Prototype Railroading
Bird cooker
Seen this today at the Illinois Railway Museum
Chet Seen this today at the Illinois Railway Museum
Chet
Prototype Info - Modern Transload Facilities
Hi All,
Looking to add some interest to my proposed yard area and found a perfect building on my prototype that was recently gutted by fire: in my version of present time, my shortline purchases this adjacent property and converts it to a transload facility to serve the many manufacturing firms in the surrounding area.

BNSF Derailment Spills TAR SANDS OIL
An estimated 230,000 gallons of crude oil spilled into floodwaters in the northwestern corner of Iowa following an early Friday morning derailment, a railroad official said Saturday.

Here's one you don't
see very often, OK, not at all that I've seen......and I'm not talking about spider man......lol
And there you have it, a prototype for somebody to model......

New heights at Tehachapi
Here's a great drone video of trains meeting at the loop...
Cheers,
Coxy

The Boeing trains
The other day I was in Lodge Grass, MT coming home after working there for the day. The road parallels the old Burlington Route track between Alliance, NE and Huntley, MT. Running westbound on that track was what we call "The Plane Train", with one locomotive and one plane body. Certainly not the usual consist!
I called my wife and asked her to go to the station here in Hardin, and get a photo or two. She did, but recorded a video instead. It's too big to post here, but I managed to capture a still from it.

UP 844 Excursion tickets link
Here’s a link for anyone interested in riding behind 844 between Denver and Cheyenne next month.

Grain Hopper loading/unloading videos...
Interlocking
I did the required history search on MRH and nothing came up. So here are a couple. Old videos of Interlocking Towers from the inside and recordings from some of the employees. All on youtube. None of them are mine. Filmed by fmnut and DTCblock.

Historical Document regarding the CPRail "Multimark"
An interesting discussion on the Classic Canadian Pacific Facebook site jogged my memory about a document I had concerning the introduction of the CPRail Multimark. I had this since I was a kid, my grandfather was an employee and received The Spanner, the company magazine/newsletter. I was always into the Block and Script schemes but now realize that the Multimark has faded into history. This was a complete reimaging of the entire company, including the magazine which was renumbered 1 Spanner. If you'd like a look I have uploaded the magazine as a PDF on my website.
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