For our Erpf House display layout, does anyone know what ballast the U&D was using ca. 1920? Stone? Cinders? Different on the mainline and in yards? Thanks ...
Steve - I never saw evidence of stone ballast anywhere on the Catskill Mountain Branch. I'm sure the U&D was using cinders, as did the New York Central at...
Thanks, Gordon, and very perceptive - now you mention it, I do think I had book-cover ballast in my head when I started wondering what was used! Steve ... ...
Steve and Gordon, 1. The 1916 U&D val map shows a siding at MP 24, a mile east of Mount Pleasant, called "Quarry Siding" in the 1924 ETT No. 6 (Special...
Thanks, Harold - you jogged my memory about that quarry, and now I recall that someone from Catskill Mountain Railroad once told me that their lease from...
Having walked the RR from Fleischmanns to Halcottsville in the 60s, (pre-Operation Lifesaver) I observed only cinders and weeds. There was no evidence of...
Would someone please send me the full file for the above photo. I can't seem to download it from the site and the other two views are too small to work with. ...
I've uploaded a scanned copy of Burr Hubbell in front of the Kelly Corners station. Unfrotunately I do not have the exact date of the photo, although, from...
OK, Burr - I'm sending it off-list so no one else has to sit through the download. ... From: "rbhubbell" <bhubbell@...> To: <UDRRHS@yahoogroups.com> ...
A fine picture of your relative -- they certainly were sure of themselves in those days, weren't they? If I recall the RR Commissioners' Report I was reading...
I was just reading the June 2003 issue of Trains magazine. On Page 65 in a side bar was an announcement for the Trains Preservation award, a $10,000 gift to...
Bob - Thank you for the heads-up. No, this is not something we have looked at in the past, and yes, maybe it's something we should try. Bob or anyone - since...
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Re: Clarke Sanford's Pope Toledo. Mr. Sanford used to tell of the time he set the wheels to run in a circle (they were not self-centering then) and the...
Steve, I like your idea about making a computer run a sounder. This sounds like we could make the computer do several things that are attractive. Beside...
Joe, that is really outstanding thinking - particularly that we could generalize the teaching of/about telegraphy, especially railroad telegraphy, which was a...
Yes, I would be very happy to be the pilot committee. However this is really your idea I'm just working with it. In fact I have already got caught up in the...
I am looking for information on the West Shore and the Wallkill Valley. Specifically I am writing about the NYO&W and I am interested in the interchange at...
Doug - Diesels on the Wallkill The NYC used the U&D 20-Class engines (800-807) (NYC Fx Class, lower numbers) on the Wallkill Valley Branch until 1948. The...
Apologies to all if this is a duplicate - thought I sent an answer last night, but it doesn't seem to be showing up on the list. Joe, to go with your keys and...
Communications equipment, like any telegraph instruments that belonged to the railroad, would have been under a different account than the items inventoried at...
Gordon , Great stuff ! All these details are what we need to know to make this look and feel authentic. I have a 1st class (now General) FCC radio telephone...
Thanks for the direction I'll go check out the Trains website. I am a subscriber (we probably all are) so maybe they will respond to questions. I am getting...
At the risk of meddling in someone else's kitchen, I wondered if it would be possible to connect this whole project to the Web with live-streaming audio so...
SORRY, Burr, you have come into the kitchen and you can't dodge the heat! Yes, that's probably a very good idea; yes, I can agree with you from a position of...
1) Does anyone know when Glenford was discontinued as a station stop? in the 1924 ETT, it is listed but no S or F stop is shown--there is a note about #9...
Dick - Glenford did not appear on the old line in the 1908 timetable, so I suspect another station from the old line, probably Olive Branch, was moved to the...
Does anyone know when the automatic block signal system was removed between Kingston and Phoenicia? Did it survive into NYC ownership? Gordon Davids...
Thumbing through an old text on bridge engineering (Hoole and Kinne, Movable and Long Span Bridges) I found a photo of the Route 9W bridge over Rondout Creek...
Burr, my view is it's everybody's kitchen. If we all contribute our ideas and knowledge to the the project it will only turn out better. One of my old friends...
Here's a Yahoo group I found that seems to be doing part of what we want to do -- retired telegraphers who sling lightning to each other over the phone lines. ...
