Midweek Photos 8/13/2014

Some great photos!  A few more from the IRM.

 

 

Photos from a recent bike tour. Railroading in Osmond Ne. on a branch line of now BNSF. Grain and ethanol for the most part.

 

 

New grade for grain receiving facility.

 

Check out the spotlight on the corner of this caboose

 

here is a picture of the scrap yard Downtown youngstown. 

With all the talk about how dull stainless steel cars are on the modeling forums, this sure looks mirror like rather than dull. Nice pictures from all.

Really nice guys, keep them coming! 

A few pics froma last week trip to Cincinnati Ohio train ride sites.

On Aug 5, 2014 an UP empty oil train is ready to depart Poplar Bluff, MO for St. Louis. Poplar Bluff was Missouri Pacific's crew change terminal between Little Rock and St. Louis. The lines out of Illinois and the Desoto Sub in Missouri converged here for the run down to Little Rock on the Hoxie Sub. After the UP merger, and SP merger, the UP went bi-directional, and the crew change was moved 25 miles east to Dexter, MO where the former Cotton Belt was used for mostly southbounds to Pine Bluff and Memphis and the Hoxie Sub is used for mostly northbounds out of Little Rock. The Desoto Sub  host a few northbound empty oil, grain and steel trains. Crews taxi from Dexter to Poplar Bluff to change crews. Poplar Bluff is an Amtrak stop for the Texas Eagle in the middle of the night. 

BNSF power is the usually power for most of the oil trains. Dan

 

Here the oil train has pulled up to the former Missouri Pacific depot at Bismarck, MO for a meet, mile post 75 on the Desoto Sub. Depot is now owned by the city.

 

I used to chase trains out to Osmond NE, back when it was the NENE.  It was a lot more fun then since the had some old tunnel motors for power.  The traffic on that line has picked up since the ethanol plants really got going.  No photos from me the past two weeks or from this one either.  I'm on a Great Adventure!  Today I went looking for a rare train (if it's moving, it's rare!) on the E&N Railway.  Tomorrow I have plans to take some cab shots of the Albirni Pacific Railway.  Both of these are so obscure and off the beaten path that I'm betting no one has heard of them!  I will have photos next week and probably much more.


Kent  (not in SD)

10 more new GE's sitting on rail cars in the NS Rockport Yard awaiting shipment from the Port of Cleveland to CLN Railway in South America.

 

 

 

 

 

Other action through Berea, Ohio on a beautiful summer day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John

Alaska's Operation Lifesaver

 

 

I did get a Midweek Photo this week. It was such a beautiful morning on Thursday that I had to stop in the parking lot at work and shoot a Light Rail train headed into downtown Baltimore. Taken at Lutherville, MD.