Midweek Photo Fun - July 1st 2014

Very nice. It looks like your son is really enjoying himself.

From the back deck of the Holland America Oosterdam in Seward, AK.  Holland Cruise Train to Anchorage, AK.

The Auburn Valley rolled a 7.5"gauge freelance 4-8-4 on the turntable when a bunch of people in the TCA 60th Anniversary Convention in the Crowne Plaza, Cherry Hill, NJ, visited the T. Clarence Marshall collection of Stanley Steamers and other antique automobiles.

I like that Berkshire.

here is my contribution, also 7 1/2" gauge, 1.59"/ft scale:

How About some from a few years back...

I was traveling home from a weekend in Watkin's Glen, NY, and decided to take the scenic route back.  Here is Sayre, PA, one of the homes of the Lehigh Valley RR.

Not a very busy yard these days, but I still was able to catch a Norfolk Southern crew on the move.

The BNSF unit was the lead on this train pushing its way south.  There were other locomotives in this former LV loco shop complex, but they were well hidden by trees and fences. 

For some reason, these Canadian Pacific units were parked in a side track near the passenger station.

Casting the "caboose shaped" shadow on the grass by the freight train photos above is this caboose: Number 95 011, an original Lehigh Valley.

Several blocks north of the passenger station is the Freight Station, converted years ago into a restaurant.  It hides this gem of a box car and a wooden B&O caboose. 

Have a great Independence Day, fellow Americans!  All others, have a great weekend.

GE locomotives sitting on flat cars, without attached trucks, in the NS Rockport yard in Cleveland, Ohio awaiting ocean shipment to CLN Railway in South America. There are 15 of these locomotives in the yard and are part of a 50 locomotive order from CLN.  Some of the order has shipped directly from the port of Erie, Pa where the locomotives were built.

An EMD SW1500 being towed westbound through Berea.

A BNSF in Executive paint scheme westbound through Berea, Oh.

A nice ride passes by while waiting for trains.

John

Nice Car

I found this one chasing the 765 back in 2010 in Alma, MI.

The Missouri Pacific's Heavy Hauler, a transfer job from the Mopac's 23rd Street Yard in downtown St. Louis to the Mopac's Ivory Yard in south St. Louis. It operated via Oak Hill, a short but steep grade. Train is passing thru Grand Ave Interlocking, February 1981.

Dan

Agrex is a unit grain train loading facility just south of Norfolk Ne. in the unincorporated town of Enola. They have added a second unit to the fleet. The black one looks to be an old timer.