Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2021 11:54 pm
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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Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 12:58 am
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
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 12:59 am
Looks like I forgot the picture. Lol
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Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:02 am
- My 4*8 n scale layout
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Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:03 am
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Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:08 am
- My new plow
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:45 am
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:55 am
Found this old thing laying along the tracks
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 2:17 am
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 2:21 am
Did you have to cut the wires before you could take it home?
Enjoying your posts, Tommy, thanks for the pics, good stuff!
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 5:06 am
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
I called it a lantern but technically it's a stationary switch lamp
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:23 pm
It's a classic, a very nice piece.TommyTreehugger wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 5:06 am 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
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 1:52 pm
Very cool stuff, thanks for posting pics. Used to have a bunch of N and HO Scale stuff as a kid,brought back some memoriesTommyTreehugger wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 5:06 am 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
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 6:03 pm
Nice layout, Tommy! Would that black engine be a Camelback?
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 9:06 pm
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.
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 9:54 pm
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2021 10:25 pm
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.
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 12:03 am
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. 
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 12:15 am
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.cudgee wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 12:03 am 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.
Fluked?
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 12:28 am
Stumbled across by accident.Waukonda wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 12:15 amThat is pretty much the story of numerous small towns in my area.cudgee wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 12:03 am 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.
Fluked?
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Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 1:27 pm
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.
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 8:00 pm
South bound BNSF grain and Intermodal 
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Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2021 10:36 pm
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. .
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 12:04 am
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.
Great picture, love that blue and gold one, great color scheme and nose logo!
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 12:11 am
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.Waukonda wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 12:04 amI 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.
Great picture, love that blue and gold one, great color scheme and nose logo!
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