Anybody into trains?

[sKiZo]

Actually Skizo, that's 1601... Not the train in your first picture..

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Speaking of RR Picture Archives, here's a project on the local excursion line:

Old CN 4-6-0 ... they were making some serious progress on getting the running gear in shape, but things stalled when they came up short on cash ...

Last I heard, it's been mothballed until further notice, and at most, we're talking a cosmetic restoration ...

 

[similost]

That's a cool old train.. I'd love to help work on a restoration project like that..

 

[Sam Cogley]

That's a cool old train.. I'd love to help work on a restoration project like that..

Had I got a job out of law school in Carson City, Nevada (a friend ended up getting it), I was going to volunteer at the railway museum out there. :thmbsp:

 

[sKiZo]

Well then ... for anyone who's interested ...

Oh, yeah ...

 

[quaddriver]

Oh how nice of you.... The engine you commented on is in Michigan going by that posters location...

that was a joke...echoing the look in many a yard in WV...

Been to cass a number of times (grandad had a cabin not too far from there)

 

[similost]

LOL.. well I can't deny my yard looks kinda typical WV right now.. BUT, it's also 50 times better looking than it was when we bought it.... However, no car's on blocks

 

[electronjohn]

Simi...thanks for the links to the "Aerotrain' picture archives! Built in 1955...so I had to be about 4-5 years old when I saw it. Interesting to read that the coaches were repurposed GM bus bodies! You can see it by the slanted windows on the cars.

 

[quaddriver]

Not related at all, but had to share....each year my wife gets me 2 RR calendars, one for office, one for home office. Being the procrastinator I can be, I hung the work one up last week (PRR calendar) - in october (my birthday month) was a pic of a brand new C630 taken at Pitcairn on 10/31/66. It was just delivered. I thot it was cool because I had just turned 2 and I do not remember if we were in trafford or pitcairn at the time, but my dad had me at the tracks nearly weekly. So its highly likely I saw this loco at the same time this pic was taken.

 

[Sam Cogley]

My grandfather worked for Missouri Pacific his whole working life. Actually retired just before I was born, but was recalled at a nice salary for a few more years during the early stages of the UP buyout. He's been gone since 1995, but UP still sends me his calendar every year.

 

[quaddriver]

semi related: at auction today they had 3 grif teller calendars and one pendergast.

I got the 1948 with all tear offs intact AND in a separate frame the accompanying message from the official about the year ahead.

Teller was an artist, not a historian. the F3s are trying to be F3s but I swear, where the portholes should be it looks like sliding casement windows and he neglected to draw in any exhausts....mebbe the PRR met Tier 4 early in a unique way? ;-)

I had to drop $175 to get it. And that was not the most, the Pendergast T1 went for 250, and the Teller T1 $150. the Teller set of GG1s from 55? went for $125

 

[twitch54]

very nice Quad ! One of mentors early in my career was an old Pennsy man, I was lucky to acquire several (war era) complete Teller PRR calendars, matchbooks, Stuart Saunders stationary (whole box full) and so much other stuff I can't even remember. My memorabilia collecting is now limited to what actually means something to me, my career or my father and grandfathers career.