Allright, back in the game for me:

This is how the Jamaicans do Gondolas.

This is a train I had just brought in to St. Jago mine. 27 empty ore gondolas getting ready to load full of Bauxite (for the making of Alumina). We ran 12 miles from Clarendon Alumina works to the railhead near the mine. A conveyor (modified Alpine ski lift) brings the bauxite over the mountain and piles it up at St. Jago where Cat loaders scoop it up and deposit into big funnels that load 3 cars at a time in the tipple.

We cut off on track 1, nose up to the loads in the tipple with our GP40-2, meanwhile, the switcher (Republic Loco works R-20 CAT) goes down track 2, runs around our train of empties, and ties on at the other end in 1 to shove the train into the loader, meanwhile, we line the switch behind our power and pull out down 2 rail, stop, air test, and take off down the hill in full dynamics). Photo taken from the brakeman side while we were waiting for our brakeman to walk the set.

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Thanks Charlie.

Hey Ralph....Its a Penn Central gon.
Notice the RD tag mounted on the side.

An ex EL gon relettered for SPSX April 1996

Bruce

Hey Ralph....Its a Penn Central gon.
Notice the RD tag mounted on the side.[/quote]


Cool Ed!!!
Ralph

EL F7 711 E.Palestine, Ohio, 1976
Charlie

LV F7 578 on the Cape May Seashore Lines at Tuckahoe, NJ Feb 2009

Bruce

Hello Everyone---Charlie,I really liked your last photo,not only because of the quality but also the variety of locomotives/road names---it gave lots of options for future contributions.Here's my offering for today following the F-7 theme---CN F-7 #9100,GTW F-7 #9027 (and 2 CN GP-9's)

A little more CNR:
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The car is a modified Bachmann model, now at home on Mister Nutbar's layout.

Wayne

Hi Doc---thanks for posting your picture of a unique CNR freight car---here's another CN car that you might remember

Going off of cn nutbar's piggy back flat, one from the CP at Philadelphia, Pa April 1997

Bruce

Flatcars...Can do!

Crane on a flatcar.
Housatonic RR. Canan Ct.

CP Rail flatcar at Winslow, NJ November 1993

Bruce

Here's another flatcar, this time used as an idler car for a gondola loaded with poles:
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Wayne

Wayne,
Always amazed by your modeling and photography.
Here's a BLE flat and load at Millville, NJ March 1990

Bruce

Interesting-looking flatcar, although the load doesn't appear to be heavy enough to need such a car. Do you have any more info on either the car or the load?

Wayne