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[santafewillie]

Here's a couple of freight cars this week.

 

[trailrider]

The load in that gon looks kinda junky!

 

[santafewillie]

The load in that gon looks kinda junky!

It's one of just a few that's homemade.

 

[Iron Horseman]

I suppose Kalamath Falls Oregon is West. Here is one of the 1953 Boy Scout Jamboree Specials just east of Kalamath Falls on the Oregon California and Eastern headed home to Portland and Seattle. It is coming from Irvine Ranch after a stop at the Grand Canyon, and these scouts got a lucky draw with a #300 class passenger loco. Many others ended up riding behind freight FTs or GP7s.

Over 50 thousand attended, and approximately 75% of the scouts going traveled by rail. Santa Fe, Union Pacific, and Southern Pacific coordinated their service. Despite a year of planning, the Santa Fe's Grand Canyon yard was overwhelmed by the number of trains visiting the site after the Jamboree. So much so that the regular "Grand Canyon" train could not get into the station and passengers had to be deboarded "down the tracks" and bussed over. Oh the heads that rolled for inconveniencing the passengers on a Santa Fe named train.

edit.
And before anyone comments, yes I know a 300 class is supposed to be an LAB lashup not an LABC. I ordered the extra A unit and added it before I did my research properly.

 

[2Tracks]

today

That green NP Kenworth is looking good!

 

[2Tracks]

Wednesday already?

Right!?
Those three cabeese look sharp, what make are they?

 

[2Tracks]

homemade

Boy did I drop the ball there, I tossed all my acumate coupler shanks away!
Nice car Willie, damage to the car really adds to it.

 

[2Tracks]

Kalamath Falls Oregon is West

Yes. South central Oregon. Home of the Oregon California & Eastern Railroad, by the way.
Great story about the Jamboree's. The LABC, is that designation for passenger power? Don't recall anything like that for freight.

 

[CambriaArea51]

UP gons loaded with aluminum cable.

 

[skyliner]

Right!?
Those three cabeese look sharp, what make are they?

The ones up top are the Athearn Genesis C-50 caboose series, I found them on sale online about a year ago. The Cotton Belt one is an Athearn RTR.

 

[Iron Horseman]

Yes. South central Oregon. Home of the Oregon California & Eastern Railroad, by the way.
Great story about the Jamboree's. The LABC, is that designation for passenger power? Don't recall anything like that for freight.

It is a Santa Fe designation in their numbering scheme for their E and F units. So 325L would be the "lead" unit always an A unit with a cab, 325A and 325B are the B units with no cab. And my fictitious 325C is a cab A unit running backwards to make the 325 ABBA set.

Picture, from Alamy, looking south over the Grand Canyon Station yard during the 1953 jamboree overload. Actual station would be just out of the picture to the left.

 

[santafewillie]

Let's get this started this week with a couple of freight cars just spotted in Charlottesville.

 

[hunslet040]

SP Daylight

 

[logandsawman]

Here is a lightly weathered NP flat car and one of the pretty aqua GN box cars, with a small GN trackside shed:

Dave LASM

 

[santafewillie]

Where is everyone's western Wednesday shots. Here are the last eight cars in a unit grain train.

 

[Iron Horseman]

Can't be too much more Western than the Denver & Rio Grande Western. Here is an Athearn Genesis challenger running on a special theme day the OC&E museum railroad in Greeley Colorado. I tried to catch it as it passed in front of the the "Rio Grande" neon sign on the far wall. I obviously missed by a 10th of a second or so, but I still like the shot.

This is the loco with the MRC Brilliance sound decoder that worked just long enough to move the loco to the programming track and then failed. It defied all efforts to program to channel number or "reset it" to factory defaults. Then 10 years later I got it out and put it on the track to try again and somehow it had "reset" itself. Working great here. Sound is a little blaring but it gets lost in the immensity of the museum.

 

[Rico]

Sitting on the backtrack awaiting dispatch, LBF hi-cube.
Taken on an old module I had.

 

[TrucTrain55]

Sitting on the backtrack awaiting dispatch, LBF hi-cube.
Taken on an old module I had.

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Very convincing Rico

 

[santafewillie]

Whooops! We all missed last week.
A couple of foreign road cars spotted at the Coop Fertilizer & Feed.

Uncle Pete sent a scrap load with a boxcar from SP in the rear.

 

[logandsawman]

Northern Pacific box car, nearly new