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Dutchman
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 Posted - 03/25/2009 : 2:09:11 PM
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Okay, '09 participants, this will be the thread we use to post pictures of our visiting cars.
In fact, why not start by posting a picture or two of your interchange car on its home road.[:-jump2] |
Bruce
Modeling the railroads of the Jersey Highlands in HO and the logging railroads of Pennsylvania in HOn3 |
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Dutchman
Administrator
USA
23234 Posts |
Posted - 03/25/2009 : 2:11:08 PM
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Here's a teaser of the car that I'm sending out on the road. I've given it some light weathering and it is ready to go.
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Bruce
Modeling the railroads of the Jersey Highlands in HO and the logging railroads of Pennsylvania in HOn3 |
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wvrr
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Orionvp17
Fireman
USA
2808 Posts |
Posted - 03/25/2009 : 4:40:11 PM
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"Brookside" milk car? [:-eyebrows]
I'm on the road for a few days. "Home Road" pix when I get home....
Pete
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Dutchman
Administrator
USA
23234 Posts |
Posted - 03/25/2009 : 7:44:31 PM
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You guys are good guessers.
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Bruce
Modeling the railroads of the Jersey Highlands in HO and the logging railroads of Pennsylvania in HOn3 |
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mainetrains
Fireman
USA
1373 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2009 : 05:43:06 AM
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Here's the entry from the "Great State of Maine". As you can see we have a couple of "locals" who are trying to get to warmer weather.
Forgive the quality of the photo...if I can figure out how to hook my other camera up to this computer they will get better. As you can see the Hard Knox Valley RR is still in it's early stages.
Dave [:-banghead] |
"there's something happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear"
Check out the Hard Knox Valley Railroad at -
http://www.mainetrains.webs.com/ |
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nhguy
Fireman
USA
3666 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2009 : 5:33:54 PM
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So Heeeeerrrree we go! Alrighty! This is my Interchange car for this time around. After some coaxing from a couple of interchange members, I too will be sending out a State of Maine potato box car. I was going to do this anyway. So, Dave here's mine. This one is in New Haven's "BAR" paint scheme. #45076 has #58 scale coupler, metal wheels, NMRA weight and is weathered.
So maybe if the two State of Maine cars happen to catch up with one another someone could post photos of both together. When it makes it here it will be in a string of red, white, and blue cars that I have all headed for New England Produce Co, in Hartford, CT. This was common for the New Haven but my operators are in for a treat as I have only sent them one at a time there. Should make for some interesting photos. Pete, you should expect it sometime after April 1st.
Bruce, Your milk car will be expedited in one of the many New Haven passenger trains to it's destination when it arrives on the New Haven. There were still many milk trains in the 1948-1952 era going to Hood's or Borden's dairies on the lines I model. No curdled milk on this railroad!
I look forward to seeing everyone cars and what's in store when it arrives n NH rails.
Bill
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Superintendent, New Haven RR in the 1948 to 1952 era
PMRA President 2013-14, OpSIG Member
NCE User Since 1999
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Edited by - nhguy on 03/26/2009 5:36:35 PM |
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simon1966
Fireman
USA
2861 Posts |
Posted - 03/26/2009 : 10:24:10 PM
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We are off to a good start already, with some very nice opening shots.
Late this afternoon we found our car sitting in a string having just come through the tipple of White City mine in Macoupin County, Illinois. This small town of just a few hundred souls, sits in the coal basin of South Central Illinois, some 44 miles north of St. Louis.
Once a wild and bustling town, full or taverns, cat-houses and frequented by the Chicago mob,indeed Al Capone himself is said to have come here, this is now one dead little place. Illinois coal simply burns too dirty. In not many years this mine will close, like all the others in the area, and all that will be left will be the decaying structures of a past industry.
But on this pleasant evening our car, a Chicago, Burlington and Quincy hopper, is loaded high with sulphurous soft coal headed for distant industries.
As dusk falls, a Chicago Northwestern Alco starts to pull the string of coal laden hoppers off to the classification yard for onward shipment.
