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A Southern 86' auto parts box car built by Greenville Steel Car passes through Manville on the Lehigh Line. At the time new automobiles were still being produced in New Jersey.
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Car: SSW 65057
Date: 2019/01/05
Location: Janesville, WI
Train: None
Notes: Built in 12/67 by Pullman Standard, this 86' double door Hy-Cube was not long for the world. Several of these were in storage at South Janesville and by the summer of 2019, they were scrapped. These were a personal favorite of mine, despite looking a bit ragged near the end.
Several of these massive rolling billboards have found a home mingling with other legacy equipment in South Janesville. A couple were sitting in a nice location and it was too hard for me to pass up the opportunity.
For those who care, this is SSW 65057.
The engineer of train No. 57 throttles up his SD40-2s as the train begins to climb the grade west of Waxdale.
The Rock Island locomotives belong to NAPM member Mike Sosalla; the freight cars belong to the club and are one of two auto parts trains which run during the club's operating sessions.
Photo by Mike Sosalla.
Visit the HO scale club on-line at www.napmltd.com.
#255 blasts around the big curve at Arnold with a short train of Roadrailers filled with Ford autoparts.
NS 9776
Roadrailer train 255 passes under the old C&NW SI Line bridge a Curran, Illinois with a short train of Ford autoparts headed to Kansas City.
NS 8155 - ES44AC
NS 8120 - ES44AC
C&NW Bridge - Curran, IL
November 11, 2020
MTB inner tube or bicycle tube valve inner cores. Normally not seen, because it’s hidden within the valves outer enclosure. For size reference, one valve core has a total length of approx. 19 mm. At a repair shop, the take them out with a special tool, to flatten the bicycle tires fast, and then screw them in again.
The valve cores were arranged on metallized bubble foil envelopes, normally used for transport and storage of ESD sensitive parts or PCB’s
Feel free to leave comments and constructive feedback. No P1/C1 or seen in group and similar.
NS 181, powered by NS 2522 and 7663, crests a small hill just west of Philo with my personal favorite, an NS SD70, in the lead. After getting cloud screwed in Philo, he was luckily going slow enough, due to the 121 in front of him.
While I always look for good leaders, cool scenes and whatnot while trackside, I also pay lots of attention to rolling stock. Some of my favorite examples of modern archeology are 86' Autoparts boxcars. There's still quite a few floating around, but they just never get old to me.
A few such cars sit with 13J, which is waiting for a better signal at East Yard. Somehow, luck dealt me a tiny space to wedge myself through a brick wall and the city's preserved depot, to grab a quick look at some illuminated examples.
2200 @ Lafayette, IN.
#145 pops into money light as it rolls west thru the hamlet of Lanesville, IL back in 2008.
NS 9432 - Dash 9-40CW
NS 6746 - SD60I
Lanesville, Illinois
May 3, 2008
STBN5 with a pair of SD50's----> CR6714,CR6763. Haley tower was still in use for this crossing of CSXT and Conrail. Neat searchlight signal for trainorders.
AAA Approved
San Jon, New Mexico. A small railroad town that had its beginning in 1902. The town sits on Route 66 just west of the Texas border. The town prospered during the years prior to the arrival of I40, when traffic bypassed the town.
As the sun came out today it reflected a glimmer of light from the tail light of a car. The sweeping curves, bright red color and contrast stood out and caught my eye.
A pair of SD45's with the 3606 in the lead heads up TC-4 at Denville, NJ on July 29, 1975. TC-4 was a symbol that ran through from the N&W and mostly ran on the Lackawanna side of the railroad but occasionally could be found on the Erie side. This train became the primary way Ford got autoparts at Mahwah for a time utilizing a connection at Croxton from the Boonton Line to the Bergen County Line.
Max Robin photo.
NS ES44AC 8088 takes charge of autoparts train NS 181 as it crawls through Randolph on the Norfolk Southern Kansas City District. A relic of the line's past is still hidden in plain sight near the Randolph Road railroad crossing; a Norfolk and Western no trespassing sign that's since been patched over discreetly with newer NS markings. A keen eye will notice the old N&W lettering beginning to show through.
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NS Kansas City District
Randolph, Missouri, USA
June 26, 2025
Canon EOS 60D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
Page is a city in Coconino County, Arizona, United States, near the Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell. Unlike other cities in the area, Page was founded in 1957 as a housing community for workers and their families during the construction of nearby Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River. In 1997, Antelope Canyon was discovered on Navajo land adjacent to Page. This natural slot canyon, formed by erosion, has created a steady increase in tourism for Page, as word spread of the beauty of the canyon.
I’ve tried to find a copy of this sign using search engines and have had no luck. There are enamel signs for Martin Senour but none that I can find like this one.
Martin Senour Paint
The Senour Paint Company was founded in 1878 when Phillip and William Senour opened a retail paint store in Chicago. Six years later, they began manufacturing paint in a mill they installed behind the store and changed the company name to The Senour Manufacturing Company. During that same year, they hired a part time salesman and errand boy named Zelotes E. Martin, who soon helped the company increase their gross earnings dramatically and eventually became president and principle owner.
The company name was changed to Martin Senour in 1903. Surviving the Great Depression and impending bankruptcy, Martin Senour became the first company to introduce a revolutionary new color system consisting of 1,500 color shades derived from 16 tinting colors in 1939. This system revolutionized the painting industry forever.
Today, Martin Senour manufactures quality paints for consumer, contractor and industrial applications and is one of the oldest and most respected paint brands in North America. Their paints are distributed throughout the U.S. nationwide through NAPA Autoparts and a network of independent paint dealers who are automotive related. Its headquarters were in Chicago, Illinois (1878-1975) and Cleveland, Ohio (1975-present). It was acquired by the Sherwin-Williams Company in 1917.
And I think I know what my father meant when he sang about a "Lost Highway"
And old George Jones, I'm glad to see, is finally getting straight
And Waylon's staying home and loving Jessi more these days
And nobody wants to get drunk and get loud
And all my rowdy friends have settled down...
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Big M's original auto yard on the north side of Williams, Ca.
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy? We call it 'riding the gravy train'...
Bill Crisp is indeed riding the "gravy train" as he pilots a short, over-powered #145 Ford autoparts train from the cab of the Veterans unit, whilst enjoying a large stogie.
NS 6920
Soon these will be packed in grease. Just waiting for the brake rotors to arrive.
Photo: Sony NEX-5N + Micro-Nikkor-P Auto 55mm, f3.5
18th June 2019:
Very odd weather so it was an inside photo for today. While rummaging in the sideboard drawer I found this box of matches and decided to use it for today. I liked it, hope you do.
Getting late here, so I'll catch up with your photos tomorrow.
Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites. :O)
A pair of Dash 9's lead an extremely late running 120 east at Bates. This train consisted of approximately 70 empty autoparts cars, with 2 cars of junk freight tacked onto the rear end for good measure.
NS 9739 - D9-44CW
NS 9166 - D9-44CW
Bates CP - New Berlin, IL
February 14, 2020
A check of my notebook this day (Sunday, June 4, 1989) showed that I didn't shoot anything else earlier in the day. Maybe I had some family event going on, maybe I had too much fun on Saturday night and slept in (quite possible) or maybe I just didn't feel like doing anything else. But late in the afternoon I found myself up at the C&NW's bridge over Turtle Creek at Tiffany, WI. The Proviso-Janesville, WI "B-Train" was always along late in the afternoon to take boxcars of autoparts and empty autoracks toward the GM plant up there. A low rumble to the southeast, a flash of yellow through the trees and then C&NW 950, 892 and 6818 were over the Civil War-era limestone arch bridge.