That's a nice lashup of power! Chessie and RF&P together looks great and must have made a wonderful noise. The concrete arch bridge had some better days behind it - sizeable cracks, large missing chunks of concrete, patches here and there... it would look right at home as an average Québec highway bridge!
That's at Flemington, NJ, running on the Black River & Western RR. I got to run the 4666 on a stretch of the BR&W north of Lambertville, NJ under the watchful eye an Engineer who I knew. She sounds fantastic. The 4666 lives today on the Allentown & Auburn RR at Kutztown, PA.
The 4666 at Lambertville, NJ, July 1976. This end of the line has been out of service for many years, but the BR&W is slowly refurbishing it, pushing south from Ringoes. The Flemington-Ringoes-Lambertville branch is former PRR. The branch connected with the PRR's Bel-Del Division here at Lambertville. Delaware and Raritan Canal is at right.
Inspecting the "train mover" at one of the rotary dumpers at the local power plant. A monster winch, right of center, pulls a trolley on a track next to the train. The trolley drops a mechanical arm down between two cars that clamps onto the couplers. The dumper operator moves the entire train with this device to spot each car in the dumper to be rotated pouring the coal out.
Apparently, the Reading Company wasn't keeping up with the maintenance on that bridge. Why do you suppose that was?
Shoot, compared to some of NS's bridges in East Ohio, that one would look pretty good. Cleveland's city council has threatened to sue, and their representative congresscritter is making noise in DC about it as well.
Caboose on the move. Years ago a developer bought a few dozen former IC cabooses and permanently spotted them near the U. of South Carolina's football stadium for tailgating, marketing them as "Cockabooses" in recognition of the Fighting Gamecocks football team. They sold and are quite valuable today. One lonely Cockaboose was separated from the others and was never used, spending several decades in the brush. Someone bought it and is trucking it several miles to a neighborhood where it will become an Airbnb. I happened upon the scene today while passing through Columbia. The trucking foreman said it's in good shape, with no serious rust penetration anywhere on it.
That wrecker in the 2nd pic isn't much newer than that caboose! Oldie but a goody, and still earning it's keep!
