April 3, 2008 (Thursday) Proto Photo topic

[3rdrail]

These were taken in August 1961 at the Connecticut Electric Railway (museum) in Warehouse Point, CT.

This is one of the few cars lettered for a museum rather than in its original color scheme:


Newly restored Boston Elevated 5647 with unrestored Shaker Heights Rapid Transit 1 behind her.


Connecticut Co. interurban 1326 poses in the woods at Warehouse Point.


Next week, the remainder of the August 1961 visit to Warehouse Point.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

That Connecticut car in the last photo looks familiar. Did that ever get to Philly or the museum out with EBT?

[3rdrail]

That Connecticut car in the last photo looks familiar. Did that ever get to Philly or the museum out with EBT?

Might be at the Shade Gap Electric Rwy. Note that there is a nearly identical car in the background. Museums do swap cars to get a greater variety at each. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and New Orleans have broad gauge track, 62.5", not standard gauge, 56.5", so you never saw this in Philly.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Actually, I was thinking more of the old trolley line that ran along Penns Landing, which ran on standard gauge track (what was and still is the Delaware Ave Industrial Track).

http://philadelphiaareatraction.com/pennslanding.html

But I don't see it in the photos.

[lock4244]

A few of CP's Kawartha Lakes Railway internal shortline train. A line I'm fully intent on shooting the heack out of since this branchline has for much of my life operated at night!

Train gettin' out of CP's Toronto Yard:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=229953

Train passing abandoned grain elevator at Pontypool, ON:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=229961

Crossing a country road at Tapley, ON:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=229950

Passing an old barn at Tapley, ON:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=229949

[Chris333]

Sunday I was surprized by a article in the paper about P&LE's gateway yard.
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Installing a retarder on the hump.
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[Bob Bufkin]

Steamtown when it was in Vermont, 1977:

Standing beside this behemoth tells me why people love to model UP.

[John]

Here is a companion video I found on youtube

[wcfn100]

I found some Soo Line shots from the Shoreham Roundhouse.










There's a couple more in the album of these same locos.

Jason

[3rdrail]

Sunday I was surprized by a article in the paper about P&LE's gateway yard.
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Gotta laugh at the caption under the locomotive. No one's in the cab, and the stack has a cap over it. Mighty dangerous, rolling through town without an engineer. And how did they keep steam up without a fire? Note also that there is another locomotive in storage behind it. It's 1931, those engines are stored!!

[Hyperion]

Inbound side of BNSF's Havelock Shops. 



The picture is a great example of the sheer amount of stuff that tends to exist around shop facilities that is rarely modeled to its true extent.  Directly to the left is the main shop building (a sliver of which is in the shot), one of several at the facility. 

Directly to the right is Havelock Wheel Plant where the vast majority of the freight car wheels used on the BNSF are produced:

[The Donkey]

Yet more photos from way back when (1980)-not many more to come I promise!

This week some photos from July of 1980 (If I remember correctly) I was 14 & got
a brand new 10 speed bike-& I headed up to the Mace Interlocking, where CR
crossed over the Chessie line. (I still head there, to get prototype weathering pics
at Ohio Packaging.) Unfortunately, Mace Tower is long gone, as is the Chessie
& CR, but NS still drops off some great weathered boxcars at OP.

A couple CR switchers apparently assigned to the mini-yard at Mace:



A couple views of the tower & the OP siding where the boxcars still roll in:



Westbound CR freight that just had it's orders handed up to them on the fly-a northbound
Chessie freight was waiting for them to clear:


Once the CR train cleared, the Chessie freight headed north to the Warwick yard & the
connection with the east-west New Castle Sub:

[Chris333]

Gotta laugh at the caption under the locomotive. No one's in the cab, and the stack has a cap over it. Mighty dangerous, rolling through town without an engineer. And how did they keep steam up without a fire? Note also that there is another locomotive in storage behind it. It's 1931, those engines are stored!!

Funny they narrowed it down to May as well. Oh well I never said I worked for a good newspaper.


Anyways, my scans look like crap, you can see the type through the newsprint. So I took home the negatives, scanned then, and then "negatived" them back to normal. They look a little better:

[Norm P]

I was back in the east working this week so after my assignment was done I headed to Lynch, Kentucky.  At the time it was built by US Steel, the coal camp was the largest in the world and also had the largest prep. plant in the world.  At one point the population was around 10k, now it's down to less than 1000.  They have rebuilt some of the structures including the depot, and have also restored one mile of mine#31 so that you can go down into the mine and view some exhibits.  The volunteer that was there told me to feel free to walk around and take pictures, so I went straight to the remains of the prep plant.  Sadly much of it was torn down over the years and what's left of the tipple is in bad shape, but I found this sitting in the weeds on what little track is left at the tipple. 
I'm not familiar with all the rolling stock out there, so I assume this is a scale test car.  It has six axles, for the weight I guess: