Anyone Else Fascinated By Old Locomotives?

[Pep]

Neat pics of the original area and the station being moved. I like that idea. The original station in my home town I just found out from TheGoogle™ is also a building that was moved as well and it was turned into a museum.

 

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Neat pics of the original area and the station being moved. I like that idea. The original station in my home town I just found out from TheGoogle™ is also a building that was moved as well and it was turned into a museum.

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Looks like we may have started a "Home town" trend...........lol

 

[Rruuff Day]

May as well toss my home in here too. Wellington Nova Scotia 1891. I'm the guy watching for bandits and holding the muzzle loader.

 

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Here's Joan's (my wife) hometown, Kingston Ontario - this is in Confederation Park.

 

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[Dave91TM]

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All those men are posed like they've just completed a great endeavour..... might that be the finding cutting and shipping of the worlds first Charlie Brown Christmas tree?!?

 

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Dave91TM - Here's reinforcements for the woodcutting detail.

 

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Oshawa?

 

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Before the Spiral tunnels in the Rockies ........took 3 - 4 locomotives because of the steep 4.5% grade. Twice the steepest recommended slope for descending traffic. This was one of the steepest adhesion lines anywhere. In the picture to the right is an escape track for runaway trains.

 

[Dave91TM]

Before the Spiral tunnels in the Rockies ........took 3 - 4 locomotives because of the steep 4.5% grade. Twice the steepest recommended slope for descending traffic. This was one of the steepest adhesion lines anywhere. In the picture to the right is an escape track for runaway trains.

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So if the train was going downhill at runaway speed, who gets picked to run ahead and operate the switch?

 

[Rruuff Day]

So if the train was going downhill at runaway speed, who gets picked to run ahead and operate the switch?

Good Point. Guessing remote switching was likely not an option back then.

 

[Black 03 Z06]

Really good photo and question about the switch and its operation. There was a switch called a speed switch but just how it worked is not explained. Wonder if there was a method of operating the switch manually from inside the loco. If they ran these routes all the time perhaps the locos were fitted with some type of device that would force the switch to the siding.

 

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This is the "after" picture........

 

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[Rruuff Day]

This is the "after" picture........

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By the looks of things, that second engine better kick it in the a$$ and help out.... No. 1 is working hard and hasn't even hit the steep part yet...