Color Grasse River RR railbus pics
A few things have popped up today for some reason. First I found alot of info on Grasse River self propelled vehicles. Also there is an emphasis on #12. According to info I've found there were two #12's. One was a combine and one was a self propelled interurban. The interurban is still around and I have links to pics. of both.
These pictures come from George Elwood's website it is a nice website and they are his pictures. He cares alot about telling people this, so there I did.
There are some pictures of some equipment at Railcity Museum in the mid 1960's. First the #12 combine
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/steamtown/grrr-cb0ald.jpg
Next the white truck railbus aka jumping goose #11
http://gelwood.railfan.net/steamtown/grrr-rb0ald.jpg
Finally on a happy note a picture of the big survivor the other #12 the interurban in it's new(er) home the Strasburg RR. In it's original paint scheme of the L.O.& S. the the Grasse River bought it from.
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/strau/los-g10ava.jpg
Finally a new and more obsure research on the mysterious Evans rail bus or Evans Auto-Railer as it was technically called and the ties to Arlington & Fairfax as well as Washington and Old Dominion RR. According to this the Auto-Railer would have probably arrived after 1939. Heres a link the explains more
http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/misc-u/unk-b107.jpg and this also a little down the page under passenger information.
http://gelwood.railfan.net/misc-w/wod.html . Something that this doesn't say is that the owner of Evans was using the W.&O.D. as a demonstration RR for the Auto-Railer. They were hopping to make more. eventually they just sold the ones they made for the A.&F. and not even all of those. The W.&O.D. had at least two of them til the end of operations. I was particularly happy to find this out because my hometown where I was born and grew up is Alexandria VA southeastern terminus of the W.&O.D. Most of it was dismantled by my time but I remember some bridge abutments and a short bit of track coming from the Potomac Yard to the power plant that was part of it. Most of the right of way is now a bike path. My first serious model railroad circa 1990 was of it with a pair of HO scale Bachmann Spectrum GE 70 ton engines on a 4x8 table.
The owner/ curator of the Rail City Museum also contacted me today though this page. He say he is upgradeing his website and is working on a full length book on the former Rail City collection and it's disposition. I wish him luck and it sounds like an interesting project. I look forward to the final results.
The Adirondack (Tourist) RR is upgrading the former NYC line that connects Sarinak Lake to Tupper Lake. They broke ground on a replica station at Tupper Lake JT on the original site and even ran a special train there in the Fall.
http://home.twcny.rr.com/adkrr/images/signTupperLake.jpg and another at
http://home.twcny.rr.com/adkrr/images/oct30077.jpg .This line goes right by the site of Childwolds Station the GRR/NYC interchange. I am trying to get my inlaws house/former Cranberry Lake Emporium office and station added to the list of surviving New York RR stations.
http://ny.existingstations.com/ All this and the Bill Gove talk in Mass. in the spring.
Exciting times for someone interested in the Grasse River RR and Emporium Lumber Co.