Trains

[railfancwb]

Route of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad as it crosses back and forth between New Mexico and Colorado. 

Edited March 1, 2020 by railfancwb
Caption the map.

[Eric]

[railfancwb]

The rolling of heavily loaded wheels on rails creates stress cracks in the rail head. If left along such cracks can lead to failures as shown earlier in this thread. Specialty companies travel the nation grinding rail tops to remove such cracks. 
 

[Dric902]

 

[Dric902]

I’ve seen tie ends on fire after grinders pass

the also smell like a machine shop

 

 

[janice6]

4 hours ago, Dric902 said:

I’ve seen tie ends on fire after grinders pass

the also smell like a machine shop

 

 

Hot steel has an intriguing aroma.

[Dric902]

6 hours ago, janice6 said:

Hot steel has an intriguing aroma.

And burning Ceracote

[janice6]

8 minutes ago, Dric902 said:

And burning Ceracote

I assume you meant Creosote.  If so, that a smell I have trouble dealing with. 

It goes back to one of my very early memories, when I was playing and from somewhere,m I got a blob of soft Tar.  I played with it like clay and finally molded it into a mask over my face.  I didn't like it, at all but I can't explain why. 

Now, to this day, the smell of Tar and many substances like it (even Creosote) are most repelling to me.  I don't know why, but that's how it effects me.  So if I smelled burning Creosote I would get out of there in a hurry.

I guess it's just another one of those bizarre ways certain things effect us. Many other petroleum substances don't bother me.

[Dric902]

10 minutes ago, janice6 said:

I assume you meant Creosote. 

That’s it.

the ties are treated with it

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Edited March 6, 2020 by Dric902

[janice6]

53 minutes ago, Dric902 said:

That’s it.

the ties are treated with it

.

My spell checker gives me fits at times too.

[railfancwb]

Railroad under car inspections 

[railfancwb]

Going home from work. This is on the Mt Washington Cog Railway. Believe this was tge world’s first cog railway. 

[railfancwb]

When massive stock yards in Chicago and other large cities dominated meat processing, much of the meat traveled “on the hoof” in railroad cars from the farms and ranches. 

Federal regulations required that the livestock be frequently removed from the stock cars (aka cattle cars) and allowed to eat and drink water and walk around a bit. 

Moving the livestock off the train, into the pens, and back onto the trains required stock handlers often called drovers. These people traveled with the train in cars known as drovers cabooses. 
 

[railfancwb]

European rotary snow plow. Unlike most if not all North American rotary snow plows, this combined the steam engine powering the blade with an articulated locomotive - all under one roof. Note the catenary overhead for electric locomotives. 
 

[railfancwb]

[DWARREN123]

There are a whole lot of folks out there making America go!

[railfancwb]

 

[railfancwb]

What would you call this?

 

[Dric902]

There is a restored one in Elkhart at a small museum

its an early Metro type engine, using a catenary for power from overhead lines

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[Bish1309]

7 hours ago, railfancwb said:

What would you call this?

 

Ugly.

[railfancwb]

[railfancwb]

[pipedreams]

A brief history of logging operations. In this scene, Elk River Coal & Lumber Company 3-truck, 65-ton Shay #19 fords the Lilly Fork in Clay County, West Virginia with five loads of logs on the late afternoon of November 24, 1961. Tom Sink photo. https://american-rails.com/logging.htm

[railfancwb]

4 hours ago, pipedreams said:

A brief history of logging operations. In this scene, Elk River Coal & Lumber Company 3-truck, 65-ton Shay #19 fords the Lilly Fork in Clay County, West Virginia with five loads of logs on the late afternoon of November 24, 1961. Tom Sink photo. https://american-rails.com/logging.htm

Try fording that creek using a diesel locomotive. 

[railfancwb]

Shay? Not just for logging. These were used for industrial switching in cities.