Midweek Photos 2/10/2016

Not my site so I'll post a link

http://www.lifewastedchasingtrains.com/main.php

Be prepared to spend a few hours admiring his craft.

Part 2 continued from last week's midweek photos, here is the Maryland Midland's activities at Highfield, MD. back on a March day in 2011.
MMID brought cement loads up for CSX pickup, and picked up 2 lumber loads for the NVR modular home factory in Thurmont. The crew split the 3 GP38-3s to facilitate easier switching at the factory. The engines then went back light to their Union Bridge,MD. base.
Later in 2011, MMID's new owners, the Genesee & Wyoming, would start repainting MMID's engines, and would ultimately bring in SD40-3s to replace all but 2 of the 6 GP38s.          All images by Warren W. Jenkins.

The blue hour  CSX container facility North Baltimore, Ohio

Then and now photo of the old PRR tower at Montandon, PA and the remaining concrete foundation.

Caught this CP locomotive with a NS work car in Nescopeck over the weekend. Second photo is a closer look at what was drawn in the dirt on the cab side.

And two more fun railroad photos from the recent days.

Weather has been rough the past few weeks, and three times I found myself driving many miles through a blizzard.  Driving west from Fairmont MN one night I didn't make it home as I-90 was closed.  Last Sunday I headed north into MN in search of trains on the BNSF Marshall Sub but saw nothing at all.  I called a buddy and he said the line was shut down because of the impending blizzard.  Oh yeah, the blizzard.  I started back home but was quickly engulfed by a great gray wall.  Visibility was about 30 feet and the road was snow packed.  (Which makes it both slippery and nearly impossible to see.)  I made it to Pipestone MN and continued on south on Hwy 23, which was much worse.  I couldn't have seen a train even if it was 10 feet away!  It was snowing and the wind was hitting 62 mph.   I drove with my right tires on the rumble strip so I could tell I was still on the road.  I came across a car that had just stopped, right on the highway.  It contained a totally terrified teenage girl!  I got out of my car and had her follow me to the far shoulder of the road, and park it.  At that point I couldn't even see my boots on the ground.  She was 15 (!), and her dad had sent her to the store to buy more snacks for his Superbowl party.  I called the guy, asked if he had any idea how bad it was (he was clueless), told him I'd give the girl a ride to some place safe,  and then continued on south on Hwy 23.  My plan was to break out from the south edge of the blizzard and drop the girl off at her friends in Jasper MN to spend the night.  This worked, and I made it home with no problem.  So anyway, I didn't get any train shots.

Some shots:

1. BNSF Sioux Falls local at Manley MN, heading to Sioux City IA.

2. D&I n/b at Renner SD

3. D&I n/b approaching Baltic SD

4. D&I crossing Big Sioux River near Dell Rapids SD

5. Ice fisherman, Lake Poinsett SD

Kent in SD

A photo from this past week of my personal favorite locomotive to work on sitting outside with a fresh dusting of snow.  Winter maintenance was completed a couple weeks back, so she's sitting outside for a couple weeks while other equipment is filling the shop for winter work.  

Kent, that was a very good deed you did for that young lady.