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Shot at the Empire State Railway Museum in Phoenicia, NY, and at the Delaware & Ulster Rail Ride in Arkville, NY.
Some day a work gang will, presumably, pick up these used diamonds in Fostoria, Ohio, that once were part of the crossing of the CSX Pemberville Subdivision and the Fostoria District of Norfolk Southern.
At 12.59 pm 66051 and 66050 approach Rugeley Trent Valley station working 344O the 1050 Bescot T.M.D. to Bescot T.M.D.
On my trek out west to track down Ron, I drove around by Crane Hollow and stopped at his home. He wasn't there or at work and I always wondered what the abandoned barn out west of his place looked like close up. I headed out from Ron's place to do a survey of the area. Before I got very far, I captured this old railway box car that was used around the area to store agricultural tools and supplies. Farmer Broley added an attached shed for extra protection; pretty spiffaroony. This is a common sight across the prairies. This is not far from the rail line to Lyons. The walk on the roof pegs this as over 50 years old but it's construction takes it far further back. It has double formed metal end plates and wood sided construction. This car's construction involved assembling a lot of parts. Crews were discouraged from even using the attached ladders to climb to the roof and avoid sure accidents. The bottom corners sport poling pockets that were removed from cars after a raft of accidents. Poles of wood allowed crews to relocate cars by a simple push from engines but the pole often split and injured yardmen. The drawbar (coupler) assembly was cut from the car ends; I suppose that was for recycling.
I'd better get a move on from the look of the sky. The temps were back up as was the humditty. We'll, OK I would have turned in the distance at Golden Ponds anyway! There are plenty of gravel pond beyond here anyway.
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The gravel companies buy up the rights to recover the gravel but I am not sure they bought the rights to lay the land barren and strip it otherwise of any future production. People in India remind us that we are unlikely to get any milk from the recently slaughtered cow. I wonder what the price of gravel might be if the cost of the price of returning the ground back to production after removing the gravel were included. Willie Shakespeare's "pound of flesh" perhaps. I expect that the meandering ditch at my feet waters little but pastures any more.
Jingle Rails ia a G scale model railroad layout that is a holiday tradition at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis. I saw Jingle Rails this year for the first time and it brought back memories of my early childhood when we would take the train to St. Louis and go downtown to see the department store displays, one of which was a large model railroad layout.
Between 4th and 7th of November 2024 the South Wales Main Line between Neath and Swansea was closed for engineering work around Landore Junction with bus substitution between Port Talbot Parkway and Swansea. A number of engineering trains worked from Westbury, the majority on the first day, this image captured at Pyle on 4 November 2024 shows Colas' 70817 with a load of track panels, 66792 'Collaboration' may be seen at the rear, the train is 6F05, the 08.29 Westbury to Swansea Loop East.
A view down the tracks from a lovely little train station near Edinburgh, Scotland with the wonderful name of Wallyford! (....that station can be extremely difficult to locate......) ;-)
A little ruby x rails fanart just for you~
Note: "Ruby-chan" concept is something I discovered in ancient Ruby mascot discussions. Fox Small is a creation of the great Why the Lucky Stiff.
New Haven Railroad with London Midland & Scotish Railways 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive 6100E, The Royal Scot, seen on display with its passenger train spotted along a platform at Union Station in New Haven, Connecticut, 1933. As you can see there are numerous railroad fans and visitors checking out the touring British display train. It appears that there is an employee standing along the track in the left side foreground. Notice the addition of a bell mounted on the pilot beam and the the added headlight to make the steam locomotive usable and legal for operation in America. Check out the old style of link coupler and the outside buffers being used on the locomotive, plus the elephant ears. Notice too that there is no lower pilot protection (aka: cow catcher), only a couple of steel guards to protect the wheels are installed on the locomotive.
This photo came from my New Haven Railroad photo collection, and the photographers name is unknown. Any credit for this photo must be provided to the original photographer.
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