Heavy Iron on the Ohio - ICRR 2-8-2 Mikado
Mar 18, 2017 01:30:41 #
I was just browsing some of my old images and found this shot from 2006.
Our two youngest were 14 & 12. Christmas Eve 2005 we flew to St Louis and checked into the Airport Hilton, rented a car etc. Went to see my Dad, StepMom and Brother then back to get to bed before midnight. Snow flurries, the kids watched for a while then went to bed. Woke up, about 1 inch of snow, just enough to give two born and raised So Calif kids a white Christmas. Visited and had Christmas dinner, drove to Chicago to see the Baha'i House of Worship in Wilmette then down to Kentucky for New Years with my Aunt and Uncle in West Paducah. Then back up to St Louis to play tourist there and then home to Corona, Ca.
This shot was on Jan 2, 2006 while touring the riverfront along the Ohio in Paducah.
This ICRR 2-8-2 Mikado #1518 is on display in Riverfront Park. That concrete wall is the top of the flood wall and just a bit in front of the engine is a floodgate that shows the wall is about 20 feet thick at the base and on top of a paved slope down to the Ohio River.
This was the last steam engine in use by the Illinois Central RR. Paducah was a main hub for the RR with a large roundhouse that has been used in movies.
For two So Cal kids that was some trip they saw the Ohio, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri and a bunch of other rivers and creeks as well as Lake Michigan and several small lakes around my hometown in Kentucky. A lot of water to see for two kids raised in a semi desert area where even the weeds have to watered.
Sigma SD10, Sigma 10-20 @ 20, /125 @ f/11, ISO 400
Our two youngest were 14 & 12. Christmas Eve 2005 we flew to St Louis and checked into the Airport Hilton, rented a car etc. Went to see my Dad, StepMom and Brother then back to get to bed before midnight. Snow flurries, the kids watched for a while then went to bed. Woke up, about 1 inch of snow, just enough to give two born and raised So Calif kids a white Christmas. Visited and had Christmas dinner, drove to Chicago to see the Baha'i House of Worship in Wilmette then down to Kentucky for New Years with my Aunt and Uncle in West Paducah. Then back up to St Louis to play tourist there and then home to Corona, Ca.
This shot was on Jan 2, 2006 while touring the riverfront along the Ohio in Paducah.
This ICRR 2-8-2 Mikado #1518 is on display in Riverfront Park. That concrete wall is the top of the flood wall and just a bit in front of the engine is a floodgate that shows the wall is about 20 feet thick at the base and on top of a paved slope down to the Ohio River.
This was the last steam engine in use by the Illinois Central RR. Paducah was a main hub for the RR with a large roundhouse that has been used in movies.
For two So Cal kids that was some trip they saw the Ohio, Illinois, Mississippi, Missouri and a bunch of other rivers and creeks as well as Lake Michigan and several small lakes around my hometown in Kentucky. A lot of water to see for two kids raised in a semi desert area where even the weeds have to watered.
Sigma SD10, Sigma 10-20 @ 20, /125 @ f/11, ISO 400
Mar 18, 2017 04:09:46 #
What an interesting life you have Robert, sounds like an interesting Christmas and New Year.
This is a giant of a locomotive and you have captured it well. I just adore steam locos.
Well taken.
This is a giant of a locomotive and you have captured it well. I just adore steam locos.
Well taken.
Mar 18, 2017 05:39:41 #
Nice shot Robert.
robertjerl wrote:
I was just browsing some of my old images and foun... (show quote)
Mar 18, 2017 05:40:27 #
Mar 18, 2017 07:00:37 #
I enjoyed viewing this one!
What do you think is going on with the whistle?
Pat
What do you think is going on with the whistle?
Pat
Mar 18, 2017 13:05:08 #
Leicaflex wrote:
What an interesting life you have Robert, sounds like an interesting Christmas and New Year.
This is a giant of a locomotive and you have captured it well. I just adore steam locos.
Well taken.
This is a giant of a locomotive and you have captured it well. I just adore steam locos.
Well taken.
Thanks
Tomorrow I will be going out to take pictures of the annual Iron Horse - Family Steampunk Carnivale at Orange Empire Railway Museum. The museum steamer is pulling the trains for the event.
Mar 18, 2017 13:05:24 #
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Mar 18, 2017 13:10:39 #
Jay Pat wrote:
I enjoyed viewing this one!
What do you think is going on with the whistle?
Pat
What do you think is going on with the whistle?
Pat
Glad you liked it.
No idea, but it has been that way ever since I first saw it. I do know that some engineers and crews had their own custom tuned whistles that they would put on each loco they ran. Anyone who paid attention could tell who was crewing the train by the whistle's sound.
Mar 18, 2017 13:59:00 #
robertjerl wrote:
I do know that some engineers and crews had their own custom tuned whistles that they would put on each loco they ran. Anyone who paid attention could tell who was crewing the train by the whistle's sound.
I had not heard of that before.Thanks for that info.
Pat
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