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Nothing special.  Just a four pack of GE's pulling upgrade through Flagstaff, AZ on the BNSF transcon in the summer of 2017.

More happenstance than rail-fanning, but here are two Amtrak pics from this past week.

First, is from a thread I posted separately, with a tree entangled in a train pantograph about 100 yards west of the Exton, PA, station.

The second is from the Baltimore Washington Airport rail station.  I'm guessing they must be doing work on the track servicing the platform.  These cars are used to board the train from the platform.

Jim

Here is Articulated Steam in France 2019

Here's a trip with my wife on Amtrak to Nevada to ride the Virginias & Truckee.

Leave it for the night crew! • May 1, 2021

Amtrak Maintenance Yard • Pontiac, Michigan

This is the maintenance crew chief setting up the cars for maintenance. Notice the blue light next to his right shoe. More about that later.

The crew chief on his radio.

Amtrak’s yellow conductor’s step stool.

Amtrak’s yellow conductor’s step stool, for coachclass.

This Kubota utility vehicle is used to move supplies & crew to the coaches.

This blue light was placed by the maintenance crew chief to warn the engineer & conductor that the train is in for maintenance and not to move this train.

A bin of used brake shoes.

The Siemens Charger is parked out of reach of the yard lights. I used the headlights of my F150 to light of this Midwest Locomotive.

Hope to see you out rail-fanning and posting your images on “Rail-fanning on The OGR Forum”. Any day and time. 🚂

Strasburg, PA.  October, 2019.

What a visit!

Continuing the trend started by rthomps...

A few random photos from this past winter to start with.

NKP 765 from the 2017 & 2018 Joliet Rocket excursion. Pictures taken at the 80th ave. Metra station in Tinley Park, IL.

Some snapshots from the St. Louis Museum of Transportation; not to be confused with the National Transportation Museum in St. Louis.

Here is another train going along the old Indianapolis Union Railway (now CSX). Didn’t catch the locomotives since I arrived at the crossing too late.

Here’s a few shots of the N&W 611 that I’ve compiled from the last few weeks. Starting on the 25th of May, I shot the locomotive in Harrisburg, Enola, Columbia, Lancaster, and finally Strasburg over the course of roughly 5 days.

The photos are out of order, but here is a shot of NS 955 in Enola on May 26th before departing for Strasburg.

The next two shots shown are my attempt at staging our “Classic Car” (1991 Chevy S10, 32k miles) with the “queen.” Taken on May 30th.

NS 1206 and 611 preparing to depart Enola on NS 955

On Saturday, May 29th, I had gotten tickets for a hostling tour and the 11:00 excursion. The second photo is a small shot I nabbed of the loco. Anyone who attended this tour on this day would know how bad the weather started out as.

955 at Good Drive in Lancaster.

Below: The 611 prepares to depart East Strasburg on her first excursion of the season (of which I was able to ride).

NS 955 departs Enola with 611 in tow.

611 meeting 8618 after being delivered in Paradise by NS.

First excursions on May 29th.

Below is a YouTube link with some of my clips on the “chase”.

https://youtu.be/pSAkhKWTjFo

I’ll post more photos in this thread in the near future before, but I felt like this would be a good place to begin.

She has my dream job. Conductor on an Amtrak!

Shot this Monday June 14th. 2021 as the train speeds away from the station at Troy, Michigan. (Fisheye lens) The conductor is watching the sunset over southern Michigan.

Gary

Here’s something a little different…

This is just west of Hagerstown, MD on the old WM mainline.

Here are some pictures of a trip to Krimmel Water Falls in Austria.

Iowa Interstate rolling through Iowa City yesterday evening!  Additional power on tail of very long string of cars.

Here's some from a "mixed train" on the LIRR in 1989. Rode in one of the cabin cars in the AM. Those due to be retired C-420 did smoke.

This shortline ride I stumbled upon while going to cabin fever auctions warehouse. I am determined to ride this one of these weekends! It appears to be a first class operation.

