Re: BCHS Lecture on SN/NE
Anyone see this or attend? Be nice to hear a report from the meeting.?
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Re: Check out this SACRAMENTO NORTHERN SN WP GE 44-TON 146 & 145 @ CHICAGO in 1970 ORIGINAL SLIDE on eBay!
Friends,
The location is Port Chicago, aka Bay Point.
Yours Aye,
Garth Groff ?
I didn't know that SN went all the way.................................................To Chicago.
Is this location really Chicago?? Not my auction nor do I know the seller
Check this out on eBay!
SACRAMENTO NORTHERN SN WP GE 44-TON 146 & 145 @ CHICAGO in 1970 ORIGINAL SLIDE
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Re: Check out this SACRAMENTO NORTHERN SN WP GE 44-TON 146 & 145 @ CHICAGO in 1970 ORIGINAL SLIDE on eBay!
I didn't know that SN went all the way.................................................To Chicago.
Is this location really Chicago?? Not my auction nor do I know the seller
Check this out on eBay!
SACRAMENTO NORTHERN SN WP GE 44-TON 146 & 145 @ CHICAGO in 1970 ORIGINAL SLIDE
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Check out this SACRAMENTO NORTHERN SN WP GE 44-TON 146 & 145 @ CHICAGO in 1970 ORIGINAL SLIDE on eBay!
Is this location really Chicago?? Not my auction nor do I know the seller
Check this out on eBay!
SACRAMENTO NORTHERN SN WP GE 44-TON 146 & 145 @ CHICAGO in 1970 ORIGINAL SLIDE
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Re: BCHS Lecture on SN/NE
Would love to attend via Zoom if possible. Zoom has a record function too for future viewers
Damn fine idea. I don't have Allen Woods contact info so I hope Garth will advise him. Say, don't you love the picture in the newsletter. Early, as the second car has NORTHERN ELECTRIC down the side instead on the letter board.?
~Bill?
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Re: BCHS Lecture on SN/NE
Damn fine idea. I don't have Allen Woods contact info so I hope Garth will advise him. Say, don't you love the picture in the newsletter. Early, as the second car has NORTHERN ELECTRIC down the side instead on the letter board.?
~Bill?
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Re: BCHS Lecture on SN/NE
Bill- thanks for your note.
I've sent the Society a note asking if they can present it via Zoom for all of us
"outsider".
?? Dan Lee
On 04/03/2022 4:50 PM Bill Shippen <pitstopharold@...> wrote:
Folks, the Butte County Historical Society is holding a lecture on April 16 at 1 pm in Oroville CA on our favorite subject. See the info in their newsletter Slickens at
buttecountyhistoricalsociety.org
~Bill Shippen?
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Folks, the Butte County Historical Society is holding a lecture on April 16 at 1 pm in Oroville CA on our favorite subject. See the info in their newsletter Slickens at
buttecountyhistoricalsociety.org
~Bill Shippen?
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Ken,
A very nice car, and a nice photo too. Thank you for sharing.?
Thanks also for the offer of the 3D print, but I'm into British O-scale narrow gauge these days.
Yours Aye,
Garth ??
On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 8:08 PM Ken Harstine < kharstin@...> wrote: Finished my N Scale WP version of the SP S-40-8 stock car.? Thanks again for all the help.
Let me know if you want one of the 3D prints.
Best,
Ken Harstine
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Love the card, love the scene...nice modeling.
? Dan Lee?? San Jose
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Finished my N Scale WP version of the SP S-40-8 stock car.? Thanks again for all the help.  Let me know if you want one of the 3D prints. Best, Ken Harstine
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Re: Birney 62 Tours San Francisco
It could be; I have several negatives and prints showing SN photographers that I'd sure like to know who they are. If you can pick out AL from a low rez scan then we need to talk. I'm interested in more than trains; I want to know the people that took the pictures,? beyond the usual credit lines and blah, blah. Maybe I'm wrong, however I want to know the texture of those who came before us.
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Re: Birney 62 Tours San Francisco
That photographer in the tree kind of looks like Addison Laughlin. (sp?)
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Re: Birney 62 Tours San Francisco
You'd think from an FRA/PUC point of view that the Birney's wheels would have to be turned on a lathe and returned to the? proper profile? or else the wheels replaced to be in compliance? .? Having chipped wheels is asking for a broken wheel and a possible? derailment .? Things can get really ugly really fast with a broken wheel. I don't know if MUNI is part of the AAR but on the freight railroads , the rules are very strict about wheels and since the physics is identical, I would think they would have to comply with
AAR standards/Cal State PUC? rules .? I've personally discovered? a chunk missing out of a wheel on a loaded boxcar and we walked?
it
( walking? speed and walking right beside the wheel)? up the
Penoyer siding and set it out on the house track.? They later came out when the wheel truck and crane and replaced the entire axle & wheel set.
Daniel,
I've heard this is true. SN 62 had deeper flanges than the Muni Streetcars, and the car ran more on the flanges than on its wheel treads in the Muni's shallow girder rail. The result was that the Birney's flanges were badly chipped.
Does anyone know if the damage was ever repaired and how, or if the car is still running with the chips?
Yours Aye,
Garth Groff ??
These are great. Thank you. I heard that this tour damaged the wheels of 62. Is that right?
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Re: Birney 62 Tours San Francisco
Daniel,
I've heard this is true. SN 62 had deeper flanges than the Muni Streetcars, and the car ran more on the flanges than on its wheel treads in the Muni's shallow girder rail. The result was that the Birney's flanges were badly chipped.
Does anyone know if the damage was ever repaired and how, or if the car is still running with the chips?
Yours Aye,
Garth Groff ??
These are great. Thank you. I heard that this tour damaged the wheels of 62. Is that right?
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Birney 62 Tours San Francisco
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Re: Joe Lewis and the SN Chico Local
Sorry, Main Street, not Broadway.
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On Mar 25, 2022, at 9:16 AM, Steve via < pg5577@...> wrote:
I grew up in Chico in the 1970s, and remember seeing the trains running down The Esplande, and street running along Park Avenue and Broadway. Thanks for the Friday morning nostalgia trip.
Steve Carter
SN engineer Joe Lewis pilots WP 705 along the Esplanade in Chico in a light movement to the airport to pick up a few boxcars. Not often was this kind of operation; usually at this time empty runs to the airport were conducted with a caboose. This trip was made sans hack since all cars brought up from Yuba City were dropped off at the SP-SN interchange at Barber. This view is looking up the Esplanade on the way to the airport. ~Bill Shippen?
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Re: Joe Lewis and the SN Chico Local
I grew up in Chico in the 1970s, and remember seeing the trains running down The Esplande, and street running along Park Avenue and Broadway. Thanks for the Friday morning nostalgia trip.
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SN engineer Joe Lewis pilots WP 705 along the Esplanade in Chico in a light movement to the airport to pick up a few boxcars. Not often was this kind of operation; usually at this time empty runs to the airport were conducted with a caboose. This trip was made sans hack since all cars brought up from Yuba City were dropped off at the SP-SN interchange at Barber. This view is looking up the Esplanade on the way to the airport. ~Bill Shippen?
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Philip Schmierer
David Epling
Ken Harstine