Christian STEAGALL-CONDÉ

ALL ABOARD ! Live Steam Up Hills - My works in H.O. Gauge In a blueish Spring brazilian sky with very few clouds, this intrepid and shinny Baldwin 2-6-0 steam engine uphills at all velocity she cans achieve, rushing by in a marvellous endless sound of iron with iron, amplified and roared by the pure steel rusty bridge, above the Devils Throat in the South America Hinterlands.

ALL ABOARD ! Over The Hills 2 - My works in H.O. Gauge. On the top of the world, the almost phantomas Cliff Station waits until the engine driver of the old Electro-Motive Divison EMD G22-U Locomotive returns into his cabin, after hitting with the help of an usefull iron hammer all eight steel wheels of the machine, looking by a strange sound wich means, in a case of a warbling, the existence of a crunch, a dent or a munch inside it, waiting for the next Engine Shop Schedulling to apropriate changes in this crucial hardware

ALL ABOARD ! Orchards Iron Bridge - My works in H.O. Gauge After cross through the Orchards Iron Bridge six metters above, this shy General Electric Rail Division Switcher, knowed as U5-B, advances his throttle into the empty classification yards near the Orchards junction, 10km downhill ahead. In the crossroad with a small country trail, extra four safe rails was bolted in the middle of the railway, avoiding the dangerously and very common ( in the past ), anchorageing cars, thanks to the height of the rails.

ALL ABOARD ! Becalmedness on the Turntable - My works on H.O. Gauge. It was 5:00PM and the rail stuff people works with nothing, in this empty yard at this time. Soon, just before the Autumn brazilian sun goes down, the lazy times says goodbye, trempled over by the rushing of dozen of cargo wagons, waiting to be indexed on the schedulled trains of the dawn.

ALL ABOARD ! Over The Hills - My works in H.O. Gauge. Screamin upgrade rails, the Cargo Train finnaly uphills, slowly and in safe. On the flat yard at the top of the world, a shinny Yellow & Griss RFFSA EMD G22-U mannouvered into tightly rails backing to the shop with a empty but wheel brokenned waggon coupled by. ( Note the GIANT real stripped Orange-Blue Diesel-Electric Locomotive on the foreground rail yard, at a 1:1 gauge: AMAZING !!!)

ALL ABOARD ! TheDeathRow - My works in H.O. Gauge Even this railworker asks himself about the future of this poor passenger car, saved from scrapyards row in the last moment, but, thanks to its age and state of being, unnafortunelly, the derail shows how far an easy and acceptble solution into ressucite this ironed heirloom back to rails will costs.

ALL ABOARD ! Crossroads - My works in H.O. Gauge. The shinny and pridefull 1968 VW Sedan 1.200CC, followed by a vintage GM Wood and a yellowished empty Tow, waits carefully in the first row place, meanwhille the good old Baldwin 2-8-0 Steam locomotive makes his mornings hot trips into the Ravina Boulevard, a short touristic atraction of this suburban village. Crossroadman was absent by a while, but his fellow on there promptly pays attention on the movement in this critically and lethal urban crossgrades.

ALL ABOARD ! Light On The End Of The Tunnel - My works in H.O. Gauge Nice rairoadiana hobby people having fun in a Model Railroader Meeting in Londrina, Brazil. This rare white waggon, knowed as FHC type, rest in peace, almost abandonned in a death line, almost sheltered by the obstaccled hard rocky mountain, wich tunnnel was openned by brave and anonnimous railworkers of the past, with the strenght use of his own hands.

ALL ABOARD ! Vintage We-Haul It ! - This nice 70s Vintage GM SUV family car, named hear as VERANEIO ( a kind of summered hardware... ) was used every time we need to transport ours 3 modelrailroads cabinets and railfuns persons into the Bi-Annual Meetings of the Rails Tribes here in Brazil, some of them in our own state, PARANA, but most of them on our neighborhood borderline-state, SAO PAULO, far as 590 km.

