Thursday Proto Photo, Aug 27/09

[Chris333]

It's hard to bend brass like that, it is too springy. I always use aluminum instead it stay right where you bend it. The sheets are really printing plates from work and are about .015" thick.
http://picasaweb.google.com/ErieChris333/ErieRailroadB5060NScale#5199401974199952770

[Bob Bufkin]

Continuing the (where the He!! are the trains theme).  Some things never change.  Along the old B&O about 1972:


Forgive the quality of this one.  Taken before I got a decent camera.

[Mark5]

Bob, is that Weverton?

[Lenny53]

Forgive the quality of this one.  Taken before I got a decent camera.

Looks like you scanned a print on textured matte paper, a very difficult source to work with digitally.

[Erik W]

The money shot.  Chama, NM May 2009.


The old timey shot.  Cumbres Pass, NM May 2009.


Erik

[Bob Bufkin]

Don't remember where I took that shot.  Might be Weaverton, but not sure.

[The Donkey]

One more with the "tracks with no trains" theme for this Thursday.

I took this at Sterling last month. I took the photo pretty much exactly
where the old EL crossover was, looking west. The small figure directly
ahead is my fiance Dawn, & between the 2 rows of trees behind her is
where the EL went west to Creston. From what I understand the old
B&O/EL crossover where I stand had movable frogs back in the day.

The line going off to the right is the east leg of the wye of the old
CL&W north to Cleveland. The west leg is just out of sight. The old
tower used to stand just to the right & behind Dawn.


 

[Chris333]

Movable frogs is probably right. The B&O crossed the Erie a few 100 feet from me on movable points:
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/el/dwg/87A-13862.gif
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/el/dwg/87A-13901.gif
This photo of the NYC crossing the Erie in Y-town is what it would have looked like:
http://picasaweb.google.com/ErieChris333/ProtoPhotos#5075311179787314690
You can zoom in on the open points.

[conrail98]

Here a some of my shots from my trip to Willmar earlier this month. Like everyone else said, typical rail fan day, no trains rolling, and these locomotive shots were in the morning and when I returned to the yard in the afternoon, they were all still there.

Old CSX Dash-8 40C:


All the way to minnesota to see a Dash-9, sheesh!


Nice find on the dirt road next to the yard:


The rest of the album is at http://picasaweb.google.com/philduba/WillmarRailfanning?feat=directlink. Some day I'll figure out how to convert my video to something playable so I can share what I call the worlds smallest intermodal train (something like 6 flasts, 2 stacks, and 2 multi-levels),

Phil

[Philip H]

Shot with my cellphone camera the other day at the Brookland Metro station.

[asciibaron]

Don't remember where I took that shot.  Might be Weaverton, but not sure.

Point of Rocks

[asciibaron]

i waited and waited...

[John]

i waited and waited...

where is this?

[asciibaron]

Along the CSX Cumberland Sub - Randolph Tunnel on the Magnolia Cutoff - near Paw-Paw, WV.

http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=39.592449~-78.396474&style=h&lvl=17&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

[davefoxx]

Along the CSX Cumberland Sub - Randolph Tunnel on the Magnolia Cutoff - near Paw-Paw, WV.

http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=39.592449~-78.396474&style=h&lvl=17&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1

I can think of worse places for the train gods to be stingy.

Dave