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Return to the High Iron: the Operation and Interpretation of Mainline Steam Excursions in the United States
! ! RETURN TO THE HIGH IRON: THE OPERATION AND INTERPRETATION OF MAINLINE STEAM EXCURSIONS IN THE UNITED STATES by Joseph M. Bryan A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in History Middle Tennessee State University August 2015! ! ! ! Thesis Committee: Dr. Carroll Van West, Chair Dr. Susan Myers-Shirk ! ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my family for their unending love and support throughout this entire project. I would like to especially thank my mother for being such an incredible role model whom I look up to everyday. I would also like to thank Dr. Carroll Van West and Dr. Susan Myers-Shirk for their guidance and patience in making this idea become a reality. I would like to thank the following individuals and organizations for their assistance in this project: Ron Davis, Fran Ferguson, Cheri George, Trevor Lanier, Jennifer McDaid, John Nutter, Deena Sasser, Jim Wrinn, the Norfolk & Western Historical Society, Norfolk Southern Corporation, the Southern Railway Historical Association and the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum. Their invaluable support and materials are very much appreciated. Finally, I would like to thank the staff and board of directors of the Virginia Museum of Transportation for deciding to take a chance and restore the Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611 steam locomotive to operable condition and, as a result, providing me with an incredible thesis topic. ii!! ABSTRACT The steam locomotive is one of the most recognizable artifacts from industrial history. After their demise in the mid-twentieth century, those that were not cut up for scrap found homes at new transportation museums and with railroad historical organizations. -
HO-Scale, N-Scale, and O-Scale Models and Are in the Process of Finding More HO-, N-, S-, and Even O–Scale Models to Be Released in Coming Months
4th Quarter 2020 Volume 10 Number 4 Table of Contents 3-D Printing a NYC Signal On the Cover of This Issue Bridge by Mark Sklar Mark Sklar shares his 3D printing skills 37 Traveling in Time – From with a a NYCS signal bridge. Page 37 1927- 1952 by Charllie Crawford 43 Depression Modern by Michael Casatelli 48 Saving a Lionel 208 Locomotive by Bob Shaw 53 Larry and Manuel return with some of their models. Pages 63 & 64 Modifying N Scale Architect NYC Lines West Station #2 by Seth Lakin 65 A Little Old School Insanity by Brian Scace 76 Don’t miss any of the excitement and skill of our modelers. Read every page!!! Building NYC Mark II Flexi –Vans by Russ Briggs 91 Celebrating 50 Years as the Primer From the Cab 5 Extra Board 8 Railroad Historical Society What’s New 15 NYCSHS RPO 29 NYCSHS Models 86 Observation Car 96 NYCentral Modeler The NYCentral Modeler focuses on providing information about modeling of the railroad in all scales. This issue features articles, photos, and reviews of NYC-related models and layouts. The objective of the publication is to help members improve their ability to model the New York Central and promote modeling interests. Contact us about doing an article for us. mailto:[email protected] NYCentral Modeler 4th Quarter 2020 2 New York Central System Historical Society The New York Central System Central Headlight, the official Historical Society (NYCSHS) was publication of the NYCSHS. The organized in March 1970 by the Central Headlight is only available combined efforts of several to members, and each issue contains a wealth of information Board of Directors former employees of the New Nick Ariemma, J. -
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TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE ABOUT US (i) FACTS ABOUT DVDs / POSTAGE RATES (ii) LOOKING AFTER YOUR DVDs (iii) Greg Scholl 1 Pentrex (Incl.Pentrex Movies) 9 ‘Big E’ 32 General 36 Electric 39 Interurban 40 Diesel 41 Steam 63 Modelling (Incl. Allen Keller) 78 Railway Productions 80 Valhalla Video Productions 83 Series 87 Steam Media 92 Channel 5 Productions 94 Video 125 97 United Kindgom ~ General 101 European 103 New Zealand 106 Merchandising Items (CDs / Atlases) 110 WORLD TRANSPORT DVD CATALOGUE 112 EXTRA BOARD (Payment Details / Producer Codes) 113 ABOUT US PAYMENT METHODS & SHIPPING