Big weekend at the Evergreen!

I will be running 3 of these RS-1 in Spokane International colors during our open house Saturday night with a set of UP work train equipment.

I painted this loco!  We all hope you will stop in!

 

Jim Bowden has these Santa Fe units for his passenger train set.

 

There are the 3 units for the SI that have a UP work train to tow.

 

Marvin will surprise us as to his train but this one is a favorite of mine with 4 SD45's in the lead.

 

Clean are a whistle Canadian Pacific power on our layout but it seems the real ones never get washed!

 

I think I'm showing favoritism showing my RS-1s on the move passing the port district where Cobbleton

connects with the world with barge service to the outside of the Evergreen Empire.

 

 

....and these are my friends!

 

 

 

 

 

The Big Weekend starts with the big night at the Evergreen!

Three photos to a limited amount of names on this e-mail as the computer keeps me in denial as the

message, photos or list is too large. Anyway we start at 5 pm on Saturday and go to 9 pm with our

open house to show off our layout to the public. Some of us plan to be there around 4 pm to get ready.

Sunday is a gathering at IHOP on E. Sprague at 7 am for breakfast before heading over to the train show.

See you there! Jerry

 

 

 

Oil cars heading back for another drink

 

Two Dash 9 GE locomotives rated at 4400 hp each has a spacer car between them and the oil tank cars for safety in case something goes wrong and

they would have more of a chance to get away from  the inferno. In the distance there is another unit pushing to help keep the couplers from too much

stress and brake apart. The engineer runs that one from the front unit as there is no crew member in the rear cab.

 

I saw this one crawling towards Pines Road eastbound and it was easy getting into position to shoot

him at Irvin Bridge across the Spokane River. The trees seem to help the view.

 

This set is a lowly pair of Geeps doing switching on Railroad Avenue in the Valley! The BNSF merger

was in 1995 and still the BN colors are still going strong even though the lettering may not be.

The ditch lights work! But where are the ditches?

 

 

Hoboken ... part 2

 

 

 

I think this is ground zero where the lady from Brazil was killed by falling debris from the accident.

It was on track 5 so we are standing at danger close.

 

There's Kent, my brother Ed and Burt walking into the station with one of the new engines to the right.

They are European in design and Kevin says they are junk! What's the matter with GE or EMD?

 

It's a busy and important station for New York workers that live in New Jersey and need to commute

to the city. When trains come east to Hoboken terminal they go through the Jersey Meadows, tunnel

through the Bergan Hills and drop down at grade towards the terminal. Brakes are needed for this

drop is some hundreds of feet from the crest and a brake malfunction could be the cause. Nephew Kevin

Quinn may have an update for me soon and I will pass it on!  Jerry Quinn

Hoboken ... part 2

 

 

I think this is ground zero where the lady from Brazil was killed by falling debris from the accident.

It was on track 5 so we are standing at danger close.

 

There's Kent, my brother Ed and Burt walking into the station with one of the new engines to the right.

They are European in design and Kevin says they are junk! What's the matter with GE or EMD?

 

It's a busy and important station for New York workers that live in New Jersey and need to commute

to the city. When trains come east to Hoboken terminal they go through the Jersey Meadows, tunnel

through the Bergan Hills and drop down at grade towards the terminal. Brakes are needed for this

drop is some hundreds of feet from the crest and a brake malfunction could be the cause. Nephew Kevin

Quinn may have an update for me soon and I will pass it on!  Jerry Quinn

Welcome to Hoboken - Part one!

SECOND TIME I MADE THIS E-MAIL AS THE COMPUTER TO CRAPPING OUT ON ME!

Most of you watch the news this week and the big story was the Hoboken crash. I took a trip to New Jersey back in 2014 with my son-in-law Kent,

and my buddy Burt and we visited the terminal while we were there for football. Here is what it looks like from the water side of the terminal when we

toured the New York Harbor as tourists and as you can see it's a very impressive building with 5 ferry platforms that for decades carried people and

cars across the Hudson River to New York City. The green color is copper metal that has oxidized over the years. The station used to belong to the

Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad, now NJTransit. Trains bring them in and the subway to NYC takes them under the river. Plus the water taxis!

 

The inside is fabulous as old stations go. The lead train control car came into this room from the left of

this photo.

