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Posted: **Sat Mar 20, 2021 12:43 am**

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

Thank you. You have a good weekend fellow enthusiast.

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Sat Mar 20, 2021 2:30 pm**

I am getting way behind here, been some great posts, you can't beat one of the "Big Boys".

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Sun Mar 21, 2021 9:02 am**

Waukonda wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 11:24 am Dan, that was interesting information, thanks. I always enjoy your posts.

I also enjoyed reading your recollections, Cudgee.

Thank you so much Ike.
Running 5 days late.

Dan

Posted: **Sun Mar 21, 2021 3:26 pm**

cudgee wrote: ↑Fri Mar 19, 2021 11:51 pm This is an F Class diesel shunting/yard loco. Purchased by the Victorian Railways in 1951 for yard use only. I don't know if there are any left.

Shunting diesel. 1951..jpg

Cool old loco!

Posted: **Sun Mar 21, 2021 3:27 pm**

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.

Great picture! I like it!

Posted: **Sun Mar 21, 2021 3:48 pm**

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.

Railway Clock..jpg

Nice picture, which old station is that?

Posted: **Sun Mar 21, 2021 7:42 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sun Mar 21, 2021 8:11 pm**

Eb BNSF 7622 grain train rolling through.

Posted: **Sun Mar 21, 2021 8:31 pm**

Eb BNSF auto rack

Posted: **Sun Mar 21, 2021 8:40 pm**

Wb BNSF Intermodal finally moving and gone.

Posted: **Sun Mar 21, 2021 9:31 pm**

One of the yard units sitting on the spur to the west mill.

Posted: **Sun Mar 21, 2021 10:39 pm**

My Dad worked the B & O for over 30 years. Here's his Brotherhood Of Railroad Trainmen lobster. (Germany) J.O'.

Posted: **Mon Mar 22, 2021 12:21 am**

Inside an old Victorian Railways Signal Box.

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The signal box at Beaufort Station in country Victoria.

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Posted: **Mon Mar 22, 2021 7:32 pm**

Good pictures, David!

Thanks for the look inside an Aussie signal box, Cudgee.

J.O., that is an awesome keepsake, thanks for showing.

Posted: **Mon Mar 22, 2021 7:50 pm**

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'.

Posted: **Mon Mar 22, 2021 10:41 pm**

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

Posted: **Tue Mar 23, 2021 2:48 pm**

Good pics Ike!

Posted: **Wed Mar 24, 2021 11:38 pm**

Great pictures!

Posted: **Fri Mar 26, 2021 10:35 pm**

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....

Posted: **Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:22 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sat Mar 27, 2021 4:45 pm**

cudgee wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:22 pm 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.

480px-Pacific_National_PB_Class.jpg

Wish the pic was larger.

Posted: **Sat Mar 27, 2021 4:55 pm**

Just Plain Dave wrote: ↑Sat Mar 27, 2021 4:45 pm
cudgee wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:22 pm 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.

480px-Pacific_National_PB_Class.jpg
Wish the pic was larger.

You can click and expand it, JPD.

Posted: **Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:34 pm**

Doesn't get big enough to read the stuff besides the PB

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