ALL ABOARD ! Dismantelled Train - My works in H.O. Gauge Thanks to a sleeperatte engine driver ( to put to shame, a MALE one! ) this good old 1975 Electro-motive Division EMD G22-U from ALL America Latina Logistica in his second phasis of schematic dark griss-pale yellow corporate colors shows his wreckage-like new statement on rails. Unnafortunelly shamblessy, was only his new entering into a totally different world to the last nonstop trip with a Single Ticket straight ahead to the Rusty Scrapyard Station: No mercy at all!

ALL ABOARD ! HastyDriver - My works in H.O. Gauge Unnable to wait patiently his time to cross the rails ahead, this unsefelly and careless driver of a nice vintage 58 GM WOOD attempts against his own life and the life of other people there, tranpassing the long row of towed trucks without safe vision, wich are stopped at the Crossroads for the passage of unbrakeble and awesome heavy Cargo Train.

ALL ABOARD ! UrbanCrossroads - My works on H.O. Gauge. In this urban set, a vintage GM wait his time to cross the rails ahead, followed by a brand new ASTRO Mercedes-Benz cargo truck. A couple makes a phone call to far home and a rusty Passenger Car waits his fate into a last non-stop journey to the Old Scrapyard Station, very soon.

ALL ABOARD ! Turntable Bird View - My works in H.O. Gauge All is quiet on New Years day in all surrounding area through the formerly RFFSA - Rede Ferroviria Federal S/A Switching, Cassifying & Repair rail yards. The long shadows of this shinny brazilian winter tells us that was time to expect a supportabel cold night, in terms of a sub-Tropical wheather. The Sandtower at upper left, reveals the messy opperation to fullfill the tanks of the Diesel engines, wich latter avoid them against unnatended slippering on rails.

ALL ABOARD ! Rail Yard - My works in H.O. Gauge This ultra clean rail yard was possible to exists, thanks to the ALL - America Latina Logistica Rail Company and his stuff people, wich was trainned to understand his office place as an extension of his own homeyards. Even blossomed full collored flowers can be seeing there, on the surrounded open areas and a nice orchard, full of trees with sweetest fruits like yellow Mexiricas, black Jabuticabas, magenta Pitangas, wine Amoras and orange Acerolas.

ALL ABOARD ! Houndhouse Rail Shops - My works on H.O. Gauge. This nice demi-roundhouse, surrounded by homeless people on the foregrounds, was roomed to shelter three specimens of good DNA rail, like this Eletro-Motive Divison G-22U, an American Locomotive ALCo. FA-1 and a Switcher from General Electrics Rail Division named as U5-B. At right, the yellow and gris G22-U from RFFSA rail company waits its time and allowed conection into the roundtable to starts his next long trip into the Hinterlands of continental-like Brazil.

ALL ABOARD ! PhantomTrain - My works in H.O. Gauge The Pantom Train rushes through the rusty rails in a strange roaring silence over the Hills of The Dead Cabin Man. Even the three near the old and abandonned small shed station it is live and dead, at the same time. ( the Foreground Scenario is a photo of mine, at the Londrina surroundings with real Soy Beans plantation, just a couple days before the cropping season starts here )

ALL ABOARD ! UrbanRailCross - My works in H.O. Gauge This nice General Electrics Rail Diviison U5-B, a small but strong switcher used in yards and short tows and mannouverings, with schematic corporate company collors of the formerly MRS Logistica Rail Company cross the small urban road after left behind a couple of wagons full of steel in curls. Both Vintage Bike fellows, working in the same rail company, knows how an unsafe approach in this lethal area could put all in a messy and sadness situation.

ALL ABOARD ! Trumpled over, AGAIN ! - My works on H.O. Gauge. Rushing in an awesome 70km/h, the X-press Passenger Train horns warning the brand new Sheds Barrio citizens, knowing world-wide as the FAVELA. On the other hand of the twin rails, the off-Schedulled Cargo Train waits on the dead line, till the demon on wheels pasts by.

ALL ABOARD ! Homeless on rails - My works in H.O. Gauge. This sheds made it with recicled wood taked off into dumpsters and yards of bankrupted contractors companies, was erected in early mornings of the weekends, when rail staff security people was too busy to note the Silent Barrio blossomed day-by-day (very) near the rails. An Old Beattle carcass rests, but not in peace, in front of the, lets say, garage of his owner, waiting his fate into a Scrapyard near there.