Trackside on a terrible, stormy Thursday here in central Texas, lost power + internet until 0230 this morning from about 7 pm. Still "banging and flashing" outside but at least we have power again. This a scene from the main crossing in Small Town, everybody waits while Amtrak loads at the depot and departs.
Best wishes
Don
from a christmas layout
- walt
This one qualifies for 'below' trackside Lol.
Premiere Texas Special crossing the trestle with the road gang building the RR near Old Fort east of Asheville NC to bring the tracks up 1,100' in less than 3 miles. I bought this handsome ABBA locomotive from Marty Fitzhenry some years before his passing...
@c.sam posted:This one qualifies for 'below' trackside Lol.
Premiere Texas Special crossing the trestle with the road gang building the RR near Old Fort east of Asheville NC to bring the tracks up1,100' in less than 3 miles. I bought this handsome ABBA locomotive from Marty Fitzhenry some years before his passing...
What a great picture, especially blending the backdrop with your scenery. Nice job!
Gene
I pray that any of our OGR Forum friends in harms way, Tornadoes, Rain, Wind, are Okay, We have had a lot of rain here in middle Tennessee… I love this thread and seeing everyone’s art work is so interesting. Happy Railroading Everyone 
Mr. Slotzky the Yard Dispatcher, makes sure that freight # 25 exiting the yard clears onto the main for her trip up the line.
Best Wishes
Don
homeless live anywhere
- walt
Trackside for this fine Thursday! Unloading a power shovel. 
NY Telephone building, close resemblance of where I hung my hat for 20 years.
@trumpettrain Pat, that's a great looking shovel!!
@pennsyfan Bob, that's a great looking Telephone Co. office! I worked for North Pittsburgh Telephone Co. for 21 years, retiring in 2019. They had a great looking office building too.
@Mark Boyce posted:@trumpettrain Pat, that's a great looking shovel!!
@pennsyfan Bob, that's a great looking Telephone Co. office! I worked for North Pittsburgh Telephone Co. for 21 years, retiring in 2019. They had a great looking office building too.
Thanks Mark, that was a Central Office. I went from there to Manhattan, right next to WTC.
@pennsyfan posted:Thanks Mark, that was a Central Office. I went from there to Manhattan, right next to WTC.
The two story building I mentioned housed our main central office that had trunks to Bell/Verizon in Downtown Pittsburgh, also connections to all the major carriers in Pittsburgh.
You have inspired me to model our CO, the front has an antebellum look.
For this Trackside Thursday, I have a miniature Golf course at Craig Park; nestled between Track 3 and the Trolley Track.
Railfans are not disappointed today as one of the Leonardtown and Savannah's last operating steam engines, on nearly her last run before heading to the scrap yard, ties up traffic in the center of Town.
Best Wishes
Don
TRACKSIDE for this fine Thursday!!
Brakeman Percy Klontz signal the engineer of the 44 tonner after having made the joint. Conductor J. W. Pepper rides the side deck of the locomotive.
The diminutive switcher will now pull this car to the coach yard. 
SP Mogul 1760 just rolled in for some routine trackside service. The guys are ready to go!
From one of my Christmas layouts a few years ago. The homeless find a place to settle in to.
- walt
It’s barely Thursday; Happy Trackside Thursday! I’ve got a radiation appointment in the morning so I’m going to post now.
Farmers bringing their milk to a milk reefer that will be picked up by the early passenger train.
TRACKSIDE for this fine Thursday!! My view from the Free State Junction Railway's Executive Office reveals a BL2 leading a Western Maryland locomotive consist westward. Hmmm must be a set of helpers?
Scott Smith visits Waltburg 
- walt
@pennsyfan - Hey Bob read your input today. I just finished a 6 week radiation treatment, hope you do well and things work out for you. All the Best !!
Well happy Trackside Thur to you all...Hey the Army's in Town! Getting ready for a big 4th of July celebration.
Happy Thursday everyone
Don
@Don McErlean posted:@pennsyfan - Hey Bob read your input today. I just finished a 6 week radiation treatment, hope you do well and things work out for you. All the Best !!
Well happy Trackside Thur to you all...Hey the Army's in Town! Getting ready for a big 4th of July celebration.
Happy Thursday everyone
Don
Thanks Don, 2/3 done. I hope you have positive results. Nice looking # 51.
Passengers for the next train into town on the Leoardtown and Savannah have to cross a small footbridge to get to the platform. Not over other tracks but over a small stream that provide too good fishing to be tampered with when the RR took over the property and built the station. That chap in the homburg has just struggled with that enormous carrier of luggage to get to the platform. With all that luggage he must be a salesman of some sort headed down to the business district to try and make a sale...good luck Mate!
Best Wishes
Don
Shoppers waiting for the trolley.
TRACKSIDE for this fine Thursday!
Just a few more pallets of newsprint to be unloaded and these fellers will call it quits for today. Toby Janks positions his forklift accordingly. It's too bad the Patsburg Daily Trumpeter Newspaper does not have a siding to their printing plant . Instead all shipments of newsprint must be unloaded from a team track. For many years inbound newsprint shipments always arrived at the team track on Tuesdays. Now they arrive trackside on Thursdays.
Switchman Crazy Legs Lawson waves good bye to his brother - in - law brakeman Bo McCabe. Bo's and his 44 tonner crew has just spotted a block of automobile carriers in the vehicle receiving yard. Looks like a bunch of Patsburgians will be driving new Tucker Forty Eights pretty soon! Word has it that those Tuckers have something called seatbelts, a center headlight that turns with the steering wheel, a rear air cooled engine, and a trunk in the front, plus an aero dynamic design! Wowweee who wouldn't want to drive one of those!
Well its a hot, humid summer day so no one is complaining about the arrival of a Reefer full of Ice Cream, even if it is tying up traffic and holding up deliveries of "Lionelville Cola"...
Happy T.S.T. everyone
Best Wishes
Don
Went to.get some ice cream and a car show broke out. 
Remember these toys?!!!! They come in handy sometimes.
- walt
@walt rapp posted:Remember these toys?!!!! They come in handy sometimes.
- walt
I saved girders and panels from my son’s toys. Used them here till a building was ready.
Trackside for this fine Thursday! " Not according to plan."
This Trackside Thursday is special because it’s Independence Day! The people of Tin Town, are celebrating Independence Day by attending a concert at the town park.
Be safe while celebrating today!
A sloppily built farm scene. But i does show my scratch-built barn.
- walt
Trackside for this fine Thursday: " May cooler temperatures prevail at your trackside this summer season." 
A favorite railfan picture taking spot, watching the daily run of the 20th Century disappear into the "mountains"
Sorry on vacation, best I could do this week from the archives on my computer !
Don
Sitting on a hill near the mainline, I saw these trains trackside on this fine Thursday!
Happy Trackside Thursday Everyone, I’ll post more this evening, but here’s some eye candy for today..
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