Weekly Photo Fun 11/23

[UP SD40-2]

OK, its Friday night, and NO ONE has started this weeks thread , guess its up to ME this week .
-Deano

[eightyeightfan1]

Sorry...Still full from yesterday, and my stomach is so big I'm having a hard time reaching the computer.

[Ralph]

Thanks for getting things started Dean! Here is industrial Kingsport with the local Penn Central locomotive facilities in the foreground serving big
U boats.


Ralph

[MilesWestern]

Nice Job Ralph!

Deano, any plans for a GERN Industries Plant on your layout in the far future?

Slekjr, It's amazing how much coal a powerplant uses in one day, hm?

Here's my Advertisent-Free (Ignore my link) Photo Post.




I hope you like it!

[Kevinkrey]

Sorry, still no scenery but this photo has none, its the only part of the bridge I have complete, next to a backdrop section.

[CNWman]

Deano- Great shot to start of the WPH!
88- I thought it took years for a stomach to swell up to that size!
Ralph- great shot!
MilesWestern- Love it!
kevinkrey- great bridge! :thumbs:

Ok, went to check up on the Riverside Railroad today, and the first thing I saw was Riverside #1116 pulling out CN FA2 #6750 of the maitneance tracks.
Although 6750 doesn't need help, it saves fuel when 1116 switches the larger engines around. Then all of a sudden, everyone heard a loud screeching, like metal on metal, sound, and we all went to investigate. This is what we encountered:

(switching back to reality) I was running 4242 as usual, about to switch out the grain hoppers when the red covered hopper suddenly jumped the tracks.
(Switching back to story) We found 4242 coupled up to the NMRA hopper and the derailed resin covered hopper, with the Green cylindrical CNW hopper behind that. PRR GP9M #9912 was waiting in the hole with boxcars for 4242's train to pass.

Closer inspection of the derilment area revealed that the coupler box for the resin covered hopper had completley fallen apart and lay in the area around the hopper:

I can only summerize that the bottom of the coupler box fell off somehow and got run over by the trucks of the red hopper, causing the derailment. As per procedure, the unharmed cars must be cleared before crews can move in. Here BL2 1845 is hauling away most of the unharmed cars:

The red hopper is currently in 'the works', and unless I can get the couplers to work again, it may become another showpeice

On a happier note, Keep the pics coming guys because

(I love this 'smiley'!)

[Kevinkrey]

Great story CNWman, a real page turner, if there wer pages that is! I asume that car is an Athearn, I have the same problem with a few. Once the metal coubler bends it becomes a real pain, but work with it and it should be fine.

[chessie4155]

WOW! What a great start to this weeks thread! Well done everyone

While we were shut down yesterday for Thanksgiving , several units were siting idle waiting for us to get back to work.

[CNWman]

Originally Posted by Kevinkrey

Great story CNWman, a real page turner, if there wer pages that is! I asume that car is an Athearn, I have the same problem with a few. Once the metal coubler bends it becomes a real pain, but work with it and it should be fine.

Thanks! You are corect that it is an Athearn, but as for metal coupler, do you mean the metal coupler plate? The plate itself isn't the problem, it's the tabs on the body that hold the plate on that's the problem, one of them has been chiped away by age and is barely useable. Glue might work though. I'm just thankfull that the body itself isn't going to in a handbasket like it was when I got this thing.

Chessie- great shot! Where's GP50 though? Or was it GM50? I can't remember

[Kevinkrey]

Yea, sorry I do mean the plate cover, if it is broke and not just bent there might be a problem. Glue would solve the problem but then the coupler would be mighty hard to replace, maybe a small piece of tape? But they are nice hoppers so, it might be worth working on it and giving it a little TLC.

[doctorwayne]

Another great start to this week's thread!

Some of you may recall my thread "Incident at Indian Line...", the unfinished tale of an extra train, a green fireman, and the Cruikshank boys' destroyed Model T pick-up. Rumours persisted in the area that when the railroad cleaned up the wreckage, it was dumped into the Maitland River, in order to cover up the incident. However, recent pictures discovered in a pre-dawn raid on Barney Secord's Victorian mansion on Broad St. turned up these hitherto unseen photos.
The photos clearly show the wreckage of the vehicle in a gondola underneath the Lowbanks shop crane.








It was also widely rumoured that the railroad had secured a similar vehicle, then rebuilt it to replace the destroyed original, all in exchange for the Cruikshanks' silence about the incident.
Here's a later photo of a Model T pick-up in remarkably pristine condition, with Rex Cruikshank reportedly at the wheel.


Other than the photos, nothing untoward was discovered in the raid, and Mr. Secord was released from custody.

Wayne

[doctorwayne]

Originally Posted by CNWman

... do you mean the metal coupler plate? The plate itself isn't the problem, it's the tabs on the body that hold the plate on that's the problem, one of them has been chiped away by age and is barely useable.

If the cover plate isn't broken, simply re-bend the sides, using pliers, to a 90 degree angle, then carefully press it into place. If there's any tab left at all, this should hold it in place. If the cover plate is broken, any good hobbyshop should have replacements readily available.

Wayne

[Glen Haasdyk]

Great Pics and story Wayne! That Mr Secord seems to be one slippery fellow. Makes you wonder what he's going to be up to next.....



Anyway here's my contribution, found on an old roll of film from last year:


My President's choice Hudson, P2K FA-1 and P1K C-liner in front of my scratchbuilt enginehouse.

[Gary Pfeil]

Nice pics everyone. Here is one of my abandoned brewery at the edge of town.

[chessie4155]

Great pics everyone..keep em comin
The National Ltd. meeting a Westbound at PT Jct.