Midweek Photos 6/5/2013

Great photos, Tim, thank you for the wonderful start to my Wednesday!

 

Richie

Great stuff.  If I could just break free of the gravitational pull of the Pittsburgh Line and Keystone Sub whenever I visit PA, I would get up that way one of these days.  Maybe if I drive faster, their gravity will slingshot me around on a course towards Scranton...hmm...

The Michigan Transit Museum had it's 1st train ride of the season on Sunday.  Here are 2 cars from that run as they cross over South Gratiot on the way to Joy Park.  

 

They give 40 minute rides from 1 to 4 every Sunday though the summer.  

 

 

This is the Southshore #11 leading the train.

 

 

Former USAF 4040 provides the motive power.  

 

I will be taking the kids for a ride on this train in the next week or two. 

Wheeling & Lake Erie delivering cars in Kent, Ohio passing the now Pufferbelly's Restaurant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWBhP0EQ1lA

 

here's your wed, hump day video!!

Yesterday we did some after-hours testing of D&LN #7.

 

All three of our steam locomotives fired up.  The other two were getting ready to run today.

 

 

Hi from Greenfield Village... 

Probably the oddest consist of the week. The DC NHRS brought the Dover Harbor to Manassas Railfest last saturday. Here it is leaving the festival behind an MP36 and a VRE double decker car...

This past weekend I discovered the Catskill Mountain RR. This nice little short line actually runs on each end of the line: The Kingston Limited on the east end and the scenic train to the West. The line was bisected by flood and repairs are underway. The 45 minute trip on the Kingston, NY  section was perfect for a 4 year old, and Grandpa and Grandma as well.  Here #401 departs with the 3:00 PM train.

 

 

RS-1 #401 was built in 1950 for the Illinois Terminal Railway. It pulls an open car and former PRR caboose. The open car provided a cool ride on a hot day.

 

 

Scenic views as the train crosses Esophus Creek.

 

 

Some views of the train after our 4 PM trip.

 

Pittsburgh, PA CSX action along the Monongahela River 

That thar be one nice lookin' chooch!

 

Rusty

So Andrew, any information as to location of the photos and when?

Thanks Rusty.  Though I work there, the other guys get the credit for how great she looks.  About all I did was some painting on a couple air system pipes underneath.

 

It's exciting to see her out and about finally.  She was a museum piece from the late 1920's to around 1987 when she was put in storage.  Restoration sort of started in 2000 when the roundhouse was completed, but didn't really get rolling until 2008.

Sorry guys! Forgot information! Me and the wife had the harley out on Saturday! Rode out to the Oklahoma Railroad museam! The 814 they bring out for when they have "day out with Thomas" was currently in the shop, they do have a train they run the first and third Saturday of the month pulling a collection of these coaches
I believe that some of them belonged to Penn Central? They all pulled by this ex army unit from ft sill

Great to see those old Alcos in service. Looks like they are being well taken care of.

It's been cool (like down into the 40s) here, and it rains a lot.  That makes our local waterfall the best show in town.  Especially when they run a GP pulling a caboose over the trestle above the Big Sioux Falls!  Shot with an Agfa Trolix, a simple box camera made somewhere around 1937.

 

 

Kent in SD

 

That photo is gorgeous!  I love how it's a current subject, but looks as if it's from another time!

 

Please tell me you've taken some shots of steam with that camera!

Here's one I took this past April/early May on a day trip to New Hope, PA.  It started snowing and this is after the last run of the day:

 

Sorry Mitch, forgot about that.  Detroit and Lima Northern #7 is at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, MI.  It's now our 3rd operational steam locomotive in addition to our 1873 0-6-4T Mason bogie "Torch Lake" (currently the oldest operating and oldest regularly operating steam locomotive in the country) and a 1932 Ford Rouge built 4-4-0 "Edison".

We also have a 1927 Plymouth gasoline 14(?) ton switcher and a 1942 USN GE 45/50 tonner (a 45 tonner the navy welded steel plates to to add an extra 5 tons)

Jake, that #7 is one sweet machine!  Do they have any idea of when it will go into regular service?  I'd love to get up there to see it later this year.

Over a four-day weekend, Big Jim Video Productions attended two photo charters, and chased steam on the mainlines around Altoona, PA. However, the weekend started off with a Lerro Productions photo charter on the New Hope & Ivyland Railroad. This was a long-awaited charter, as it had to be cancelled once before - but this time, the charter operated as planned, and boy, was it a good one. 2-8-0 #40 was painted in her old Lancaster & Chester paint scheme, and pulled a mixed freight train through the countryside of Bucks County, PA - past farms, tractors, stations, over bridges and trestles along the line. The sun was in and out all day, so some shots are sunny, and some are cloudy...but a great time was had by all. This is only a short segment of clips - as the rest of my footage will be included in a planned New Hope & Ivyland dvd release.

http://youtu.be/eg_noGdECmY

She ran on some trips this past week, but I don't believe she's officially in service yet.  She's had several steam ups, and I believe there are a couple minor issues that need to be addressed still.  I'm not exactly sure when the official public runs will begin though.