Ah, June. The first month of summer. Woke up to a balmy 39 degrees this morning. I’m not a fan of the heat, but this is a little silly.
I can’t find the last suggestions for a topic for this month, so hoping @BATMAN will chime in with his suggestion.Until he does, it’s a free-for-all. EDIT: Thanks for the reminder Bear! Rail/Water interface it is!
Seems the railroad gods were paying attention when I posted yesterday and laughed heartily. About 30 minutes after I posted that I was not likely to make the trip to see the 4014 when it comes “near” me, my stepdad messaged me and wants to go. The drive isn’t quite as bad as I thought, which is a plus. Should be fun.
Good Grief indeed, it’s June already.
I’ll take a few of those ribs with the dogs Brent. I’m not a vary fantsy lad and will appreciate them over easy with three eggs please.
Hello June! Thanks for keeping the Diner’s doors open, Water Level!
Probably one of my favorite water/rail interfaces would be the Hulett ore unloaders of the Great Lakes region. I was a frequent visitor in my youth to some of the ones in Cleveland along Lake Erie.
In this photo, NKP 722 (?) heads east, past the Central Furnaces of US Steel (?) in Cleveland. Note the limestone on the dock. On the upper left is the Standard Oil Company (Ohio). In the center-right background is a railroad lift bridge. As Clevelanders used to say, “Where there’s smoke, there’s work.”
Good morning from whale town where it will be 30c today in the sunshine.
Thanks for gettin the coffee on Mike, I am feeling a little RUFF! this morning. Maybe it was the rib pigout from last night. The wife put the pile on the table and said these are for tonight and tomorrow night. Not sure what were having tonight but they were sure good. I felt like Fred Flintstone.
The standard CPR water tower. I think there were three sizes and depending on the town and traffic, the appropriate size was built. All the plans are available on the CPR heritage site. Mine was made from a Kanamodel kit and I use the word kit lightly. I paid for a box of wood and had to cut everything. Live and learn, now I just buy the wood for a fraction of the price and wing it from prototype plans and/or photos.
Good morning, folks. It’s in the 70s here in Kansas on a Monday and I’m already quite busy in the lab! The weekend at least was enjoyable. I can see a light at the end of the tunnel for a project I’ve been working on since February. Last night, I finished painting, attaching some separately fitted details, and putting decals on the body of a kitbash. Just need to seal it with a clearcoat, so hopefully I can do that today. Next thing to do is to get a matching graphite paint for the smokebox and to decal the lamp brackets. Then comes weathering and dealing with the tender.
Railroad-water interfaces should be an interesting topic! I have one in mind I’ll share later.
For railroad water interface, my hometown car ferries obviously came to the front of my mind. Having trouble finding good pictures online of what the area around the docks looked like. It was filled with a small yard for sorting and staging cars going to/from the ferries, plus a handful of support buildings and an old factory or two. Here are the best I can find this morning.
Slip No. 1 was long gone when I was a kid. I also believe slip no. 3 was gone too. Slip no. 2 is still in use for the SS Badger today, although no more railroad cars go on it.
A postcard from somewhere between 1941 and 1952, based on which ships are present (and which are not).
And a cut of cars going on. A healthy string of idler cars in front of that locomotive. The big curving ramp to the right was for passenger vehicles. Those were parked on the aft upper deck of the ship.
At one point in it’s history, the entire ship was cut in half horizontally and raised 18" in order to clear taller railroad cars that were becoming common. The band that was added was readily apparent when they pointed it out. Also, the ship has ballast tanks on it that were filled with water to help balance the ship as railroad cars were loaded/removed. Lastly, since these ships were designed to sail in all weather, they had to combat rough seas rocking the ship, and consequently causing the railcars to rock which would increase instability of the ship. To handle that, there were flat bar type jacks that raised up from the rail deck to contact the underside of the cars, presumably at the bolsters. They would literally jack a good portion of the weight of the cars off the trucks and onto the jacks to prevent the cars from rocking during transit. As built, she could carry up to 34 rail cars. Pretty sweet machine.
I’m not a fan of the heat, but this is a little silly.
Maybe it was the rib pigout from last night. The wife put the pile on the table and said these are for tonight and tomorrow night. Not sure what were having tonight but they were sure good. I felt like Fred Flintstone.
The band that was added was readily apparent when they pointed it out. Also, the ship has ballast tanks on it that were filled with water to help balance the ship as railroad cars were loaded/removed. Lastly, since these ships were designed to sail in all weather, they had to combat rough seas rocking the ship, and consequently causing the railcars to rock which would increase instability of the ship. To handle that, there were flat bar type jacks that raised up from the rail deck to contact the underside of the cars, presumably at the bolsters. They would literally jack a good portion of the weight of the cars off the trucks and onto the jacks to prevent the cars from rocking during transit. As built, she could carry up to 34 rail cars. Pretty sweet machine.