Kevin’s Komments 04/28/23

Climaxes A little over a year ago, we took a look at geared steam locomotives, specifically the Shays.  I promised that we would return to the topic.  (It’s been over a year(??)!)  While I have a soft spot for all geared steamers and have a  few nice operable HO Shays and Heislers, I have a …
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Kevin’s Komments 10/25/2022

I’ve been itching to do another trackwork study. I popped up this first pic, and trackwork drifted into abandoned trackwork! The caption on this pic talks about a century old RR trestle being found in Colorado. The bridge was “lost” after it was buried by an embankment. Those of us with a little understanding of …
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Kevin’s Komments 06/10/2022

I had been doing some more research on towns along the Cincinnati Northern, but got distracted by a series of pics on the Pennsylvania and PRR shops. This first pic got me started. PRR #2644, a class H 2-8-0, along with the shop crew, pose for a photograph on the turntable at the Renovo shops, …
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Kevin’s Komments 04/11/2022

Streamlined Steam & Lehigh Valley Locomotives The first pic got me researching the Illinois Central Green Diamond – which was initially pulled by a stylish Pullman diesel electric (first set of pics). But I detoured early on into Lehigh steam. When I went back to the streamlined locos, I stuck to mostly steam. …So it …
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Kevin’s Komments 12/07/21

Logistics…We’re going into the holiday season this year, and the news tells us products are short in inventory, and slow in arriving. Being busy the last few weeks, and being between model RR projects, I’ve had trouble coming up with good research topics – until…I tried to order some Christmas gifts online. Logistics…When it’s going …
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Kevin’s Komments 07/31/2021

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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