Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 9:05 pm
Here are some shots from today......a pair of UP locos, and lines of freshly filled coal cars and grain cars, both on sidings, awaiting the next leg of the journey.
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Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 9:34 pm
Good photos Ike. You got an especially fine angle on that bottom shot.
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 9:44 pm
Thank you.Quick Steel wrote: ↑Sat Jan 15, 2022 9:34 pm Good photos Ike. You got an especially fine angle on that bottom shot.
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2022 1:19 am
Awesome pictures, Ike. 
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2022 1:56 am
Great pics Ike!
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2022 4:54 am
Helpful info on steam engine types/classes-
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2022 2:00 pm
That's a neat piece of info John.
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2022 4:40 pm
Norfolk Southern moving accelerant tankers in the Vulcan Yards, from today's coffee walk.
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2022 6:19 pm
That is a hazardous walk!1967redrider wrote: ↑Mon Jan 17, 2022 4:40 pm Norfolk Southern moving accelerant tankers in the Vulcan Yards, from today's coffee walk.
Good info and great to have it all together.
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2022 9:00 pm
BNSF DS
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2022 9:40 pm
BNSF frac sand train
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2022 4:19 am
A nice mess at Avon Yards today
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2022 4:26 am
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2022 2:01 pm
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2022 4:15 pm
Haven't heard of injuries. Sounds like "Remote Control" unit ran into number two pushing it into the third
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2022 5:01 pm
They did the exact same thing about a year ago in the Cumberland Yards, train building remotely-
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Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2022 4:05 am
I've been working on the railroad . . .Did some testing tonight, everything is working perfectly.
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2022 10:33 am
A few weeks ago I would not have listed trains as a particular interest of mine. Now, I find this thread fascinating and check it out every day. I do have a younger sister who is fascinated by trains. I guess I am joining her to a degree. Thanks to all for the interesting photos.
redrider, I am impressed with what appears to be your electric (?) engine.
redrider, I am impressed with what appears to be your electric (?) engine.
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2022 1:14 pm
Thanks, QS. 
Heading to Cumberland after work on Friday to incorporate these into our Yards layout that I was working on at Christmas. 
Heading to Cumberland after work on Friday to incorporate these into our Yards layout that I was working on at Christmas. 
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2022 8:52 pm
Great pictures everyone! 
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2022 10:25 pm
Careful, it's addictive. Do you really need another addiction issue.Quick Steel wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 10:33 am A few weeks ago I would not have listed trains as a particular interest of mine. Now, I find this thread fascinating and check it out every day. I do have a younger sister who is fascinated by trains. I guess I am joining her to a degree. Thanks to all for the interesting photos.
redrider, I am impressed with what appears to be your electric (?) engine.
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:59 pm
Since 1979. We have lived adjacent to Ruffner Mountain.
On the other side is Irondale, Alabama and in Irondale are The Norris Yards, originally owned by Southern Railway, but now by Norfolk-Southern.
Norris Yards are featured prominently in Fanny Flagg’s Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe.
The real cafe was simply called The Irondale Cafe. Still there, but no longer owned by its original owners, nor serving a cafe type menu.
Where we live, we can hear the coupling and uncoupling of trains, the horns of the switch engines, etc, especially at night.
For many years, there was a Steam Shop there and up until just a few years ago, steam engines like the 611 came and went for service and repairs. In fact the coal tender that rides behind 611 was built from scratch there, as there were no original circa 1948 tenders for them still in existence. It’s a historical recreation.
Norfolk-Southern has moved the Steam Shop to Roanoke, Virginia, so we no longer are treated to the long, lonesome sound of a steam whistle coming to us over the crest of Ruffner Mountain.
Will miss them.
My Mom described a steam whistle as the most mournful sound on earth.
Cannot disagree.
On the other side is Irondale, Alabama and in Irondale are The Norris Yards, originally owned by Southern Railway, but now by Norfolk-Southern.
Norris Yards are featured prominently in Fanny Flagg’s Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe.
The real cafe was simply called The Irondale Cafe. Still there, but no longer owned by its original owners, nor serving a cafe type menu.
Where we live, we can hear the coupling and uncoupling of trains, the horns of the switch engines, etc, especially at night.
For many years, there was a Steam Shop there and up until just a few years ago, steam engines like the 611 came and went for service and repairs. In fact the coal tender that rides behind 611 was built from scratch there, as there were no original circa 1948 tenders for them still in existence. It’s a historical recreation.
Norfolk-Southern has moved the Steam Shop to Roanoke, Virginia, so we no longer are treated to the long, lonesome sound of a steam whistle coming to us over the crest of Ruffner Mountain.
Will miss them.
My Mom described a steam whistle as the most mournful sound on earth.
Cannot disagree.
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:22 pm
Nice post!RobesonsRme.com wrote: ↑Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:59 pm Since 1979. We have lived adjacent to Ruffner Mountain.
On the other side is Irondale, Alabama and in Irondale are The Norris Yards, originally owned by Southern Railway, but now by Norfolk-Southern.
Norris Yards are featured prominently in Fanny Flagg’s Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe.
The real cafe was simply called The Irondale Cafe. Still there, but no longer owned by its original owners, nor serving a cafe type menu.
Where we live, we can hear the coupling and uncoupling of trains, the horns of the switch engines, etc, especially at night.
For many years, there was a Steam Shop there and up until just a few years ago, steam engines like the 611 came and went for service and repairs. In fact the coal tender that rides behind 611 was built from scratch there, as there were no original circa 1948 tenders for them still in existence. It’s a historical recreation.
Norfolk-Southern has moved the Steam Shop to Roanoke, Virginia, so we no longer are treated to the long, lonesome sound of a steam whistle coming to us over the crest of Ruffner Mountain.
Will miss them.
My Mom described a steam whistle as the most mournful sound on earth.
Cannot disagree.
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2022 10:30 pm
Can you give us some of the basic things that would have been on the menu at the Irondale Cafe.RobesonsRme.com wrote: ↑Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:59 pm Since 1979. We have lived adjacent to Ruffner Mountain.
On the other side is Irondale, Alabama and in Irondale are The Norris Yards, originally owned by Southern Railway, but now by Norfolk-Southern.
Norris Yards are featured prominently in Fanny Flagg’s Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe.
The real cafe was simply called The Irondale Cafe. Still there, but no longer owned by its original owners, nor serving a cafe type menu.
Where we live, we can hear the coupling and uncoupling of trains, the horns of the switch engines, etc, especially at night.
For many years, there was a Steam Shop there and up until just a few years ago, steam engines like the 611 came and went for service and repairs. In fact the coal tender that rides behind 611 was built from scratch there, as there were no original circa 1948 tenders for them still in existence. It’s a historical recreation.
Norfolk-Southern has moved the Steam Shop to Roanoke, Virginia, so we no longer are treated to the long, lonesome sound of a steam whistle coming to us over the crest of Ruffner Mountain.
Will miss them.
My Mom described a steam whistle as the most mournful sound on earth.
Cannot disagree.
Re: Any Train Enthusiasts Out There?
Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2022 8:15 pm
Traveling a backroad, I interrupted this fellow enjoying his entree of a dead skunk. He didn't move far, just landed on this nearby rail. I kind of liked the look of a Vulture, perched on a lonely stretch of track, and I took his picture.