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Orionvp17
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 Posted - 06/24/2008 : 9:42:58 PM
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Dear John,
Many thanks for sending those pictures of that CNW car along; I appreciate the trouble you took to make "doubles." Maybe someday that process will get easier and less expensive.
I told you that the car was enormous; now you can see that I was speaking the truth! It's huge, and I'd never seen anything like it until it showed up here. I still think the thing was either corn-fed or that the Rice Krispies had too much snap, crackle and pop!
I wondered where the tablecloths were headed; thanks for filling me in. Who knows, maybe they'll wind up in Illinois under some of that "Chicago Pizza" I keep hearing about!
Well, gotta run. Keep in touch!
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anbhurst
Moderator
USA
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Posted - 06/26/2008 : 01:27:17 AM
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This morning, I took my boys out to the juction to say farewell to the SHPX
hopper They all admitted that it was a fine-lookin' railcar, and that they would
miss seein' it around. 
Below, myself at the controls and Greg on-deck flagging while Otis and Jim in
the foreground, and Pete on the other side stand-by.
Pete, . .It looks like the hopper will be returning to you empty; sorry about that.
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Modeling the East in the West on the Northeastern Pacific RIM, Oregon, that is! |
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TomPM
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USA
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simon1966
Fireman
USA
2861 Posts |
Posted - 06/27/2008 : 6:14:41 PM
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| John, some great shots around the station. I will soon be starting a project and have been seriously considering placing a Walther's Union Station over the tracks like you seem to have done. If you get an opportunity I would really like some details on how you did it? Thanks |
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anbhurst
Moderator
USA
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Posted - 06/27/2008 : 6:42:19 PM
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Sey Hey, Pete!
You're closer than I am, so you can send some of Chicago's finest in our direction.  Please make sure it has plenty of Italian dry salami and some anchovies! [:-goldfish]
BTW, the little black hopper, void of contents, has been sent in your direction USPS priority, so you should have in in a couple of days.
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Originally posted by Orionvp17
. . .Who knows, maybe they'll wind up in Illinois under some of that "Chicago Pizza" I keep hearing about! . .
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Modeling the East in the West on the Northeastern Pacific RIM, Oregon, that is! |
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simon1966
Fireman
USA
2861 Posts |
Posted - 06/27/2008 : 7:51:35 PM
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I was so impressed with John's low level shot of the CNW box car that I decided that it was time to take the boys out for some train watching to try and emulate his photograph. Well as luck would have it we were able to spend 45 minutes in Granite City by the 4 track main and we got to see a pair of UP coal drags and a N&S inter-modal train. Back at the layout we snapped this shot of the Nashville Box spotted at the feed-mill getting a load of mid-west corn for its journey out west.
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hunter48820
Fireman
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Posted - 06/28/2008 : 04:38:00 AM
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Cool Simon, neat scene and shot!! I can see that I will have to do a little more work on my decal application. This was one of three test cars to see how the Alps printed decals would work. Overall, I'm quite happy with them. I just have to learn how best to apply them and finish them! But I'm learning!!!
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cnj999
Engine Wiper
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Posted - 06/28/2008 : 07:37:41 AM
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Originally posted by simon1966
John, some great shots around the station. I will soon be starting a project and have been seriously considering placing a Walther's Union Station over the tracks like you seem to have done. If you get an opportunity I would really like some details on how you did it? Thanks
See you e-mail, Simon. The station's origins and construction are quite different from what most might think.
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Orionvp17
Fireman
USA
2808 Posts |
Posted - 06/28/2008 : 11:04:46 PM
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September, 1954....
"Yeah, glad you and Jean could make it! With winter coming on I'm not sure how many more of these we can do this year...
"Ummmm, they ARE, good, aren't they! Another Specialty of the House! Assuming, of course, that you are paying attention when the stuff comes in!
"Nope, no 'secret!' Actually, though, there IS a 'secret' -- they're not beef!
"Buffalo! Came in on a local last week. I was over in Alden for yet another meeting -- they never seem to end -- and saw something interesting rolling up to the Shoreline Wholesale Grocers warehouse. They get a surprising variety of stuff up there. Let me get a napkin and I'll show you something.
"Here, have a look at these -- got 'em back from the drug store this morning....
"The Alden switcher had just dropped the car off when I finally made it down there -- a fire up in Monument Square had shut everything down for a while. This one isn't really good, but it does give you the sense that the car is smaller than the rest of them and has a lot of interesting markings on it. I thought markings like those had been outlawed twenty years or so ago, but maybe I'm wrong....
"I was able to move to a better place for a shot, so I took this one. I think it's a decent side-on view, and you can get a really good idea of the markings. Might be something to add to the model railroad one of these days....
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"Yeah, it is. And I couldn't get close, but the car next to it was a Fox Head Beer reefer. Fox Head apparently used to be a Capone brewery! Anyway, I asked my buddy, you know, the VP up at the warehouse -- what this car was carrying, and when he said "buffalo" I knew I had the right main dish for tonight! And no, I don't know where the beer is from!
"Indeed. Keep an eye out -- the buffalo apparently shows up here from time to time. You need to go to a good butcher, though -- those new "supermarkets" don't have this kind of thing.... Ahhhh, and here come the ladies with dessert! Enjoy!" |
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nhguy
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 07/01/2008 : 2:39:39 PM
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Allen,
The Stake Bed Truck car is headed out the door today.
