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Ryan Fleage, the owner of Fleagle's Painting, is on top of NYC 243880, blasting away years of road grime on the X67-type 86' autoparts boxcar. It's the first step in painting the car back to its Conrail appearance from 30 years ago.
In 2019, when the board of the Conrail Historical Society agreed to pursue a boxcar to house a public museum and archives, CRHS President Rudy Garbely asked CSX for the biggest boxcar in the fleet. He did his homework, and found a block of X67's that were coming to the end of their 50 year lifespan, and put in a request. The answer we wanted came back at the end of the year: where do you want it sent?
We didn't have time to inspect it before being shipped, but when it arrived we were thrilled to find a car that had been completely overhauled in 2003, sporting significant rivet replacement, roof work and a total repaint that had protected the car from corrosion.
Fleagle started on the roof, stripping it and coating it silver. Then it was time to take the blue off the sides and replace it with Freight Car Brown.
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.
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.
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
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#255 blasts around the big curve at Arnold with a short train of Roadrailers filled with Ford autoparts.
NS 9776
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.
Deep in the forest, I discovered this SIMCA slowly being reclaimed by nature. The soft light filtering through the trees highlights the contrast between the car's industrial past and its new role as nature's canvas, where moss creates a living patina on its aging surfaces.
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.
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
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.
#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
Was on a concert at the BMW world on the weekend. A BMW M logo, or BMW 50 years log not the standard BMW Logo. Hard to photograph because of the LED light, which made some strange asynchronous dark beams caused by the overhead LED for lightning, And since I did not have me macro with me, just me 56 mm, need to keep some distance and cut latter on.
Since I did not have any measurement, google offers 82 mm in diameter as the most likely size, I just cut it down a little bit.
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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.
Back in the summer of 1996, 47312 climbs Hatton Bank with loaded vans of Rover parts bound for Longbridge.
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.
1999 Skoda Pick-Up LX 1.9D.
Supplied by Barmoor of Ryton (Skoda).
Seen here about to embark on its last ever journey.
Scrapped (last MoT test expired in July 2014).
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.
A former Texaco site which stopped selling fuel around twenty years ago, the pumps were still visible in the 2009 Google street view as well as a small amount of red paint on the canopy.
By 2012 the pumps had been removed and the former petrol forecourt was trading as Autoquip.
2009 Google street view