A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Look, it's a unit grain train.

Why "unit"? Different grains per bin?

[rogruth]

Look, it's a unit grain train.

Why "unit"? Different grains per bin?

The same type of product in the same type of cars.
Coal trains,Tropicana orange juice. Autos, Etc.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Look, it's a unit grain train.

Why "unit"? Different grains per bin?

The same type of product in the same type of cars.
Coal trains,Tropicana orange juice. Autos, Etc.

Ohhhhhh, thanks, nice to learn. I had no idea.
Murph

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Builder's photo of the 14" rail gun - and indeed there is one at the DC Navy Yard and I will be getting some pictures in the near future.

[rogruth]

Rufus,
Would there be recoil with that gun?
How was it controlled?
My eyes won't focus on your present photo
and I can't quite make it out. Is that part
of your disguise or just my bad eyes?
Who/what are you now?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Rufus,
...My eyes won't focus on your present photo
and I can't quite make it out....Who/what are you now?

It appears to be his favorite ilk - a clown with a menacing attitude. Or it's a fallen-angel with constipation.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Rufus,
Would there be recoil with that gun?
How was it controlled?

https://www.navalhistory.org/2015/10/15 ... uns-in-wwi

My eyes won't focus on your present photo and I can't quite make it out. Is that part of your disguise or just my bad eyes?
Who/what are you now?

a clown with a menacing attitude. Or it's a fallen-angel with constipation.

The former. April is a good month for clowns - dreary, rainy, gloomy, grey, depressing, miserable month.......did I mention grey?

Although, now that you mention it, somewhere I do have an avatar of the latter...........and don't ask how I got a photo of such an individual!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Yes, its prol'ly best not to ask, though one has to wonder about your wanderings and sources....risky stuff. no doubt...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Fire House Baseball Team, SSFC NO 9, Harrisburg, PA

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[Wolf]

OK, so what is your take on this picture--Sunday off in the sunshine for some
coal mine mules? Can't tell how hard they are blinking in a still picture .

Thanks for posting the 14" railway gun picture. Thought I saw it poking up into the
skyline last year while driving past the Navy Yard on my way to visit my sister in
Alexandria. Will have to go and give it a visit to check it out. Although my favorite
is still the US Army Model 1920 14"/50 Railway Gun version that they stationed at
Ft. MacArthur in San Pedro during the 1920's thru 1940's.

Also saw the German "Leopold" (aka Anzio Annie) several years back when it was
still on display at the Aberdeen Ordnance Museum as part of their extensive collection
of captured and US ordnance.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

OK, so what is your take on this picture--Sunday off in the sunshine for some
coal mine mules? Can't tell how hard they are blinking in a still picture .

I'm guessing they like miners are on a shift change.

Thanks for posting the 14" railway gun picture. Thought I saw it poking up into the
skyline last year while driving past the Navy Yard on my way to visit my sister in
Alexandria. Will have to go and give it a visit to check it out.

I'll be going to the Navy Yard in the near future to check it out.

[aterry11]

Neat article link regarding the railway gun..
Intrigued by the woozlefinch and the motto Quid ad sceleratorum curamus.. That should be the nitpickers thread motto

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

It all looks very precarious, though the animal only seems mildly annoyed/amused (wearing a chapeau?)