Naaa, a night owl, product of a miss-spent youth, with an inquiring mind. (Nosey parker)!![B] [;)]
“Could this be DoctorWayne in a past life?”
I can’t imagine the Doc using a large mallet, but if it is, I wonder what he’s kitbashing?
“Here’s a 4-4-0 that is looking mighty fine. I wonder if it looked as good when it was in service?”
The perception I have is that they may have been kept fairly tidy especially if individual crews were rostered to their “own” locomotive. If we also consider in the days before automobile ownership was commonplace, excursion, special, or picnic trains were a fairly regular occurrence, and a quick troll through the photo archives would suggest that whether they were logging, or
David, what’s the scoop (or should I say pooper scoop) with the pic? Got a link?
On the (I think) “old timeTrains” site There are stories of how the hoggers would take care of business while rolling along in the steam days. They would use a box or old news paper to do the deed on, open the firebox and set it alight and throw it overboard. It is some funny reading. (blowback stories)
I hope all you guys that have interior details in your roundhouses have taken care of business and included the facilities.[:O]
No sitting and reading Model Railroader in these babies. It’s hang on for dear life and get back to work as soon as possible.
Talk about cruel and unusual practices. One would hope that the facilities at head office were the same, leading by example so to speak. Silly me, what was I thinking!!
And now for something completely different, though we have to wait till 6.31 to see the interaction between a Pere Marquette Mikado and a 38 Chevy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a137aMMGnVc
Cheers, the Bear.
As a couple of the chaps over at this WPF were talking about Hulett Ore Unloaders, I thought that the Bat Cave would be just the place to put this link to Huletts at work…
Bear, that’s just the kind of Sunday morning video that this “Batcave” coffee drinker enjoys. Those machines are impressive indeed, although the thought of driving one of those as a career sends shivers down my spine. Back and forth day in and day out would have me insane in short order. I hope they get paid large sums for that duty.
Found this trailer video in the deep dark depths of You-Tube.
My grandfather had something to do with looking after the locomotive fleet out of Winnipeg for CN. He said that in 1939 when Canada declared war on Germany he didn’t sleep a wink until all the boys were home in 1946. He said he basically lived at work.
You can see the dirty (weathered) condition of the CP loco’s and rolling stock in the video. I remember Gramps telling me that he didn’t think anything got washed or had proper maintenance once the war started. Nothing stop long enough to make it so.
Gidday Brent, good to see Jeffreys photo back up again.
That footage of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan in Canadian Steam At War awoke [}:)] Bear and while I consider I’ve worked some long hours for long periods of time, I don’t really I can appreciate the hours your Grandfather and his fellow workers put in back then, but at least they didn’t have to put this…
And just in case our hosts consider I’m promoting too much “King and Country” I found this to slightly restore the balance…
… that generous US loading gauge allowed some really BIG
Bear. A lot of Railroad workers lost their lives in the war, on all sides. The longest stretch I ever stayed awake was about 50 hours. That was a walk in the park compared to what our Grandparents went through in the war. I could write pages on the stories I’ve been told. I had some old Cousins that worked for the RR in G.B. and did hear the stories of them being attacked by the Luftwaffe.
This is an excellent film of the dreadful times they went through.
So todays installment is to help satisfy our friendly Bears nocturnal habits of being able to hunt down answers to the question at hand.
So here it is. What is the funny looking thing that the Loco is pushing (or pulling) across the trestle??? Why is it shaped like it is??? And why should Dr. Wayne want to build one.[swg]
And further more, even though I am not afraid of heights, I would not be standing on the tender like the guy in the photo.[:O]
I’m not having much any luck on the current subject, have found lots of interesting stuff though, including another one of these beasties, courtesy of these good fflokes…
That British Railways in WWll was interesting. My Dad was going to school in Birmingham, GB at that time and two late friends of the same era, who I met at the local club; one lived in Coventry, the other Hamburg.
Oh well back to the search, though why do I think this could be a fail?[sigh]
A pile driver with a enclosed mechanism, pushing an idler flatcar. However, there is no tender for the machine in question. Could it use steam from the locomotive?
