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Saw a UP coal train with a leased BNSF loco. One other item of note, there was an old Chicago & Northwestern car that came rolling by. Considering the company was out of business by 1995, the paint was in relatively good shape.
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Cool pictures Ike!
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Always enjoy your photos, Ike.
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Awesome photos, Ike!
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New York Central in action, steam and early diesels-
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Wow cool video and history. Some of those trains were really blazing down the track.
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I think it was a Hudson they said cruised along at 120 mph! And an aluminum accented Mohawk and tender could be pushed by 2 men. I found this video to be very informative, glad you liked it too, David.
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Here's a vid I made last night of a Lionel New York Central Hudson I just picked up on the cheap from trainz.com.
The engine moved like it had been doused with glue at first, a little greasing of the gears and some run time loosened it up. The tender had a broken coupler and the water scoup had come loose. Took a coupler/truck off of a flatbed car and it worked perfectly, the water scoup was easily put back in place. This engine was made by Lionel/MPC between 1972-1975 and probably sat boxed up for the last 45+ years, maybe because the coupler was broken and no one took the time to fix it?
The engine moved like it had been doused with glue at first, a little greasing of the gears and some run time loosened it up. The tender had a broken coupler and the water scoup had come loose. Took a coupler/truck off of a flatbed car and it worked perfectly, the water scoup was easily put back in place. This engine was made by Lionel/MPC between 1972-1975 and probably sat boxed up for the last 45+ years, maybe because the coupler was broken and no one took the time to fix it?
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redrider, that was an excellent video. Fascinating. Perhaps you would know the answer to this. When they were using steam engines in Europe there were most always two big "plates" right at the front and on each side of the engine. Sort of like blinders on a horse. I had never seen them in the U.S but they are shown in the video around the 5 minute mark. Do you know what the purpose of these was?
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1967redrider wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 12:20 pm Here's a vid I made last night of a Lionel New York Central Hudson I just picked up on the cheap from trainz.com.
The engine moved like it had been doused with glue at first, a little greasing of the gears and some run time loosened it up. The tender had a broken coupler and the water scoup had come loose. Took a coupler/truck off of a flatbed car and it worked perfectly, the water scoup was easily put back in place. This engine was made by Lionel/MPC between 1972-1975 and probably sat boxed up for the last 45+ years, maybe because the coupler was broken and no one took the time to fix it?
Yes, that is loud.
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July issue of True West Magazine has an excellent article about several historic train rides available in the U.S. https://truewestmagazine.com/article/ri ... -rails-22/. Also a list of train museums and other railroads not mentioned in the article. Probably one available near you.
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Those are smoke shields/deflectors, QS. Some U.S. engines had them but most didn't. They were used to help engineers' visibility. I think most American engines were built with steam-powered smoke lifters inside the stack. U.P., New York Central and Great Northern used smoke deflectors on some engines where speed increased their effectiveness.Quick Steel wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 5:22 pm redrider, that was an excellent video. Fascinating. Perhaps you would know the answer to this. When they were using steam engines in Europe there were most always two big "plates" right at the front and on each side of the engine. Sort of like blinders on a horse. I had never seen them in the U.S but they are shown in the video around the 5 minute mark. Do you know what the purpose of these was?
Thanks, Tom, glad you enjoyed that.
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Thanks very much redrider. You have solved a long standing mystery for me.
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Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Wed Jun 29, 2022 9:46 pm July issue of True West Magazine has an excellent article about several historic train rides available in the U.S. https://truewestmagazine.com/article/ri ... -rails-22/. Also a list of train museums and other railroads not mentioned in the article. Probably one available near you.
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Pretty cool, Ken. Thanks for the link.
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Cool vids, David.
Apparently they're trying out the whistle that's going to be used on the built from the ground up PRR T1 5550 on the WMSR 1309-
Some T1 footage of you're not familiar -
Apparently they're trying out the whistle that's going to be used on the built from the ground up PRR T1 5550 on the WMSR 1309-
Some T1 footage of you're not familiar -
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PRR T1 vs. S1
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I am gobsmacked. Have never seen Duplex engines before. Fantastic design. Were these used? Mr. Lowey is a giant. I would have guessed these came out of an Italian design shop.
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Just ran across this interesting railroad history vid-
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