CHARGES You can pay for your order via VISA or MASTER CARD, Cheque or Australian Money Order. Please make Cheques and Australian Money Orders payable to Train Pictures. International orders please pay by Credit Card only. By submitting this order you are agreeing to all the terms and conditions of trading with Train Pictures. Terms and conditions are available on the Train Pictures website or via post upon request. We will not take responsibility for any lost or damaged shipments using Standard or International P&H. We highly recommend Registered or Express Post services. If your in any doubt about calculating the P&H shipping charges please drop us a line via phone or send an email. We would love to hear from you. Standard P&H shipping via Australia Post is $3.30/1, $5.50/2, $6.60/3, $7.70/4 & $8.80 for 5-12 items. Registered P&H is available please add $2.50 to your standard P&H postal charge. -
The Preservation of Railway Heritage in Japan: an Outline History and General View Eiichi Aoki
Feature Heritage Railways The Preservation of Railway Heritage in Japan: An Outline History and General View Eiichi Aoki works of Nippon Railway—the first private Introduction Prewar Railway Museums railway; and two early Imperial carriages. The railway museum was provisionally The first railway museum in Japan was The first railway in Japan, owned and opened in 1921 at Tokyo Station, but opened in 1921, but the first museum for operated by the Japanese government, found its final location in 1936 at preservation of steam locomotives in was opened between Shimbashi in Tokyo Mansebashi Station, the former working order was opened in 1972, as and Yokohama in 1872 with the technical temporary terminus of the Chuo Line. the Umekoji Steam Locomotive Museum. leadership of British engineers. Most of (The station was later abandoned in Although the last steam trains on the materials for railway construction and 1943.) This was the sole museum related Japanese National Railways (JNR) ceased rolling stock were imported from Britain, to railway history in prewar days, and it commercial operations in 1975, regular but American and German manufacturers was reorganized as the Transport steam operations restarted in the soon became suppliers to Japanese Museum after WWII. following year on Oigawa Railway, a railways. Private railways extended their private rural railway in Shizuoka main-line network from 1883 but most Preservation of Steam Locos Prefecture. The revival of steam were nationalized in 1906–07. in 1950s and 1960s locomotive means a creation of new In 1911, a railway museum project was tourism resources, as well as preservation started and began preserving railway From the latter half of the 1950s, Japan of railway heritage in regional societies. -
Cleveland District - Nickel Plate Road by Bud Brueggeman the Year in NKP Models MODELER’S NOTEBOOK STAFF
December 2011 Extra 503 (B&LE Connection) at Madison, OH Cleveland District - Nickel Plate Road by Bud Brueggeman The Year in NKP Models MODELER’S NOTEBOOK STAFF EDITOR/WEBMASTER John C. Fryar MODELING EDITOR William C. Quick MODELING COORDINATOR Henry C. Brueggeman NKPHTS BOARD OF DIRECTORS NATIONAL DIRECTOR Matthew E. Fruchey MEMBERSHIP DIRECTOR Thomas W. Newell ASST. NATIONAL DIRECTOR Willard A. Harvey, Jr. SPECIAL PROJECTS DIRECTOR Brian J. Carlson PAST NATIONAL DIRECTOR William C. Quick INTERNET SERVICES DIRECTOR John C. Fryar NATIONAL SECRETARY David B. Allen, Jr. DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Joseph P. Juratovac NATIONAL TREASURER William M. Fisher ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Timothy P. Adang INFORMATION DIRECTOR M. David Vaughn ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Paul L. Emch PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR Thos. G. J. Gascoigne ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Nathan Fries ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Thomas E. Harris CONTENTS 1. Cleveland District - Nickel Plate Road by Bud Brueggeman ® NKPHTS 2. The Year 2011 in NKP Models PO Box 272 Highland MD 20777-0272 Cleveland District - Nickel Plate Road Painesville, Perry, Madison, and Unionville, Ohio With the Perry, Ohio FP&E RR Connection by Bud Brueggeman, Modeling Coordinator, #29 For many years (since I was about 3 years old) my grandfather Goodwin would take me to the Route 306 crossing in Mentor, OH to watch NKP and NYC trains. I found out many years later that my grandfather Brueggeman did work for the NKP! We saw many diesels and some steam on the Central, but, my favorite memories have been of the few NKP trains we saw on those weekend days. Seems most NKP trains ran early morning or evening around Mentor when a little boy is home. -
