Recent Digital Photos
by Mike Condren
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52 Years of Railroad Photography |
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Mike's Main Railroad Web Site
Dec. 7, 2012
| The radio finally announces that #1 was moving north so I rushed up to the fueling racks to get this picture. |
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| I then repositioned myself to get these shots. |
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| I then drove to the parking lot north of the yard office. The weather had been gloomy all day but now the sun decided to peaek out for some nice pictures as the train backed to its spot for the public. |
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| I then walked down toward the south end of the yard office where the rear caboose was stopper, taking this picture of the "engine" along the way. |
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| I caught Santa and his helpers getting off the rear business car. |  |
| Here we see the support train cut away from the 6 cars of the Santa Train. |
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| One type of car which the "Southern Belle" never had was a dome car, see here. |
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| Here we see a couple of Santa's helpers, Warren Caileff on the steps and Jack Ferry on the rear platform of the caboose. |  |
| Jack Ferry is seen with his Santa puppet. |  |
| Jack is now seen with his polar bear puppet with a group of kids. |
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| Tillie Caileff is now seen getting off the caboose. |  |
| Santa is seen in his chair sitting beside the lead box car. |
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| The G Scale train is now seen running around on the Raindeer car. |
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| Another view of the locomotive car. |
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| The last shot in Heavener is of the locomotivessitting in the sun at the head of the support train. |
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Dec. 9, 2012
| The Santa Train was at Noel, MO on the day before so that the train is inverted compared to Heavener. Here we see the support train on the passing track with the 6 cars of the Santa Train on the main at the north end of the station. |
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| At my suggestion, Rev. Condren announced in church that the Santa Train would be in Stilwell. We see that Chris Harris, orgnanist at our church in Tahlequah took some of her grandkids to see the train. |
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| The first boxcar had this Lionel layout which included this model of the Southern Belle. |
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| The train on the "Reindeer car" has changed power from an ALCo switcher to a pair of ALCo FAs. |
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| Here is the Santa Train. It does not show in this photo but the engine was smoking earlier. |
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| Santa and Mrs. Claus were outside this year and had a long line of people wanting pictures of their children on Santa's lap. |
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| There was a crowd when we arrived a half hour earlier than the "start time" and we were in line around the corner of the station. When we left that line was all the way around the corner and to the other end of the station. There was also a large crowd gathering across US59 to come to the train. All this on a cold afternoon with a strong cold wind. |
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