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Photo of The Day

Started by marc_reusser, December 18, 2009, 06:08:01 PM

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marc_reusser

Quote from: JohnP on December 28, 2009, 05:58:44 PM
Jeepers Marc thanks; that is excellent service. I swear I saw those photos somewhere recently. NGSLG? I guess I soaked those brain cells and now they're gone. :(

It wouldn't have been the Gazette....they pretty much only publish crap these days. The only place I could imagine would have been Timber Times.....but I don't recall it there either. The bottom image of the raft waiting for tow is a fairly known postcard and stereo-view image. The ones of the raft cradles being filled are also fairly known/common images......the top image of the Benson cradle construction, I have never seen anywhere else.

MR
I am an unreliable witness to my own existence.

In the corners of my mind there is a circus....

M-Works

marc_reusser

A photo for the '12"-radius-On30-Conspiracy-types'........your railroad does exist! ;D
(sorry, but no antlers & anchor chains).

MR
I am an unreliable witness to my own existence.

In the corners of my mind there is a circus....

M-Works

JohnP

Man that is a 7/8ths scale scene right there for the backyard railway. Put a trolley box on my Ruby, make one and cast the rest of the lil' carts, and fire one it up. Very cool and fun.

Marc you have an endless supply of project ideas. How do you manage??

John
John Palecki

Ray Dunakin

Visit my website to see pics of the rugged and rocky In-ko-pah Railroad!

Ray Dunakin's World

Belg

Guys, thanks alot for the explanation on how the logs get unloaded.  I don't think I would want to be the guy who had to put the cable under the logs. Much appreciated, Pat

marc_reusser

MR
I am an unreliable witness to my own existence.

In the corners of my mind there is a circus....

M-Works

RoughboyModelworks

Ahh... good old Kinsey. Great shot Marc... love all that cribbing  :o :o

Paul

marc_reusser

A mini Baldwin.
I am an unreliable witness to my own existence.

In the corners of my mind there is a circus....

M-Works

Scratchman


RoughboyModelworks

WOW, great shot...   :o :o Any more photos of this loco? I don't think I've ever seen this one before.

Paul

marc_reusser

Nope...sorry...just one I picked up on the web.

MR
I am an unreliable witness to my own existence.

In the corners of my mind there is a circus....

M-Works

Ken Hamilton

Hey, Gordon....I'll flip you for that Truck/Baldwin build.
Ken Hamilton
www.wildharemodels.com
http://public.fotki.com/khamilton/models/

John McGuyer

That Baldwin reminds me of when Disney brought one of his engines from Disneyland to the Fullerton Railroad Days show. Came on the coolest trailer you ever saw and they unloaded it in the parking lot. Alas, that show is no longer.

John

marc_reusser

Re. the Loco, A historian/researcher friend of mine, Jim Wilke, supplied this info re. the loco.

"She is a 4-4 C, drawing 6, built in 1916.   Baldwin had three of 
these made, the first in August 1910, the next two in 1916, all for 
work at the Eddystone Plant.   As the engine's on a truck, its safe 
to assume they were built in the old plant before being transported a 
few miles to the new plant south of Philadelphia.   They were two 
foot gauge hard coal burners.

Some 32 4-4Cs were built between 1877 and 1923, all narrow gauge and 
all industrial, some for export, some compressed air.   Gauge ranged 
from 1'11" to 3' 4 1/2".

Interestingly, the class is not listed in the 1900 Baldwin catalog, 
where the smallest class is a 4-6 C, 9x12.   But only two had been 
made by that time, both compressed air jobs for the Plymouth Cordage 
Co.   The next came in 1904, so perhaps in 1900 the type was not yet 
official."



MR
I am an unreliable witness to my own existence.

In the corners of my mind there is a circus....

M-Works

marc_reusser

Since it is raining here in So. Cal today....this is today's photo.

I am an unreliable witness to my own existence.

In the corners of my mind there is a circus....

M-Works