Before Modern track equipment

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Larry

Larry

Long Winded Old Fart
Found these sitting on a siding in Ft.Ogden Fl.. A part of Arcadia where I live.
These look like prehistoric animals compared to todays modern equipment.

Larry
 
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A few more. I didn't have my digital along. Took these w/a cheap 35mm camera.
 
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One more set & that's all the room I need to take. Shot a bunch more.
 
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Pretty nice pics of classic equipment there, Larry. What railroad are these on? It looks like they're still in use. It does seem like this should get moved to the General section.
 
UP2CSX said:
Pretty nice pics of classic equipment there, Larry. What railroad are these on? It looks like they're still in use. It does seem like this should get moved to the General section.
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Seminole Gulf railway & yes they are still in use. They used them for about 3 months redoing all of the rails from Arcadia to Punta Gorda. A large RV dealer/manufacturer has bought about 180 acres in that area to build a large building for manufacturing. They would only buy the property if they could get 2 sidings put in & the railroad would redo the rails for more heavier hauling.
They needed to do it anyway because the rails were in such bad shape. The speed limit was 25mph from Arcadia to Ft.Myers. Last 5 years they've had a ton of derailments.
If you want to move it to the RailroadForum, that's up to you. The only reason I posted it on here, was, thought someone could make a lot of it for early railroads or kit bash some of what they already had.
Anyway, probably needs to go over to RR Forums.

Larry
 
No, not to the railroad forum, I meant to the General or Prototype section here. I agree, they are good reference pictures for guys building MOW equipment. It's just that it's likely to get lost here in Forum Help.

I guess the Seminole RR must be run on a shoestring. Looks like discards collected from a bunch of different railroads. I guess they'll stil do the job although there's a lot more hand labor involved in upgrading the line with the old crane, ballast shaker, and ballast spreader machines.
 
Larry, I can't move anything. I've send a message to the mods asking them to move it to the Prototype section.
 


No problem, Larry. Thanks, Eric, those are great pics of some older MOW equipment and I wanted them up where peope would logically look for them.
 
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