Midweek Photos 9/12/2018

Last Saturday, I visited the Lincoln Funeral Car, which was on display in Antioch, Illinois.

Now, onto the photos.  Railfest gave us plenty of photo opportunities.  

A little respect is shown to freight railroading.  We afde waiting for access to the other side of the single track.  

The freight passes our Photo Special excursion. 

Next stop to see this train is only a few steps away from the other.  This is the Mattes Street Tower at Steamtown (built 1911)  and the Cedar Ave bridge, built 1992. 

Next photo location is Nay Aug Tunnel.  Still in Scranton.  About a mile or two away from Steamtown's boarding platform. 

Artistic view of our train, on the opposite end of the tunnel.

Coming back forward, a shot of our train at the tunnel. 

Various angles of the train and the tunnel.

Next, we backed down to another photo spot.  Just East of the backing down location of the Scranton Limited.  There is Baldwin Locomotive Works no. 26. 

Now time for the photo train shots.  This location is East University Crossing. 

WE were all looking for unusual angles.  This is one I captured by Jacobsen Hat Company. 

Final photo location for this part of Railfest was at Bridge 60, as our train is met by another run of the Scranton Limited.  

Mostly during the middle of the day, I worked the Limiteds, and was not able to shoot photos on the train. 

As the day wound down, it was time to put the pieces away.  Erie Lackawanna no. 2 was one of the first pieces to be relocated.  

The late afternoon Sun shone down on us, and our two former excursion stars.... Canadian National no. 3254 and Canadian Pacific no. 2317.  Both are outside for the first time since they last ran..  It was an interesting Railfest. 

Here's one from the Trains celebration of the 50th anniversary of the last revenue freight run on the D&RGW narrow gauge.

Really good celebrations going on in Pennsylvania, Illinois, New Mexico and Colorado.  Very nice photos.  Thanks for posting, fellows.

A few pictures from a cross-country trip on the Empire Builder and Capitol Limited back in August. 

Former ATSF warbonnet sitting with 2 sisters in North Dakota.

The NPCU on the rear of my train from Vancouver. 

A former BN caboose, now a shove platform, sitting in front of a small pier off Puget Sound. 

Former ATSF SD75M 255 sitting in the sidings next to Seattle's downtown harbor. 

A rare GP60B paired with the SD75M.

Nearly new Siemens SC-44s shut down at King Street station sandwiching the Seattle Seahawks NCPU.

King Street station.

A siding somewhere in the Cascades. 

Essex, Montana. 

Pittsburgh Penn Station. On the right is the eastbound Capitol Limited; on the left, what will be the morning's eastbound Pennsylvanian to Philadelphia. 

coal waits for crew this pm. These engines are facing east but will become helpers when the locos on the other end of this train gets it's crew. The coal is going a few miles west to the old WM interchange, and will follow the old Thomas sub to Bayard, run past a turnout, then these two locomotives will lead to the Mt Storm power plant.

Morning sunrise in Anchorage.  This is the Glacier Discovery Train.  Mainly brings day boat excursion people between Anchorage & Whittier & back in the evening.  They also bring people out for river rafting & overnight camping south of Portage.  The Forest Service built cabins out in the middle of no where - only accessible by rail.  The Double Decker on the rear of the train is the DMU - one of the last things built by Colorado Railcar - before they went out of business.

Only 1 locomotive today on the Glacier.

Thanks for the video! Is that a road and rail tunnel???

Yes - train & highway tunnel.

https://girdwood.com/item/whittier-tunnel/

Tim O'Malley posted:

 

 

 

 

 

Okay, Tim . . . that settles it!  I need to listen to a hard-working Alco 244 engine and deeply inhale Alco aroma one more time before I die.  I'm making plans.

RK posted:

Only 1 locomotive today on the Glacier.

3010 looks a little nicer than she did in “Runaway Train”