A lot of members’ avatars have a train, or something train related. Trouble is, they’re too small for me to see exactly what they are. Anyone care to elaborate what their avatar is, and it’s significance?
My avatar is a drumhead(?) from a train I think(?) in the Colorado Railroad Museum(?). The significance is, that I’m a dummy and don’t know how to put an avatar on my account. So, I asked the best photographer on the forum for help. Chris- CopcarSS kind enough to give me a nice, colorful avatar
Mine is a pin with our railroad herald and the legend “Trains are Good,” a refutation of a group who feels our ROW would better serve the public as a hiking trail.
Me leaning against a Jackson (Harsco) 6700 tamper that was tied-up on a dead siding for the holidays at Phoenix, AZ about 3 years back. They’re wonderfully productive and useful machines (as long as they’re working . . . ) and don’t get enough attention in the railfan or induustry press, IMHO. I’d rather have or spend quality time on one of them than a locomotive !
Brother Carl - owner of the Lounge - gave me mine many years ago. Mookie must spend a lot of time at the beauty shop, since she is pink. But what you probably can’t see is that she is holding two milk pails with the inscription “Will Work For MilK”.
And that is true - for a glass of milk, I would provide the cookies [8)]
Mine is my RR’s logo (CMBY RY) with the “B” and “R”, and the “Y”'s interlaced one above the other. The Steam Locomotive headlight crosses the bottom of the “RY”. Different renditions of the logo have various phrases in the beam of the headlight. Early on it was “The Straight line Short line”. Presently it is “Semper Vaporo” (“Forever Steam”). There have been others, but they were so short lived that I don’t remember them.
{Sorry, the host site lost all my images. Not only that, but I changed the avitar to the front of a wood burning steamer that I drew using MS Paint.)
Mine is Durango & Silverton 481 taken on the high line last spring. The book Narrow Gauge in the Rockies by Beebe and Clegg had an engraving of a southbound D&RG train on the high line and I’d been wanting to see that ever since buying the book in the early 1970’s.
My avatar is a photo I took of the former CPR Shepard station, which was relocated to Heritage Park during an eastward expansion of Calgary’s City Limits. At one time it was the first manned station east of Calgary, on the transcontinental line. Named after the Langdon & Shepard Engineering Company, which built the original mainline from Winnipeg, MB to Calgary.
Why I picked it, is because it is the same structure type as our station at Irricana, where I lived from 1956 to 1965. In Canada, unlike on US RR’s, close to 90% of the stations on the CPR were also the homes of the Station Agents. Due to space constraints in the park, the low end of the building to the right of the chimney, which was the freight shed, was shortened by about one third of its’ length. This was an actual prototypical reduction performed on many stations during the first two years of WWII when there was a desperate shortage of finished lumber for use in military buildings. It was done on a Subdivision by Subdivision basis but the project never got as far as the stations on the Langdon Sub. where Irricana was situated.
If you could blow up the photo big enough, you would see two windows on the second storey above the office. Those would have been where my parents bedroom was. My brother and I had bedrooms on the back side of the floor. On the main floor at the far left, was the waiting room, which ran from the front to the back of the building. To the right of that, on the front half of the floor was the office, and the heated freight room. Behind those two rooms, along the back, were our kitchen, dining room, and living room. We had a nice yard out back. We moved out in January 1965. In an absolute surprise to my Dad, the notice of closure of the station was posted on April 1st and it was
Mine is a picture I took about 30 years ago. Some time between April 1980 and November 1984. It was taken on the westbound Milwaukee Road’s Wilton (IA) local, or “patrol” in MILW speak. It was taken about a mile or so west of Durant, IA, looking back towards Durant.
If anyone has been paying attention, you know I’m a big RI fan, so why a MILW picture? Well things aren’t all they seem to be. Yes, it is a MILW Rd train. You may have a hard time finding the spot on a MILW map, though. Before April 1980, it was part of the RI’s Chicago-Co Bluffs-Denver main line. Atter November 1984 it became the Iowa Interstate, who operates it still. The agent at Durant (a long time friend) and the crew on the train are all ex-RI, interim employees of the MILW Rd who operated Davenport to Wilton (steel mini mill) and on to Iowa City.
A bright spot in an otherwise dark time for a RI fan.
Mine is Buddy, a half yellow lab-half? my wife and I had for nine years. I am considering asking my daughter to take a picture of me and replace Buddy with it after I move in with her and her daughter. All in favor say, “Yea;” all opposed say, “Don’t frighten us!” She does have an industrial strength camera.
I have used several avatars over the eight years I have been registered here. The newest is a squinty version of this shot of my Sunset Models HO Canadian Pacific Selkirk 2-10-4 on my former layout’s scratch-built (and real creosote-stained) scale trestle:
San Diego Trolley at the Seaport Village station, taken May 10, 2005 a little after two in the afternoon. It’s actually an out of service train that was heading back down to the trolley barns, maybe had been used for training or something.
Mine is an Athearn BB GP38-2 that I converted to what I call an early GP39-2 paper air filter box and all. It is painted and lettered for my model railroad, the Brookfield & Western. I built 7 of these for my RR about 20 years ago. Still have 5 more to go… someday.
mine is a B&O caboose in Deshler Ohio.It’s not near the trainpark but a city park near the pool north of town.It has been the subject of vandalism.So the Bartlow twp Historical society and local residents have come together to get the caboose moved.They have a place and a contractor to move it.They just need to get through all the other red tape so it can be done.
stay safe
Joe
ps mookie here is your milk(my great niece is bringing the girl scout cookies[swg])
My avatar is a westbound South Shore train stopped at the old Hegewisch station, the only suburban stop in Chicago not served by Metra. I grew up about a block from the South Shore where it crosses the former CWI (now abandoned) and former NKP (now NS) near the Ford plant.
