Midweek Photos 12/3/2014

Tim O'MalleyOGR Forum Member

As the camel reminds us, today is "hump day" or Wednesday, and the Christmas holiday season is in full swing. Santa Trains are nearly everywhere. Park trains on display are getting the royal treatment with lights, and other ways of celebrating with trains has begun.

Here are a few I caught the past few days.

Last Wednesday, about 6 inches of snow fell in my corner of Pennsylvania. The warm ground melted it shortly after it stopped falling. But the snow accents on display trains at Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton added to the festive arrival of the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train on Thanksgiving.

This Brill Bullet car from Philadelphia is on display at the Electric City Trolley Station and Museum. I don't think she has ever looked so nice to my eyes.

I don't have any decent photos of the Holiday Train to share with you. Perhaps someone else caught the train as it stopped in their home town.

I dis catch the Scranton Limited train, on the right, traveling through the snow on a sunny Friday last week. It passed display engine Reading RS3 number 467 and her train of freight cars.

Union Pacific 4012 in her dusting of snow looks right for the season.

And New Haven Trap Rock 0-4-0T gets in the swing of things wearing her wreath.

That is all I have for now. Happy holidays! Now get out there and take a photo or two of railroads helping us bring out a bit of the meaning of Christmas.

Enjoy!

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Hot WaterOGR Forum Member SUPPORTING MEMBER

How about some photos of the first fire-up of Baldwin Locomotive Works #26?

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SwipesyOGR Forum Member

Six brand new Florida East Coast units being hauled through Lagrange, Ohio.

Two NS Heritage units, one Eastbound and one Westbound passing through Berea within minutes of each other. Heard on the scanner the Lackawanna crew complain to the NS crew that at least the NS Heritage locomotive was clean, lol.

Some new Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority locomotives Eastbound through Berea, Ohio.

John

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Diesel DanOGR Forum Member

From earlier this week, Nov 30, images from the onetime crew change point of Poplar Bluff, Missouri down in southeast Missouri. (After the SP/SSW merger, the crew change was moved 25 miles east to Dexter, MO). Dan

A loaded coal train rolls into Poplar Bluff on the Hoxie Sub and will continue on to it's Newark, AR destination. The tracks in front of the former Missouri Pacific depot are on the Desoto Sub which runs up to St. Louis through Missouri.

A northbound auto rack train rolls across the Black River with the Poplar Bluff depot beyond.

Another northbound auto rack rolls across the Black River bridge. The crew out of Little Rock has about 25 miles to run before changing crews at Dexter, MO The train will run up to the St. Louis area on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River on UP's Chester Sub.