Railway Stations and Local Communities in Japan Kuniaki Ito and Masatsugu Chiba
Feature New Stations Railway Stations and Local Communities in Japan Kuniaki Ito and Masatsugu Chiba Evolving Relationships the cities began developing housing Tokyo to Aomori, the northern tip of the between Station Buildings and projects to meet the growing demand for Honshu main island, and a line from Kobe Local Communities suburban homes. to Bakan (present-day Shimonoseki, the The suburbs became a new type of local western tip of Honshu) as well as trunk When Japan’s first railway was opened community and the relationship they lines in Kyushu and Hokkaido. in 1872 between Tokyo and Yokohama, formed with the railways was entirely The location of early stations suggests the nation was keen to absorb the culture different from the previous relationship how local communities reacted to the and civilization of the West. between traditional communities and expanding railways. Years before the Westernization was also seen as a way railways. The identity of the new suburbs 1906–07 nationalization, when the to ensure that Japan was treated as an was a class identity—a class of people private Nippon Railway was laying track equal among nations. At that time, East whom the railway companies expected toward Sendai (northern Honshu), Asia was in a period of instability with as their ideal customers. For suburban influential merchants asked the company the Western powers eager to secure a dwellers, the station was not a place to build a station close to the existing toehold in the region. The new Meiji extolling the advantages of business district and succeeded in government knew that Japan had to Westernization, but a building that gave changing the company’s initial plan to quickly achieve its own industrial them their identity as a community. -
2010 No. 3 Proto-Sound® 3.0
2010 No. 3 Proto-Sound® 3.0... THE RICHEST SET OF FEATURES IN MODEL RAILROADING! Whether you operate with a conventional transformer or in com- EXTRAORDINARY SLOW SPEED LIGHTING EFFECTS mand mode with DCC or DCS™ (M.T.H.’s Digitial Command CAPABILITY Proto-Sound locomotives feature prototypical Rule 17 lighting, System), the Proto-Sound 3.0 system found in every locomotive Proto-Sound engines can throttle down as slow as three scale including a variety of realistic lighting effects. Depending on the in this catalog offers more realism, more fun, and more variety miles per hour, highball down the main line, and maintain any locomotive, these may include constant-brightness headlights, than any other locomotive control system in any scale. speed in between. With certain DCC controllers, illuminated number boards, lighted marker lamps, and alternat- and any DCS controller, you can set engine ing ditch lights. In DCS operation, many of these lighting effects VIVID ENGINE SOUNDS speed in one-scale-mile-per-hour incre- can be individually controlled. Proto-Sound features digital recordings with CD-qual- ments up to 120 smph. Go ahead, get ity playback. We strive to make our sounds as au- out your stop watch and ruler and see thentic as possible, using the characteristic whistle how accurate our scale speeds are. for a particular steam engine, for example. With the optional DCS system, you can tune each engine to your preference by individually adjusting bell, horn or whistle, and chuff volume. STATION SOUNDS Proto-Sound passenger engines offer Passenger Station Proto-Effects™, a complete ar- rival and departure sequence that you can activate from your DCC or DCS controller. -
2004 Model Railroading CD