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Bill Shanaman
Superintendent, New Haven RR in the 1948 to 1952 era
PMRA President 2013-14, OpSIG Member
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TomPM
Fireman
USA
4648 Posts |
Posted - 07/02/2008 : 08:02:43 AM
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Another round of great photos!
Went down to Castle Rock for some train watching and look at what we caught.
The Saybrook Northern car heading northeast on a CNJ train headed by the Baldwin Demonstrators. |
Tom
Jack of All Trades Master of None
Ridley Keystone & Mountain Railroad
My Rail Images Gallery
NARA Member #100
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hunter48820
Fireman
6024 Posts |
Posted - 07/05/2008 : 9:49:44 PM
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Hi All,
Me and my best fren Karl Scribner rode our bikes to Barkley's General Store and got a Moonpie and a RC Cola. Mmmm-mmmm-mmm, boy they are the dinkums, as my Mammy says and she really says it too! But back to my story, my best fren Karl and I were goin to go down to the Nashville Road's freight yard to watch Karl's Grampa do some switchin. He's been an engineer on the Nashville for almost 40 years.
We gots a reel suprise when we saw this great big green monster of a engine push those cars and Karl's Grampa was at the throttle. I never seen such a big engine. Boy was Karl a proud little grandson for sure. His Grampa up in that big engine making it go all by himself.
Karl found out later from his Grampa that the engine was a big Alco, whatever that is, and it was being leased from the Kentucky Southern for testing. We thought about it a good long time but couldn't figure out what kinda test you'ld give a engine like that![:-boggled] They say that big Alco is called a alligator and I can see why!! Yee doggies, it had the longest nose I ever did see!
Anyways, we got to watch Grampa Scribner do alot of switchin and he pretty much had the yard cleaned out and was workin a few more cars when I snapped a couple of quick picturs with my trusty Brownie. Hope they came out alright!
I saw two boxcars that came all the way from New England. New England! Boy, that's a long way. I hope they can find their way home! It's fun to see cars that are from far away places like these cars were. I pointed my shure fire Brownie and took real nice picturs I think. They were northeastern railroad boxcars, a real nice lookin New Haven boxcar and a kinda ol lookin Atlantic Great Eastern boxcar. Boxcars are my faverit cause there is more room on the sides for them to put neet stuff to read. It always gets us to wondering just what those far away places are like and dreamin of the day we can travel there. I hear it gets pretty cold up there in New England in the winter. Kinda makes you preciate the warmer summers we gets here in Tennessee!
And we were then gettin on our bikes to scoot home when Eagle Eye Karl, that's what I like to call him cause he can see neet stuff quicker then me most time! Anyways, Ol Eagle Eye Karl spots his Grampa pulling a string of cars under the trestle and thought that first one was a little unusual.
Well we got lookin at that big yeller boxcar and although it sure looked like it had run through a bunch of puddles since it last had a Saturday night scrubbin, it was big and it was newer than just about everythin else in the yard. So we hightailed it down towards the trestle to get a better look and I got my trusty Brownie out and snapped a couple of picturs just as the sun was goin down.
Hope these are okay too!
So now you knowed me and Karl's big adventure. And I reckon if I don't git home now, it might just should be my last big adventure for the summer!![:-boggled]
Well, I gotta git my schoolwork done. Only another week till summer vacation. Yeh!!! Will tell ya about the next time we go to see Karl's grampa running a big engine. Gee, Karl is so lucky having a Grampa that is so important. My Grampa is only the Chief of Police. For some reason, my friends dont parently like him cause as soon as they see him they say they gotta go! Shure wish he was a engineer like Grampa Scribner! One of the low points in my young life that I have to deal with. Daddy says life aint always easy an you know what, he is a very smart man cause he is right some times an this just heppens to be one of them, I'm sorry to say! |
Best, Andy Keeney
Look out for #1, but don't step in #2! |
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Orionvp17
Fireman
USA
2808 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2008 : 10:29:20 AM
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"Very well, Mr. Keeney, this was an excellent story, and you do have some nice pictures, but I think some additional time on your grammar and spelling would be beneficial. Perhaps we should consider some summer school for you. I'll speak to Mr. Hamer about lessons. Please see me after class. Now, Miss Jones, do you have something to share with us?"
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Nice pix and a great story, Buddy! [:-thumbu][:-thumbu]
Keep 'em coming!
Pete
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simon1966
Fireman
USA
2861 Posts |
Posted - 07/06/2008 : 12:04:45 PM
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| A great start to this months photos. Andy, you will be pleased to know that I had to translate your story line for Crispy, he was having a hard time with the sentence structure, thank goodness! |
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hunter48820
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Posted - 07/06/2008 : 1:40:45 PM
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A great start to this months photos. Andy, you will be pleased to know that I had to translate your story line for Crispy, he was having a hard time with the sentence structure, thank goodness!
Ahhh, educashin, aint in wonderful!![:-eyebrows] I hope Crispy enjoyed it after the translation!! |
Best, Andy Keeney
Look out for #1, but don't step in #2! |
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