Trackside Thursday

[KriegslokBR52]

Remember the days we did this?

View attachment 178027

Is this actually in Panama?

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Here'a few more from last weekends train chasing the steam. There's something magical about standing next to live steam at night.

 

[NorthBrit]

Is this actually in Panama?

Just outside Panama City. We were there November 2018

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Just outside Panama City. We were there November 2018

I didn't know there actually trains in Panama...except those electric locomotives which pull the ships through the Panama Canal locks.

 

[NorthBrit]

I didn't know there actually trains in Panama...except those electric locomotives which pull the ships through the Panama Canal locks.

Those are called mules on the canal locks.

The Panama Canal Railroad links the Atlantic to the Pacific. 47.6 miles long, Colon (Atlantic side) to Balboa (near Panama City, Pacific side). It is mainly a freight carrier, but runs a passenger train.

(I shall post a couple of pictures later. It is late and I am tired.)

 

[Rico]

There was a TV show on this line not long ago, maybe PBS, very interesting

 

[skyliner]

Former passenger depot in Hastings, still used by CP for MOW and other crews, and single locomotive shed. In the distance is the lift bridge over the Mississippi River originally built by the Milwaukee Road. The main line is to the right of the buildings in this picture, running north over the river to Pig's Eye Yard and St. Paul. The track in the foreground is often used to park locomotives for local work in between assignments.

 

[logandsawman]

One of my "new" trucks in front of the Wyoming depot. It is a Scale Structures Ltd. model kit,

I like these old kits.

Dave LASM

 

[TrucTrain55]

Here’s today’s TST from the HO scale layout. A small shed and a old Farmall Tractor

 

[logandsawman]

A couple workers at the quarry:

Dave LASM

 

[Old 97]

Scoobied from the photo gallery. Credit to SteveO.

 

[Old 97]

Gramps and his son have come over to the roundhouse to see his old buddies back in August 1925. After a nice chat, he can't seem to get the Model A Ford to start. Luckily his friends come over to give him a hand. Good thing too, his son is getting tired. Dang that car cranks hard!

Scoobied from the galleries. Credit to rhoward.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Action on my own "Waldenburg Midland":

 

[KriegslokBR52]

New Haven in Port Chester, New York and a north bound Sprinter with "Amcans". But a sharp eye wil notice something odd with the first car behind the locomotive. The trucks give this away as a former Metroliner car turned into unpowered control cab.

Next a south bound Metro North M8:

And a pan shot of a north bound counterpart:

 

[logandsawman]

One of my many shacks and a feathered friend:

My layout is steam era. This little building serves as a cozy shelter for an old timer and his mate

Dave LASM

 

[PMW]

Action on my own "Waldenburg Midland":View attachment 182764

I model pretty modern times and like my diesels but man, those engines are beautiful!

 

[KriegslokBR52]

I model pretty modern times and like my diesels but man, those engines are beautiful!

Maybe you'll repent and come over to the light side

 

[PMW]

Maybe you'll repent and come over to the light side

I don’t know…this diesel Sith Lord probably couldn’t get the track work good enough to make them run

 

[KriegslokBR52]

I don’t know…this diesel Sith Lord probably couldn’t get the track work good enough to make them run

The steam locomotives are definitely less forgiving, trucked diesels, or in my case electrics are a little more flexible.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Some more action on Waldenburg Midland:

Last one is not so much trackside, as between the rails:

Tunnel in Paw Paw, West Virginia on Magnolia Cutoff.