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Fall Steam-up at the I.E. & W. RR

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#1

Jim had his usual Fall steam-up this last two weekend. Standard gauge (= high speed stuff) a week ago, and the narrow gauge crowd this weekend. I took my EBT #12 and the coaches, including my #29 baggage/express newly painted in passenger green.

This is a small part of the roofed steaming bay. There were a lot of coal-fired Ks in attendance, so perhaps that explains the gondola! Bob and Noel are discussing his “Irish Mail”.

I also brought the flats and the standard gauge boxcar, which has a new set of Stan’s decals for the PRR. [It’s actually a Southern boxcar, but I won’t tell if you don’t.]

Here’s a better view of the boxcar - quite a lot wider than the average NG equipment. (EBT used to swap the trucks in Mt Union. to avoid transhipment):

Scott MacDonald has videos of both weekends. The narrow gauge one is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_sbsE9xuirc

And the standard gauge weekend:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYTV02QgyYM&feature=player_embedded#t=0

#2

Wonderful pics!!! Only the trackbed gives away that this is not full-size.

tac

#3

tac Foley said:

Wonderful pics!!! Only the trackbed gives away that this is not full-size.

tac

TAC,

Much to the disgust of the Aster fans, I ordered a Dreyfuss Hudson in 1/29th scale (get’em while you can is my motto.) I had a conversation on the same topic with Mike Moore (owner of the portable track we often run on.) As the live steam tracks have no scenery, you are really creating “rolling artwork” so the scale is fairly immaterial - ‘does it look right’ is my mantra.

But they never had to cope with OO scale. I keep pointing out that the discrepancy between 1/29th and 1/32nd is less than the OO-HO difference!

And I have 6 Aristo heavyweights here in NYC Twentieth Century livery. . . . Next year I will have to go to both Jim’s weekends. What a hassle.

#4

Two most enjoyable videos to watch. The ng one was interesting and I noticed some stock that was instantly recognizable. But my attention was captured on the standard gauge vid, especially the Virginian loco and rolling stock and the SP Cab forward and Daylight locos. I have not seen the last mentioned locos running before running at speed and in open space. Great!

#5

OK, let’s try another couple of very short videos of my trains. (Sorry - I tend not to shoot anyone else’s trains!) I found my old embed instructions. . .

This is the passenger train, also shown on Scott’s video:

[Youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggAI7DzLyNg[/Youtube]

#6

And here’s the mixed freight, and a short clip of #12 puffing noisily up the grade to the steaming bay.

[Youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hSZQMdHnL8[/Youtube]

#7

Great videos. Thanks for sharing.

#8

Pete,

Great video! That backing up hill footage is fantastic! Good sounds.

#9

Wondrous stuff! Sadly, the EBT loco never made it to UK. If it had, I would have sold a kidney to get one. However, the $600 shipping plus all the taxes made it an $8000 model here…

As mrs tac noted, you can fill up the gas tank on either car at least twice each for that amount, or even put a down payment on a clothe.

I’ll enjoy yours instead, if that’s OK with you.

Best

tac, ig, ken the GFT & The Old Myrtlewood Store Boys

#10

Pete,
That loco has a great sound. I cant remember, did you put a chuffer in it?

#11

"even put a down payment on a clothe. "

Tac, you lost me on that one. I assume it’s a typo, but I still couldn’t decode it!

“did you put a chuffer in it”

Yes, although EBT locos have a very soft chuff, similar to the Accucraft original. The chuffer significantly removes all the oil spray so I keep t.

That shot on the hill also lets you see the individual puffs o steam. It is quite a steep slope.

#12

Clothes = garments of apparel to cover the human body - usually found as a plural noun.

Clothe = what poor people have instead of clothes. A singular noun used to denote a paucity of sufficient funds to buy clothes [qv].

tac

#13

Pete, I find Terry to be the only English speaking person that I have to have an interpreter present…:wink:

#14

IN OLD AGE (and it creeps up on everyone) I think I’ll scrap the whole railroad, as I’ve known it, and just build a simple roundy- roundy, much like what is shown in the pictures. This will get rid of maintenance, and switches, which always cause trouble…

I can then sit inside with a cheap vidio camera and watch stuff going in circles until I fall asleep, quite contented. The nurse will tuck me in and I can dream of “Operations” of the past.

The important thing is, that everyone seems to be having an enjoyable time…I wish I could have been there.

Fr.Fred

#15

I have a roundy-round, like Charlie Brown, but I’m also blessed with a vivid imagination - something you really need to survive in this place, I can reliably inform you all.

I only watch one small section of track at any one time, so the appearance of a train - any train - is a constant source of surprise, if not pure wonderment - as it comes around the bend…

Lucky for me, I married a nurse, thus relieving me of the necessity of hiring one at some expense that I currently lack, so that is yet another reason to maintain the level of numb delight I obtain from watching my trains go by, much, I’d imagine, in the same way that a dog watches TV.

tac - simple soul

#16

I have a roundy round elevated in the back yard, and it is great for testing modifications or ‘improvements’, AFTER I have run it on rollers on the test bench inside. Makes for much less embarrassment when you bring stuff to steam up’s. .JMHO nick jr

#17

"Clothes = "
I’m sure that ‘clothes’ are plural for ‘cloth’. Your spelling looks like something the Irish invented.

“and just build a simple roundy- roundy, much like what is shown in the pictures”

I assure you that s not a simple roundy-roundy. Yes, it is a continuous loop, but both main lines have a couple of very long passing sidings, several crossovers (#10 switches) and a double track access to the steaming bay and to two large marshaling yards.