COVER 11/5/04 4:41 PM Page 1 � CORN SYRUP TANK CARS � WALTERS 40’ HI-CUBE CONTAINERS � DIESEL DETAIL: GN U25B � October 2004 $4.95 Canada $6.95 EMDEMD SD24sSD24s ModelingModelingVirginianVirginian BoxcarsBoxcars PPageage 2020 PPageage 2424 ModelingModelingCobblestoneCobblestone && BrickBrick StreetsStreets 10> Page 31 PPVVCC Spline Roadbed Page 39 0 74470 91672 7 Page 39 AD TEMPLATE 10/26/04 10:48 AM Page 2 HO ClassicClassic MotiveMotive Power…Power… Scale Fully Assembled Pre-Production Models Shown BuiltBuilt forfor Today’sToday’s ModelModel RailroadsRailroads y 1963 when the GP35 entered production the transition from steam power to diesel locomotion on the nation’s railroads was a reality. The GP35 was EMD’s sec- ond offering in what now is considered the second generation of diesel power. Over 1300 units were produced in a little over two years. Lessons learned from past Bproduction and advancing technology provided for a quantum leap forward in performance and operation. In addition, EMD with the production of the GP35 began the use of standard modular construction in the design of locomotive bodies. This standard locomotive of the 1960’s can still be seen in operation nearly four decades after it was first introduced. Athearn’s Ready-To-Run GP35 represents a phase 1a version that was produced from October 1963 to February 1964. This was arguably the most widely used variant of the GP35. Some of the spotting features of this phase captured on the model are: • Thick side sill • Triple louver sets on the battery box covers • Open top 36" radiator center fans • Flat bottom cab number board housing • Flat inertial air filter hatch • Low profile fuel tank • Multiple latches on the engine compartment doors This attention to detail and the unsurpassed value built into every Ready-To-Run™ locomotive, as well as all the additional incorporated features, makes them the first choice with model railroad operators. -
July-Aug. 2003
Chapter Equipment The Official Newsletter of the Roanoke Chapter, National At long, long last, we can report that the UPCOMING MEETINGS/EVENTS Railway Historical Society, Inc. Chapter’s six passenger cars and Alco T6 August 21, 2003 – Regular Meeting locomoitve have left the West Virginia Volume 35, Number 7/8 Central. After what seems like an inter- September 2, 2003 – Board Meeting July/August 2003 minable delay, CSX picked up the cars on September 18, 2003 – General Meeting July 15th and took them to Grafton, they arrived at Cumberland on the 30th and October 7, 2003 – Board Meeting were interechanged to the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad who will be doing October 11, 2003 - Chapter Outing some repair work to the equipment to make October 16, 2003 – General Meeting it safe for the trip on to Roanoke, or wher- ever they may go for their next use. November 4, 2003 – Board Meeting Chapter members are prohibited from accessing or visiting the equipment without November 20, 2003 – Annual Meeting direct permission and clearance from Ken December 2, 2003 – Board Meeting Miller or Carl Jensen. Holiday Gathering - Stay Tuned! http://community.roanoke.com/RoanokeChapterNationalRailwayHistoricalSociety Turntable Times is published monthly as the newsletter of the Roanoke Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, Inc. Opinions and points of view expressed herein are those of the staff members of the Turntable Times and not necessarily reflect those of the members, officers or directors of the Chapter. Items of interest should be sent to Editor Kenny Kirkman, 590 Murphy Road, Collinsville, VA 24078-2128. Non-Profit Editor, Turntable Times Organization Roanoke Chapter NRHS U.S. -
Transportation Museum in Tokyo and Railway Heritage Conservation Michio Sato
Feature World Railway Museums Transportation Museum in Tokyo and Railway Heritage Conservation Michio Sato Brief History of directly by the Secretariat’s Research old Manseibashi Station, but today’s Transportation Museum Institute of the Ministry of Railways and structure was built on the foundation of admission was free. This Secretariat’s the old station. However, a museum staff The history of the Transportation Museum Research Institute was a predecessor of member in charge of construction already at Tokyo dates back to 1911 when the current Railway Technical Institute recorded that the new building was Shimpei Goto (1857–1929), the Director- (RTRI). Soon after opening, the Museum imperfect as a museum facility owing to General of the Railway Agency (the was damaged by the 1923 Great Kanto budget limitations and location predecessor of Ministry of Railways and Earthquake, but it reopened about 2 years restrictions. During WWII, despite its Japanese National Railways), established later on 8 April 1925. Since space was