Rail Road Memerabilia / stuff

[Ralph]

Thanks!

Ralph

[e-paw]

I have a few odds and ends to show. The first group is from the former PRR's Greenville yard in Jersey city NJ (completely gone now). There was some excavating going on for a warehouse that was under construction (at least 10 years ago) and these are some of the things that were dug up.    

   

   

[e-paw]

More stuff from Greenville.    
That spring was from the inside of a damaged freight car truck, I wanted the whole thing but I couldn't get it in my truck .

    The section of rail is former CNJ . The brake shoe is from .....well maybe I shouldn't say. Don't want to get any one in trouble.

    This is some stuff from the CNJ's Newark Bay drawbridge in Bayonne NJ. I removed it just before it was taken down to build an A+P.

[e-paw]

    This Is from the Jersey centrals police dept.


Some stuff on display in by basement
   

   

[e-paw]

This is a working phone from the former Hudson + Manhattan Railroad, now the Path system.    

   

   
This is a printing press plate from The CNJ that advertises THE ATLANTIC CITTY EXPRESS I guess it's a non first class version of the BLUE COMMET.

[e-paw]

   
I think this is a throttle I don't know where it came from.

   
CNJ Greenville station.

   
Last pic, a PC first aid kit.

[tetters]

Wow. Some really cool stuff guys! Thanks to Lester for getting this going.

[cn nutbar]

Hello Everyone---when I posted a photo of the Train Register log book I indicated I had no idea of the year the log was completed.Based on the numbers of the locomotives and other factors,I have been attempting to try and figure out the possible year this book was completed.I can say the log was completed prior to Oct.1951---a number of locomotives in the 900 series were renumbered by the CNR on that date.Also,it appears the CNR had been leasing Wabash steam engine #2271 as it appears in this log book up to the end of Sept..I'm hoping I can find more information that will give me a more accurate time frame when the book was produced.Anyway,I have added a couple more pages from the log,the first being Oct.11



I thought the entry from Oct.27th was also interesting---the first line shows train #20---the Maple Leaf stopping at Dundas at 9:23 PM ---note the remarks about the hockey team detraining (at that time,the National Hockey League teams travelled by train)'but it's curious why they would get off in Dundas

[Tom]

When the Flying Scotsman came to the USA and Canada for a North American Tour in the 1960's, the train was siezed by the IRS and put into storage at Sharpe Army Depot near Stockton, CA. My Dad was a carman for Western Pacific and two of the cars went to a scrapper here in town that hoped to sell the cars for storage sheds (?!). The two exhibit cars were dug out of storage, and were interchanged by the WP to the Central California Traction RR who delivered them to the scrapper. Since the cars were being interchanged and had vaccuum brakes, a "run-around" hose was fashioned to go be wired down one side of the cars to connect with gondolas at the rear. How they were coupled, Dad doesn't recall, as the cars obviously had buffer and screw type couplers, but when called out to attach the run-around hose, he noticed the cast iron builders plates. So, out came the torch off the work truck. Dad liberated two plates, the other carman he was working with got the other two. They went inside the cars and found a box of books on the train, and they each took one, and Dad brought the book home to me. I still have it in a box somewhere. Thus, starting my fascination with the train, which had a considerable little history on the WP anyway while it was out here. At any rate, the acetylene started running low, and was exhausted by the last rivet, thus, he had to use a crowbar to pop that last rivet breaking one plate (has since been glued by me). I have them sitting here in one of my curio cabinets with a Hornby model of the engine. Photos attached.

   

   

   

[Tom]

Guys, I'm not sure what happened to post the first photo 3 times, I have tried to take two of them off, but they don't show in the code. My apologies.

I have lots of other neat railroad items from work over the years, but these two plates are my favorites. I'll see what other kinds of goodies I can take photos of.

[Steamtrains]

Those builders plates are really cool...!! Why did the IRS seize the coaches.?? Did the tour organizers owe them taxes or something..?

[Tom]

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I think this is a throttle I don't know where it came from.

Actually, that is an Automatic Air Brake handle (removeable) probably from a 24RL or 26L airbrake stand.

[Tom]

Those builders plates are really cool...!! Why did the IRS seize the coaches.?? Did the tour organizers owe them taxes or something..?

The owner (Alan Pegler) was a Brit, but apparently, according to the IRS, since the train was making money here, he was obligated to pay IRS taxes. He disagreed, and you know how that goes with the IRS.

[Charlie B]

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I think this is a throttle I don't know where it came from.

Actually, that is an Automatic Air Brake handle (removeable) probably from a 24RL or 26L airbrake stand.

It is the same as the handle for the brake on a 14 EL. It is identical to our ALCO S-1 It might also fit a 6 but I'm not sure. I never ran a locomotive with a 6 brake.
Charlie

[Charlie B]

I have a rather extensive collection but this is probably the oldest item I have.
Charlie