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Thought I saw Blue Moon. :thumb:

So you want a medal or a chest to pin it on? :mrgreen: :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

Can't make out the labels...

Hey, I've got a reputation to uphold! I'd rather go to Iowa and chase shortlines anyway. Maybe I'll do that next week... :D

I'd actually have to do some modeling to do that! sign1

I got Penn Central Power for $20 last month at Summerail in Cincinnati. I snagged a mint copy of Fred Hyde's Milwaukee Road for a really good price earlier this month, too. What a good summer!

At the very least you have to wait for somebody to get you, be it a crew van or another train. You can leave a train unattended as long as you secure the cabs before departing.

That should say "each working up to ten hour shifts." It's not a matter of working ten hours and having another crew take over. You get ten hours to get to the next crew change point. Sometimes it takes all that, sometimes you don't make it, and sometimes you get there in half the time.

Nothing is stopping any one of us from getting out of the hobby what we desire. Someone who wants to build toy trains and visit the local club to run them is free to do it. Someone who would rather build a model railroad and engage in operations is free to do it. The simple fact is that we don't...

You already hit on the biggest problem, the difference in light. Your best bet would be to expose for the moon and use a flash to fill in the cars. Lacking suitable flash equipment you could try to expose for the cars and use something to block the sky out of the moon for most of the shot. A few...

I got it for $20 last month. :eek:

Anybody else around here collect rare or out-of-print railroad books, first edition or otherwise? This summer I've made a concerted effort to catch up on books that were released, and often sold out, before I actively became a railfan. Ever get a great deal on something from an unwitting seller...

I thought that's what the Intersweb was for!

The simple fact is that the economics of these operations don't support steam power. Sure, the steam draws larger crowds, but those crowds aren't in proportion to the added expense of operating the steam. I've talked to a couple railroads recently and the answers are all the same, if the diesel...

I thought I'd throw some photos up because this forum has been slow lately. If you hang out in Rochelle long enough eventually this will happen. Luckily there are tons of great places across northern Illinois that spending too much time (awake) in the park isn't necessary. In fact, I...

The Metra train in the background should be the key here. Notice that it's running right handed which should rule out a former Northwestern line. Since there's not BN unit powering it we can probably assume it's not that line, either. (That, and there's only two tracks.) For some reason the...

Suggestions? Buy a good power pack from MRC and leave the tinkering to the ham radio guys.

There's photos of it in about every Western Maryland book I've seen. I think Model Railroader or Railroad Model Craftsman ran plans of it years and years ago.

From AC tower in Marion, Ohio last weekend:

The short answer is that it's not rare. I could go to a half dozen rail yards within two hours of my home that use remotes. There are easily 100 yards across the country that use it. It's not inherently unsafe, but railroads have found that it isn't as efficient as a two man switching crew, even...