Yard Switchers One topic that interests me but I haven’t covered yet is the small industrial steam switchers. We’ve looked at gas switchers like the Plymouths (Dupps #1). And we’ve occasionally shown some shop switchers, and a few yard switchers. But, what about the small industrial switchers?… One thing I found in this search is …
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Month:July 2021
Kevin’s Komments 07/22/2021
Towing and Shrouding I was putting together some photos, in which the topic was inspired by the first photo below – and last night we coincidentally mentioned the Strasburg Railroad! A second separate but equally coincidental discussion last night came up about the cylinder rods of a loco being disconnected…possibly because it was recently towed. …
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Kevin’s Komments 07/16/2021
GM&O 4-S So I was scanning one of my favorite photo collections, J. Parker Lamb, https://railphoto-art.org/collections/lamb/group-four/ , and found this pic of a diesel, GM&O #1900. What is that? The Gulf Mobile & Ohio diesel roster lists it as a 4-S built by Ingalls Shipbuilding. The GM&O merged with the Illinois Central in 1972 and …
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Kevin’s Komments 07/08/2021
What happened to the billboard reefers? …by 1937, essentially all billboard reefers were gone
Kevin’s Komments 06/30/2021
The Caboose I previously said that we may have to investigate caboose trucks – Well here it is!