Here is picture from the Asheville Citizen Times historic photos. I provided the link as the photo has some text with it. http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Site=B0&Date=20090605&Category=PHOTO14&ArtNo=906010802&Ref=PH&Params=Itemnr=6 This second photo was taken in Haywood County, NC. at the Frog Level Depot. This is also from the Times historic photos. Ralph
It’s too bad these newspaper types have no understanding of railroading. Probably a graduate of government education.
Ashville Citizen Times said:Bold italics are mine.
The engineer is visible in the [b][i]engine car.[/i][/b]
I caught that. Got a good laugh.
At least they knew what a trestle was :lol:
Or an engineer 
Ralph
Say , where all the junk and tools and tar buckets , chains and saws and bench vices , and doodads ?
Maybe that was a passenger engine ? all I can see is a garden size hose .
Good eye, Dennis. I noticed another picture the other day without all the tools and trash we come to accept as normal for geared engines.
I’ve looked through the entire book entitled “Locomotive Portraits,” and I did not find any junked out backwoods locomotive. The crews were proud of their machines, and would not think of trashing out their locomotive.
Thanks Steve.
Great photos at both of those sites.
I do believe you are right about the junk.
I think the junk “myth” was created by the modelers as a way to make their models more interesting and set them apart from other models.
As rough as most logging railroads were, you would have had to bolt the junk down.
They probably were piled with junk when being worked on.
Ralph
Ralph,
Not to disagree and some did have very clean decks, but in that second site a lot of the geared engines have cable, hose and stuff all over them. I didn’t keep track of all of them, but picture 318 ahs a lot of stuff on its decks. Just another opinion and I agree that a lot of it would fall off, but a lot of stuff like cable and line are wrapped around things. The rerailing chock blocks and big cable sheaves are heavy enough to stay where you put them.
Wow what a wonderful collection of photos that second link is , thanks .
Yep , saw some cable and hoses and rerailers , on several locos , have seen that on diesels before .
Ric Golding said:
Ralph,Not to disagree and some did have very clean decks, but in that second site a lot of the geared engines have cable, hose and stuff all over them. I didn’t keep track of all of them, but picture 318 ahs a lot of stuff on its decks. Just another opinion and I agree that a lot of it would fall off, but a lot of stuff like cable and line are wrapped around things. The rerailing chock blocks and big cable sheaves are heavy enough to stay where you put them.
But they are always well maintained. Not the almost rusted out hulks that some modelers put forth.
I certainly agree on the rust. I think an engine has a certain amount of carbon, grease and grime after a hard day on a dusty or muddy line, but rust is only for parts that are not allowed to have any paint and are not part of a wearing surface.
