No Promises In The Wind HO Scale Layout 1994

 This is a school project that utilized my HO Scale Train Layout to reenact a chapter from the story NO PROMISES IN THE WIND. Set in The Great Depression, NO PROMISES IN THE WIND involves two brothers who hitch a ride on a freight train, seeking employment. The Great Depression unemployment rate was astounding; millions of Americans to utilize their "hobo skills" to travel coast to coast for work. In one scene, taking place in a railroad yard, the two brothers hop onto a freight train while another train approaches on an adjacent train. Their friend, following close behind, stops in the middle the track to toss his banjo to one of the brothers, Josh. Unfortunately, this moment of hesitation is all that was needed for him to be struck by the oncoming freight train! Thus the quote, "catch my banjo, Josh!" 

The consist was as follows:

- ATSF high-nose GP30 (Atlas)

-Southern Railway 40' Gondola (Model Power)

-Southern Pacific 40' Gondola (Model Power)

-PRR 40' Gondola (Walthers)

-D&RGW 40' Gondola (Walthers)

-N&W 53' Mill Gondola (Roundhouse)

-IT 53' Mill Gondola (Roundhouse) 

-Gulf Oil 40' Flat Car w/tanks (Model Power)

-Frisco Offset 34' Hopper (Athearn Blue Box)

- Lehigh Valley 34' Hopper (Athearn Blue Box)

-Trailer Train 60' Bulkhead Flat Car w/Building Products Load (Roundhouse)/(Jaeger)

-CRIP 40' Flat Car w/Lumber Loads (Athearn Blue Box/Jaeger)

-D&RGW 40' Flat Car (Atlas?)

-ATSF 50' Flat Car w/pipe

-ATSF Caboose (Tyco)

This layout has been dismantled, but the equipment, sans caboose, remains.

O Scale Layout At Danbury RWY Museum

Whiting Junction, IN 1982 vs 2018

This location is Whiting Junction in Whiting, Indiana. By this time of the top 1982 photo, the PRR Fort Wayne Line had been severed to the east between a drawbridge and Clarke Junction. Conrail was still using one of these three tracks to access a refinery to the east of here. The single track crossing is the B&OCT branch that ran from the lakefront to their mainline. The foundation of the tower is still visible is the bottom photo, which was taken on August 25, 2018. The PRR trackage was removed in 1993.
 

Amtrak Hoosier State and Cardinal Trains Combined!

 Amtrak's southbound Hoosier State stops to pick up a lone passenger at Rensselaer, Indiana. It appears they have combined the equipment for the Hoosier State and Cardinal So it can be dead-headed to Beech Grove Shops for maintenance. This is CSX's former Chicago Indianapolis & Louisville, later known as the Monon Route after 1956. The Amtrak Hoosier State was begun on October 1, 1980.

 

GE P42DC's 165 and 134 are in charge.  The P42DC was first built in 1996 as the third order of the Amtrak Genesis line. They are available in HO Scale.

Light Rail Operator Asks, "How Do I Look?"

 

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2 Sets Of Siemens Type 4 Light Rail Trainsets at Cascades Stop

 At the Cascades stop on Portland's TRIMET MAX Light Rail System, a pair of Type 4 Trainsets meet on a warm afternoon. These sleek trainset were built by Siemens. This light rail train station is named for the parallel Cascades Parkway. These light rail train stops are a few blocks apart.

TRIMET MAX BLUE LIGHT RAIL TRAINSET AT WIDE CROSSING