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Sandpatch

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Also stopped at Dossett, TN on the CSX (former L&N) main west of Knoxville, but no trains were to be seen. An NS line also crosses here as seen on the bridge. The tunnel is L&N. I was last here almost 40 years ago. :cool:

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Sandpatch

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Thanks! I want to go back and do the northern end between Somerset, KY and Danville, KY which includes Kings Mountain and some other cool locations.
 
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Sandpatch

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After 30+ Years of operation, I'm thinking about dismantling my old N Scale model railroad and building a new one in the same scale. I want to document the old railroad, so mounted my Dad's 1970s-era Nikkor 55mm Macro lens to my D5100 and took these in Manual Mode at f/32 using a 1960's era 8mm home movie light for illumination .... and room heating. Man, that light is HOT. N Scale has a 9mm track gauge; boxcars are about 3-1/4 inches long.

2017-11-12 DS&N Buckowski Coal - for upload.jpg

2017-11-12 DS&N Kittanning Paint Spur - for upload.jpg
 
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Needa said:
... 30 years! :cool: My HO stuff hasn't been out of the box since 1973.
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With Christmas soon to be here, it might be a good time to take a look at them. You might catch the model railroading bug again. Most of my N Scale is old stuff and I'm waaay behind the times. My railroad is small, so I have little interest in adopting modern digital control and modifying my locomotives to suit.
 
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crashton

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I really like your layout Sandpatch. The only LV I've seen in real life were their Alco Centuries that Conrail used in the early years as power for ore trains. They left the Whiskey Island ore dock with long drags of ore jennies full of taconite pellets headed to Mingo Jct & on to the steel mills of Pittsburgh.

Thanks for the memories. :encouragement:
 
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Sandpatch

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Thank you. I wish I could have seen more of those big Centuries. In 1977 Trains Magazine did a feature on The Monsters of Mingo that has some great pictures. The closest I ever came was at Hudson, OH when I took this shot, which perhaps I posted some time ago.

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crashton

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Nice picture of those big brutes. Yes you posted it before, but I really like it. I'll bet the train pictured that was an ore drag. That line went through Hudson & on to Mingo Jct. CR also used Reading centuries in their power consists. Lots of pulling power noise & smoke.
 
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crashton said:
Lots of pulling power noise & smoke.
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I recall a Trains Magazine photo from years ago, mentioning "the mighty Century, flame at the stack." I think the Alco noise and smoke we enjoy happened when the throttle was opened and the injectors poured in fuel while the turbocharger hadn't yet spooled up. Combustion was poor and all that soot roared out the stack, and unburned fuel sometimes ignited the soot and collected carbon at the stack.

Just a grand show for us all and that Alco 4-Cycle sound was unmistakable.

I have some old LP records with railroad sounds, some by Mobile Fidelity, which did a superb job with the audio. I might have to get them out and enjoy the "music". :)
 
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