Working rail roads and their tracks.

[bcp]

^^^^^

Bruce

 

[ArlyA]

The Big Boy coming out of Tunnel 27, east of Roseville, CA. The smoke deflector was in the process of folding up and is out of sight.

 

[bdhsfz6]

The Big Boy coming out of Tunnel 27, east of Roseville, CA. The smoke deflector was in the process of folding up and is out of sight.View attachment 884272

It's brother, the #4012, is on display at the Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton.

The plan is restore it to running condition but it has to be split to fit the turntable. It's also too long to fit in the roundhouse sheds.

 

[bcp]

It's brother, the #4012, is on display at the Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton.

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The plan is restore it to running condition but it has to be split to fit the turntable. It's also too long to fit in the roundhouse sheds.

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With that track arrangement there are many stalls it can go into without turning the turntable.

Bruce

Checking google aerial, it looks like only three stalls can be reached by a through route across the turntable.

 

[bdhsfz6]

With that track arrangement there are many stalls it can go into without turning the turntable.

Bruce

Checking google aerial, it looks like only three stalls can be reached by a through route across the turntable.

Those sheds house permanent exhibits, such as this one, that would be difficult to move:

The maintenances sheds are in the northeast section of the roundhouse:

When they did the cosmetic restoration of the #4012, they split the engine and put the sections in 3 different stalls. I don't understand why, but the operational restoration would be difficult to do this way.

 

[ArlyA]

I history of slugs video and quite good. There use makes more sense now.

 

[ArlyA]

Hiking the North Country trail over the weekend we crossed a CN RR grade I'd predict will be abandoned. With the spikes being so loose, why wouldn't the engines weight tip the rails over? This is south of Houghton MI.

 

[Runner]

Hiking the North Country trail over the weekend we crossed a CN RR grade I'd predict will be abandoned. With the spikes being so loose, why wouldn't the engines weight tip the rails over? This is south of Houghton MI.

Being a straight section of track may be the only thing that prevented a derailment.

 

[gstrom99]

Hiking the North Country trail over the weekend we crossed a CN RR grade I'd predict will be abandoned. With the spikes being so loose, why wouldn't the engines weight tip the rails over? This is south of Houghton MI. View attachment 884835View attachment 884836View attachment 884837

When I was still commuting to work (via METRA) in Chicago, I'd watch CN trains wiz by on railbeds with loose spikes like that, and worse. Rocking and rolling, up and down. Kinda scary to think what might be in them cars and what could happen. Well, we all know that it DOES happen. With so many miles and millions of spikes, it's alot to keep up with it all...

 

[MossRoad]

Saw this on Google Earth the other day. Far east end of the Elkhart yard. It was a double roundhouse. Long gone before my time. It was a superfund site and they had planted trees to soak up contamination, so it wasn't visible from the air for many years. Apparently they've taken the trees out since I last looked 7-8 years ago.