Jeffrey's Trackside Diner for September 2021 - Featuring Stations & Depots

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Since this first post is at the top of the page, I will be happy to treat everyone to some genuine Kansas City Bar-B-Que… Yummy!

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For the month of September, we are sharing pictures of train depots or stations.

I will start out the theme for the month with this picture. It is a NEW YORK CENTRAL freight station preserved at the NICKEL PLATE museum in Ohio.

I think I have taken enough pictures of railroad structures to contribute one per day. This is my first time opening the Diner, so I tried to at least be minimally competent.

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At the beginning of each month we pay respect to the diner guests that have passed on with a memorial.

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Well, I managed to push through the time-out errors and slow connection, and the diner is open!

-Kevin

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Good morning Diners. Tea and toast please, Brunhilda.

The theme this month is Stations.

Darlington

Thoughts & Peace to All who Require

David

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Good Morning Diners. Sure glad it’s Wednesday. I’ve got a busy, but good end of the week/weekend lined up. Taking my daughter to practice tonight that will be a scrimmage. I love watching her play. Then the draft for my fantasy football league is tomorrow. We do a live draft (where everyone gets together as opposed to everyone doing it on their computer at home) and it is a blast! New tires for the wife’s car scheduled for Friday, my favorite college football team (and most other college teams for that matter) kick off their season on Saturday, and then finally putting in a new slider door on Sunday. Only bummer is I ordered a premade door sill pan that was supposed to arrive Friday, but now isn’t showing up until Wednesday. Grrrr. Have to make one from scratch. Hopefully that’s the only thing that goes not quite right on the door. I ordered the door in May, hoping to install it in June when things weren’t so busy for us. It showed up last Friday. Oh well, at least we got it.

My first contribution of a station is of the one in the little town I grew up in. The station was torn down by the time my family moved there so I never got to see it. This undated photo sure has some neat details in it though.

Cheers!

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Good morning, diners.

I’m going to really enjoy this month’s diner. I love train stations and depots. From childhood they always meant travel to interesting places on neat trains.\

I also have a busy couple of days lined up. The layout has been untouched for several weeks, and I don’t see that changing in the days ahead.

My first station picture is in the town in which I now live. It is still used by BNSF. Amtrak does not come through here – it stops at a town about 40 miles southwest of us.

Have a good day, everyone.

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Howdy …

I’ve been very busy in recent days. Our company left yesterday. I took a lot a pictures as we chased 4014 on Saturday, and I have been working with them. There were long waits in the hot sun in the two locations where we stopped to see 4014. Lots of other cars of people on two lane roads chasing 4014.

First group of pictures is at Thebes, IL. The train crossed the Mississippi River from MO to IL at that location. The bridge has multiple spans with a combined length of about 4000 feet.

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Hello?

Testing… testing???

I just posted a photo in Show Me Something and got several error messages, then tried to resend my reply and got a warning that I had already posted a reply and duplicate replies are verboten!

Things seem to be speeding up a little.

Thanks for opening the Diner, Kevin! Everything looks great and the food is, well, improving [dinner]

Here’s a few photos of my adopted home town depot. Chardon on the B&O:

B-O_Chardon_6_1971_edited-1 by Edmund, on Flickr

There have been passenger specials run here for our annual Maple Festival.

B-O_Chardon_FA-809_edited-1 by Edmund, on Flickr

Mighty EM-1s used to regularly run through here moving coal to the Lake Erie port at Fairport Harbor.

B-O_Chardon_EM1_edited-1 by Edmund, on Flickr

Here’s the same place in 1982, a year before the branch was abandoned:

B&O_Chardon_1982_fix1 by Edmund, on Flickr

Here’s the last two engines to run on the line. They’re tied up here for the night while working on the train that was removing the rail:

[url=https://flic.kr/p/TruWAh][img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/33762754348_933ce94148_o.

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Good afternoon.

I’ll wait to post pictures of stations until I’m done with Big Boy 4014 photos.

All of these pictures are ones I took Saturday in Chester, IL.

The diesel is 4015 . It does not have the flag paint scheme.

One more group of photos shows some of the train. I will post them next.

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Next pictures show some of the train.

Generator car. Perhaps, UP shops kitbashed it from a baggage / RPO car.

Next is a dome car.

Last car of train with rear observation platform.

Next, is the lead locomotive of a freight train that was following the special train. I accidently deleted a picture showing the second unit which was a KCS locomotive.

These are all the pictures I selected to show of Saturday’s trip to see 4014.

Thanks for looking.

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Thanks for starting September’s Diner Kevin[:)]

Looks Good Guys! [Y]

But after over 20 minutes to access here, …Garbage! Done!

I like all your guys’s pictures so far for sure[Y] but I can’t find time for this sort of thing, let alone me trying to post a picture from Wisconsin on Holiday[:(][:S]

I will catch up with you good gentlemen later[Y]

TF

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Garry, Nice Shots!

I chased over in Poplar Bluff. I got up close to the beast.

my first shots are in the August diner.

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MLC … I saw your photos of 4014. Very nice. I’m glad to hear you could see the Big Boy.

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Howdy …

I’ve been very busy in recent days. Our company left yesterday. I took a lot a pictures as we chased 4014 on Saturday, and I have been working with them. There were long waits in the hot sun in the two locations where we stopped to see 4014. Lots of other cars of people on two lane roads chasing 4014.

First group of pictures is at Thebes, IL. The train crossed the Mississippi River from MO to IL at that location. The bridge has multiple spans with a combined length of about 4000 feet.

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This one is a few miles away from me. I’d love to be able to look inside.

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Just Love for 4014

TF

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Just Love 4014

TF

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My old hometown of Annapolis was hit by a tornado. No injuries as far as I know. You see these pictures all the time on TV. When you actually know the area, and see the destruction, it is shocking.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/photos/bs-md-vg-hurricane-ida-baltimore-area-20210901-smdxkjlp25eh3caots5shfzjsi-photogallery.html

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Tiss my favorite

Owatonna Minnesota preserved by the American Historical Society

I think it’s a nice Depot would’nt you agree[Y]

I got to go inside it[:P] What I seen was great but the old smell was Utterly Delightful[oX)]

TF

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Garry, back when I was working, I was involved in putting this generator car into service for the Ringling Brothers Circus in Sarasota.

NOTE * * * I did not take these photographs. These were publicly available in a press release from my previous employer, so I am not violiating my NDA. * * *

I cannot share the photographs I took.

I can say this… the welders and fabricators that built those roof-top radiators were artists and geniuses. They made a critical functional component look beautiful.

We all had bets on whether or not the cooling package was going to be functional. We tested it on a day when the ambient air temperature was 94 degrees with no wind. The generators were load-banked at 110% rated load for six hours. Neither engine ever exceeded 182 degrees. Amazing.

This depot is in Flowery Branch, Georgia. It is beautifully restored.

I did take the picture of the depot.

-Kevin

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Osceola Wisconsin is another story.

It was near noon and the attendant was not supposed to leave but he did.

I can’t remember the dates but Steve the conductor was telling me the story that he left for 10 minutes to grab lunch.

A train derailed and crashed through the Osceola Depot.

Had the attendant been there he would have perished.

I still got to meet up with Steve back at the Osceola Depot to drive the Soo line.

The time I was there there was a new conductor in training and I could not drive it.

Steve told me to come back and he will let me drive it. I will get back there and drive this big machine!!!

TF