All About Pocket Knives

1967redrider wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 1:32 pm Those are cool, Bob, thanks for posting. Is the second one down a Baldwin RF-16 Sharknose?

desmobob wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 1:01 pm I live in a town that used to have a Delaware & Hudson Railroad maintenance shop and roundhouse, as well as a decent-sized yard. One of my uncles was a D&H engineer.

When I used to play around with N-scale model trains, I had several D&H locomotives and lots of D&H rolling stock...
D&H locos.jpg

desmobob wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 1:01 pm I live in a town that used to have a Delaware & Hudson Railroad maintenance shop and roundhouse, as well as a decent-sized yard. One of my uncles was a D&H engineer.

When I used to play around with N-scale model trains, I had several D&H locomotives and lots of D&H rolling stock...
D&H locos.jpg

cudgee wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 7:33 pm Nice collection, i'm just getting back into it, N Scale for the first time.

TPK wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 8:07 pm
Cool Bob!

desmobob wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 9:25 pm

TPK wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 8:07 pm
Cool Bob!

Glad you like 'em! I wish I had waited a while to get into model trains. Advancements in electronic technology has made model railroading a lot easier and more fun. The Digital Commnd Sytem (DCS) has made it super-easy to wire a layout and to run multiple engines simultaneously but control them separately... a huge advancement, in my opinion.

Sort of like model airplanes... I have a cellar full of glow-powered models and a big selection of glow (alcohol and nitromethane) powered engines, but advances in battery technology has made it simpler, easier, cleaner, etc. to run electric-powered models. I fear that all my glow stuff is already obsolete. One of the perils of getting old...

TPK wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 9:30 pm One more good thing about knives. Older is even better.

desmobob wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 1:01 pm I live in a town that used to have a Delaware & Hudson Railroad maintenance shop and roundhouse, as well as a decent-sized yard. One of my uncles was a D&H engineer.

When I used to play around with N-scale model trains, I had several D&H locomotives and lots of D&H rolling stock...
D&H locos.jpg

Waukonda wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 10:13 pm Great info, Bob, and nice collection. I also had an uncle who was an engineer, he was with the IC. He was one of my great uncles, so he retired when I was very young, but I have a vague memory of him showing me around the cab of a loco.

desmobob wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 1:01 pm I live in a town that used to have a Delaware & Hudson Railroad maintenance shop and roundhouse, as well as a decent-sized yard. One of my uncles was a D&H engineer.

When I used to play around with N-scale model trains, I had several D&H locomotives and lots of D&H rolling stock...
D&H locos.jpg

1967redrider wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 11:28 pm
Ever see a Delaware & Hudson like this one?

desmobob wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 11:46 pm

1967redrider wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 11:28 pm
Ever see a Delaware & Hudson like this one?

I never did see one of their famous Challengers, but I have seen another D&H steam locomotive. Most of their steam locos had unusual extended fireboxes for the soft coal they burned. D&H started as a coal shipping company that transported by waterways initially, and even built some great aqueducts for their canal routes. They were known as "The Bridge Line."

One of the biggest buildings in my town was the train station:
Whitehall_Train_Station_Mid_1950s.jpg

They were a big part of my tiny hometown's economy and their demise was the beginning of the downward slide of my town.

treefarmer wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 4:27 am I was rootin' through some of my worldly possessions this afternoon and ran across some railroad related items.
Do y'all know about these?001.JPG
Back in the day when we had our small cow/calf operation we were always building and repairing fences. A used railroad cross tie most of the time made an excellent corner post, pull post or a gate post. The RR line that runs east and west through our county has changed hands several times since 1880, interesting history. The town of Chipley, FL was once known as Orange but was renamed to honor William Dudley Chipley, the president of the P&A RR (Pensacola and Atlantic). The maintenance of the railroad bed included replacing cross ties from time to time. Back in the '70's when it was known as the L&N RR, the whole tie would be slide out from under the rails and piled along the right of way, free for the taking if you could get to them. Later they began breaking the tie into 3 pieces with a machine to save on labor and that left piles of short creosote treated pieces of timber not fit for anything.
At some point the RR's began putting date nails in the ties to keep up with the age of repairs, etc. The nails in the picture were from salvaged ties, the oldest I have is the 1930, 91 years old, 2 1/2 inches long, the latest nail is dated with 63 (1963) and notice that it is an inch shorter than the 1930 nail. The other nails are all 2 inches. 004.JPG002.JPG
Treefarmer

cudgee wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 10:57 pm That is what got me hooked. About 6 or 7 waiting for a train with my mum, she was reading in the carriage and i was down looking at the diesel thumping away before departure. The driver climbed down, picked me up and took up and sat me in his seat showing me all the controls. When he let me sound the horn i was done for. Would not be allowed to get away with that now days.

1967redrider wrote: ↑Tue Feb 16, 2021 11:31 pm Just posted on Twitter, B&O 829 heading Westbound out of Cumberland through The Narrows. Will's Creek is below, named after Indian Will.

treefarmer wrote: ↑Wed Feb 17, 2021 4:27 am I was rootin' through some of my worldly possessions this afternoon and ran across some railroad related items.
Do y'all know about these?001.JPG
Back in the day when we had our small cow/calf operation we were always building and repairing fences. A used railroad cross tie most of the time made an excellent corner post, pull post or a gate post. The RR line that runs east and west through our county has changed hands several times since 1880, interesting history. The town of Chipley, FL was once known as Orange but was renamed to honor William Dudley Chipley, the president of the P&A RR (Pensacola and Atlantic). The maintenance of the railroad bed included replacing cross ties from time to time. Back in the '70's when it was known as the L&N RR, the whole tie would be slide out from under the rails and piled along the right of way, free for the taking if you could get to them. Later they began breaking the tie into 3 pieces with a machine to save on labor and that left piles of short creosote treated pieces of timber not fit for anything.
At some point the RR's began putting date nails in the ties to keep up with the age of repairs, etc. The nails in the picture were from salvaged ties, the oldest I have is the 1930, 91 years old, 2 1/2 inches long, the latest nail is dated with 63 (1963) and notice that it is an inch shorter than the 1930 nail. The other nails are all 2 inches. 004.JPG002.JPG
Treefarmer