All About Pocket Knives

Waiting on a train. The ballast train was just sitting there in the yard.

Got a live one. BNSF DS. Snuck up on me while I was posting.

This manifest snuck on me also. How can a iron pounding diesel behemoth sneak up on ya?

DM11 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 10, 2024 10:58 pm This manifest snuck on me also. How can a iron pounding diesel behemoth sneak up on ya?

Hahaha! I have had the same experience, David, sometimes they just seem to appear with no warning. Good pics!

Waukonda wrote: ↑Tue Dec 10, 2024 11:27 pm

DM11 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 10, 2024 10:58 pm This manifest snuck on me also. How can a iron pounding diesel behemoth sneak up on ya?

Hahaha! I have had the same experience, David, sometimes they just seem to appear with no warning. Good pics!

Thanks buddy. I've had it happen over the years but think this is the first time a had two in a row sneak up on me.

David, Ike
Nice pictures I don’t care if they snuck up on you. Still got the pictures.
Steve

Cool Pumpkin Power shots, David.

LKSKNIVES wrote: ↑Sat Dec 07, 2024 9:31 pm
Ike any idea on how many coal cars.
Thought I counted 135 one time.

The BNSF and UP trains that I checked were between 120 and 130, usually 3 locos.

I see consists rolling through Cumberland that are over 2 miles long.

Recently, we had a new hobby shop open up. I noticed that they sell almost all the major brands--I'm thinking about finally dusting off some old locomotives with minor problems I've got laying about. I have a Lionel O-27 Scout that just needs going over (plus a second larger locomotive I'm buying cheap soon), a Marklin DRG-89 (missing pickup shoe and has some drivetrain issues caused by carpet fibers and dog hair due to careless prior owner), and a Marklin Henschel (a weird two axle, 2WD variant used in budget sets in the '60s--runs great, needs traction tires and a headlight rewire).

Even if they don't do service, I can still order the necessary parts to fix those hot messes (as well as to stock up on wear parts and hardware). A lot cheaper than buying second locomotives to cannibalize.

So, guess when I go in January, I'll box up my busted Marklin and Lionel locomotives and see if I can get things back on track. Also, I stripped a screw doing maintenance on my Axial SCX-24 Chevy, so looks like some replacements for that are in order. I hope they also sell 1:87 vehicles as well.

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Good catch Ike

These two KCS were sitting in the F St yard.

DM11 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 8:22 pm Good catch Ike

These two KCS were sitting in the F St yard.

Good one, are you seeing any CP locos?

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Waukonda wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 8:31 pm

DM11 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 8:22 pm Good catch Ike

These two KCS were sitting in the F St yard.

Good one, are you seeing any CP locos?

Not recently.

Waukonda wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 8:33 pm.

Really like that second shot

DM11 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 9:53 pm

Waukonda wrote: ↑Fri Dec 27, 2024 8:33 pm.

Really like that second shot

Thanks, David, that orange BNSF loco brightened up what was an otherwise gloomy Winter's day.

Great pictures gentelmen!

Happened to catch the WMSR Polar Express while driving through Cumberland on Christmas Eve. Here's a little YouTube short-

Good catch John

1967redrider wrote: ↑Sat Dec 28, 2024 2:23 pm Happened to catch the WMSR Polar Express while driving through Cumberland on Christmas Eve. Here's a

Pretty cool, John! There appears to be an old Illinois Central passenger car in the mix.

Waukonda wrote: ↑Sun Dec 29, 2024 2:23 am
Pretty cool, John! There appears to be an old Illinois Central passenger car in the mix.

I think it might be IC 3320, Ike. My brother took this picture in the Cumberland yards a few months ago.
I looked up some history.

1967redrider wrote: ↑Sun Dec 29, 2024 2:50 am

Waukonda wrote: ↑Sun Dec 29, 2024 2:23 am
Pretty cool, John! There appears to be an old Illinois Central passenger car in the mix.

I think it might be IC 3320, Ike. My brother took this picture in the Cumberland yards a few months ago.

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I looked up some history.

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That is interesting stuff, thanks!

Virtual Railfan is linking railcams with snowfall here-



I think I see Ike's house,
. . . David's house,
. . . and Lyle's house.

1967redrider wrote: ↑Mon Jan 06, 2025 2:12 am
I think I see Ike's house,

good post, John, thanks........but don't go by that view if you ever plan to look me up, better head downriver about 3 1/2 hours.