Midweek Photos 7/5/2017 [Real Trains]

Our 4-4-0 "Edison" and train decked out for Independence Day

Dropped by the CSX (former WM) yard in Hanover,PA. on 7/2/17 to see the sights. There were 6 locomotives and 3 freight cars on hand. The only building is a white trailer style, which is the only structure left from the 1993 photo.
All photography by Warren W. Jenkins

Tim O'Malley posted:

  I want to thank Kent in SD for keeping Midweek Photos going while I was away in Delaware.  I tried to post via my phone, but the mobile version of this website is not as easy as being on a desktop.

 

 Happy to oblige.  It's a team effort, after all.  I'll add--great shots of stuff we don't normally see.  I do have a few shots this week.  Most are from the roll of film I started a month ago in Seattle and finished up in South Dakota last week.  The camera was a Nikon F3T with 1980s vintage AiS lenses, Kodak Ektar film.  I'm not entirely happy with the color balance, but I'm learning as I go.  It's my favorite camera to use--I like the solid feel and the mechanical sounds it makes.

1. Flat Iron Building, Seattle WA.  I was looking for the monorail that's supposed to run through downtown, but never did find it.  The Flat Iron building was pretty cool though.

2. Ree Heights, SD.  Abandoned elevator, nearly abandoned town.  This is one of  my favorite little elevators!  Train is an e/b RCPE  (Rapid City, Pierre, & Eastern.)  Track is former C&NW, once almost abandoned.

3. Crooks, SD.  The Madison local appeared at twilight, and it was tough to catch with ISO 100 film!  I know the conductor and he came out and waved.  The train was only going 10 mph.

4. Dell Rapids, SD   Inside D&I GP-50 No. 2513.

Kent in SD

Went shooting with some friends last week from Adelaide, South Australia.  We had a blast.... 

Originally posted by Two23

1. Flat Iron Building, Seattle WA.  I was looking for the monorail that's supposed to run through downtown,
but never did find it.  The Flat Iron building was pretty cool though.

LOL! Dat's Funny! In your picture above, when you "blow it up" it's hiding right behind the building!

Some B&W pics from my trip to Colorado this past week. The Santa Fe Navajo Observation car from the first 1937 streamlined Super Chief at the Colorado Railroad museum in Golden. The car still looks to be in good shape for being 80 years old! The vestibule pics are from a Rio Grande Ski Train passenger car.

Some more pics from the RailCamp Amtrak visit. These were on the Tuesday visit to Wilmington, DE shops. 

This car body of a "cabbage" was lifted by the over head crane just in time for our group to see it. 

One of the ACS64 units was open for them to explore and take their photos. 

From inside the shop, they also had a glimpse of former stars of the rails such as the AEM7 seen here. 

And a GP38 used for switching in the yard, moving dead equipment and some MOW gear. 

After lunch, we headed to CNOC and CETC to learn about how the Amtrak people keep the trains moving on the line. 

CNOC is very intense.  People there get distracted by photos taken inside, so I only got one or two of the campers. 

At CETC, the atmosphere is a bit more calm.  Each cubicle here deals with one or two Amtrak trains, following them on the host railroads. 

Group photo before we take a train to Washington DC.

We're blazing the train to Camp Kitchi Goomie.  Up the stairs to the Wilmington train station.  

This looks interesting.  High hood Geep on the Northeast corridor?  

Here is the other side of the train as it passes.  Empty flats being carried to the Wilmington shops, we believe.  GP38 performs the task. 

As one train fades into the distance, a regional comes to the station.

Now an Acela, then another regional, then another regional.... Coming and going. 

Inside the old waiting room, which seems to be just a party space anymore.  People wait downstairs inside the building. 

Waving as our train arrives at the station.

From Baltimore to DC half of us got a chance to ride the theater car, watching the track workers and passengers on the platforms.  The other half watched from Wilmington to Baltimore. 

The first order of business upon arrival in DC was to tour the station.  An amazing structure. of course, it is so big, you can't tour every aspect, but we got some terrific shots. 

The next spot to go to was Tower K.  We got to see a few trains on the walk out there. 

Washington is host to MARC trains going to Baltimore, along with VRE trains to Manassas and Fredericksburg. 

VRE is short for Virginia Railway Express. 

We also toured the Railway Express Office building, which Amtrak is taking over more space in so it can integrate services better. 

We also got a demonstration of the importance of the K9 patrol at the station.  This is an explosives sniffing dog.  

I haven't seen this before.  A statue of A. Philip Randolph, who was at one time president of the Pullman Porters union.  He and the union supported Martin Luther King (among others) in the attempt to end racial segregation in the US.