CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge

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That's a lovely contrast, RockHop: brute force and elegance. Nice.

Cormanus,

Absolutely agree that steam locomotives are elegant since my other hobby is garden railroading with small scale (1:19 & 1:13.7) live steam locomotives.

In this particular case, however, it is probably more of an old vs new brute force contrast.

#104 was a Heisler geared locomotive designed for heavy loads and steep grades on logging railroads. The design featured four cylinders canted inwards on the sides at a 45-degree angle to form a 'V4' arrangement. Power then went to a longitudinal drive shaft in the center of the frame that drove the axle on each powered truck (bogie) through enclosed gear case riding on the axle between the truck frames. Basically a 12 wheel drive beast.

Thanks for the comments all.

Django - yes, this is and does serve as a Heritage Railway.
Here's more from their site if you so desire:
[url=http://cumbrestoltec.com/]Cumbres & Toltec Railroad

RockHop - looks like you made your relocation move. Hope all went well with the Jemez house.

Here's a handful more, out of the many taken, just for general viewing purposes:




Ferret - Now instead of "Riding On The City of New Orleans", what comes to mind is John Prine's lyric: "Mr Peabody's Coal Train has hauled it away"

Sold quickly for asking price to Lab employee. Really like Lubbock as a place to live, but miss the mountains when I ride. Flat and straight pretty much sums it up. My trials bike is getting pretty dusty at the moment. May have to change my forum name ....

My Saturday morning hobby is also garden railroading. Although the club railroad has risen out of the garden as our members have grown older.



We operate like the real railways do, picking up and dropping off cars at the industries specified on computer printed switch lists. There will be 8 to 10 trains running at the same time, so the dispatcher has to stay sharp.

One week we will operate using 1:29th scale diesels and the appropriate freight and passenger cars. The next week 1:22.5 scale narrow gauge steam engines and cars.

That's really cool Nortoon. Park your bike in the foreground next Saturday and you'll have another entry for this month. I can't follow my own advice unfortunately because I haven't got any farther than some survey flags in the backyard where my new layout will be someday.

I understand the desire to raise the track as we get older. Also pretty typical for those of us who run live steam because we are constantly fiddling with them.

Here a couple of photos of the layout I left behind in the mountains of Northern New Mexico.