For all of You Train Lovers

[khryslerkid]

Life Size Train Garden...

 

[70bigblockdodge]

I'll put these here. Can anyone identify this switcher? It's in a old steel mill that is now a industrial park in Benwood WV. I've always been curious about it. Manufacturer, how old, etc..

 

[Basket case]

1944 Whitcomb Center Cab Diesel Switcher

 

[Photon440]

1944 Whitcomb Center Cab Diesel Locomotive on display

1944 Whitcomb Center Cab Diesel Locomotive on display

www.rrpicturearchives.net

At this time, Whitcomb was owned by Baldwin Locomotive Works.

 

[YY1]

I need to see about riding 2102.

I rode 2101 as AFT 1 in 1976.

It would be super cool to ride 2 of the same class almost 50 years apart.

 

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[BLK 68 R/T]

Played with the outdoor trains this afternoon.

 

[BLK 68 R/T]

And did some line clearing the other night.

 

[khryslerkid]

Played with the outdoor trains this afternoon.

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And did some line clearing the other night.

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That's a really cool setup. I bet your boys will always remember having this experience.

When I was 10 years old or younger my Dad took me to a place where the guy had the size that you could ride on. The tracks went all over the property. IIRC it was even steam powered. Great memories

 

[BLK 68 R/T]

That's a really cool setup. I bet your boys will always remember having this experience.

When I was 10 years old or younger my Dad took me to a place where the guy had the size that you could ride on. The tracks went all over the property. IIRC it was even steam powered. Great memories

I hope they have good memories as well. I got hooked on them from my dad. He still has his American flyer set from the ‘50s that we used to set up when I was a little kid.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Played with the outdoor trains this afternoon.

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Very cool set up, but I have to ask; since they pick up the electricity from the rails, do you constantly have to clean the oxidation off them?

 

[mrhemi]

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[mrhemi]

Canadian Pacific livery.

 

[BLK 68 R/T]

Very cool set up, but I have to ask; since they pick up the electricity from the rails, do you constantly have to clean the oxidation off them?

Very cool set up, but I have to ask; since they pick up the electricity from the rails, do you constantly have to clean the oxidation off them?

I have to wipe them down once every few days or so. They make track cleaning cars as well.
Or you can convert them over to batteries.

 

[Basket case]

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[YY1]

"Dead rail" is one of the "new" things in model railroading.

 

[Photon440]

Watch here as a truck parks a concrete beam across live tracks, and then gets hit. Massive derailment follows.

Train crashes into truck carrying concrete beam

A freight train derailed in Tennessee after colliding with a truck carrying a concrete beam as it was crossing the tracks, police said.

www.ctvnews.ca

 

[BLK 68 R/T]

Watch here as a truck parks a concrete beam across live tracks, and then gets hit. Massive derailment follows.

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Damn, thats not good.