Hey…thinking Classic Trains recent Photo of the Day with the 2 CB&Q stockcars is a trick from the Model Railroader dudes.
That figure with that pose is available in every scale from Z to G, the picture in the background is a pasted backdrop, those weeds are modeler’s weeds. Notice how the one stock car’s roadnumber is conveniently cropped because it’s probably the same road number as the other!
You can’t fool an old horse fly.
Yeah, that’s a “Model Railroader” phoney shot all right. The crummy lookin’ cars, rail ties all askew, weeds all over the place…
You’ll NEVER see an O gauge railroader’s layout looking like that! WE have higher standards of appearance than those HO guys!
THAT’S why I hang out a lot on the “Classic Toy Trains” website!
And you’ll never see any of “Penny Trains” layouts looking that that!
…and the hastily put together ballast in the foreground, dead giveaway .
Nice try Model Railroader…can’t fool us old dudes.
Today Mar.1st, Classic Photo of the Day is about as exciting as a Diesel…falls flat, kind of like suet pudding, just sitting there. It’s informative I suppose, nice stairs and lighting I guess but c’mon…where’s the large freight building, carts and forklifts everywhere?
Don’t cry for me Argentine yard
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One day ‘City of St. Albans’ was the photo of.
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St. Albans train shed
And the joint bars look so realistic - didn’t know Model Railroads when to the extent of using scale 39 foot rail lengths with 4 bolt joint bars.
Wanswheel- “Don’t cry for me Argentina”…yard. Good One!!
Fixed that Photo of the Day but good.
In addition, great add on regarding the " City of St. Albans". Bet not many knew that one.
BaltACD- injection moulding is very advanced these days!
Come to think of it maybe it’s a wee bit more exciting than a photo of a Diesel ( as in , “oh great another A-B-A set of the same mass produced steam killers, but wow what paint!”) … still in the suet pudding category.
People, the folks, us,…we are all steam locomotives…robots are Diesels.
Beware the robots!
http://ctr.trains.com/photo-of-the-day/2017/03/santa-fes-argentine-freight-house
Slightly better than yet another Diesel
I am a person, not a mechanical device powered by steam.
Ah, but a steam locomotive is the closest God in His wisdom has let man come to creating life.
Aside from the other method.
Is that guy checking to see whether they’re nicely centered over the magnet?
Tom
Of course he is! Those Model Railroader guys like to have a good laugh on us! An obvious giveaway, inside joke sort of thing.
While I’m on “Another Photo of the Day Comment” how about from today’s…Friday St. Paddy’s Day and that shot of the Dominion leaving Ottawa Union Station in the deep freeze.
You know it’s cold when the smoke raises straight up like that into the stratosphere. Steam is just billowing out of every nook and cranny on that Pacific. The photo is a bit blurry but it sure captures the cold.
That is what it is like every morning and evening up here from mid October to the end of April. It just ends one day, just like that, bing, gone. This is followed very quickly by an enormous invasion of black flies, sand flies, horse flies and skeeters. Then it gets hot and the sun goes down setting for a maybe a whole hour or so for a long time. September is nice! Thats it, September.
Back to the Dominion…the Big Brother of the much ballyhooed Canadian. Heavyweights, linens, wool blankets of extreme high quality with the Beaver logo “Spans the World” on each blanket. Real sleepers. Put Pendalton’s to shame. Fine china, tableclothes, sugar and cream in heavy silverware, best ham and eggs in the morning you ever had ( yes, yes, bacon, Canadian bacon, Peameal Bacon options). Brass railed observation at the rear. Always played second fiddle to the shiny Canadian and it’s domes since it’s arrival and hype. Many of us, those that “know”, we took the right transcon. Kept many of it’s heavyweights right up to the end in Feb. 1966, 11 years after that picture was taken but probably just as cold on it’s last day…sans Pacific .
Finished the 3rd Semester today, lots of exams the past week, Mine Tech, Radiation Tech, Civil Engineer, Power Engineer. 4th Semester starts Tuesday. Students will be clamouring for marks Tuesday morning, before I can even pour my coffee. Remains cold here, just like
When the Canadian government patriated its Constitution from Britain in 1982, the word Dominion did not appear anywhere in the new Constitution Act, 1982, nor in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Even so, the old BNA Act – now called the Constitution Act, 1867 – remains a part of Canada’s comprehensive Constitution, along with the 1982 statute. As such, Dom
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Thanks Wanswheel- Was feeling a bit down this am and your response was good medicine.
I have some of those bank notes…Two $10’s, a $50 and three $100’s. Also have one of those CPR blankets with the Beaver logo, purchased at a train show many years ago. Also a CNR “Maple Leaf” “Serves all Canada” blanket as well that was given to me by a friend from Switzerland. Once in a while I use them as a throw on the couch.
My girlfriend was a VIA ticket /reservation clerk serving the public at a wicket in Toronto Union Station and an elderly couple purchased sleeping accomadationo to the West and paid cash. They used those notes, which were pristine. This was late 70’s. She asked her supervisor and simply switched them out with our own cash. Still have them.
The $50 and $100 were not that common.
Thank You.
Ah Virginia, the nickname “Old Dominion” was given to the then-colony of Virginia by King Charles II for it’s loyalty to the crown during the English Civil War, and due to the fact a lot of Calaviers came here after the Roundheads took over.
The actual name of the state is “The Commonweath of Virginia,” but this is just an old English term for a community or province formed for “the common good.” It was applied centuries ago but doesn’t give the state any special priviledges the other states don’t have, it’s strictly a title and no more.
Don’t mention confederation to a Newfoundlander like Lady Firestorm’s mother, she was a proud subject of the “Senior British Colony” as she terms it and unlike her younger nieces and nephews never considered herself a Canadian!
It wasn’t wise to get her started on the subject of Joey Smallwood either, for that matter.
Anyway, that “Photo O’ The Day” just impressed the hell out of me! Man, that’s some cold!
Cold from October to April, reminds me of a song spoof from the VietNam era when many young Americans ran off to Canada to avoid the draft, sung to the tune of “The Marines Hymn.”
From the hills of Nova Scotia, to the shoreline of B.C.
We avoid our country’s service very contientiously.
Where the snow lasts until Easter, 'cause it falls by Halloween,
But we’d rather be Canadians than United States Marines!