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This is a MacPherson gasoline motor baggage car used on the Pennsylvania Railroad on March 28, 1914. (Pinterest)
Caption reads, “The Sunnyside mill, now abandoned. There is still gold ore here but the best has been taken out…
and now the lower grades which are expensive to process do not attract the mine and mill operators.” September 1940. Eureka, Colorado. Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration (I got from Pinterest)
I found this bridge pic – no further info other than the not in the lower left corner, “Ed Fannin Collection.” (Pinterest)
This is a fantastic night photo of SP #4165, 4-8-8-2 cab-forward. Not sure where it came from. (Pinterest)
With my recent work on 19th century Americans, I found this pic, circa1880-1897, of Jupiter & Lake Worth RR #2. Florida Vintage. (Pinterest)
Caption, “In this image by Jim Shaughnessy, Louise Overhiser, the block operator at the Pennsylvania’s Watkins Glen, New York, station hands orders up to the engineer of a big 386,000-pound I-1 class 2–10–0 #4512, as it thunders past her with a string of empty coal hopper cars. Nearby, the crew of an Elmira Branch local freight wait for the passing train to clear so they can come out of a side track and continue north. Circa 1955.
This pic came with a long caption describing a number of large or odd loads on flatcars. I did not wade entirely through the several page long caption, but I skimmed it quickly to see if I could identify this load – no luck. It’s obviously long built up girders with an arched top. Could be bridge or crane side girders. Note the 3 axle independent heavy load trucks on each end of the girders. (Pinterest)
This is experimental mallet Santa Fe #3322, class 3300, 2-6-6-2 with a jointed boiler. It was 1 of 4 built by Baldwin in 1911 and retired in 1927. (Pinterest)
When operating a crane, it must first be stabilized via tie-downs, extended feet, and/or added weights. This pic shows a railway crane track lock along with a wheel block. (Pinterest)
Clemmons Lumber #6, 2-6-6-2T. (Pinterest)
What a great pic! – Three stalls of an old stone roundhouse with 3 (probably) Americans awaiting assignments. Note the coupling links on the pilots along with the wood planking added to the pilots. (Pinterest)
I should have been able to look this one up – classic streamlined C&NW, likely an E4 class Hudson (4-6-4). The caption says circa1920s-1930s loco, but if it’s an E4, it’s late ‘30s at the earliest.
Check out the triple steam pushers at the end of this coal drag. I can’t make the locos out definitively, but I’d guess they’re heavy Mikados. They appear to possibly have an Erie diamond on tender (???). (Pinterest)
I have a great new book on roundhouses (Christmas gift), Stables of the Iron Horse by Timothy Starr. I thought I might find this one in the book, but not yet. (Pinterest)
This is a classic light wooden bridge over tracks. The tracks are overgrown though a train is making its way towards the bridge. (Pinterest)
Caption reads, “Florence, AL…Memphis and Charleston Railroad…train crossing over Tennessee River around 1890. This was the first rail link between the Mississippi River and the Atlantic Ocean…important to Confederacy during Civil War.” (Pinterest)
Caption reads, “Locomotive Engine Pushing Railroad Cars with Logs by John Fletcher Ford.” (Pinterest)
Another west coast logging RR shot – check out the size of the logs! (Pinterest)
I have a couple of luxury passenger train pics – Voyage across Europe in vintage style on the Grand Suites of the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, sleeper cabins reimagined with ultimate luxury in mind.
Here’s another European luxury train pic – a dining car.
Enjoy the holidays!
Thx,
Kevin
