Midweek Photos 6/18/2014

Storm Lake Ia., I was not favored with live trains, but a few shots around town. The old section shed caught my attention.

Some nice photos.

My father-in-law caught this in Manville, NJ this week. NS research train. The engine is called "The Brick".

An Amtrak Cities Sprinter ACS-46 (#605) makes a late evening appearance, just after 6 PM departing the city of Philadelphia bound for points south.  6-17-2014.

/Mitch

A few from the IRM....

I was chasing a train yesterday. Hears some pictures of the husky stack train at different angles.

Why did they buy a new locomotive for Cabin John?

Whittier Yard.

Nice

Looks like everybody but ME got train photos last week.  What happened to me?  It rained.  I don't like being out in the rain all that much, but more than that I mean it RAINED, like forty days and forty nights!  It was hitting seven or eight inches in one day, which isn't a good thing out here in the flatlands.  I didn't photo any trains because there weren't any!  The tracks have been washed out on all but one RR within an hour's drive of me.  And the roads were covered with water so I couldn't have got to them anyway.  Our local river, the Big Sioux, went from being a foot deep to 32 feet deep in less than a day.  It was three miles wide in many places, and this had consequences.  BNSF, D&I and Minnesota traffic has all come to a halt and it might be a month before the tracks are replaced.  (Not just repaired--replaced.)  It's astonishing how much power fast moving water has.  It's not to be fooled with.

1. Part of the BNSF tracks washed out at Canton, SD.  An entire section of the levy is gone.

2. D&I train crossing at Fairview, SD on Monday.  Might be the last D&I train until the end of July here.

3. That same location now.  

4. Water over the bridge left it full of debris.  Tracks are out of gauge and the bridge might have actually shifted.

5. Tracks swept off the trestle south of Fairview.

6. Tracks twisted and flipped west of Hawarden, IA

There are several stretches of track damage that are over 200 yards each.

Kent in SD

Yikes!  The power of moving water is always a little unsettling. 

Nathan

Great photos, everyone! 

Help us spread the word about the Midweek photos.  Every Wednesday is when it begins, but you can post on an "old"thread up until Tuesday night.  

There are a lot of railroad events this summer.  It would be great to get a review of some of them for those of us on either a limited budget or limited time to enjoy them all.  Thanks