Weekend Update 11/27/16

[up1950s]

[Cajonpassfan]

Wow
That's quite a contraption!
How would you get her to steam? Or is it just pressurized air??
Santa Fe sanded its flues on the run also....
Otto K.

[Chris333]

Probably blowing the cinders out. Never seen it done that way. But I never seen them open the front and scoop them out either. I've seen narrow gauge loco with a big valve under the smokebox and a Pipe laying on the pilot. They would hold the pipe up to the valve and blow the cinders out.

[mu26aeh]

Ichabod express arrived in Hagerstown Yard this morning.

20161125_142449 by Adam Henry, on Flickr

Now to add the conversion of the hopper back to CSX to the list of items on my to do list

[Xmtrman]

Spent some time looking at trains around that engine facility when I was a kid.

There isn't a trace of railroad around there now. All gone, as are a couple of the big box stores in that Glenway Crossing shopping center.

[seusscaboose]

ran a Berkshire on John Armstrong's old layout

[mandealco]

Hi
Another Alco leaves my workbench.  LAL 425, a former NH C-425 which Laura had a cab ride on in 1992.  This is a shortened Atlas C-628 shell on a Life-Like C-424 chassis and frame.  Next in the queue is CNW 6724, a Zito yellow C-628.  Other projects are held up due to a lack of suitable decals.

Cheers
Steve
NZ

[dougnelson]

Ready for the Thanksgiving rush on the PRR.

[Iain]

My friend Ed and I took the train down to Portland yesterday, then spent today doing this:

[jgiovenni]

Hi to all,

Central California, '40s, my interpretation: Visalia Creek Bridge:



Ciao, Jgiovenni
www.plasticando.com

[OldEastRR]

Slim down for the holidays! Just check out this before and after picture: [ Guests cannot view attachments ]

[altohorn25]

Weathered a couple of ABA sets of motive power that I picked up at Trainfest in Milwaukee a couple of weekends ago.  Need to find someone who will do caboose decals for NC&StL..... [ Guests cannot view attachments ] [ Guests cannot view attachments ]

[Tom Todd]

My wife and I are in Taiwan and rode the Taiwan High Speed. Rail south to Tainan. Almost all the way south on the west coast. We hit speeds of up to 289 km/hr. Took less than 2 hours and we took the local not the express.  Great fun!!!

[up1950s]

My wife and I are in Taiwan and rode the Taiwan High Speed. Rail south to Tainan. Almost all the way south on the west coast. We hit speeds of up to 289 km/hr. Took less than 2 hours and we took the local not the express.  Great fun!!!

At that speed I guess there is nobody riding the roof .

[MVW]

At that speed I guess there is nobody riding the roof .

Not anymore. 

Jim