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I was going to only post these in my thread "Railfanning the WC", but they seem equally appropriate here. These are clips from a video I shot in that area in 2003. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbDLOaN2Eqs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CHM9foqDNI...

Geeps are by far the most prevalent locomotive on my roster as well. The six-axle locos don't get much use because as stated earlier the F-M Trainmaster is the only one that seems to handle the 18" curves okay.

Athearn F-M Trainmaster handles 'em okay, Athearn SD40-2, P2K E6A, and P1K Erie-Builts do not, all make squealing or grinding noises as if the truck mechanism is being strained.

Keepin' it rolling with another Consolidation that's currently in primer red:

Sorry Kyle, we determined that it's gotta be the exact number!

Just to get things moving again...

One more #25. If you've seen "Stand By Me" you've seen this engine. http://www.trainweb.org/mccloudrails/PassengerOperations/SteamLoco25.html

Marquette & Huron Mountain, a tourist line that operated in the Michigan UP during the 1960s. The locomotive originally worked for the Lake Superior & Ishpeming and that is the livery it is being restored to.

Here's another #22. My own pictures of the locomotive don't work since it doesn't currently bear the number, its paint is stripped off while it undergoes restoration.

"Exempt" can mean a line is abandoned, but usually doesn't. It means that vehicles that usually have to stop and scan the crossing-school buses, hazardous materials trucks etc, don't have to stop. I see it more often used at crossings right next to road intersections, on divided roadways (such...

I've been hearing train horns from campus with no idea where exactly they're coming from for the last 2 school years, so I decided to spend a free Sunday afternoon on what will probably be one of the last nice days of the season to take a walk and locate the railroad tracks. I found them...

All my HO steam (plus 1 diesel) is either IHC or an IHC OEM. I have no complaints, they have all been reliable and smooth runners although the 2-6-0 and 2-8-0 especially could benifit from some extra weight as they spin their wheels when trying to start much more than 10 cars.

Finally got a chance to grab some frames from the video I was taking. I'm working on getting the entire video on YouTube, but it's causing me a lot of problems right now. :curse: Our first view of the train, about 3 miles west of Milladore. There wasn't time to get out of the car before the...

Nice crossing. One thing you might want to consider is signals/signage. For this narrow little road the lone crossbuck works, but not on crossings for more well-traveled roads, urban areas etc. I posted a thread awhile back looking for people's experience with scale grade crossing signals and...

Mine's from the Atlas catalog too. It's the Twice Around in 4' x 6'.

These pictures show my recently aquired Railgon and Monon gondolas. I also have a Chicago & Eastern Illinois covered gondola and a very old-style (late 19th or early 20th century) Louisville & Nashville one. No pictures of those though.

I dunno Don, she musta snuck over from one of the "Hell on Wheels" towns to spend some "quality time" with the tracklaying crews. :thumb: The UP #119 is an IHC model and runs great, it even outpulls some of our bigger steam engines. The CP #60 is a cheap plastic dummy (notice the lack of main...

Set these up awhile back. Based on this photo although A.J. Russell I am not. It would probably help if the layout had Utah scenery, but hey I got the right engines so why not? I didn't have the proper tender for the Central Pacific engine at the time so I had to borrow the one from my AT&SF...

Johnny pretty well summed up the major Wisconsin museums, so I'll let the pictures tell the rest of the story. http://sphs.angeltowns.net/A_R_Wehrle/railroad/steam.html#MidContinent http://ayaredubya.blogspot.com/2006/08/saturday-august-19-in-sauk-county.html...

I grew up in Madison, WI just about 2 blocks from the Johnson Street yard. Our house near Stoughton (which we moved to in 1999) is a couple miles from the WSOR Madison subdivision (between Madison and Janesville) but we can hear the train horns pretty clearly as they blow for the crossing at...