Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?

[cudgee]

Sorry the photos are not as good as " Just Plain Dave's ", but this is one of my American model loco's, from Wisconsin Central.

[TommyTreehugger]

I have the station list for that same line Cudgee. The little N scale engine in my picture is from the Fox River Valley where I grew up

[TommyTreehugger]

Looks like I forgot the picture. Lol

[TommyTreehugger]

My 4*8 n scale layout

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[TommyTreehugger]

[TommyTreehugger]

My new plow

[DM11]

Some random shots from today.......a Grand Trunk GP38 switcher and a 125 car Union Pacific coal train, including a CSX loco.

Good pics Ike!

[TommyTreehugger]

Found this old thing laying along the tracks

[Waukonda]

Some random shots from today.......a Grand Trunk GP38 switcher and a 125 car Union Pacific coal train, including a CSX loco.

Good pics Ike!

Thanks, David.

[Waukonda]

Found this old thing laying along the tracks

Did you have to cut the wires before you could take it home?

Enjoying your posts, Tommy, thanks for the pics, good stuff!

Sorry the photos are not as good as " Just Plain Dave's ", but this is one of my American model loco's, from Wisconsin Central.

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[TommyTreehugger]

The lantern originally burned oil so no knife was needed that day. I found the lenses on eBay, I think they were from street lamps

I called it a lantern but technically it's a stationary switch lamp

[Waukonda]

The lantern originally burned oil so no knife was needed that day. I found the lenses on eBay, I think they were from street lamps

I called it a lantern but technically it's a stationary switch lamp

It's a classic, a very nice piece.

[Ripster]

The lantern originally burned oil so no knife was needed that day. I found the lenses on eBay, I think they were from street lamps

I called it a lantern but technically it's a stationary switch lamp

Very cool stuff, thanks for posting pics. Used to have a bunch of N and HO Scale stuff as a kid,brought back some memories

[1967redrider]

Nice layout, Tommy! Would that black engine be a Camelback?

[Waukonda]

They are moving a heckuva lot of coal this weekend. I just encountered another UP coal train. There was a slight grade here and a little black smoke is showing in the pics.

[cudgee]

They are moving a heckuva lot of coal this weekend. I just encountered another UP coal train. There was a slight grade here and a little black smoke is showing in the pics.

Any particular reason for a lot of coal movement.?

[Waukonda]

They are moving a heckuva lot of coal this weekend. I just encountered another UP coal train. There was a slight grade here and a little black smoke is showing in the pics.

Any particular reason for a lot of coal movement.?

None that I know of, but there has been a definite uptick. I have been seeing them nearly everyday and just by happenstance, I don't spend 24 hours a day by the rails. It may be nothing more than catching up from the recent bad weather we had. Perhaps they didn't load and ship coal for a few days during the heavy snow and sub zero temps and are working down the stockpiles. Thirty or forty years ago it was just a fact of life here, that you would see a coal train(s) every day, now, not so much. In the future they will become even more scarce. That is bad for the RR companies, coal has long been their biggest moneymaker.

[cudgee]

It's interesting that you posted this. Last night i fluked a TV show about a now defunct town in America that was built on coal mining. Thurmond, was built on the discovery of coal seams and became a thriving wild town. With the coal came the railway to move the mined coal. So by default it became a Railway town as well with stabling sheds, workshops and a stop for steam trains to refill their water tanks. When the coal ran out it was still a major Railway town but as steam was replaced by diesel in the 1950's in started to lose it's significance, and was finally closed in the 1980's. Trains just run through the station now.

[Waukonda]

It's interesting that you posted this. Last night i fluked a TV show about a now defunct town in America that was built on coal mining. Thurmond, was built on the discovery of coal seams and became a thriving wild town. With the coal came the railway to move the mined coal. So by default it became a Railway town as well with stabling sheds, workshops and a stop for steam trains to refill their water tanks. When the coal ran out it was still a major Railway town but as steam was replaced by diesel in the 1950's in started to lose it's significance, and was finally closed in the 1980's. Trains just run through the station now.

That is pretty much the story of numerous small towns in my area, more so now from changing politics, there is plenty of coal left.

Fluked?

[cudgee]

It's interesting that you posted this. Last night i fluked a TV show about a now defunct town in America that was built on coal mining. Thurmond, was built on the discovery of coal seams and became a thriving wild town. With the coal came the railway to move the mined coal. So by default it became a Railway town as well with stabling sheds, workshops and a stop for steam trains to refill their water tanks. When the coal ran out it was still a major Railway town but as steam was replaced by diesel in the 1950's in started to lose it's significance, and was finally closed in the 1980's. Trains just run through the station now.

That is pretty much the story of numerous small towns in my area.

Fluked?

Stumbled across by accident. .

[mrwatch]

We have usually two coal trains come by house daily now. Can shake the dishes. Going to the power plant on Lake Michigan they have 3 engines and have to add a pusher engine on the rear to get up the one hill. Western low sulfur coal. I have watched them bring each car into a building with a vintage center cab switcher with chain drive and turn the car over to dump it.

[DM11]

South bound BNSF grain and Intermodal

[cudgee]

2 Loco's at Melbourne's Spencer Street Station[ been renamed Southern Cross Station ] but i still go by the old name. This is the terminus and departure point for all out country train services, and all our suburban services run through it. The one in the blue and gold old VR livery has been restored and is a single end Bulldog style, copied from American EMD's. The other one is a double ended bulldog painted in the livery of the old V/Line which replaced the Victorian Railways. .

[Waukonda]

they have 3 engines and have to add a pusher engine on the rear to get up the one hill. Western low sulfur coal. I have watched them bring each car into a building with a vintage center cab switcher with chain drive and turn the car over to dump it.

I have watched trains in that configuration in the high country of Colorado, amazing display of brute power! However, I have never been lucky enough to see the contents dumped, good post.

South bound BNSF grain and Intermodal

2 Loco's

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Great picture, love that blue and gold one, great color scheme and nose logo!

[cudgee]

they have 3 engines and have to add a pusher engine on the rear to get up the one hill. Western low sulfur coal. I have watched them bring each car into a building with a vintage center cab switcher with chain drive and turn the car over to dump it.

I have watched trains in that configuration in the high country of Colorado, amazing display of brute power! However, I have never been lucky enough to see the contents dumped, good post.

South bound BNSF grain and Intermodal

2 Loco's

2 locos..jpg

Great picture, love that blue and gold one, great color scheme and nose logo!

The old Blue and Gold Victorian Railways were not only my favorite color scheme, but the last of the great years of our railway system in this state. It was these big Blue and Gold bulldog locomotives that started my interest in railways, as a kid i just fell in love with them. The noise, power and smoke were just intoxicating for a kid, and when you're so small they seemed like giants. .