train on its own, but the run around track in the Poconos was not clear, so the two units were needed for the preparation for the return to Scranton.

Time to hand you the thread.  Have fun!  Post any unusual, or quite ordinary photos you may have taken of the Real World lately.  Talk to you next week.

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Z ZephyrOGR Forum Member
Originally Posted by Tim O'Malley:
" In Scranton, I found park electrician wiring up Union Pacific 4012 so that the BigBoy's headlight will be on during the day.  Power comes from a solar panel in the tender."
 
This implies that there are funds available for small projects at Steamtown.  So... why - WHEN are they going to replace those crazy number boards?  Maybe someone should set up a fund drive online - how much could it possibly cost to replace 4012's number boards?  Why are they white in the first place?
 
 
Nice shots, Tim.
 
/Mitch
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Looks like everybody but ME got train photos last week.  What happened to me?  It rained.  I don't like being out in the rain all that much, but more than that I mean it RAINED, like forty days and forty nights!  It was hitting seven or eight inches in one day, which isn't a good thing out here in the flatlands.  I didn't photo any trains because there weren't any!  The tracks have been washed out on all but one RR within an hour's drive of me.  And the roads were covered with water so I couldn't have got to them anyway.  Our local river, the Big Sioux, went from being a foot deep to 32 feet deep in less than a day.  It was three miles wide in many places, and this had consequences.  BNSF, D&I and Minnesota traffic has all come to a halt and it might be a month before the tracks are replaced.  (Not just repaired--replaced.)  It's astonishing how much power fast moving water has.  It's not to be fooled with.

 

1. Part of the BNSF tracks washed out at Canton, SD.  An entire section of the levy is gone.

 

2. D&I train crossing at Fairview, SD on Monday.  Might be the last D&I train until the end of July here.

 

3. That same location now.  

 

4. Water over the bridge left it full of debris.  Tracks are out of gauge and the bridge might have actually shifted.

 

5. Tracks swept off the trestle south of Fairview.

 

6. Tracks twisted and flipped west of Hawarden, IA

 

 

There are several stretches of track damage that are over 200 yards each.

 

 

Kent in SD

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Tim O'MalleyTim O'MalleyOGR Forum Member

Great photos, everyone! 

Help us spread the word about the Midweek photos.  Every Wednesday is when it begins, but you can post on an "old"thread up until Tuesday night.  

There are a lot of railroad events this summer.  It would be great to get a review of some of them for those of us on either a limited budget or limited time to enjoy them all.  Thanks 

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