Weekend Photo Fun 6-14-19--?

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Some views at the Illinois Railway Museum last Sunday, June 9, in Union, IL.

Frisco decapod #1630

The museum was demonstrating their RPO car with grabbing mail on the fly. Pretty accurate drop off too.

Enjoy your weekend.

Tom

Have a great weekend! 

Happy Fathers Day as well.  My dad retired from Dairy farming years ago, and turns 84 next week.  He's raised chickens for fun for many years, so in honor of him I run the Poultry Dispatch car. 

Here's my fun for this weekend!  " Mostly from the Mountain Division "

A 2018 Christmas Layout memory

Each week I try to use a section of the layout that matches the current calendar season.  For instance, this Spring I posted all images of the Easter section of the layout.  In 2018 I did NOT have a summer scene or anything close to one.  I had Halloween, Christmas, and Easter.  So even though it's not what I prefer, I will have to just post whatever I have.  Sorry.

Halloween.

- walt

Greg, my uncle was a dairy farmer until his little two stall milk barn was deemed not big enough for the dairy so he switched over to chicken farming running two chicken houses, when the chicken industry moved on to a new area with newer and bigger houses, as that industry was wont to do, he was old enough to retire and enjoyed the life of a retired farmer tending to a garden, a small herd of cows for beef and an occasional pig for pork.

BNSF action on the Seattle & Yakima RR

Finishing up the circus display. 

Great circus act Chris. I really like the person getting shot out of the cannon.

California  RR museum 

Some Postwar action. This is my version of Lionel Dealer Display Layout, D-105. A 5x9 two-level.

Dave NYC Hudson PRR K4 posted:

Great circus act Chris. I really like the person getting shot out of the cannon.

Thanks Dave. I’m thinking about putting some flashing LED’s in the cannon behind the smoke. 

Nothing special....just some Northeast railroading on the layout....

Peter

The Detroit, Toledo & Ironton high-cube 86' boxcars by Lionel from Mr. Muffin's Train finally arrived for my Grand Trunk Western freight trains. The last time I saw a full size DT&I 86' box car was in 2016 on the GTW in a CN freight train. 

Andrew

Nothing special here, but thought I would share. After High School, knowing I would come into the draft and not sure about college, I went to work for Tuthill Spring co. in Momence, Il. The building with furnaces, stamping equipment was at one time a 6 stall Roundhouse for the C&EI railroad. Tuthill bought it, and using the pits for cooling and tempering the steel, removing trackage to it. Moved their equipment and started making auto, truck, tractor, etc. springs. The flooring still had the original wooden blocks, doors for the engines and overhead cranes. There were still signs and posters on the walls from C&EI. They were dismantling the table, but left the pit there. In fact till late 70s the pit was still there. Space limited the trackage into the Roundhouse so they overlapped. In all the years searching for pictures of the roundhouse, these 2 showed up yesterday. Today, the original Roudhouse still has the frontage were the offices were, but the rest has been extended, parking lot  and pit filled and concreted over. Its a Pallet factory today. First photo, roundhouse is back of photographer, small engine shed shown on left. Second photo shows engine on turntable with trackage into roundhouse. Photos from June, 1926.

Good morning! Check this out!

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SIRT posted:

           Covers...……….

Weathered as such, what material would be loaded on this covered hopper car?

The ACF CENTER FLOW PRESSURAIDE pressure-differential covered hoppers have fine grain or powdery products loaded into them. Fine powders such as minerals or flour are what they are meant to carry.

Here are two photos of a real ACF CENTER FLOW PRESSURAIDE covered hopper in a CN freight train on June 4th, 2019.

Click on the image to see it full size. 

Andrew

Finally got my turntable installed and got the engines on the tracks...now to start rebuilding the rest of the layout! 

It looks like another busy weekend at McDonald's.

Neal Jeter

McDonalds was busy all over the country! So were some others, including a "fly-in" for Fathers Day