richard carr
Western Thunderer
Another very busy weekend in the states. I flew out last Thursday with Mick the Dane in tow, meeting Jim in St Louis for the St Louis RPM Meet (Railway Prototype Modelling) on the Friday and Saturday. We of course also planned to do a fair bit of rail fanning too.
We went to the show on Friday morning, as Jim had warned us it is mainly HO, there were some very nice models on display and a small P48 layout was running, and a very large N scale one.
In the afternoon Mick and I decide to go rail fanning in Centralia IL, here the former Illinois Central mainline (now CN) is crossed by a line from St Louis to Indianapolis.
It was reasonably busy and access is excellent.
We did just miss a train as we arrived, we saw plenty of it's freight cars but no locos. So our first train was this CN southbound manifest.
Then a coal train arrived from the St Louis direction with an ACE on the point
It stopped just before the road crossing to let a northbound Amtrak service pass.
Then the coal train set off, making a great sound as it pulled away. On the back was another ACe
The next train was a NS powered stack train again coming from the St Louis direction
Then it was time to spend an hour driving back to hotel in Collinsville.
Richard
We went to the show on Friday morning, as Jim had warned us it is mainly HO, there were some very nice models on display and a small P48 layout was running, and a very large N scale one.
In the afternoon Mick and I decide to go rail fanning in Centralia IL, here the former Illinois Central mainline (now CN) is crossed by a line from St Louis to Indianapolis.
It was reasonably busy and access is excellent.
We did just miss a train as we arrived, we saw plenty of it's freight cars but no locos. So our first train was this CN southbound manifest.
Then a coal train arrived from the St Louis direction with an ACE on the point
It stopped just before the road crossing to let a northbound Amtrak service pass.
Then the coal train set off, making a great sound as it pulled away. On the back was another ACe
The next train was a NS powered stack train again coming from the St Louis direction
Then it was time to spend an hour driving back to hotel in Collinsville.
Richard