Working rail roads and their tracks.

[oldtimer 66]

I can add some detail to this unit. The handbrake on the left side of the picture adjust the coupler height. The truck frame is an original/ first production/ GE HIAD truck frame from the 80's. It has a large stiffner welded to the side frame / aka both sides/ on the open end of the truck. This was done to correct a weakness in the casting. Later frames were reinforced on the open end to eliminate this problem and no stiffners were needed. I am not sure if the unit was made at SLP and or Boise, but I remember people talking about it.

 

[Runner]

It has a brake wheel of both ends so I say it's finished. Could be an MU powered by the prime mover in a connected unit. Sometimes called a slug. What do you think?View attachment 2797055

From this to that? NS 8808?

Stumbled onto this little critter, which appears to be made from NS 8808. Tried doing an internet search for more info but came up short. I'm thinking the Broake & Howe RR needs one like it. :)

modelrailroadforums.com

 

[ArlyA]

What I did as a carmen. Mostly what we worked on was aggregate and grain hoppers and coal gondolas. Cold in the winter and hot as &^$ in the winter. Got burned lots.

 

[Cub 7274]

Good ol car knocker.....

 

[ArlyA]

Soo locks construction on this day in 1909.

 

[MossRoad]

Boy I like pictures like that! Thanks.

 

[ArlyA]

Gogebic Iron Range History​

Springtime in the late 1890’s. Iron ore stockpiled during the winter was being loaded onto 40 ton capacity cars. Bucyrus Erie steam shovels on tracks are operating at maximum capacity as steel mills anxiously await shipments from ore boats. This location is now the Jacob Randa memorial softball field which officially opened about 47 years after this picture was taken.
The Norrie mine, Ironwood MI, which in 1916 became the Townsite mine stopped operating in 1936. The cost of hauling ore to the Ashland WI dock was one and a half cents per ton per mile.

 

[MossRoad]

 

[MossRoad]

I can't recall if these were posted already or not. Forgive me if they have...

 

[bcp]

Bruce