Jesse Livingston's Rail Photos


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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 21:47:48 -0500
Subject: The morning winter sun shines through the solid glass walls of GM&O RRs Iselin backshop about 1955.
To the extreme right is the "Oil House" where used diesel lubricating oil was re-refined for use in the roads ALCO locomotives.
Just to its left can be seen the large diesel fuel storage tank and in the foreground, the main water tank for the shops.
The extreme left of the backshop building was designated as the "Roundhouse" where "hot work" was perfomed following the demolition of the original roundhouse and turntable."
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 19:53:50 -0500
Subject: Drive rod detail from the "Casey Jones" 10 Wheeler. Photo was made in
the 1950s at Iselin Shops where the locomotive was refurbished for the
City of Jackson, TN Casey Jones Museum. Illinois Central would not have
anything to do with commemorating a train wreck so the GM&O prepared it
for display. (Casey is buried at the old Catholic cemetery in Jackson.)
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 19:08:51 -0600
Subject: Very small European Narrow Gauge 0-4-0T locomotive that sat atop a revolving pedestal outside the Eureka Springs and North Arkansas Railroad station in Eureka Springs, AR a few years back.
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 15:26:19 -0600
Subject: Miller S Gauge AF compatible Alco S-4 "1000".
It has the motors on the axles and has no brushes as such.
The wheels are segmented and 180 degrees out of phase with their mates so the rails act as the brushes.
As the late Justin Wilson was prone to say, "I gor-on-tee" that the colors are correct for GM&O because I got the paint from the paint department at Iselin, just did a lousy job because I had to use artists brushes.
The locomotive in the photo is approaching 50 years old. At the time I bought it, it cost $56.00 if ordered with four motors or $13.00 with no trucks.
This engine has only one motor per truck, couldn't afford more at that time.
Notice that it has special AF compatable coupler bars on the front and rear, ($1.00 extra).
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 11:24:04 -0600
Subject: UP Challenger passing through Atwood TN
Got a pretty nice shot of UP Challenger passing through Atwood TN a few years back.
Biggest locomotive to ever go through the little town! Train was on an excursion run to be used as a Santa Claus Special in Appalachia.
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 07:49:45 -0500
Subject: GM&O RS-3 ALCO 1522 fresh out of the paint department at Iselin Shops in 1955.
Photo by Jesse Livingston, Troy, TN
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 08:26:23 -0600
Subject: This picture is of the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum's beautiful Southern RR 4501 Mikado.
Photo was made about 1975 as it prepared to return on a railfan trip from Corinth, MS to Buntyn Station in Memphis, TN.
Locomotive was built in 1911 and is hand fired as evidenced by the fireman pushing coal down to the front of the tender so he wont have so far to walk when the train starts rolling on the return trip.
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:53:01 -0600
Subject: A close-up shot of Durango and Silverton Railroad K28 #473 as it returned from Silverton in the fall of 1997.
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 18:55:01 -0600
Subject: An Illinois Central Gulf GP-10 in white and orange livery sits resting on the rails at Union City Tennessee about 1980.
These GP-10s were converted from GP-9s at the ICG Paducah shops.
A distinguishing feature besides the lowered nose was the "yoke" shaped air cleaner housing behind the cab. These were always called "Paducah Rebuilds".
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 09:03:24 -0600
Subject: GM&O Alco 271 (DL 109), glistening in the late afternoon sun, sits beside the wheel shop in Iselin yard at Jackson, TN.
The photo was made in the mid 1950s and not very long before the locomotive was retired to rust in peace in the lower yard.
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 15:16:43 -0600
Subject: Ashcroft Locomotive Gauge converted into a Clock by Jesse
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 08:04:26 -0600
Subject: The Catfish
Here is an unusual locomotive. It was a one of a kind road switcher made by Ingalls Ship Building Co. shortly after WWII.
We at the GM&O Iselin shops in Jackson ,TN called it "The Catfish" because its appearance sort of reminded us of that Southern delicacy, catfish.
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 13:56:15 -0500
Subject: CNW commuter train stopping at Zion Illinois on its way to the end of the line at Kenosha, Wisconsin in the early fall of 1982.
Jesse Livingston - Troy, TN
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 18:39:34 -0600
Subject: Here is Crab Orchard and Egyptian Railroad's 2-8-0 #17 pushing a TOF car at a piggyback depot near Marion Ill. in the late 1970s. The locomotive was built in Canada near the end of WWII.
CO&E is a short line running on abandoned Illinois Central trackage at Marion, but unfortunately for railfans, I understand the steamer has been replaced by a diesel these days.
CO&E had hoped to be able to survive as a steam railroad with freight service and tourist rides, but things did not work out. Nice while it lasted though!
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 20:00:22 -0600
Subject: This pretty little "cabbage stack" Mogul belongs to the Eureka Springs and North Arkansas Railroad and is sitting behind the station at Eureka Springs Arkansas.
It looks all spiffed up and ready for a tourist run in this photo made in 1997.
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 17:23:27 -0600
Subject: Live steam Filer and Stowell logging locomotive in 1-1/2" scale which I built in 1995 and wrote a construction series about.
Note the oscillating cylinders. Originals c.1890 to 1920.
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 17:02:24 -0600
Subject: 1-1/2" to the foot scale live steam model of the Falk Lumber Company's 0-4-0 #1 logging engine.
The original is in a museum in California and was measured and plans drawn up by the late Bill Harris.
