Thank you. You have a good weekend fellow enthusiast.Just Plain Dave wrote: ↑Sat Mar 20, 2021 12:41 am As far as I know the answer is yes it is a yard/shunting SW1000
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This picture (U.P. Big Boy 4-8-8-4 X4004) is hanging over the guest bedroom bed at my mother-in-law's house. Her husband and my dad worked together at B&O/Chessie/CSX for many years. Brenda's dad was into collecting local railroad items, including pictures he would come across. No one's sure where he found this picture, maybe from another railroad buddy.
Hope you can see the picture ok, hard to take with the lighting.
Hope you can see the picture ok, hard to take with the lighting.
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I am getting way behind here, been some great posts, you can't beat one of the "Big Boys".
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Ike, i think we should all take a bow.
You predicted this thread would have 25 pages by the end of your winter. I think your spring starts today, correct me if i am wrong, and we have 29 pages. We will have to have a longer than expected stop at the next station. We are running ahead of time.
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Thank you so much Ike.
Running 5 days late.
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Cool old loco!
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Great picture! I like it!1967redrider wrote: ↑Sat Mar 20, 2021 12:56 pm This picture (U.P. Big Boy 4-8-8-4 X4004) is hanging over the guest bedroom bed at my mother-in-law's house. Her husband and my dad worked together at B&O/Chessie/CSX for many years. Brenda's dad was into collecting local railroad items, including pictures he would come across. No one's sure where he found this picture, maybe from another railroad buddy.
Hope you can see the picture ok, hard to take with the lighting.
TOM - KGFG - (Knife-Guy-From-Germany)
I believe..., every knife is a soul, looking for a soulmate.
Weebit-Nano https://www.weebit-nano.com/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weebit_Nano
US - ARMY - COMBAT - ENGINEERS - 1990 - 1993 - God Bless Our Troops!
I believe..., every knife is a soul, looking for a soulmate.
Weebit-Nano https://www.weebit-nano.com/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weebit_Nano
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cudgee wrote: ↑Sat Mar 20, 2021 10:38 pm Ike, i think we should all take a bow.You predicted this thread would have 25 pages by the end of your winter. I think your spring starts today, correct me if i am wrong, and we have 29 pages. We will have to have a longer than expected stop at the next station. We are running ahead of time.
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Nice picture, which old station is that?
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Mate i don't know. I just downloaded the photo to keep the Railway time theme going. I would think it might be something like New York Central, or some where similar, e.g. an old established station in a large Capital City. You have a good week. 
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One of the yard units sitting on the spur to the west mill.
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My Dad worked the B & O for over 30 years. Here's his Brotherhood Of Railroad Trainmen lobster. (Germany) J.O'.
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Inside an old Victorian Railways Signal Box.
The signal box at Beaufort Station in country Victoria.
The signal box at Beaufort Station in country Victoria.
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Good pictures, David!
Thanks for the look inside an Aussie signal box, Cudgee.
J.O., that is an awesome keepsake, thanks for showing.
Thanks for the look inside an Aussie signal box, Cudgee.
J.O., that is an awesome keepsake, thanks for showing.
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Cudgee: Bet that guy had a good memory! Imagine the mechanical workings under that yard. My Dad had a switch club in the trunk of his '49 Hudson. It was a massive hunk of hickory wood twice the size of a baseball bat. It was shoved into a hole in the iron weight on the end of the switch rod to throw the rod over and activate the switch. Love that railroad stuff! J.O'.
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Catches from today.....a few looks at a BNSF coal train, and a fast moving UP that surprised me, I was only able to get a shot of the DPU loco in the middle
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Great pictures! 
Pocket, fixed, machete, axe, it's all good!
You're going to look awfully silly with that knife sticking out of your @#$. -Clint Eastwood, High Plains Drifter
CHRIST IS KING
You're going to look awfully silly with that knife sticking out of your @#$. -Clint Eastwood, High Plains Drifter
CHRIST IS KING
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Have you ever wondered.
I see Swift trailers and containers on trains.
But Swift drivers always seem to be the ones doing idiot stuff.
Makes me wonder....
I see Swift trailers and containers on trains.
But Swift drivers always seem to be the ones doing idiot stuff.
Makes me wonder....
Looking for the magic penny!
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This is one of our Loco's from Pacific National's fleet. An American based Company that own some of our Rail Companies. These Loco's are Genset Locomotives, made by national railway equipment company, Paducan, Kentucky.
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You can click and expand it, JPD.
Pocket, fixed, machete, axe, it's all good!
You're going to look awfully silly with that knife sticking out of your @#$. -Clint Eastwood, High Plains Drifter
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Doesn't get big enough to read the stuff besides the PB
Looking for the magic penny!