Midweek Photos 5/7/2014

Tim O'MalleyOGR Forum Member

Wednesday has returned, everyone. Time for another edition of the Midweek Photos, where the latest, the greatest or even the lamest photos of real world railroading are shared. You be the judge

This past weekend, the Lackawanna & Wyoming Valley Railway Historical Society and the Reading & Northern Railroad teamed up for a special excursion of the rails of Northeastern Pennsylvania dubbed "The Vosburg Flyer"

The train boarded outside Pittston, PA in a small town called Duryea. The "exotic" power of 2 SD38 transfer locomotives was added to with the Reading & Northern's latest acquisition, a GP30, which is still in its Santa Fe markings.

The train had a mix of freight cars along with passenger coaches, open air cars and their former Milwaukee Road SuperDome 55.

Rounding the curve on former Lehigh Valley RR rails in Falls.

And the reason why Falls has its name.

The Northern turn-around part of the trip was the Vosburg Tunnel in Vosburg, PA, Wyoming County. This is the first known passenger train through the tunnel since 1961, when the Black Diamond last ran.

A Recently plowed field served as the ideal location for the first photo run-by of the day, near Ransom, PA.

LOL, and by popular request (or at least request of frequent Midweek poster Zephyr), this photo of the box lunch. Photo by Mike O'Malley.

While I gather more photos, feel free to take hold of the thread, and add to it some of the photos of your on-board lunches LOL.

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SantaFe158OGR Forum Member

This past weekend during our Day Out With Thomas event, we ran our 1914 Michigan Central steam crane. It never had its own boiler (was originally designed to operate via the electric third rail used by the railroad, or steam as a backup), so our 1873 Mason 0-6-4T supplied the steam. I fired the locomotive Saturday and Sunday and it was a pretty neat weekend.

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Two23OGR Forum Member

Cranes are pretty cool. I"ve seen a couple of RR steam cranes, but I don't think any of them were operating.

As the weather warms, my interest in taking train photos cools. Nothing like a new lens to get me back out though! Last year I had an c.1870s Darlot Petzval lens put into Nikon F mount so I could use it on my D7100. I just got back another lens a few weeks ago, a Darlot achromatic doublet c.1895. It's cool! This was the first lens design used for the first photos back in 1839. The Petzval came a year later, in 1840. So, I now have two lenses from the dawn of photography that I shoot on my state of art Nikon digital.

Last week I did make it out along the DME line west of Huron, but I went on Sunday night instead of Saturday night due to bad weather (high wind and flash don't mix well.) There was a w/b train leaving Huron at 8pm, and they said it was going up to Manchester SD. So, I drove on ahead and set up at a cool spot on the tracks they would take. After over an hour passed, I heard them get a warrant to go to Blunt SD and up to Oneida, which meant they weren't coming my way at all! I could have intercepted them, but I wouldn't catch them until 2am, and I would not get home until 5am Monday morning! Since I go to work around 8am, I had no choice but to bag it and come home empty handed. There was nothing else moving on the line. I had better luck the following week. The DME is the most frustrating RR I have for getting shots. It's sort of like turkey hunting. Either you're in them thick, or you see nothing at all.