Tue Aug 12, 2008 2:33 am
Cripes A Mighty wrote:And Tulio shows up and his pics blow everything else out of the water.
Very very nice.....drool
Thanks! It feels good to read this, because usually my pix are not even noteworthy : ) Thanks!
Anyhoo, I have a lot of train pictures, most of them go back to my pre-digital days, and most of them are not scanned.
Being a "junkologist" I am always looking to photograph wrecked or abandoned locomotives, yard engines, cabooses and other rolling stock.
Here is a small sampling:
Wichita, KS
Abilene, KS
St. Louis, MO
Owatonna, MN
Boise, ID
Boise, ID
Boise, ID
C&T CO
C&T CO
C&T CO
C&T CO
C&T CO
Durango & Silverton CO
Durango & Silverton CO
Durango & Silverton CO
Durango & Silverton CO
Goldfield, AZ
Kansas City, MO
Monon, IN
Monon, IN
Monon, IN
Monon, IN
Monon, IN
Near Mountainair, NM
Saludos,
Tulio
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Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:53 pm
Well at least one should be in MoPac paint and lettering.
Is everyone who does warbirds also into trains, big and small. I own more trains and buildings than I can count, but need a nice big building to set them up. The round house looks like it would fit the bill nicely.
Kurt, SWSS for ever...........
Is everyone who does warbirds also into trains, big and small. I own more trains and buildings than I can count, but need a nice big building to set them up. The round house looks like it would fit the bill nicely.
Kurt, SWSS for ever...........
Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:29 pm
Birds of a Feather.......
Heres a few of my abandoned trains
Not really abandoned, but still
Heres a few of my abandoned trains
Not really abandoned, but still
Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:50 pm
Do any of you Texas natives know if there are any old steam engines in Wichita Falls TX? I seem to remember at least one from my childhood days spent with my grandparents in the area.
Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:32 pm
Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:34 pm
Thanks! That's the one I remember from the park. It's nice to see they have a museum up there now.
Tue Aug 12, 2008 7:20 pm
I was going to say I remembered seeing one on trips to see MY grandparents in Marshall, TX -- and then noticed from the link Cripes provided that it is actually a survivor of the same RR as the one in Wichita Falls. Small world.
Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:13 pm
Cripes A Mighty wrote:Birds of a Feather.......
Heres a few of my abandoned trains
Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!! Great shots! I especially like the green caboose with nature taking over it!
Saludos,
Tulio
Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:45 am
Great!
Guatemala only had "narrow gauge" railroads, and thus I never got to see large size engines or locos; there were however, many steam locomotives and later, diesel-electric engines operated by the National Railway company. and also by the United Fruit Company.
I used to go to a city called Bananera, in the Departamento of Izabal, where the United Fruit Co. had concentrated all of their non-usable steam locomotives; I recall seeing easily upwards of 30 of them, just rusting away, during the early 1970s.
These coordinates, point to a roundhouse in the city of Zacapa, in Eastern Guatemala, where there used to be at least four Baldwin locomotives left abandoned here:
14 59'04.65" N
89 32'40.40 W
This second set of coordinates, are for the Central Depot (Estacion Central) in Guatemala City, a semi-abandoned yard, with a museum and lots of very old and abandoned passenger and cargo wagons:
14 37'40.46" N
90 30'43.63 W
The Semi-defunct railway company in Guatemala, is or was called FEGUA (Ferrocarriles de Guatemala = Guatemalan Railways)
This video link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8ZsEJ_7 ... re=related
shows some of the stock at the museum, and the music is a composition named Ferrocarril de los Altos, which was in the 1930s an electric railway built by German Capital, and quickly destroyed upon the onset of WW-II when the German properties were seized by the government and German citizens were either deported for concentration camps in the USA, or as it was in the case of my great aunt and her husband, they made it back to Germany.
Here are some of the old Guatemalan railroad pix I have found:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 878&nseq=4
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?6,893056
http://www.steam.demon.co.uk/trains/guat003.htm
Saludos,
Tulio - Junkologist : )
Guatemala only had "narrow gauge" railroads, and thus I never got to see large size engines or locos; there were however, many steam locomotives and later, diesel-electric engines operated by the National Railway company. and also by the United Fruit Company.
I used to go to a city called Bananera, in the Departamento of Izabal, where the United Fruit Co. had concentrated all of their non-usable steam locomotives; I recall seeing easily upwards of 30 of them, just rusting away, during the early 1970s.
These coordinates, point to a roundhouse in the city of Zacapa, in Eastern Guatemala, where there used to be at least four Baldwin locomotives left abandoned here:
14 59'04.65" N
89 32'40.40 W
This second set of coordinates, are for the Central Depot (Estacion Central) in Guatemala City, a semi-abandoned yard, with a museum and lots of very old and abandoned passenger and cargo wagons:
14 37'40.46" N
90 30'43.63 W
The Semi-defunct railway company in Guatemala, is or was called FEGUA (Ferrocarriles de Guatemala = Guatemalan Railways)
This video link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8ZsEJ_7 ... re=related
shows some of the stock at the museum, and the music is a composition named Ferrocarril de los Altos, which was in the 1930s an electric railway built by German Capital, and quickly destroyed upon the onset of WW-II when the German properties were seized by the government and German citizens were either deported for concentration camps in the USA, or as it was in the case of my great aunt and her husband, they made it back to Germany.
Here are some of the old Guatemalan railroad pix I have found:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 878&nseq=4
http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?6,893056
http://www.steam.demon.co.uk/trains/guat003.htm
Saludos,
Tulio - Junkologist : )
Wed Aug 13, 2008 4:30 pm
We went to the Union IL museum last month for our hot rod reliability run.
http://www.hotrodhucksters.com/chad/ope ... G_0749.jpg
1943...
http://www.hotrodhucksters.com/chad/ope ... G_0749.jpg
1943...
Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:49 pm
[quote="Django"]We went to the Union IL museum last month for our hot rod reliability run.
Django,
My MS Streets & trips lists at least 4 "Union, IL" places.
Where is this RR museum located?
Saludos,
Tulio
Django,
My MS Streets & trips lists at least 4 "Union, IL" places.
Where is this RR museum located?
Saludos,
Tulio
Wed Aug 13, 2008 6:31 pm
About an hour east of Rockford IL on the north side of I90 close to Marengo IL.
Thu Aug 14, 2008 12:47 am
Found it!
Thank you for the directions.
Saludos,
Tulio
Thank you for the directions.
Saludos,
Tulio
Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:48 am
Great!
Love the narrow gauge stuff!
C&TSRR is the best! Any ride where you get coal soot in your ears has got to be the best!
So....do they still run steam in Poland? I seem to remember hearing of a steam driving school over there on some of the short lines...
Would be fun!
Z
Love the narrow gauge stuff!
C&TSRR is the best! Any ride where you get coal soot in your ears has got to be the best!
So....do they still run steam in Poland? I seem to remember hearing of a steam driving school over there on some of the short lines...
Would be fun!
Z