Railroad pics

NCWayne · Jan 17, 2010

Just found this site and thought some of ya"ll might enjoy it. Check out the 12 one down, photo #244025, it was made just 2 years ago but looks closer to something you"d see 50 to 100 years ago.
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RMinVa · Jan 17, 2010

Photo ID: 245804 looks a lot like the train I saw pull in to Brookneal va. in the winter of 1956. I"ll never forget that bell and the black smoke. My Daddy set(parked in a 1955 Ford car) there so we could watch the train leave. It was carrying passengers and a couple of freight cars. I wish my kids could see one today like that on a working track.

Dannie 1 · Jan 17, 2010

Have always like trains.I live on Railroad St.The trains don't run by here like they use to,half the tracks have train cars parked on them.Can still remember the old steam trains that went by in the 50's.

Red1 · Jan 17, 2010

While going to school at Pittsburg State...Pittsburg Kansas, I lived out west of town in a trailor court that had several old trains around, settup on rails. John Marrietta, owner of the trains and trailer court, interviewed me as a potential renter, inside an old caboose that had been remodled with living accomodations...bath, stove. A really neat old train. He also had, I think about 5 old wooded sided passenger cars on rails....they were used as props for the movie "Greatest Show on Earth". He showed me the old newspapers with the pictures of his train stuff...John told me once he'd rather look at a train than just about anything,

You may have seen it if you've ever traveled that main east west road out of the city...

Welding man · Jan 17, 2010

I have seen the engine in the 2nd thru 4th pictures many times in my younger days. It it is the great N an W 611 that pulled the Powatan Arrow passenger train through my area for many years.In it's later years it pulled a few excursions, but when Southern took over they didn't want to spend the money to keep it running and put it in a museum in Roanoke, Va to rust away.
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Bkpigs · Jan 17, 2010

I see you found one of my other favorite site to visit. A couple other good ones are www.rail-videos.net (I think you can get there from the website you were at with a link) and www.rrpicturearchives.net (this one was down yesterday)

Dean · Jan 17, 2010

I took my Mother on a steam excursion powered by the N&W 611 (since retired again) in 1994 or 95. The excursion ran from Union Central Terminal in Cincinnati, OH to Danville, KY and back. The 611 loafed along with 20 cars and around 2000 passengers, never exceeding 60 MPH.

In their day,the J class locomotives could handle crack brass service at well over 100 MPH as well as express freight service. Built in the late 1940s and early 1950s with a 6000+ HP boiler/firebox, timken roller bearings throughout, steam condenser, etc., the N&W J class locomotives represented the zenith of steam locomotive design which ended in the late 1930s

The N&W designed and built most of their own locomotives, including the J class, in their Roanoke, VA shops, and were the last major US roalroad to drop the fires.

In my opinion, the steam locomotive is, perhaps, the most facinating machine yet created by man.

Dean

DonNOhio · Jan 17, 2010

Speaking of Railroads. This is what I spend my time at during the winter months. "N" scale, with DCC.

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jbp · Jan 17, 2010

Have ridden the narrow guage from Chama NM to Antonito CO several times. Quite an experience. Its the highest railroad in the United States, above 10000 ft, very scenic and pretty much as trains were in the late 1800s.
Joe

BushogPapa · Jan 17, 2010

Don, do you know there is an active "N" scale club near the Park of Roses, on High Street, in Columbus..?
I build HO Steam engines (Bowser) in my spare time in the winter and go to "Columbus Steel Castings" at Parsons & Groveport Rd. to run mine..
Hope you can visit..any Tuesday night..
This is an actual Operating Railroad 40'x40' with 880 ft of Mainline and up to 6 trains running at a time..
Well worth seeing this and even better to operate on it..
You must watch the signals..just as a Fireman or Engineer would have..!!
Send an E-mail for more info...

Ron..

BushogPapa · Jan 17, 2010

Thanks for leading us to that site...nice pictures..!
The steam engine is something to ponder...DIRECT Drive with NO gearing, Reliable and moved Millions of Tons of freight and passengers..
"At tract speed", was cheaper to operate than diesels.
Who knows, if they had the sealed bearings of today and burning a cleaner fuel, they could be cleaner and more efficient than diesels...besides, they were great to watch (and hear)..!!!
Maybe that is partly why I am attracted to the 2-Cylinder JD..!!
Ron..

Ron.

DonNOhio · Jan 17, 2010

Hey Ron. I dont have your email. Here is mine. [email protected]

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