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 Posted - January 27 2008 : 2:37:11 PM
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I'd love to start this week's LotW using my (er, my wife's) new camera. We find ourselves in the desert of West Texas, with the crew of this little SP Tyco switcher about to get underway at the stop-and-proceed-at-restricted speed signal (which is actually wired to a relay and turnout up the line, making it a live switch-point indicator). No doubt the crew just finished up a good meal at the Tyco Howard Johnson's in the distance.
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Posted - January 27 2008 : 2:41:25 PM
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Well Done!
Picture, Setting, Narrative. Couldn't ask for more. again, well done.
-Gareth
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Posted - January 27 2008 : 10:01:22 PM
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Hi guys
Just got this off Exciting-bay.........
Big Six
Ted
midmo
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Posted - January 28 2008 : 02:39:44 AM
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Nice locos.
[:)]
This was my first HO locomotive. My dad bought it in the late 60s as a kit and put it together. It has been through a few rebuilds since then.
Ray
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Posted - January 28 2008 : 11:24:04 PM
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A railfan's dream! I took this photo at the remote siding at Chispa, (Spanish for 'spark') Texas. This was (and still is, in my garage) the junction of the SP's Sunset Route and the 26-mile 'Rio Grande Northern', which runs to a coal mine at San Carlos, and actually included one of only about 6 tunnels ever bored in Texas. Locals can't belive it, but this must be some kind of special movement, or fan trip that's lost it's way! The Tyco Pacific sure looks good, though, and it seems that even the SP 2-6-6-2 (Mantua Classics) is trying to edge into the back of the scene! In the distance is the nearby town of Lobo, where one can shack up at the Siesta Motel after a day of travel. Even this small town rates some rail-truck transfer service as evidenced by the SF trailer being offloaded.
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Posted - February 01 2008 : 9:09:42 PM
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I love this loco and its paint scheme. It runs great. Not custom, but fun. I bought it at the Cumberland show a year ago, my first Super 630.
Alco Fan
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Posted - February 02 2008 : 05:39:13 AM
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Well, unlike my "Lil' Six," this locomotive has a tender. But, it is also an oil fired o-6-o, and quite heavy, too.
I bought it as you see it. The dealer said it was a brass locomotive. I took it home and figured that the brass only meant a few parts here and there.
Now, naturally, it had a previous owner... but mysteriously the initials on the tender say TP while on the back of the tender it says TWIRP.
I am generally guessing that each letter represented a name, seeings how TR and TWIRP begins and ends the same.
Well, the longer I studied this heavy metal beast, I can almost match it to a MDC or ROUNDHOUSE switcher on the side of the blue boxes.
It is a very solidly built steam locomotive with a very bright headlight.
It pulls well... and has a light shimmy to it as it goes down the track.
Perhaps someone else has an idea on its identity.
John
p.s. flanges on all drivers.
I don't have a one track mind. It depends on the turn-out.
"I love your catenary!"
Is that a power-trip or just another pick-up line?
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Posted - February 02 2008 : 10:51:21 AM
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I've enjoyed everyone's pics this week. I hope you don't mind me continuing to share my collection...I'll finish this week with my covered wagon roundup--Atlantic Coast line, Penn Central, and Santa Fe: all MU-2 equipped.
Edited by - Adams on February 02 2008 10:51:02 PM
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Posted - February 02 2008 : 2:31:52 PM
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quote:Perhaps someone else has an idea on its identity.
John
p.s. flanges on all drivers.
Originally posted by zebrails - February 02 2008 : 04:39:13 AM
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That is definitely a Roundhouse locomotive.
The earliest Roundhouse 0-6-0s were brass, then Zamic. The later ones then had a plastic boiler, cab and tender shell.
Ray
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