RAILROADS IN PHOTOS AND PAINTING

Hi dys, long time no see!! I like your pic - I bet those people standing on the open car are having a good time. Are you ready to make another trip to Vietnam? Those people are begging us to come back - even the northern folks. I just can't believe it. Except for a few hot spots it was and I'm sure still is a beautiful country. Really nice tropical vacation paid for by Uncle Sugar. Grin

WOW!! I found a photo roster of Reading Company STeam trains. The conversion of the old 2-8-0's to T-1's occured in the 1940's and involved reconfiguring the wheel set to 4-8-4"s. SO we have that straightened out. Thanks Intrepid and danon.

Heres the photo roster. They made a lot of yard 0-6-0's "cows" for various industries. I recall one company my guys were doing work for (Procter and Gamble) at the town of Mehoopany Pa, They had a yard pusher train to move logs around and it was a 0-6-0 kind of a stubby little engine.

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/rdg_steam.html

All of a sudden this morning Image Shack - the people I've been using to display images here are using a different approach. I hope this works.
My dad's belt buckle T & P thingy, another version of a belt T & P thingy hanger and the tiny gold thingy is a nugget that I panned at the site of the original gold find that started the Alaskan Gold Rush during days gone past. Felix Pedro (actually from Italy) struck gold and started the whole mess.
fingers crossed =
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/4474/watchfobbelttacgoldnugg.jpg

Well that one didn't work. but you may click on the URL and see the image.

a eurostar photo I like.. from eriksrailnews.com

some detailed info and plenty of pix about the german RAIL ZEPPELIN that was tested in the early 1930's - but never entered regular passenger service .
it stirred up a lot of exitement at that time when it set some speed records .

http://greyfalcon.us/FRANZ%20KRUCKENBERG%20SCHIENENZEPPELIN.htm

and some more ...

http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/museum/TRANSPORT/proprail/railzepp1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/museum/TRANSPORT/proprail/proprail.htm&usg=__m68k_hbNlcUnMWUBVSyAU3PYO1E=&h=368&w=521&sz=27&hl=en&start=14&um=1&tbnid=lejmBf8fZzrqyM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=131&prev=/images%3Fq%3Drailway%2Bpusher%2Bengines%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GGLJ_enCA233CA233%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1

plenty of pix like this in the links in the previous post :



i guess it's railway nostalgia ... ...

swiss cogwheel-railcar ... going up or going down?

oooh!

a good link re Richard Picton's paintings of railways, engines, and trains stations - http://emptyeasel.com/2008/08/06/of-railways-and-locomotives-three-train-paintings-by-richard-picton/

from the link -


another - I really like this one -

j m w turner - 1844

RAIN , STEAM AND SPEED ( probably one of the earliest railway paintings )

My Dad had a picture of the zeppelin train in his office when I was a kid.
I remember that there was a kind of dismissal of it because the engine couldnt back up.

What?! Can't Eurostar afford to have seats installed into their trains?

Hmm, I'm remembering a flickr photo in nimh's flickr thread. II'll see if I can find it..

Ah, well, it's no longer available..

remains of the PATAGONIA EXPRESS in argentina



looking rather sad

Its an 0-6-0 being followed by A Ford N-8 tractor outfitted with track wheels.
I gotta print that one out. Its so Thomas the Tank looking

I should have posted the site, farmerman. Sorry. Glad you found it.

I love these paintings, Osso. Thanks for the link.

I love the pic of the steam engine #4039 - it's made the year I was born - 1942....Thanks. Or, at least the company was probably established that year?