Weekend Photos - 7/20/18

[christopher2035]

Happy Friday!

Some postwar layout memories -











NS SD80MAC 7205 (ex CR 4109) leads 35A westbound through Duncannon, PA on the eastern end of the Pittsburgh line.


With the sun just rising above the mountains, a trio of NS GE helpers grind upgrade w/ 236 through Northfork, WV on the Pokey.



NS ET44AC 3665 ducks under the new signals at Keystone, WV as it leads 194 eastbound on the Pokey


NS Dash-840C 8717 awaits the scrappers torch at Cresson Steel, in Cresson, PA


NS 16T heads through Shawsville, VA on the Christiansburg District w/ the N&W heritage unit leading on home rails

[webenda]

An interesting variation on ties.

[HONDO74]

The black & white photo with the Berkshire reminds me of pictures one would see in the late 40s early 50s in Model Builder or Toy Trains magazines.

[G3750]

The kids were in town and we headed to Station Square in Pittsburgh. We caught the Monongahela Incline (funicular railroad) up to Mt. Washington.

Here's a double-stack train passing under the incline while we ascend.

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A little bit about the incline.

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George

[healey36]

CSX 335 (AC44CW) on the point at Highfield, reaching the summit at the junction of the Dutch Line and the Old Mainline, both formerly Western Maryland:



Cropped from an iPhone6 shot by my daughter.

Healey

[HONDO74]

MODEL BUILDER DEC 1939 With Yankee Great Joe Dimaggio on the front cover with a Lionel 700E