RAILROADS IN PHOTOS AND PAINTING

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0HM0RtRv-E

Here's a site where you can hear previews of Casey Jones by various singers such as: Grateful Dead, Johnny Cash, Spike Jones, Washington Men's Camerata, Jack Teagarden, Pete Seeger, James Coffey...............
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-music-track&field-keywords=Casey+Jones&x=17&y=24

Also, check this one out.......... I just love this oldie, I do still have the 78 rpm of this - "Huggin' And Chalkin'"
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-music-track&field-keywords=Huggin+and+Chalkin&x=23&y=28

It's not a railroadie, but it's sooo funny............

Number 6 by Bing Crosby is about the best one to get an idea of what's going on with the "Huggin' and Chalkin'" previews.

This is the back cover for the Seaboard Railroad time table pamphlet =

Here is the Texas and Pacific time table pamphlet =

Here's the back cover to the Texas and Pacific railroad pamphlet =

Once ago and a long time away - when I was approx 4 yrs old (before I started school) we rode the train to East Texas stopping in Texarkana, TX. The depot there was (and the building still is) a huge place with a large interior main hall. I was thirsty so my Mom gave me a nickle and I went to the place on the side of the hall where a man had a small counter and served drinks. I was so small I couldn't see over the counter so I went to the end - the man looked like he was about 15 ft tall to me. He came over and asked me what I wanted - I, being nervous, answered, "What kinda cokes do you have?" (All soft drinks were referred to by me at that age as cokes.) He looked down at me and said, "Kid, I only have one kind of Coke." I'll never forget that. I finally pointed at something, gave him the nickle and ran back to my Mom's side.
A good lesson in life at such a tender age. If you want a cold drink, you must know it's name.

Heres a Baldwin 2102, one of the last steam engines used by the Reading. When these were decomissioned , they were used for the Readings "Iron Horse Rambles" which became tourist destinations because the trains went into the Eastern Appalachian Coal regions from Pottstown Pa all the way to Jim Thorpe and into the coal fields.



The engine is a 2-8-0 . This one is shown crossing the SChulykill River near Pottsville Pa, just south of the Blue Ridge town opf Port Clinton

That's a great shot, farmerman. You're sure it's a 2-8-0?? It looks like there is a wheel under the engineer's box. Maybe not - I can't see that well these days.

Here is another menu - this one is from the Louisville and Nashville R. R. Co. Under it is a small ticket that we family members used to travel usually free on our lines and associated lines. I don't remember who used this one, but here it is. My Mom was the worst packrat in the world. We still have left over ration cards from WWII and all sorts of stuff you wouldn't believe.

been watchin' this thread, (have some old railroaders in the family tree) and wanted to stop in and say thanks.

I appreciate the pictures and memories you are sharing with us.

carry on...

Ya know youre right. The Reading Lines Club had the photo on its web site and called it a 2-8-0 but from your observation its more like a 2-8-4. Ill go back to the "roundhouse" and see whethere I can find a better shot

It may possibly even be a 4-8-4 farmerman. It's a BIG steam maker - I say that because most people do not know that the steam engine part of the whole shebang is the tiny box shaped object over the front wheels. The rest of the entire locomotive is only a steam maker. Grin

Here is a version of a Time Table the section chiefs used to make sure the work train was clear of the Main Line when fast movers came through. It is usually specific to the area of the job.

The Denver/Rio Grande South railroad as it used to run thru the Royal Gorge;

Youre right again. Apparently I hould count the wheels before I copy something from another site. I cant believe they were that of. Maybe they had another picture messed up with that one. But the Bridge is one that I recall because we used to go "tubing" down the river and wed put out at that bridge.

the pic didnt come through dys.

With my mac I can see it by control/image in new window - but you folks with pcs can probably do the same by right clicking, clicking on properties, and then image in new window (or similar words).

danon, love the railroad ephemera. thanks for sharing your collection. Your mom did some good pack-ratting there.

Here is some information on the 2102.



Originally built in 1923, by Baldwin as an I-10a 2-8-0 road #2022.

Converted to T-1 Class in 1945 by the Reading Railroad.

Was used on the Reading Rambles from 1960 through 1964.

Sold to Bill Benson's Steam Tours Inc of Akron, OH in 1966.

Ran excursions on the Western Maryland and the B & O in 1972.

Numbered 302 as the motive power for the Delaware & Hudson's Sesquicentennial in 1973.

Ran two series of trips on the Pittsburgh & Shawmut (one from Kittaning PA, the other from Brookville PA) still wearing D&H 302 elephant ears.

Sold to Ohio tour group, Allegheny Railroad in 1974.

Ran excursions in Ohio and western PA in 1977.

Steam Tours operated many excursions until 2102 was forced into retirement in Brownsville, PA in 1977.

Overhaul begun in 1977, by a group of volunteers at Monongahela Railway Shops in Brownsville, PA.

Tom Jones of Stow, OH with Bob Weightman and Bill Stouffer formed Rails Diversified of Ohio Inc. (RDI) and took over ownership of 2102 in 1980.

Appeared in the film "Maria's Lover" which was filmed in 1983.
RDI and 2102 ran three Akron, OH to Pittsburgh, PA excursions in September and October of 1984.

Steamed from Brownsville, PA to the Reading Shops in August of 1985.

Ran excursions sponsored by the Reading Co, Technical & Historical Society to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the T-1s.

Sold to Andrew Muller (Blue Mountain and Reading Railroad) in 1985.

Ran excursions on the BM&R tourist line from 1985 until the early 1990's.

Moved to Steamtown NHS in 1995

Moved in 1998 to be displayed at RBM&N's new steam locomotive shops in Port Clinton, PA with plans to rebuild it as soon as the shops are complete. RBM&N plans to run 2102 and 425 on excursions as soon as possible.

Thanks Intrepid, interesting stuff.
Here is the T & P lock I found while junking in California of all places.


Here is a close-up of the handle of a T & P shovel =


Here's the whole shovel =


Here is a close-up of the handle of a B & O shovel =


The whole thing is the same as the T & P one from a distance of approx 12". Grin