Category: What do you see?
On track: Modeling the details
Did you figure out what was different about the trackage in the photo from #12? At least one individual came up with the answer I had in mind. Congrats Trevor! It might be hard to see in the original photo but, the joint bars are not offset from each other as is typical American practice. [...]
Switchbacks, piano music and all that jazz.
The former C&O Cincinnati to Chicago line ran through a section of town known as Old Richmond. Situated on the east rim of the Whitewater Gorge, Old Richmond is the location of the original settlement of the city. The now abandoned rail line (below) ran along the east rim of the gorge starting at South [...]
What do you see? -11
This week we’re back on the C&O a short distance south of the trestle featured in “What do you see -6″. I’ll have much more to say about this scene next week, including more photos. For now though, you know the routine. What do you see? Regards, Mike
What do you see? -10
The photo this week covers familiar ground. This is the end of track at Brookville taken several years ago. The locomotive is on one of the leads to the enginehouse. The hopper car in the center of the shot is on the main, which feeds directly to the Owens Corning plant behind. I love this [...]
What do you see? -9 update: 11-02-2011
Not the usual freight car view. Let me add a couple of caveats: This is a tourist railroad property and I had permission to be there and shoot photos. Second, I wasn’t as close as the photo suggests thanks to the zoom feature of my camera lens. This was also a static line of cars with [...]
What do you see? -8
It’s another blast from the distant past this week, with this C&O freight working the yard at Richmond. I’m standing someplace I shouldn’t be to get this shot looking in the opposite direction from WDYS -7. My memory of when this was taken is fuzzy at best and completely gone at worst. I can’t [...]
What do you see? -7
I know, the quality of this photo leaves something to be desired. Cut me some slack, it’s a thirty to forty year old Polaroid. Remember those? I’ve mentioned numerous times, that the PRR (later Penn Central and later still, Conrail), had an interchange with the C&O line up from Cincinnati. Well, here it is in [...]
What do you see? -6 (updated 10-11-’11)
Here is a scene that ought to warm the cockles of your heart. There’s no subject quite like a wooden trestle for sheer modeling interest. This one is located on former Chesapeake and Ohio trackage in Richmond, Indiana. This C&O line came up from Cincinnati on its way to Chicago. It climbed the famed Cheviot [...]
What do you see? -5
This building was once home to a manufacturer of threshing machines called Gaar and Scott. Later it was taken over by International Harvester. Now it’s just a storage building for another company in town. The buildings in this complex date back to the mid 1800s, so they’re quite old. The street in the [...]
What do you see? -4
Here’s another change of pace shot from the plain Jane grade crossings. Back in the day, the Pennsy had some unusual names for the tracks in town. My favorite was the Stingy Track. Presumably, it was “stingy” because it wouldn’t hold a lot of cars. I’ve never really known where this track was, but I [...]
