🚂 Wansford Terminal 🚃

LOL! Sorry to ruin(?) your day, like that. I would love to hear that history, though!

Aerial photo of Bucyrus-Erie, sometime before 1981. Many long, low, industrial buildings are shown, with a number of medium-sized cranes, in the lower right.

Overhead map of the Bucyrus-Erie facilities, from 1949.

One of the largest draglines in Southern Indiana, towers over a nearby church. I thought this was B-E 3270W, but I believe it may be a Marion 8950.

Since I mentioned Bucyrus-Erie, again, here's their former operations in Evansville, Indiana.
Also, because I suck at identifying draglines, this is probably a Marion 8950. When I first found that photo, I though it was a B-E 3270W, but now I'm not so sure. I choose it for scale.

I dont use ai I draw for myself I try hard to learn skills I write my own poetry i make things by myself I use whatever is at my disposal I am not restricted to sloppy programs that destroy our web and pollute our rivers if I want to express and idea I sit down and write and rework and rewrite

Grab the broken(?) one, pull it apart and put it back together? Or is it a bunch of super tiny wires that need to be soldered?

I guess I'm just cursed. It wouldn't be the 6th time....😂

It's my phone's default format: MP4. 🤷
I can't imagine them dripping that.

That's all I kept from that round of shots. I've got a video of track lifting the sleepers off the ballast, as loaded coal hoppers roll past, but it seems I no longer have the option to upload video!

CSX track geometry car.

CSX track inspection car.

CSX 9969 leading some track inspection cars.

Very poor quality photos of the inspection train.

I did grab some poor quality stuff; I was too far back in the line of cars. I'll see if I can find it, but I may have deleted it.

It's been a while since CSX has been through the area for maintenance. Through I did see one of their track geometry cars roll though a few months back. I should get out and grab some pics and video before things get fixed and weeds growing through ballast are removed/covered.

Spending too much there isn't hard to do.
For some of these booths, it's their fundraiser for the year, so. 🤷
I'm probably done, though. You enjoy your evening/night!

A sidewalk with grass growing through the section breaks.

I can't recall who was making sidewalks (and roads) with or without grass growing through it, for their model railroad, but here's a bit of grass growing through the road and sidewalk.

A street view of the Westside Nut Club Fall Festival.

At the place, for the thing, and a late lunch.

In the limited free-time I've got, I'd rather....🤦
Two tries to get this correction out. Maybe I should just go back to bed.

I'm the limited free-time I've got, Is rather get another Double functional. I haven't decided which part of my (2 Singles &) 2 Doubles yard I want to make with it; I've still got several days to figure that out.
I'm already tired.😂

A stack of functional T-TRAK modules, without scenery.

I haven't really posted model trains "in a minute". This is the current state of my layout. Nearly all the scatter buildings and trains are still boxed-up, too. Next show is in 18 days, and I've got maybe 5 of those where I don't have something going on.🤦

YouTube video by Scent of Movies Part 22 | " The Final Swastika " | Inglourious Basterds 2009

I enjoyed this movie. This scene is completely irrelevant to anything.
youtu.be/N2TpTEwRH94?...

🚨BREAKING NEWS!!!! 🚨
Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson have decided to dust off their instruments and bring back the #Rush tour machine with new drummer Anika Nilles for a 7 city, 12 date tour in 2026! www.rushisaband.com/blog/2025/10...

ILLINOIS CENTRAL 4112 Built: 1946 Builder: Pullman Standard Type: Dining Car Status: Operational Originally built for the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad as their No. 505, named the "Shakamak Inn", this car was sold to the Illinois Central in 1962. It was donated to the museum by the Southeast Louisiana Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, and arrived in Monticello in 2007. Like No. 4110, this is a functional dining car used for special events.

ILLINOIS CENTRAL "GULFPORT" Built: 1942 Builder: Pullman Standard Type: Observation Car Status: In storage; awaiting restoration This round-end observation car is one of the two observation cars built for the famous Panama Limited passenger train operated by the Illinois Central. It is currently in storage waiting for its turn to go into the shop to be restored.

This one should have been obvious - and it was! - it just didn't have the information I was looking for, *at the time*. I should visit, sometime. It's a great resource!
www.mrym.org/passenger-eq...
Examples:

That interior is gorgeous!
I'm a sucker for Art Deco and Second Empire, but there just something I love about Victorian.

Accidentally stumbled across a copy of Pig vs. KMFDM "Sin, Sex & Salvation" on eBay, about a week ago. It arrived yesterday. Dang, I've missed this EP! It "vanished" with an ex, about 25 years ago. What took me so long to even think of searching Mercari and eBay?🤦🤡

That is a fine building!
This is the kind of architecture we need to get back to designing again.

Duck, what a day. 🤦
Narrator: He most certainly did not say "duck".

Please be on the lookout for these stolen locos.

Sometimes words have different meaning. I just encountered this.
I was searching for #0 washers on the website of the nearest big-box hardware store. I foolishly thought "#0" was descriptive enough.
Results included washers (but no #0), laundry machines, dishwashers, and power-washers.🤷

Micro-Trains.🤡🤦

Another one.

It looks like Atlas made 3 car sets, at one time, of just Pullman Standard sleepers and coaches. I might have to try to get those, as I could split them among my (way in the future) planned C&EI Whippoorwill and IC Panama Limited / City of New Orleans.
hawkinsrails.net/mainlines/ic...

I saw that repost, and since I can't qp:
"White Gen X has been so pro-Trump."
Further down the thread:
"We really don't talk about it enough at all."
I get it. I'm old GenX. We were sold a Bill of Lies, in the 80's, with a rug-pull. 30 years later, Bill of Lies 2: Only I Can Fix It!
Bunch of fools.

Just going to leave this here so I can easily find it again. Not for this reason, but that King's Dinner sounds insane.
#IC #PanamaLimited
www.streamlinerschedules.com/concourse/tr...

YouTube video by AK Dian City of New Orleans, Arlo Guthrie

I've been on a bit of an Illinois Central kick, for about a week, now. I was listening to Arlo Guthrie's take, just yesterday.
youtu.be/fF1lqEQFVUo?...