Midweek Photos 2/27/2013

OK Tim, I'll he match your caboose with another one.  This is from Canton, SD.  There's a restored MILW depot there, and a year ago they moved a MILW sidebay caboose by it.  I was thinking of getting inside it and taking some shots, but the inside is gutted.  Oh well. I figured out a shot using it from the outside.  First shot is of the caboose and a w/b grain train.  We have a lot of grain trains out here, as you will see.  Last weekend I got up early and headed down to what I call the attic of Nebraska.  One of my favorite rail lines is there--the NENE.  I call it the "Nee-Nee!'  Actually, it WAS there.  It was bought out by BNSF starting the first of the year.  I wanted to see if they were still running the SD-40t tunnel motors on it.  The terrain there is rough and I knew it would be a challenge with the deep snow.  I managed to track down a grain train at the very far end, in O'Neil.  The line is 120 miles long, and track speed is 10 mph.  That would put it at the half way point at dark. I talked to a nice farm couple along the tracks and they let me set up some flash to light the train and their house.  That's shot #2.  Finally, a shot of the ethanol plant at Jackson, NE.  The moonlight was having trouble filtering down through increasing snow fog.  Temperature had dropped to five degrees. It was dark, cold, and foggy.  For me--perfection!


Kent in SD

And these two.

 

 

 

 

Oooh... I like a thread with a theme Keep it coming, guys! Great shots so far.

Swipsey, nice shot of the Pennsy Cab....great pics.

This is at the Mad River & NKP railroad museum in Bellevue Ohio .

 I like this too, great shots! A few more!

Nice to see cabooses at work!

Clarksburg WV back in 2006

 

I was just thinking about CSX's B&O Caboose...whatever happened to it? Haven't heard or seen much about it in the past few years. 

Wanted to add to the cabeese theme this week.  Here is a Southern caboose that has been parked at our train depot for longer than I can remember.  2nd picture was taken of the interior through the middle window. 

No cabooses from me, but I just stumbled across a photo taken at Greenfield Village on Google.  They may have gone too far with the restoration of their DT&I Wooden boxcar