Weekend Photo Fun 8,9,10

[jeffrey-wimberly]

 

[OldGettysk]

Pullman

Here's some pics. of an old beauty that has seen better days

Hope you enjoy maybe something to model !!!!

 

[OldGettysk]

Old trestle

Some shots of an old trestle . I think it was once used to get the old pullman to it's resting place .

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Dang Paul, that car is in worse shape than the old baggage car I put photos up of recently.

 

[GrampysTrains]

Hi All: The Pennsylvania Line now has passenger service, thanks to a Christmas gift cert. from my younger daughter and Walther's Aug. sale. Yea!

 

[Alcomotive]

Sweet PA passenger cars...the units look sharp too!

 

[UP2CSX]

Great looking F's, Gramps. A really classic Pennsy local also and great pictures.

Paul, sad pictures of that old coach. She must have been rusting away there for 50 years. The trestle doesn't really look like a trestle since it doesn't seem to be crossing any kind of depression. Looks more like an old loading dock, maybe for a team track that used to be there? Whatever it is, it was sure built for some heavy loads.

 

[rhoward]

Paul, sad pictures of that old coach. She must have been rusting away there for 50 years. The trestle doesn't really look like a trestle since it doesn't seem to be crossing any kind of depression. Looks more like an old loading dock, maybe for a team track that used to be there? Whatever it is, it was sure built for some heavy loads.

I would have to disagree with you Jim. The area looks to have had a lot of fill to level it off. If you look again at the first photo you can see that the bracing extends down into the ground and the inside looks to be deeper than where the dirt is on the outside. the same can be seen on the side view...............

Paul where was the shot taken? I would love to see that in person sometime.

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

 

[sparkyftw]

Great looking car Jeff.

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

Great looking car Jeff.

Thanks. A friend on another forum told me I owe him a keyboard. He shorted it out while drooling over the tank car.

 

[rhoward]

I took a bunch of photos trying to find that perfect one for this months contest (and it is still eluding me....). So here are some of the also rans.... Shot at ISO400 f/32 using only layout lighting.

 

[UP2CSX]

Nice tank car, Jeffrey.

Ray, I think that last photo would be awful hard to beat - certainly better than mine.

I'll agree with you about the loading dock theory proabably being wrong but, if it's a part of a trestle, it's an old bent that held up whatever bridge was in place before that through truss bridge in the background. The trestle itself couldn't have been that low to the ground even if the area was filled and it's too beefy to be part of the bridge itself. I'll be interested ot know if anyone comes up with the real story.

 

[Steve B]

nice start gents

first steam loco of the day, three more to follow in a few hours
60009 on the Cumbrian mountain express

and Deltic 55022

 

[jeffrey-wimberly]

'I wonder if there's a way into these overturned boxcars?'

 

[rhoward]

Ray, I think that last photo would be awful hard to beat - certainly better than mine.

I'll agree with you about the loading dock theory proabably being wrong but, if it's a part of a trestle, it's an old bent that held up whatever bridge was in place before that through truss bridge in the background. The trestle itself couldn't have been that low to the ground even if the area was filled and it's too beefy to be part of the bridge itself. I'll be interested ot know if anyone comes up with the real story.

Thank you Jim! I like all the photos in the contest so far. It should be a good competition.

I would love to visit that area where the mystery "dock/Bent/trestle" is and see where in relationship to it the old passenger car is. We all could be wrong.........

 

[Steve B]

Second steam movement of the day, this time it was pouring down, we saw the last two steam locos come through after this but by that time is was raining biblical proportions so we were hiding down a footpath under cover so no pics

a local service to Liverpool

 

[OldGettysk]

Nice Photos everyone . Gramps that is one nice looking Pennsy . Steve nice shots of of those Steam Engines . Ray your little scene is really nice looking. Jeffrey that is one cool tanker . Ray and Jim that old beauty is located in Tonawanda, New York and I believe that is an old trestle that was used to get that car to it;s final resting place. I will get back there to get some more sots to show you the rest of the area .

 

[UP2CSX]

Steve, nice photos before the deluge started. On the Deltic, what do the numbers and letters in the large numberboard on the front mean? Is it the train number or something like that? I've often wondered about this with British diesels.

Jeffrey, where's the VFD and the railroad cops?

Ray and Paul, it will sure be an interesting mystery to solve. That's a lot of expensive timbers to just abandon in place when it looks like they could be easily removed.

 

[Steve B]

Jim That is the train identification number, they all have one but only the old heritage locos still carry the roller blinds with the letters and numbers printed on. It was used to identify trains as they passed signal box's or switch towers but nowadays with everything being almost electronically controlled they are not required to be displayed