@Todd Are the Cogs or whatever they are in-between the rails that you have, solid bars? How are they set into the side pieces?, Welded on the inside, set into punched holes and then welded, or a press fit. Just wondering how they made them?
Here is my artifact. This is one of the huge Prime 8911 digital squential flasher beacons. Personaly removed from a ex-BN GP7u that the local shortline had back in the mid 90’s I also have one of the glass numberboards from this engine, road number 1410. Beacon is fully functional, original designed for 74vdc, I replaced the 74 volt sealed beam bulbs with 12vt 36watt ones for older garden tractors and it works fine on 12vdc, not as bright as the 88watt RR bulbs but in the train room its bright enough.
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Here is the earlier Prime 8901 beacon, has cast alum base that is taller and much heavier. Still uses solid state circuitry but is analog based so it will not work on 12vdc like the 8911’s digital circuit. It has 4 good 74vdc lamps, just need someone to build me a 110ac to 74vdc 3.5amp power supply. This one is from an unidentfied BN U30C locomotive. Both beacons have brand new domes, the older 8901 came with its dome and the 8911 got forcefully removed from the roof by a low hanging grain loading hose. The crew found it dangling by its power cord infront of the windshield when they went back to put the unit on line. It had been non functional with 4 burnt out lamps for a couple weeks and was scheduled to be removed, by me, later that week as we prepped the unit to be repainted. Cheers Mike
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It looks like others have fond memories of the Mount Washington Cog Railway.
Dave I’m not sure how the rack is made for the Cog but it is a heavy solid piece. It looks like the solid round pieces in between the 2 rack pieces were pressed in. Each is the same and not individually welded.
Oh yeah other RR memorbilia is caboose whistle that I setup as a display piece and to blow with air and a few spikes from different places.
Todd
Some can be seen here: My Railroad Memorabilia Our newest addition is this beauty:
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More in line with the topic of finding items along the right of way is an old tie I found buried on the abandoned D&RGW line between Durango and Chama. No photo of it but it is neat to have a tie from the line where the San Juan might have ran over it.