Kutztown, PA- Another short line operation I need to ride!

@trainroomgary posted:

She has my dream job. Conductor on an Amtrak!

Shot this Monday June 14th. 2021 as the train speeds away from the station at Troy, Michigan. (Fisheye lens) The conductor is watching the sunset over southern Michigan.

Gary

My dream job would be the engineer.

Prague, Czech Republic 2017

Madison, WI  May, 2021

Some action yesterday by Haley Tower in Terre Haute, Indiana:

This past Saturday, The Reading Blue Mountain & Northern ran a fantrip with Jersey Central 0-6-0 113 to assist with medical expenses for RBM&N engineer Chris Bost. Here she is at Minersville, PA, and having her ashpan cleaned after being turned at Port Clinton

Unloading a circus train car at Circus World Baraboo, WI

Howdy,

I got a wave from the engineer!

Jim K

Mid-America Railroad Museum in North Freedom, WI - adding 2 more coaches due to high rider volume today!

Scanned a few old slides.

New York State Turbos. late 1970's

Chicago, Central and Pacific, mid 1980's

Durango and Silverton, 1987

North Dakota, early 1980's

Photos I took in 1975 on a Canadian Pacific train in Golden, British Columbia:

A 2007 trip to the UK and the North York Moors Railway:

Wow - this is a GREAT thread.  There is something about the trains in the snow that I really find very tranquil and relaxing.  

Regarding the picture of the caboose with the windows removed.  My guess is that the car is being used for storage.  I saw a similar caboose (i.e., no windows) in Waukegan Illinois, and asked what it was being used for, and was told it was for storage.  It was an old CNW bay window caboose.

Late 1960's steam trip on the CNR in the height of winter. Took PC/D&H to Montreal. Trip was from Montreal to Quebec City. Snow was piled high. Had mechanical trouble going into Quebec City, several hour delay. Heading back to Montreal a car drove into the side of the train, another several hour delay getting back at about 2AM. Stayed overnight and took a sleeper back to NYC.

Excellent photography and videography, this is an awesome thread, so many wonderful pictures of old and new trains and related…. I will place some RJ Corman and CSX diesels in the future. Happy Railroading Everyone

I took this some time ago while out running errands on my day off not my best work but not bad from the passenger seat in my dads truck while he was driving.

These pictures were taken at the new CSX train yard in Oak Grove Kentucky just outside Ft. Campbell Kentucky, really near Clarksville Tennessee. There are quite a few trains passing through these yards daily. Happy Railroading Everyone

Here’s some RJ Corman diesels at the shops in Gutherie Kentucky, a short drive from Clarksville Tennessee. Happy Railroading Everyone

Last weekend was the annual Railroad Days festival in Galesburg, IL.

It was nice to be back after the show was cancelled last year.

BNSF, the main employer, had some locomotives (SD40-2 and SD9, slug) on display but unlike most of the last 10 years, it was forbidden to climb up and take photos inside the cab.

Got to see the Eastbound Southwest Chief, running 6 hours late and the westbound California Zephyr, running half an hour late within minutes of each other. Didn't get to see the westbound Southwest Chief that was delayed soon after leaving Chicago due to brake issues.

These are just my opinion,

Naveen Rajan

Homewood, Illinois.  What used to be Main Line Illinois Central.  Chicago at one end and New Orleans at the other.

South Shore yards.  Chicago's southern edge from the Indiana state line for about one mile.

Along side an industry in East Chicago, Indiana.

A crossing in East Chicago, Indiana

Foreign power on CSX tracks in Hammond, Indiana.

In the Calumet Region, every day is rail fan day.  John in Lansing, ILL

From my 2018 trip across the country—Lake Shore Ltd, NYP to Chicago, then Zephyr from Chicago to the Bay Area and back to NYC—come these photos, most from our stop in Denver:

Very enjoyable. Keep ‘em coming!