July 5, 2007 (Thursday) proto photo topic

[3rdrail]

Some more photos taken at the B&O Museum in Baltimore about 52 years ago.

The "grasshopper" type 0-4-0 Atlantic was one of the earliest B&O main line locomotives, looking like nothing that succeeded it:


When 2-6-0 Mogul No. 600 was exhibited at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, it was the heaviest locomotive constructed up to that time:


B&O Consolidation No. 545 was the latest in heavy freight power - in the 1880's!:


Next week, the last of the B&O museum.

[tom mann]

I got a chance to ride in this North Shore Line car at the Fox River Valley Museum near Chicago.





Here is the view looking out the front onto original tracks:

[3rdrail]

Railfannin' in the rain, were you Tom?  ;D

Out the front window of a North Shore train at considerably higher speed:

[Lenny53]

CN has contracted CAD to retrofit older Dash-9s with Locotrol equipment.

[Bob Bufkin]

Found a couple more GG1 shot from early Amtrak era I'l like to share:

[Chris333]

Some old ads I bought on E-bay.
Youngstown & Northern Lima ad:

Youngstown Steel Door:

Youngstown Steel Car:

Youngstown Sheet & Tube:

Yo-Yo-Yo!

[SAH]

Cool ads Chris.  There really was life in Y-town at one time. 

A couple of Ohio short lines.

The Ashtabula, Carson & Jefferson.  Former PRR trackage I think.  (My references are packed  )  Ran some weekend excursions for a while.  Not sure if they even exist today.


The Akron Barberton Belt is now the Akron Barberton Cluster and run by the W&LE folks.  A good bit of the trackage is abandoned.


Steve

[Wlal13again]

My first ride on the Strasburg RR, even though I`ve lived most of my life in PA. I different perspective of #31

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Thats awesome. I know it‘s kinda dorky but I love it there.