central location, the Museum was the post of ‘officer in charge of railway limited because it was built under the miraculously lucky not be hit by bombs museum affairs’ with a view to elevated tracks, there were soon voices and its building and collections remained establishing a railway museum. What in favour of constructing a new building intact. However, it was closed prompted Goto to entertain such an idea elsewhere and moving the museum. At temporarily in March 1945 as air raids is unknown. However, the new post was about the same time, the size of became more intense. established just after many private Manseibashi Station in Kanda Suda-cho The Museum reopened on 25 January railways in Japan were nationalized and was cut and the freed grounds were 1946, soon after the war’s end when it new uniforms and badges had been made selected for the new museum site; this is was renamed the Museum of to give a sense of unity to the employees. -
“The Last Steam Railroad in America” Shaffers Crossing, Roanoke, Virginia, 1958
ON THE COVER “The Last Steam Railroad in America” Shaffers Crossing, Roanoke, Virginia, 1958 ROBERT C. POST September 11 didn’t change everything, but it changed a lot. Consider, for example, what it changed for those of us who take pictures of the built envi- ronment. No matter how fatuous yellow and orange alerts may seem, pho- tographing bridges, mills, or railroads can look suspicious, and it will often attract the attention of the authorities. Now, for most historians, cameras are only a hobby. But not always. Take John Stilgoe, author of the prizewin- ning Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene (1983) and a scholar who, in his own words, has “made photographs all over the United States as part of my employment at Harvard University.” Having been has- sled in recent times, Stilgoe reports that he has “been legally briefed by both my own attorneys and those of my employer.” To those for whom taking photos is not connected with their employ- ment, however, and who don’t have recourse to Harvard lawyers—that is, hobbyists—Stilgoe recommends a book published, it so happens, in Sep- tember 2001; the author is a Portland, Oregon, attorney named Bert P. Krages, and it is titled Legal Handbook for Photographers: The Rights and Liabilities of Making Images.Legalities, Krages explains, are “premised on balancing the right of photographers to document the world against the rights of others to enjoy their privacy and property.”Photographers who do not understand “what, where, and when they can photograph” tend toward “blissful ignorance, extreme caution, or reckless abandon.” Which brings me to the image on the cover of this issue. -
Fritz Lehmann Fonds
FRITZ LEHMANN FONDS Accession AX0037 2 Fritz Lehmann (1936-1994) Dates: 1824-2000, predominant 1965-1994 Extent: 2.24 linear metres of textual and graphic material Scope and content: The fonds reflects Lehmann’s research on Canadian railway development and its sources of locomotives. He conducted research on companies that built locomotives in Halifax, Saint John, Montreal, Toronto, and Hamilton, but there is also an entire series of research files on the succession of companies in Kingston, including particularly the Canadian Locomotive Company. The fonds is arranged into the following: eight series: 1) Articles and Talks (1965- 1994); 2) Canadian Locomotive Builders Project (1969-1994) on his book project; 3) Canadian Locomotive Builders (1824-1990) 4) Canadian Railway Shops (1859-1900); 5) Canadian Locomotive Co. (1845-1991); 6) Miscellaneous reference files (1858-1985); 7) Locomotives and Railways, Articles and Books (1876-2000); and 8) Photos and Slides (1852- 1987). Biography: Fritz Lehmann was born in 1936 in Oak Park, Illinois. He received his undergraduate degree at Oberlin College in 1958, and his master’s degrees and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin (1961, 1967). His area of expertise was the history of India and the South Asian region, in particular the role of Islam in the region, technology and its relation to the region`s culture and development, and Urdu language and literature. He joined the University of British Columbia’s Department of History in 1967, where he was a member of the faculty until his death in 1994. Throughout his life Lehmann was a lover of railways, especially steam locomotives.