Live Steam magazine published the resulting construction article and this is one of the many copies that were made.
The model burns propane, runs on 7-1/2" gauge track and weighs in at 77 pounds.
It will easily pull one large adult and a small child on reasonably level track.
In addition to the main engine, there is a small auxiliary winch engine (cylinder is in cab) which was used to pull logs up to the track
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 12:12:59 -0600
Subject: General
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 13:25:16 -0600
Subject: Here is a view of the Civil War locomotive "General" that was made at Humboldt, Tennessee during a light rain late on a fall afternoon in 1963.
The next morning, the locomotive and its one coach left for Bells, TN on its way to Memphis as part of a goodwill tour.
Although there is wood stacked in the tender, the locomotive actually had been equipped to burn oil for this tour.
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 18:54:50 -0600
Subject: Here are three ICRR 4-8-2 (2300 class) locomotives.
These engines were originally bought for passenger service but were converted for freight usage at the IC's Paducah shops by installing larger cylinders.
The engines are shown stored on the dead track at Fulton, Kentucky and were only months away from the scrappers torch when this photo was made in the summer of 1960.
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 09:44:27 -0600
Subject: This photo of the inside of the GM&O's Iselin back shop was made on a Sunday in 1942 or 43 by John Van Den Bosch, Jr.
John was about 11 years old when he made the photo using a Kodak Brownie Reflex camera.
The locomotives and machinery are all gone for scrap now, but the building with its overhead cranes is still in use by a steel fabricating firm.
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 09:37:56 -0600
Subject: Here is a 1955 scene from GM&O Iselin shop at Jackson, TN.
1000 hp Alco switcher #1006 is being transported to the truck department in the grasp of the 150 ton P&H traveling crane.
We had just rebuilt the 6 cylinder turbo charged engine and generator as evidenced by the fresh paint job on them.
After the trucks were installed, the locomotive went to the paint department and then back into action on the GM&O Southern Division.
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2001 18:49:49 -0500
Subject: Here is a picture I made of C&O Kanawha #2716 being serviced in Florence, Alabama about 1985. It was on an excursion run out of Memphis, TN on the Southern RR.
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 16:12:26 -0600
Subject: Here is Manitou and Pikes Peak Ry's rack locomotive #2.
The locomotive is compound and also has aproximately a 1:1.5 ratio lever arrangement to drive the rods to the rack gear.
Made the picture a few years ago in Manitou Springs where the engine is on display in the city park.
Another identical locomotive is displayed by the station at the summit of the mountain.
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 14:53:08 -0600
Subject: GM&O Rebels
Here is a rather badly faded Ektachrome picture of the Gulf, Mobile and Ohio "Rebels".
Originally bought by the Gulf, Mobile and Northern in 1935, these three locomotives pulled the first diesel powered passenger trains to run in the South.
Here they sat awaiting the scrappers torch in 1962, their engines removed and paint showing the result years of storage in the Iselin shop yard at Jackson, TN.
They are resting on their special elevated service track in this final picture.
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 15:51:14 -0600
Subject: GM&O helper Ivory Weddle prepares the frame of an Alco RS1 to receive its 1000hp engine at Iselin shops about 1954.
It is winter as evidenced by the closed #14 shop doors and the smoky haze from idling engines farther down the shop which are drifting over the scene.
The tall metal box at the left in the photo is a "load box" filled with resistors and was used to test the horsepower output of overhauled engines when connected to the main generator leads.
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 15:36:31 -0600
Subject: Here is the last 7-1/2" gauge locomotive I built from plans in Live Steam Magazine.
It is a model of the Mich-Cal Lumber Company locomotive which is still "alive" and somewhere in California.
I built it to 2-1/2" per foot scale to run as narrow gauge on the club track at Columbia, TN.
"T" boiler and only two cylinders, but still plenty powerful and steams well with coal.
The duplex feed water pump on the running board works as does the turbine generator on the boiler.
I burn propane in my other three engines, a Falk, an American and of course, the Filer and Stowell.
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 19:58:33 -0500
Subject: Moody night scene of a St Charles Line streetcar on Canal Street in New Orleans, LA about 1988. Copied from a 35mm slide.
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 16:22:08 -0600
Subject: K28 #473 arriving from Silverton was photographed a couple of miles
North of Durango, Colorado late in the afternoon early in the fall of
1997. This was one of four round trip trains that were running that
day. Film Kodacolor 200, camera Olympus, OM-1.
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 20:06:28 -0600
Subject: UP3985 drivers and rods taken a few years ago at Bruceton, TN.
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 19:21:37 -0500
Subject: Iselin
A bevy of machinists and electricians are seated on wooden Coca-Cola
cases (remember those?) as they partake of lunch at Iselin shops in the
1950s. Assistant Master Mechanic's office is to the left and in the far
distance can be seen an ALCO locomotive on one of the "roundhouse"
tracks while in front of it is the silver painted shop boiler. Of
special note are the two sets of stairs leading up to the segregated
overhead toilets. This section of the shop is newly rebuilt after the
disastrous 1951 fire that destroyed most of the Southeast part of the
shops.
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From: "Jesse Livingston" fernj_@_iswt.com
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 08:54:42 -0500
Subject: GM&O RS3 1507 sits in Iselin shops about 1955 after an encounter with a
trailer truck at a grade crossing. The damage to the front end gives
testimony to the wisdom of GM&O's practice of running their hood units
long end forward for protection of train crewmen.
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