Lester and Earl are the bomb. Great roundhouse pics today, and that black belching smoke.
The roundhouse at San Luis Obispo was set for restoration. The crew which the city had hired said first an adjacent building needed to be removed.
With city architects, building inspectors, and historians watching, the crew demolished the ‘other’ building. It was only when an onlooker inquiered, Where’s the roundhouse?, that the highly paid Top Men realized the mistake.
Then they tried to pawn it off by saying the roundhouse was too far gone to be saved. This was a PR disaster because the obvious question was, Then why did the city assemble architects and historians and develop a plan for restoration?
We visited Delores, CO in Sept and saw Galloping Goose #5. Might be cool to include next week.
#15 (below red/green lantern) What kind of “circumscribed round tanks” are those and what is the material within? What’s with the big hand wheel on the side?
My best wild assed guess: gold ore in specialized tanks for the addition of Aqua Regia to dissolve the gold out of the ore and the hand wheel opens a drain to collect the product.
Yeah, I know but I did preface it with “wild asses”.
😃
Those are coke barrels used in making steel.
Assed…..
Something like that red/green train guard’s lantern should be carried by all women, make it easier for blokes to live. Save misunderstandings, money and scars.
That lantern is actually a marker light. A pair of marker lights would be mounted on the rear of a caboose in brackets ( check out the pic of the brakeman peering out from the caboose platform, one of these is behind his head.) Red to the rear when occupying a main track, green to the rear to indicate train clear of main track when in a siding. A part of railroading long gone now.
Lester and Earl are the bomb. Great roundhouse pics today, and that black belching smoke.
The roundhouse at San Luis Obispo was set for restoration. The crew which the city had hired said first an adjacent building needed to be removed.
With city architects, building inspectors, and historians watching, the crew demolished the ‘other’ building. It was only when an onlooker inquiered, Where’s the roundhouse?, that the highly paid Top Men realized the mistake.
Then they tried to pawn it off by saying the roundhouse was too far gone to be saved. This was a PR disaster because the obvious question was, Then why did the city assemble architects and historians and develop a plan for restoration?
We visited Delores, CO in Sept and saw Galloping Goose #5. Might be cool to include next week.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galloping_Goose_%28railcar%29
#15 (below red/green lantern) What kind of “circumscribed round tanks” are those and what is the material within? What’s with the big hand wheel on the side?
My best wild assed guess: gold ore in specialized tanks for the addition of Aqua Regia to dissolve the gold out of the ore and the hand wheel opens a drain to collect the product.
Yeah, I know but I did preface it with “wild asses”.
😃
Those are coke barrels used in making steel.
Assed…..
Something like that red/green train guard’s lantern should be carried by all women, make it easier for blokes to live. Save misunderstandings, money and scars.
That lantern is actually a marker light. A pair of marker lights would be mounted on the rear of a caboose in brackets ( check out the pic of the brakeman peering out from the caboose platform, one of these is behind his head.) Red to the rear when occupying a main track, green to the rear to indicate train clear of main track when in a siding. A part of railroading long gone now.
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