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IAIS's West End - Sitting still can be fun
As many of us adjust to the Coronavirus and its accompanying "social distancing", e.g. working from home, avoiding crowds, etc., I thought I'd post a reminder that occasionally taking a break and sitting still - whether we're talking about us as layout owners or the prototype equipment we model - can be positive too.
Steam Powered Snowplow 2020 video
Outstanding scenery, sound and video. The dead silence of winter and whistle sounds echoing through the mountains.
POVA on the Cover of a Magazine
A friend in the hobby pointed me to the February issue of Railfan & Railroad where the POVA is featured on the cover of the magazine! The article itself is very cool and very informative. I learned a lot I did not know about the railroad's history. I also finally got a good, clear sense of day-to-day operations on the modern POVA railroad.
A bit of history, yes I'm proud of it, Walschaerts and Belpaire
Even if I live now in Québec I'm Belgian coming from one of the smallest country in the world.
Belgiun is well know trough the whole world for the quality of his engineering.
We have enginered a lot of big metalic construction in the whole world like bridge, structural structures and we were the first European country with a train line in continental Europe (except England), this was already in 1835 between Brussels and Malines, two town separated by 30 km.
CN offset triple hopper
Does anyone know when CN replaced the smaller lettering on their triple hoppers with the 12 inch lettering?
Steam Boiler is Different fron Smokebox and Firebox
From my models of PRR steamers plus photos of other steamers, I've gotten used to the boiler being fairly dark - blacker in a B&W photo, compared to the smokebox and skirts of the firebox which are more gray or silvery than blackish.
For my current project I have been looking at photos of locos built in the late 1800's. In many of them the boiler is more gray, and the smokebox is blacker.
Please offer wisdom on why the difference.
DrJolS
Happy 50th Birthday Burlington Northern!
50 years ago today, on March 2nd, 1970, the merging of the Great Northern Railway (GN), Northern Pacific Railway (NP), Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway (SPS) and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CBQ) occurred forming the Burlington Northern Railroad.
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