Midweek Photos 9/3/2014

 

The Delaware-Lackawanna was all over RailFest this year.  This unexpected surprise greeted me Saturday morning.  RS11 1804 lettered for the Western NY based Depew Lancaster & Western RR perfectly posed on the lower South Washington Ave bridge.

 

The MP15E was decorated with bunting for the event.  The chairs are for guests of the opening ceremonies.

 

Illinois Central 790 served as a suitable backdrop of the speeches. The flag on the right is the official flag of the Department of the Interior. The National Park Service is one of the agencies of the Interior.

 

Steamtown's superintendent Debbie Conway takes part in a campaign of celebrating the National Park Service centennial in August 2016.

 

The other F3 in the set, number 663 is getting a generator rebuild.  If all goes well, she will be mated again with 664 for some October excursions.

 

Baldwin 26 in the late stages of reassembly.  Center stage of the Locomotive Shop.

 

Two of the track speeders/motor cars brought in for display and running during the weekend.

 

The excursion to Moscow, PA departs.  Nickel Plate GP9 leads the way.

 

Lackawanna all the way.

 

And Jersey Central all the way.  1554 hauls 2 CNJ suburban day coaches for the Scranton Limited trains.

 

Conductor Earl's pride and joy… This O gauge layout kept people happy throughout the weekend.

 

The Man in Black is back!  David Stone performed as Johnny Cash on both Saturday and Sunday.

 

The returning excursion from Moscow.  In Moscow, photo runbys took place for the paying guests.

 

Some of the Erie Lackawanna heritage of the area was represented with C425 number 2452 in EL striping.

 

D-L's 405 is dedicated to Chuck Reidmiller, one of the founders of the Genessee Valley Transportation group of railroads.

 

Darren Pitts welcomes visitors into the cab of the Big Boy.

 

Seth Corwin's steam trip around the bookstore was always full.

 

After hours, the Erie Lackawanna Dining Car Preservation Society hosted a dinner in their diner on the Diamond branch.

That's about it for me.  I hope you had some success in catching a train or two to add to this grouping.  Have a great day.

Neat photos.

Not a lot of steam being turned on this turntable at Steamtown. 

All the photos are great!  

 

Here are some photos I took last week of a refurbished Pullman Standard PS2 covered hopper which was built in Butler, Pennsylvania in June 1974, the month after I graduated from high school.  It is located in a business park on the site of the razed PS factory.  

 

 

Ghosts from the past...  In a previous life around 1991-ish, I was heading down Rt 30 in northern Indiana to Fort Wayne to do a service call.  I didn't usually take my camera with on calls.

 

En route, I encountered this Amtrak train heading west. With the morning sun still relatively low and the haze not burned off, I pulled over for a couple of quick grab shots:

 

 

But, this happened to be no ordinary Amtrak train.  It carried a section of the American-Orient Express tour train:

 

Don't know what possessed me to grab my camera before heading out on this day (I don't remember the date,) but I was glad I did.

 

Rusty

Out on a sunny Spring Saturday afternoon doing some rail fanning near Perryville, Md. when we noticed an unusual dip in the rails.

 

 

After the train passed we went to take a look.

 

 

The ballast had eroded away from some recent rain.  So my friend, who is a Philly police officer called the emergency number listed on the crossing signal.  About 20 minutes later, a CSX maintenance pickup truck arrives to survey the damage.  "Ahh, that's no big deal!" and he drives away.  At that point we decided to step back quite aways in case of a disaster.

 

Another 20 minutes later, the cavalry arrived!!

 

 

 

After about a half hour, all was well……...

 

 

….followed by the Tropicana Juice Train rolling through.

Excellent job of photo journalism.  It was great you got to witness the whole story!

 

Great photos everyone.

Whittier, Alaska

 

2 GPs working the yard.

 

 

A couple of my favorite steam engines. 

Photos of Harrisburg PA train station.  My wife and I just left on a trip to Portland OR.

The Harrisburg PA Station is quite lovely. Thanks for posting, Jack

 

An eastbound UP stack train on the Jefferson City Sub. rolls beneath the St. Louis Metro Link bridge at Maplewood, MO. */10/14.

Dan

Rusty traque, that Amtrak train was actually the American European Express, an earlier version of the AOE. IIRC, this took the same route as the Cardinal, but ran on alternate days. The costs involved with a bad derailment put this operation out of business. A couple years later, other financiers brought this train back as the American Orient Express.

Ok the ARR video sounds cool, but is blurry. I downloaded the camera.

 

The freight crew is on rest.  The Carman is airtesting the cut on the right.

 

DEX pulling into Whittier to unload passengers for the Island Princess. 

Just arrived at Pittsburgh Station waiting for the Capital Limited which arrives at midnight.

Eighteen responses?  That might be a record for this year!  I'll add one more.  These are a few more of my Canadian VIA photos.  

 

1&2:   a couple of the short tunnels along the Fraser River

 

3:  A shot of the dome car interior

 

4:  Exterior of Yoho Park observation car when we stopped in Jasper, AB

 

 

Kent in SD

Oops, one more.  I think I'll let this be the last one.  

 

Canadian No.1 passing though snow sheds, about to enter second tunnel along Fraser River.

 

 

Kent in SD

Trying again.

 

The trestle on Rollins Pass. Trains haven't run here since 1928 but the trestle still stands (elev ~11000ft), about 4 miles west of the summit (11660ft). Sep 4.

 

 

Nevada Northern - Aug 31

 

 

 Eastbound at Lane City, NV.

 

 

Eastbound at Ogden Ave, Ely, NV.

 

Amtrak Nbr 5 in Gore Canyon, west of Kremmling, CO, running about 4 hours late on Sep 3.

 

 

Wow, you are really high up there.  The train looks like a micro Z scale train from that vantage point!!

Here is some more pictrues... 

 Those pictures were taken from an overlook on the side of a cliff on a county road that runs from near Kremmling to State Bridge, CO. I am guessing that the overlook is about 1000ft above the river. The canyon is 2000ft deep at the deepest point.

Jerry, Thank you for the reference points.  I know of places in West Virginia where I have been about 1000 and 2000 feet above a valley.  Thanks.