Day: September 10, 2015

B&O Storage Facility, Cincinnatti, OH by Steve Gentry

September 10, 2015 Jim Pearson No Comments Steve Gentry

Living in the Cincinnati metro area, in my opinion, it’s less stressful to take public transportation to and from work and not do battle with I75 traffic. Recently, because of street car construction, specifically track laying, the bus I use, started taking a different route.IMG_0412

IMG_0406Some of you may know that Cincinnati was a large railroad town. Prior to the 1960’s there was probably at least 5 major railroads that pulled into Cincinnati and many used C.U.T. (Cincinnatti Union Terminal). I digress. One morning when we first started taking the new route, I noticed a building that had the wording on the side of it “ Baltimore and Ohio Railroad freight station & storage warehouse.”  That evening, when I got home from work, I did some research about the building (most of this is information is gleaned from the internet).

The building was built in 1904, it is 5 stories tall and 1,277 feet long. The length of the building was the first thing I noticed about it. And because of it’s close proximity to C.U.T., I suspected it was probably used by some railroad.  There are 80,000 feet of pillings used to support the concrete foundation. There are 4.2 million bricks used in the walls. There are 2.5 million board feet of lumber used for floors, joists, roof beams, etc. IMG_0409

The lower floor was designed for inbound freight and the 4 (four) upper floors were used for storage. The facility trackage could accommodate 125 cars. Other facilities included a boiler house, a 6 stall roundhouse, a coal tipple and a US Customs Bonded Warehouse, for the care of imported goods.  The building is listed in the National Register of historic buildings. However, to my knowledge, you cannot go into the building as it current used by private businesses.

IMG_0405For more information about the building, google: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad storage Cincinnati.

Paducah and Louisville’s engine 4522 by Jim Pearson

September 10, 2015 Jim Pearson No Comments Jim Pearson, Photo Section
Fresh out of the paint shop at NRE (National Railway Equipment Co.) in Paducah, Ky, Paducah and Louisville’s engine 4522 sports a brand new UK paint scheme showing all the years that the University of Kentucky has won a NCAA National Championship. This is one of series of photographs I’ll be doing for P&L over the next few months. Thanks to P&L for allowing me to share it with you. – Tech Info: 1/800sec, f/7, ISO 140, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 24mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. - Jim Pearson
Fresh out of the paint shop at NRE (National Railway Equipment Co.) in Paducah, Ky, Paducah and Louisville’s engine 4522 sports a brand new UK paint scheme showing all the years that the University of Kentucky has won a NCAA National Championship. This is one of series of photographs I’ll be doing for P&L over the next few months. Thanks to P&L for allowing me to share it with you. – Tech Info: 1/800sec, f/7, ISO 140, Lens: Sigma 24-70 @ 24mm with a Nikon D800 shot and processed in RAW. – Jim Pearson

CSX Office Car Special Movement, CSX P901-11 by Bill Grady

September 10, 2015 Jim Pearson No Comments Bill Grady, Photo Section
Right - In a surprise CSX Office Car Special Movement, CSX P901-11 is running track speed(60mph) by the South End of Bonnieville, KY siding. The train left Louisville with officials on board headed for Birmingham. Departing at 0700, It was shot here at 0822 at milepost 67. One can only think that this is how the L&N would run the Hummingbird. The L&N would be hitting 90 mph here back then. 8/11/15 - Bill Grady
In a surprise CSX Office Car Special Movement, CSX P901-11 is running track speed(60mph) by the South End of Bonnieville, KY siding. The train left Louisville with officials on board headed for Birmingham. Departing at 0700, It was shot here at 0822 at milepost 67. One can only think that this is how the L&N would run the Hummingbird. The L&N would be hitting 90 mph here back then. 8/11/15 – Bill Grady

