The Railroad Nation ... Check out this web site...
Sep 22, 2021 12:09:07 #
DIRTY HARRY
Loc: Hartland, Michigan
The Railroad Nation ... If you're into trains check out this web site...
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/782599/?fbclid=IwAR0yRf45t7-DXgBVjMl5z_bqPfOBSSMua0yqegf5U1aSVNs3dDAy6Dl54_k
https://www.railpictures.net/photo/782599/?fbclid=IwAR0yRf45t7-DXgBVjMl5z_bqPfOBSSMua0yqegf5U1aSVNs3dDAy6Dl54_k
Sep 23, 2021 05:52:49 #
Sep 23, 2021 07:22:11 #
Wow! I wonder why they haven't been scrapped. There must be a fortune in metal sitting there.
Sep 23, 2021 08:05:48 #
And just why are they to be scraped? I’d have thought scrapped, but you never know.
Sep 23, 2021 09:16:43 #
Sep 23, 2021 10:31:58 #
wrangler5
Loc: Missouri
People who "repurpose" shipping containers as houses could probably figure out how to use one or two of these as ready-made additions. ;-)
Which comes from my memory of family friends who started their mountain "cottage" in Colorado with an old caboose they had hauled up to the building site and put on a foundation. I got to "help" on the day when my and several other families who were vacationing in the area "got" to go pick up big rocks and put 'em on a flatbed, that were hauled back to the site and used to build the fireplace and chimney in the room that was built onto the caboose - it was the one that had the kitchen, and the picture windows looking at the Continental Divide. A truly lovely place. This was in the late 1950s.
Which comes from my memory of family friends who started their mountain "cottage" in Colorado with an old caboose they had hauled up to the building site and put on a foundation. I got to "help" on the day when my and several other families who were vacationing in the area "got" to go pick up big rocks and put 'em on a flatbed, that were hauled back to the site and used to build the fireplace and chimney in the room that was built onto the caboose - it was the one that had the kitchen, and the picture windows looking at the Continental Divide. A truly lovely place. This was in the late 1950s.
Sep 23, 2021 11:41:44 #
wrangler5 wrote:
People who "repurpose" shipping containe... (show quote)
Funny you should mention that. I knew a guy who had a diesel repair business, and he bought a caboose and set it up between his house and his business. When he was having major work done on the house, the family moved into the caboose.
Oct 1, 2021 09:54:03 #
Oct 1, 2021 14:36:00 #
wrangler5
Loc: Missouri
DickC wrote:
So sad, another part of our history going away! 
Locomotives have always been consumable machinery to people in the railroad business - who are the ones who pay for 'em in the first place. When they wear out, or no longer perform a useful function at a reasonable cost, they are sold or scrapped and replaced with more cost effective equipment. As a lifelong railfan who spent 17 years of his spare time as part of a group that restored and operated a steam locomotive (Frisco 1522) I feel the love for the old machines deeply. But I'm also on a board of trustees made up mostly of executives currently active in the railroad business, and I don't think I've heard any of 'em talk about the equipment in any but commercial terms, even in casual social settings.
And you wouldn't want 'em to. I'm old enough to have taken commercial flights in a DC-3 (Pueblo to Gunnison, CO, 1956 and later) and I'm sure glad none of the airline executives had so much sense of the historical significance of those old birds that they kept 'em in service until today.
Oct 1, 2021 19:28:02 #
wrangler5 wrote:
Locomotives have always been consumable machinery ... (show quote)
Railroads are not the only ones who scrap and ho-hum get a new one!! Trucks, lathes, airplanes, etc. are always on the chopp[ng block!! Gunnison huh, 1956, I was there, graduated from high school in 56, Englewood, a suburb of Denver, my dad and me fished the willow fly season on the Gunnison and Lake Fork with flies my dad tied himself! I still tie them to this day but don't fish anymore, I'm 83 and a cancer survivor!
Oct 2, 2021 08:15:57 #
DickC wrote:
Railroads are not the only ones who scrap and ho-hum get a new one!! Trucks, lathes, airplanes, etc. are always on the chopping block!!
And don't forget cameras. : )
Oct 2, 2021 08:34:27 #
jerryc41 wrote:
And don't forget cameras. : )
Yes Jerry, cameras are waylaid, like pocket watches and thermos bottles! But there are people who collect them, like guns and knives; turret lathes and locomotives are far down the list!
Oct 2, 2021 11:14:55 #
DickC wrote:
Yes Jerry, cameras are waylaid, like pocket watches and thermos bottles! But there are people who collect them, like guns and knives; turret lathes and locomotives are far down the list!
I must have a dozen thermos bottles spread around the house and garage. I can't bear to throw them out. Remember when they had corks and glass liners?
Oct 2, 2021 16:24:31 #
jerryc41 wrote:
I must have a dozen thermos bottles spread around the house and garage. I can't bear to throw them out. Remember when they had corks and glass liners?
Yes, I remember; my mom would put cocoa in one for me to take to school.....many years later I was taking them to work with Harvey Wallbanger in it!
Oct 3, 2021 07:25:13 #
DickC wrote:
Yes, I remember; my mom would put cocoa in one for me to take to school.....many years later I was taking them to work with Harvey Wallbanger in it!
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