The word around Joy's Camp is that a few weeks ago, miners unearthed a curious substance with strange fluorescent and anti-gravity properties. This substance was extracted from the mine, bagged, and loaded into a boxcar for shipment down the mountain and transfer to the standard-gauge railroad. Rumors also state that a futuristic steel boxcar was procured for shipment of this substance to a buyer elsewhere in Arizona. Once at the interchange, the substance will be transloaded to the standard gauge railroad, but it's final destination is a closely guarded secret.
The special train ready to leave Joy's Camp. The curious substance is in boxcar 155:
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Steaming of of town:
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Downgrade through the cut behind the smelter:
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Across the bridge:
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By the slag dump:
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Sorry for the previous larger-than screen photos - I'm using a newer software that I havent quite mastered yet.
Anyway, here's the train heading down the gulch:
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And out the tunnel and under the bridge, connecting with the standard-gauge:
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Instructions are to wait until after dark to transfer the load (I need to go to work), so the rest will have to wait until later.
WOW! I wonder what that fluorescent substance could be. I guess it would have to be tied down in the car.
I'm wondering if you put enough of it in the car, if it'll levitate....Not a good thing if you want it to stay on the track...
Steamtrains Wrote:I'm wondering if you put enough of it in the car, if it'll levitate....Not a good thing if you want it to stay on the track...
Transportation of this substance required carefull planning and considerable risk. Expert physicists were called in to debate potential consequences resulting from its transport. One worry is that the anti-gravity properties of the substance will cause the molecules of the container to eventually expand and repel each other. Other physicists speculated this substance could be used as a fuel for interstellar travel.
I guess you wouldn't need to worry about being ove..... Hey wait a minute, aren't freight charges calculated by weight ? If this is correct then would the railroad have to pay the shipper to haul it ? Oh what a quandary.
One of your images really struck me as photogenic, so I hope you don't mind if I 'improved' it a little...the modeling is still all you, but the blue sky comes courtesy of SW Virginia a few years back.
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The engine just seemed to be simmering, waiting for a crew to climb onboard and take her down the hill. Of course, all your shots seemed that way since there's no crew in any of the pictures...
. But perhaps it was the engineer who climbed out to make the photos...yeah, that's it.
Anyway, thanks for the inspiring modeling.
Galen
Gotta love that Shay.....
I'd never looked closely, but I see that the boiler is offset to one side to make space for the cylinders. Was it "side heavy" or did the cylinders compensate for the offset of the boiler..??
Steamtrains Wrote:Gotta love that Shay.....
I'd never looked closely, but I see that the boiler is offset to one side to make space for the cylinders. Was it "side heavy" or did the cylinders compensate for the offset of the boiler..??
The offset was part of the design in order to balance the weight between cylinders/gears on one side and the boiler on the other. Heislers and Climaxes, though geared, have no such offset due to the symmetrical arrangement of the drive train down the center directly beneath the boiler and pistons/crankshafts located on both sides.
Galen
The special boxcar awaits arrival of its unique cargo after the sun goes down.
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The narrow gauge train arrives on this full moon evening. The narrow gauge car is spotted next to the special steel standard gauge boxcar, and the mysterious substance is quickly transferred.
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The narrow gauge train leaves, and the special car is quickly coupled into an outbound train, pulled by ten-wheeler #14.
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The train with the mysterious substance leaves town, and even the cows woke up to see what was going on.
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Soon, the car will leave the Gila and Southeastern Railroad, and move on to its destination. Who know what weird stuff may happen during transport.
Fantastic Moonlit Foe-toes!
Alright...tell us all about the ten wheeler!
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Galen
Hey, you'e got a very nice railroad Nachoman! Great work and nice photos.
Gary
Galen, I've got a bunch of updates to make to my layout thread, and I will put a few photos of the ten-wheeler in there when I get the chance.