Midweek Photos 12/23/2015

Tim O'MalleyOGR Forum Member

Happy Wednesday, everyone! I hope Santa Claus is good to you and your family this year. As always, the real world of railroading is a mixed bag of tricks, with business picking up and slacking off.

For some people, it's the most wonderful time of the year; yet others it is also known as "Friday." Let's thank all of the hard working railroaders for keeping the goods on the move.

Speaking of "on the move," at Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, PA, the Central RR of New Jersey crane number 5 and her idler were taken off long term display this past week.

In order to reach the locomotive shop for paint work, this required a move on the turntable.

This piece sat on the table for a few days, and on Sunday, the 20th, was moved into the locomotive shop out of the weather. Work continues on the Nickel Plate Road GP9 number 514 and a new project, Atlantic Coast Line SW1 number 1901, a 1939-built engine, is just beginning. Work on steam locomotive 3713 from the Boston & Maine will pick up again after the New Year, when vacations and furloughs are over. If you don't know all of these locomotives, progress on each of them will be posted in Midweek Photos in 2016.

Your turn... Please add any of the pics you may have taken of the railroads here. The mainlines, the shortlines, the museums and the traction. All are significant to getting people and freight on the move. Have a Happy Christmas to one and all. See you next week, as the 2015 year in review begins.

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berwickrailfanOGR Forum Member

Some recent photos from the Polar Express excursions in Bellefonte, Pa this past weekend.

North Shore RR No 1940 and their bay window caboose on the Big Hearts Brand siding.

And a late afternoon photo of the rails behind the house.

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SwipesyOGR Forum Member

Seven UP units hauling an empty Fruit Express tain Westbound through Berea, Ohio.

A new UPY low emission switcher Westbound on CSX tracks in Berea.

And a empty CP oil train heading Westbound on NS tracks in Berea, Ohio

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Robert S. ButlerOGR Forum Member

Comin' atcha through the early morning mist.

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Two23OGR Forum Member

I managed to get out one night and chase a train in the middle of South Dakota. It was what I've been calling my "heart break" railroad, the Rapid City, Pierre, & Eastern. Train was about two hours late leaving Huron SD which turned out to be a good thing for a change as that had it leaving just before dark. It's getting harder for me to find locations within a three hour radius of my house that I haven't already shot numerous times, but I did manage to get a night shot of a train going past the only semaphore left in the state. It came out decently too! I was intending the next shot to be at Ree Heights, yet another faded prairie town, but I screwed up. I thought I had a lot more time to set up than I actually did, and by the time I was starting to get everything in place I heard the horn about five miles away. I raced on ahead to (yet another) faded town of Holabird. I did manage to get a so-so shot there. The train was to tie down in Pierre, where it would get a new crew about 4 am the next morning. Before it did that I met up with a guy who wanted his photo taken in the cab for his Christmas card this year. I met him at the depot in Pierre, and we chatted with trainmaster Crystal for awhile. She seemed to welcome the break from boredom as no other trains were running on the entire ~500 mile line. So that's about it from me. It's supposed to finally start getting cold next week, with temps down around zero and some (more) snow. I have a shot up in North Dakota I really want to do this winter but I have to wait until the river freezes over thick enough to drive on. Might not be too much longer! Final shot, conductor Richter hopes you're all on track for a Merry Christmas!

Kent in SD