I'm looking forward to getting started and am detailing the train table construction details and trying to work a balance between strength, weight and portability when we move someday. The train table will be up against a wall, so I'll also need to put wheels under the legs.
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I'm looking forward to getting started and am detailing the train table construction details and trying to work a balance between strength, weight and portability when we move someday. The train table will be up against a wall, so I'll also need to put wheels under the legs.
I know where you can get some very cool wheels for your table. The Frontier may not have enough oomph for the moving job.
The Star often runs late, but nothing like it's been recently, so you're probably right. The Meteor derailed the other night in the Savannah station making a slow backup move through frozen switches and that set the Star behind schedule that night as well.
I learned my lesson with 1/1000th a year or so ago along the ACL main near Florence, SC when my shot of Amtrak's Palmetto was blurred at 1/640. The former ACL main remains a very fast main; I think Amtrak is cleared for 70+ MPH or more.
I wish my D5100 was faster in burst mode. I fast train will move 5 to 6 Feet between shutter actuations and it's hard to time it all by eye. Maybe I'm just building a case for a new camera body.
I know where you can get some very cool wheels for your table. The Frontier may not have enough oomph for the moving job.
Oooh -- now they would roll with minimal effort wouldn't they? Yah, the Nissan might indeed be a bit outmatched there.
Nice capture by the way, just perfect in b&w.
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ELLENSBURG, WA. TRAIN STATION. OUTSIDE LOOKING PRETTY GOOD, LOTS OF NO TRESPASSING SIGNS. LOOKING FOR FUNDS TO FINISH. https://www.dailyrecordnews.com/pay...cle_17bfe100-a13f-11e2-a59f-0019bb2963f4.html
Wow -- what a fine looking depot! I'm glad that it has retained its authenticity and I can appreciate the infinite sums of money required to restore it. I sometimes see depots restored for "adaptive re-use" that have been ruined architecturally. I'm glad that they survive, but am saddened that the owner has no regard for historic significance.
Thanks for your great photos and the link!
Thanks for your great photos and the link!
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I'm not sure if I posted this photo before, but the appearance of the Lehigh Valley depot at Flemington Jct., NJ could be greatly enhanced with a few hours cleanup work with a chainsaw. In the summer, it's almost completely camouflaged. At least it still stands however and the adjoining business owner has maintained the roof, a key element for survival.
Found these Florida East Coast playing cards in my mother's basement over Christmas. I remember seeing them as a kid. I'm uncertain of their age, but views with automobiles look to be from the 1930s. The diesel seen on two of the cards is the FEC's E-3, Henry M. Flagler leading the train of the same name which operated only from 12/1939 to 12/1940. $1.25 seems like an astronomical amount to pay for a deck of souvenir playing cards then or even in the '40s. My grandparents vacationed in Florida in the '50s, so perhaps the same product simply carried on through the decades.
Maybe you can contact these folks for more info. Looks like your deck.
Playing cards - - 1939 - 1962 - - Florida East Coast souvenir playing cards: 53 principal views of Florida: bridge. :: Great Days of Rail Travel
Oh, that's very interesting Marilynne! 1939 to 1962 fits pretty closely with what I reckoned. My grandparents retired in about 1960 near Ft. Lauderdale and likely then rode the train less. The railway unions struck the FEC on 01/23/1963, setting in place landmark changes to the railroad that forever changed its operations. Thank you for the link -- pretty cool information there!
By the way, if you don't have it, you might enjoy a copy of Seth Bramson's Speedway To Sunshine, c. 1984. It's a wonderfully done hardcover book on the FEC's history.
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Not sure Sandpatch. Owner of this shop said it was from a train..........and I knew I had to post it here! I bumped my knee on it at one point, and I assure you that I got the worse end of it.
Looks like a 1.8 TSI Golf piston.
That's it! (THAT made me laugh! Thank you.)I had a late friend who would have known all about that cylinder just from seeing the photo. It's incredible to think that EMDs famous 567 two-stroke locomotive engine was so named because each cylinder had a 567 C.I. displacement.