Working rail roads and their tracks.

[MossRoad]

Since you guys like horns, you should catch the JAMES R BARKER sometime. Of course like them too. :thumbsup:

Man, that's beautiful! :thumbsup:

1000 footer.

You know a ship is big when you see a bicycle at the bow. Look at the bow as it goes by.

James R. Barker

From this article, I found something pretty humorous...

"Her self-unloading rig has a 250 foot boom fed by a three row hopper/belt system discharging at a rate of 10,000 long tons of taconite pellets per hour and 6,000 net tons of coal per hour.As a comparison of unloading rates, Interlake's first bulk carrier, the 242値oa wooden steamer the V.H. Ketchum, built in 1874 at Marine City, Mich. and brought into the fleet in 1883, had a load capacity of 1700 tons of ore which took nearly twelve days to unload by wheel barrow."

 

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Heres an old memory for yas
Just found this beauty along the tracks.

I used to save those, they are going to be worth a lot of money someday. Right? Then about 20 years ago I got tired of carting them around and gave away two boxes of insulators and old early 1900's bottles. Then I started accumulating them all over again.

 

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Do you have the two turntables that were located in in the two Great Northern Railroad towns of Wellington, Washington and Cascade Tunnel Station, Washington !892-1929?

There's nothing showing in Wellington, WA now but a goat trail.

That cascade tunnel is one loooooooooooooooooooooooong tunnel! Yikes!

Interesting book on the area...
Stevens Pass: The Story of Railroading and Recreation in the North Cascades - JoAnn Roe - Google Books

 

[MossRoad]

I had an aunt & uncle who lived in Mills, Pennsylvania. My uncle loved trains and had a really nice HO train set he made in 50s-60s. One visit as a kid in early 60s my uncle drove me to an overlook where there was a large RR turntable.
Mills is a tiny "town" near New York border in central Pa. I'm pretty sure turntable was in Pa, about an hour drive. I always wondered where it was.View attachment 651202View attachment 651203

There's nothing in Mills, PA, but there are a lot of them within an hour.

The one in Phillipston was supposedly below an overlook. That railyard was small. Closed in 1982ish.

 

[MossRoad]

Local cement plant used to have a gravel pit. It's all dug out now. They had a steam engine in there in the 60's. I saw it in the engine house at night with the fire glowing in the firebox. Here's a 1936 Plymouth locomotive that they also used. And and old shovel they used as well. Only thing I ever saw digging in there was a huge dragline. It's long gone as well.

 

[MossRoad]

It used to be yellow...

 

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A few more on this page...
South Bend Sand and Gravel

 

[caver]

Speaking of trestles this one is near Butte Montana. It looks like it served the mine. The tracks are still there and somewhat maintained.
The last photo was a bike trail and now shows as an attached thumbnail so ignore it.
There was a gate across trestle entrance.



Approach to trestle


A view from another area.

 

[MossRoad]

Took a few hours of searching, but my google-fu is strong tonight! :laughing:

I found some info on the exact steam engine I saw with it's fire lit in a shed in a gravel pit at night as a kid in the early 60's. It was at South Bend Sand and Gravel, also known as Kuert Concrete. It's a 1922 Vulcan 0-4-0T. They bought it in 1943. They donated it to a swim club around 1970 and they had it sitting in a park as a playground item.... until some kid got hurt on it, and the owner was advised to sell it ASAP. He sold it to Machinery Supply Company in Mishawaka in 1977, where it sat, with a caboose, as advertising. They were both sold to Grand Pacific Junction in 1992, where it sits today.

Source: https://olmstedtownship.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Olmsted-200-Issue-037.pdf

An interesting video on how to Operate a Vulcan Iron Works 0-4-0T. Enjoy!

 

[MossRoad]

HA! Found some more. This is the Plymouth loco I showed earlier as it appeared in 1963. If you look in the background in the very back upper left corner behind that pile of crushed limestone is the shed I saw that steam engine in.
From here:
Plymouth Locomotives