Weekly Photo Fun 8/1 - 8/7/14

[bdw9535]

A Conrail SW1200 sets out some empty gons on the carfloat track for Dock Street. The cars will be loaded onto the float by the Shore River RR.

Bruce

[Steamtrains]

Those are some nice pics..!!! Let's see so' more....

[jwb]

A photo inspired by some of the F&SM photos you can find on the web:

   

[bdw9535]

John,

Nice to see you posting again.

Bruce

[Sumpter250]

A "small" Tank Car:
   
A Nantahala Midland box car, crossing the Upper Kennequogue River, behind SM&CH FTA, FTB, F7A
   

[bdw9535]

Here's some shots of Shore River loading the carfloat.

Bruce

[Lester Perry]

A Nantahala Midland box car, crossing the Upper Kennequogue River, behind SM&CH FTA, FTB, F7A
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That is one fantastic bridge, I love it

[faraway]

Sorry, had to use my telephoto. It's all fenced property.


Bruce, the car float is great. This is an excellent example how important the backdrop is.

[Sumpter250]

A Nantahala Midland box car, crossing the Upper Kennequogue River, behind SM&CH FTA, FTB, F7A
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That is one fantastic bridge, I love it

That's actually three, HO Faller Deck ARCH BRIDGE Building Kit # 120541, with the original decks not used, and replaced with Central Valley, plastic bridge tie strips, on plastic I beam stringers.
I used six of those kits on the new modules, for the double track "mainline".

[kamerad47]

PRT 1528 & crew working the Fourth St. yard switching some scrap gondolas , & then crossing Fourth St. with a C&D gondola & a gondola loaded with old roofing shingles & a empty scrap gon , they're setting it up for the PRT road power to head out on the NIT for the interchange track !!!!! :o hock:

[bdw9535]

Some shots of the carfloat being unloaded by the Dock Street crew

Bruce

[Lester Perry]

Hey Bruce is the yard truck in the last pic an Ottawa or Capacity? Looks a lot like the trucks I used to drive. The only difference I can see is the roof

[cn nutbar]

Railfanning with Doctor Wayne---CNR #4193 leads a freight across Walnut St. in Dunnville

[doctorwayne]

Railfanning with Doctor Wayne---CNR #4193 leads a freight across Walnut St. in Dunnville

Looks like that photo was taken from the roof, either of industrial supplier Wilkinson-Kompass (left foreground in the photo below) or that of Coffield Washer, seen at right. (Aerial photos courtesy of Secord Air Services.)



Here are a few more from the same survey:

National Grocers, at near left, and much of the east-side industrial area:



Here's the Bertram Machine Works....



....and from the north side:



...the Dunnville station, with the Post Office wing closest to the camera, the station itself in the centre, and the express annex on the far end. The Grand Valley's administrative offices are in the upper floors, along with those of some private enterprises:



This final view shows Bertram's offices at lower left, with Creechan's Fine Fuels just opposite on the north side of Liberty St. In the background is P&M Languay Ltd., a pump and compressor manufacturer. To the right of that is the steel water tank supplying the standpipes near the station, and, right of that and slightly closer to the viewer, Airline Junction. Much of this former mainline, which disappears beneath the girder bridge, was washed away in a hurricane several years prior, and the truncated remnants serve now only as a wye for turning locos and cars from nearby South Dunn Yards, or helper locos from Cayuga Junction, several miles to the north.
Also visible, in the right foreground, is the overhead crane at the Grand Valley's Walnut St. Freight Terminal:




Wayne

[bdw9535]

Hey Bruce is the yard truck in the last pic an Ottawa or Capacity?

Lester,

I believe that the Athearn yard tractors are modeled after the Ottawa's.

Bruce