 

This is a nearly identical shot the I saw the locomotive in the news looking out towards the tracks

from the station waiting room.

Open house for visitors to the Evergreen train club

 

 

 

It's like the night before Christmas but instead it's the night before the Spokane Train Show at the Fairgrounds

and we'll open the club to folks from out of town who want to enjoy seeing trains run the evening before.

We are at Exit 293 on I-90, Barker Road go south 3 blocks to Appleway and turn right at the light.

Go 3 blocks west to the Greenacres Shopping Center strip mall.

 

Getting ready for our Saturday night open house on October 8th

First of all I want to welcome to our club the youngest member named Robert Case of Chehalis, Washington

( south of Tacoma ) who is going to Eastern Washington University for the next few years. Welcome Robert!

 

Wouldn't it be great to have a mainline with electric overhead wires to replicate the Milwaukee or other systems that were done back in the day? Don Carnegie had this

Bi-polar electric in the lead of one of his passenger train tonight. I added the wires! And the rock so you don't see the edge of earth.

 

The other passenger train had his Milwaukee 4-8-4 $267 that ran into Spokane up the Dishman/ Mica

Road in the Spokane Valley on the Union Pacific tracks until the late 1950s

 

Another passenger train that made its way on the Blue Main was Greg Mercier's Portland leg of the

Empire Builder where the SP&S would take a portion of GN and NP cars off at Spokane and add a few SP&S

cars and head west every evening. The reverse also occurred as well.

 

Frequently Canadian Pacific power comes down the old Spokane International route from Canada,

now Union Pacific tracks and move eastern and Canadian product to the seaboard cities for overseas

sales.

 

Speaking of the Spokane International new member Robert asked if he could run my RS-1 around and I

said if it is on the layout it is available for using! He did some switching and running and I was glad to see it run.

 

 

Hard to take a bad photo when it's the Northern Pacific!

Greg Mercier had his NP freight running the rails yesterday and gave me free run to shoot his train.

The first shot has a company truck waiting passage of this 4 F unit set looking like he owns he railroad.

 

This I took this nose shot as he crosses over one of some 18 bridges we have on the layout.  ( Someone

needs to fix that crack in the girder?)

 

It would not be complete without a photo of the front portion of the layout that has all the good spots for a photo runby.

 

The only thing missing is the smoke from a hard run up the grade.

 

Not to be outdone by Greg was Steve Weso's 50 car grain train that he calls the brown snake or something

like that. The point is that this is what 50 cars looks like in HO scale.

 

Did I mention that Steve has 3 big ones on the point with a DPU pusher doing the honors 50 cars behind?

Just like the real ones!

I walked this very beach at Normandy on my trip June of 2011.

 

Arromanches is a small French town that was liberated in the British landingzone on that

day long ago that set in motion the final effort to liberate Europe on June 6th, 1944.

Kent, Jerry Jr. Hudson, Mac and myself drove there from Paris and walked near those concrete

pontoons used to create the pier to move supplies into the heart of the country. Jerry Quinn

 

Some of the piers still remain in place but others were washed on the beach later. The American solders

are French and Belgian citizens reenacting the day of liberation 71 years later. Hundreds of vehicles

and thousands of citizens do this very year so we don't forget the sacrifices the lives of American,

Canadian and British men gave for stopping that terrible war. Imagine the world today if we didn't?

 

 

A large percentage of our country doesn't know of or care about  Normandy . My guess is it has been removed from the text in History Books.

 

A few weekends ago, British artist Jamie, accompanied by numerous volunteers, took to the beaches of  Normandy with rakes and stencils in hand to etch 9,000 silhouettes representing fallen people into the sand. Titled The Fallen 9000, the piece is meant as a stark visual reminder of those who died during the D-Day beach landings at Arromanches on June 6th, 1944 during WWII. The original team consisted of 60 volunteers, but as word spread nearly 500 additional local residents arrived to help with the temporary installation that lasted only a few hours before being washed away by the tide.

9,000 Fallen Soldiers Etched into the Sand on Normandy  Beach to Commemorate Peace Day.

 

What is surprising is that I saw nothing about this here in the  US .

An overseas friend sent it with a note of gratitude for what the  US started there.