Large Scale Central

Pine Creek RR

Prototypes
#1

I had some training to do at Allair State Park today and had an hour to kill. I decided to check out the pine creek RR at Allair State Park http://www.njmt.org/ I took a bunch of pictures with my cell phone so quality not the best. I will have more pictures when my friend sends them to me. A lot of the stuff is old and needs restoring but because of money they can only do so much. They have a great collection of old stuff. They even have a european engine (whatever engine the Thomas train is but green and a box car with a passenger car). This has been restored and looks great. Those pictures I will put in whe I got them e-mailed to me. ANyway here they are. Maybe some will give you guys ideas. I will label what I remember as far as history but I had memory overload today.

These are for gun powder plants and everything made from a metal that does not spark. I Forget the metal.

This is a great little engine

Not sure how many I can get on one post so I will go to another page

#2

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Plow from Michigan

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From the tweetsie RR and is going back their where it will be kept under a roof and restored. LOng for a narrow gauge

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I loved this one Ely Thomas Lumber Co #6

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I had no space to get a further shot but its a porter

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They had some cars from the Denver and rio grand. I forgot wich ones though. Too much info in an hour. I will post more when I get them Phone ran out of memory.

#3

Thanks for sharing.
Any day you get to take train pictures at work is a pretty good day :slight_smile:
Ralph

#4

Neat. Now you’ve got some examples to model!

#5
Bruce Chandler said:
Neat. Now you've got some examples to model!
Touring the area gave me lots of ideas. I wish I had more time.
#6

Sad to see old trains rotting away. I was up in Jamestown Ca. a few days ago ( having been there for the first time a year ago ). Lot of stuff and no recources to maintain and restore more than a part of it. Same with the Durango & Silverton in Colorado. Just too much old stuff to maintain it all.

#7
Narrow Gauge Lover said:
Sad to see old trains rotting away. I was up in Jamestown Ca. a few days ago ( having been there for the first time a year ago ). Lot of stuff and no recources to maintain and restore more than a part of it. Same with the Durango & Silverton in Colorado. Just too much old stuff to maintain it all.
Same problem at Spencer,NC. Several steam locomotives no longer operational and no funds to repair them. Ralph
#8

Quote “They had some cars from the Denver and rio grand.”

That plow looks like old D&RG equipment. Sure not something that was used in New Jersey :slight_smile: So much old equipment sitting and rotting out in Silverton Durango area. The former owners of the line there were doing something worth while in collecting all the old equipment that they could. But there is no way to maintain it all. I understand the new owners ( of a few years ago ) are soliciting folks who are willing to maintain the old equipment. Don’t know what the financial aspects of that are.

#9

Cool pics!