The Gulf Mobile & Ohio’s Rebel Pride by Chris Dees

September 10, 2015 Jim Pearson No Comments Chris Dees, Photo Section
The Gulf Mobile & Ohio’s Rebel Pride is alive and well on the southern portion of the railroad near Montgomery, AL. Three former GM&O GP35’s, rebuilt by VMV Paducah in the 1990s for Burlington Northern, now work on GM&O track between Prattville, AL and Maplesville, AL. The trio is seen on the 4th of July 2015 at the headquarters of the line’s new owner, Autauga Northern, a subsidiary of Webb Asset Management Group. - Chris Dees
The Gulf Mobile & Ohio’s Rebel Pride is alive and well on the southern portion of the railroad near Montgomery, AL. Three former GM&O GP35’s, rebuilt by VMV Paducah in the 1990s for Burlington Northern, now work on GM&O track between Prattville, AL and Maplesville, AL. The trio is seen on the 4th of July 2015 at the headquarters of the line’s new owner, Autauga Northern, a subsidiary of Webb Asset Management Group. – Chris Dees

August 2015 Railflicks with Tom Johnson

September 10, 2015 Jim Pearson No Comments Rail Flicks, Tommy Johnson

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This video takes us to Minneapolis-St. Paul in the spring of 1970 and to Chicago for scenes from 1966-1970.  We see many of the long gone railroads that we remember from our younger days and some that we never heard of.

In the MSP area are: Soo Line; Minneapolis, Northfield & Southern; Burlington Northern; Chicago & Northwestern; Rock Island, and Milwaukee Road.

In the Chicago area we will see: B&O; Belt Railway of Chicago; Burlington Northern, Canadian National; C&O; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Chicago & Eastern Illinois; Chicago & Northwestern; Chicago Great Western; Chicago River & Indiana; Chicago, South Shore & South Bend; Elgin, Joliet & Eastern; Erie Lackawana; Pennsylvania; Grand Trunk Western; Great Northern; Gulf, Mobile & Ohio; Illinois Central; Indiana Harbor Belt; L&N; Northern Pacific; Seaboard Coast Line; Soo Line; Wabash; and the earliest days of Amtrak.

Not much needs to be said about this video.  Reading the list of railroads that will appear in the video should stir something inside the hearts of rail fans.  This DVD gives us a good look at old locomotive types that were commonly used in the late sixties and early seventies, including some Fairbanks Morse, Baldwin, GP series, SD series, and U series.  Seeing the old locomotives proudly wearing the paint schemes of those long gone railroads is a trip back in time.

The image quality is representative of the technology of the time but is still good enough to make it a joy to watch this video.

I think you will like this one.

August 2015 – The Spill with President Bill

September 10, 2015 Jim Pearson No Comments General Post

Well, glad to be back in the loop again. I would like to thank Steve Miller for stepping up in my absence and conducting the meeting last month. The only problem I have is picking up from where I stopped in May. I did receive a report from Blair that our organization had agreed to have the Christmas party on Monday, December 7, 2015 at Brothers Barbeque in Madisonville. I have stopped by the restaurant to make the reservation and Monday the 7th was already taken. So, I had to pick another date. The new reservation is for Tuesday the 8th.  If the membership decides to hold the party on a different date, other then the 8th, we can change. We will have to move our meeting time to 6:00 because Brothers closes at 8:00 in the evening.

I don’t know how far we got on the club membership cards in the last meeting but it is something we need to work on. If you have your NRHS membership number please bring it with you on the 17th. I think Ricky has been trying to get the membership numbers from national without some success on their part. Some how we will get this project finished by the time we start a new year. It is hard to believe that we are talking about a new year approaching rapidly and we still have two major issues to address by November. One is liability insurance and the other is the review of the NRHS Bylaws. We can handle the insurance in the next meeting and set up a committee for the bylaws.

We still have lots of room on the wall of the waiting room of the depot for train artwork. If you have a picture that could be placed on display is the station please brings it to the meeting on Monday. All the artwork is on loan by you, to our chapter and you can take your pictures home anytime.

Remember for the next meeting we need “Show & Tell” items along with raffle material. We need to thank Bill Thomas for the refreshments and Jim Pearson for the excellent program in the last meeting. This month’s refreshments and program will be sponsored by Tom Johnson.

 

Bill Farrell, President

Western Kentucky Chapter/NRHS