This mine scene is my tribute to my Wife's Grandfather, an immigrant worker from Croatia who arrived as a teenager in the US in around 1904. He died as a result of injuries sustained down this mine some 30 years later, having worked the mines all his adult life. He left a non-English speaking wife with 8 children. I am not sure who had the hardest life, the husband or the wife? The car itself is nothing special, a Roundhouse 40' 3 bay offset hopper. This year it was more of a joint effort. Cripsy painted the underframe, put on the A and I and weathered the wheels and couplers, but he did not like the smell of the oil paints. I ended up completing the job.
We are both looking forward to seeing the visiting cars. |
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mgsrailway
New Hire
USA
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Posted - 03/28/2009 : 8:17:24 PM
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Here's my entry for interchange this year. It was set out for interchange to the Chessie System at Grafton, WV this morning for its trip to Maine.
The Crescent Valley is the creation of fellow modeler Jerry Doyle. Since I didn't have an appropriate car lettered for my own Monongalia Southern I decided to us one of the CV's cement covered hoppers.
I look forward to its travels through the rest of this year [:-bouncy]
Dave Matheny
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OpSIG Mid-Central Region Coordinator
http://www.OPSIG.org
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Tim Kerkhoff
Fireman
USA
5869 Posts |
Posted - 03/28/2009 : 8:24:03 PM
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Great start guys, nice to see the cars rolling again. |
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mainetrains
Fireman
USA
1373 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2009 : 05:54:42 AM
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Just a quick question as I get set to ship my car out tomorrow. I saw on the guidelines page that insurance is optional but do most insure their cars or not?
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"there's something happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear"
Check out the Hard Knox Valley Railroad at -
http://www.mainetrains.webs.com/ |
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cnj999
Engine Wiper
458 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2009 : 08:31:47 AM
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Dave - I think that the cars most of us use in the Interchange Program aren't really of a monetary value that merits postal insurance. I never bothered, nor was asked to by other participants, to insure any of the cars that past through my hands last year.
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Dutchman
Administrator
USA
23234 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2009 : 08:48:27 AM
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Like John, I don't insure the cars I ship, nor do I worry about delivery confirmation - that is done pretty quickly here on the Forum.
Simon, tell Crispy that I put my car in the mail yesterday. He should get it on Tuesday, I think. |
Bruce
Modeling the railroads of the Jersey Highlands in HO and the logging railroads of Pennsylvania in HOn3 |
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simon1966
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 03/29/2009 : 10:36:12 AM
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| Thanks Bruce. I am out of town for a couple of days on business, so our car won't head out until Wednesday at the earliest. |
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cnj999
Engine Wiper
458 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2009 : 5:29:12 PM
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Ok, here we go with a new year of the Interchange Program, so....
I happened to be over in Putney this morning when I noticed a box car set along side the loading dock at Gabler Industries. A closer look proved it to be one of the HHRR's cars that carries the company slogan, so I figured it was worth taking a few snapshots of.
While in the process, I could hear the rumble of an approaching train and before too long, one of the HHRR's big rear cab coinsolidations, number 720, came on by. From the squeeling brakes, it was apparent she was planning on doing some switching in Putney.
A ways beyond me the consist finally rolled to a stop and the 2-8-0 uncoupled and made for the Putney siding. Within a few minutes she was back infront of me, inching toward the freight car I had been photographing. Ken Seely, the brakeman, along with one of the Gabler employees, were on the ground guiding the loco to its target when I took my next shot.
The connection was quickly made and without further ado, Ken climbed back up on the #720 as she started back toward her waiting consist.
While the re-coupling and then an air test were being made, I walked a ways up the line in hopes of getting some further shots of the train's various freight cars. But just before I reached the rear of the train, the caboose started forward and the best shot I could manage was of the the last few cars about to vanish into the south portal of Putney Tunnel.
I kinda wonder now just where that HHRR car was headed?
John (CNJ999)
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Dutchman
Administrator
USA
23234 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2009 : 6:16:48 PM
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John,
I can see that you are up to another season of great story telling. (I love the slogan you have on that car, too.) |
Bruce
Modeling the railroads of the Jersey Highlands in HO and the logging railroads of Pennsylvania in HOn3 |
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Interchange '09 Sightings
