briansilvermustang posted:
Is this car a subway or El unit? It looks fascinating. Where did it operate in revenue service?
Bobby Ogage posted:briansilvermustang posted:Is this car a subway or El unit? It looks fascinating. Where did it operate in revenue service?
I'm just seeing this now. Nice! In looking at the doors, I see that there are no steps. That suggests to me that it normally ran on lowered tracks that required a platform for the passengers. I'll be interested to learn more as well. With that adjustable rod handing down on the side but then with a window-less monitor-style roof, it looks like some sort of transitional type. But I'm only guessing. By the way, does that engine in the background say "Burlington"?
Tomlinson Run Railroad
I believe this car is at the Illinois Railroad Museom , I know I have that spelled wrong....
Marty
Bobby Ogage posted:briansilvermustang posted:Is this car a subway or El unit? It looks fascinating. Where did it operate in revenue service?
Hello
It is a Chicago Elevated System Wooden EL Motor Car -- built new in 1905-6 just as shown. It is an Ex-Northwestern Elevated Company wood car #1797 and is seen running under its own power for the first time in decades at the Illinois Railway Museum on June 30, 2012. The car is painted in the Chicago Rapid Transit Company's brown and orange paint scheme, introduced in 1939. Car # 1797 wears a variation of the paint scheme (repainted to be true to its original application to the car, using photographs for reference) to fit the car's architecture; some variances may also result from the car possibly being the first car so repainted by CRT, making it a prototype for the design. The Photo is by Tim Peters.
These cars could MU with all other classes of Enclosed end and Open Platform types of Chicago Wooden EL Cars and ran mainly on the large elevated lines system in the Chicago City and Suburban areas
Regards - Joe F
thanks Joe !!
Columbus Delaware & Marion Electric Company freight motor and train. When this motor moved, the power company must seen a spike in current flow.
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Joseph Frank posted:These cars could MU with all other classes of Enclosed end and Open Platform types of Chicago Wooden EL Cars and ran mainly on the large elevated lines system in the Chicago City and Suburban areas
If memory serves, the poles were used in areas where the tracks were at grade, making third rail operation more hazardous...
Mitch
PTC car at the Ardmore Terminal in 1943
Built in 1926, #76 above is still in service at the ECTM in Scranton.
Is the rear truck derailed?
David Johnston posted:Is the rear truck derailed?
If it was, it's not now. Haha
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Trolley at Milton Park in Northumberland, Pa
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briansilvermustang posted:
What is the history of this train?
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Bobby Ogage posted:briansilvermustang posted:What is the history of this train?
http://transpressnz.blogspot.c...otors-at-loftus.html
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briansilvermustang posted:
You think they've got enough light?
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In the snow in Corry, Pa in 1910
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Wish there was a better picture of that plow unit - pushed single truck?? Blade rests on rails?
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Scenes of the nearly-forgotten Elgin & Belvidere:
Nearly forgotten except for the fact the Illinois Railway Museum owns a portion of the former E&B right-of-way.
Rusty
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mwb posted:In the snow in Corry, Pa in 1910
Nowadays, of course, transit authorities panic and shut down if a snowflake hits the tracks. Wimps.
Mitch
No comment.
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Trolleys on a swing bridge in Fort William, Canada. Note the overhead disconnect gear for when the bridge opens. The center of the bridge is for mainline trains; "shelves" were on either side for trolleys and vehicles.
W&OD #26
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atanz posted:
Great photos. That is until you get to the graffiti covered trolleys. Not that you photo isn't great, it's seeing that scourge of graffiti once more. It has become rampant in Europe and in particular in Italy. My blood is starting to boil so I will not say more.
agreed! such a shame, for what its worth the one we rode (last photo) was all cleaned up! looks like the others had been sitting for awhile.
also check out this concrete truck on a flat car in the google street view! https://goo.gl/maps/XA3U2p5YB9T2
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briansilvermustang posted:Bobby Ogage posted
I don't envy the poor guy who had to do the bug-cleaning on those radiators. Lets hope there weren't too many grasshopper plagues.....
Although the caption says this train is in Oak Park, the trackless trolley lines below the viaduct indicate that the road crossing is at Central Avenue, which would put the scene in Chicago. CTA buses ran across the line at Austin and Central, but only Central was electrified. On summer nights when the windows were open and the wind was right, I used to fall asleep listening to the motor whine from these trains over a mile away. I spent every summer through college and grad school working for the CTA, first as a ticket agent on the L, later as a bus driver on trackless trolleys, propane, and diesel buses. I can still remember every switch on the electrified streets--something you had to know at night in order not to lose a pole. (Trying to reattach a pole at night in the rain with interference from the rain drops in the eye, the blinding flash on contact in the dark, and the current running down the wet ropes was something to avoid.)
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atanz posted:agreed! such a shame, for what its worth the one we rode (last photo) was all cleaned up! looks like the others had been sitting for awhile.
also check out this concrete truck on a flat car in the google street view! https://goo.gl/maps/XA3U2p5YB9T2
That's an interesting piece of equipment. Looks like a front end loader combined with a transit mix. Now there's something more to consider modeling.
Here are some colorful post cards that I enhanced. They are of New York State electric railways. My favorite is the Horse Shoe Curve card on the Southern Tier of New York.