Thank you! I think late 70s is when it was phased out. I love the logo!
I honestly don't know how it's lasted so long on the side of that sub station! One day, I'm going to go back & it won't be there. think it makes a nice contrast to the more recent vintage R160 F train in the shot.
I had to do some digging… The TA logo was used between 1962 and 1968, but it remained on cars through the 1980’s (it was replaced as older cars were overhauled). I found this brief history…
I had to do some digging… The TA logo was used between 1962 and 1968, but it remained on cars through the 1980’s (it was replaced as older cars were overhauled). I found this brief history…
Interesting. The one I mostly remember as a kid was the M logo that followed the TA one, but I do recall seeing the TA logo on some rolling stock (mostly R32s & R38s) as a kid.
Don't blink or you'll miss them - CTRail going south from Springfield and Amtrak coming north to Springfield in Longmeadow, MA around noon on Friday. Nice sunny winter day, sans the snow.
More commuter trains and Amtrak from the WMATA platform.
For fun, here's an image from a chase of the Allegheny Valley Railroad's AVR-3 a few weeks ago, with a pair of elusive GP-11s for power. This chase was my first time shooting RAW in two years.
March 10, 2024 • Today was a slow day out rail-fanning. Only have one photo to share. Was out for about three hours at the CN Yard, Pontiac Michigan. The yard is about one mile long and about half mile wide. Sat on the west side and east side and no trains entered or left the yard. Also went for a short walk. The clouds in this photo are very dramatic.
Train Room Gary - Hope to see you out rail-fanning 🚂
Closer & closer • Detroit Michigan connecting to Windsor Canada.
On this rail-fanning trip we are going to walk the rails on a siding going to The Gordie Howe International Bridge. This line is used to move steel and concrete to the construction site. The bridge is scheduled to open September 2025.
This is a railroad bridge that is used to get supplies to a construction staging yard.
This is where the rail road cars are unloaded and placed onto a barge. They use tug boats to get the supplies out to the bridge.
This is showing the final road bed gap. Closer & closer!
Train Room Gary - Hope to see you out rail-fanning 🚂
Here's some shots I posted to my page last week. I've been out in Chicago for a week & came back with a ton of photos to edit The first 2 shots are from that trip
When I first started railfanning I asked for tips on the forum and a number of folks emphasized "safety". I thought about it the other day when I was at this crossing just north of Hartford, CT on the Amtrak/CTRail line. You can definitely get lax in your approach the more familiar you think you are with a location so always good to get a reminder.
Taken from the 14th floor of the Fort Worth Omni hotel. For some of us, we get a warm feeling to see the neon sign of a fallen flag still shining. Zoom in on the photo to see the Santa Fe sign atop Jones Street station.
In videos this week, a chase of some G&W orange on the former Pennsylvania Railroad industrial trackage on Pittsburgh's Neville Island, featuring a former Southern GP38-2 rebuilt with a chopped nose.
I haven't taken many photos recently, I was in a car accident at the beginning of the month and my primary lens was damaged. But, I don't think I've shared this photo from President's Day weekend, when I chased the Wheeling & Lake Erie's 663 turn on its Monday run from Falls Jct. to industrial Cleveland, OH and return.
Dropped my son off at the South Shore Electrified Line running into Chicago from Michigan City IN. Forgot about the maze of track in this area. No running trains at this time and his train was late arriving, so plenty of time for a few photos. This location is home to the South Shore's Freight operations. Where can I find a model of this caboose?
I had not realized the switch operations involve pushing the point in place with the head end of the rail fixed in place - no joint to allow movement, so they are bending the rail in place. Cannot imagine the rail is that flexible.
The area is really space constricted, I am standing on the passenger walkway. Better keep you head on a swivel in this place.
Of course the real bonus is he picked this switcher to add to the collection several years back. All in all a good day rail-fanning as it turned out.
A week ago, since the sun was out I decided to ride DC's Metro subway over to Long Bridge Park in Alexandria and snap some train photos.
Southbound Amtrak 91 is led by a new(er) ALC-42 from Siemens and P42DC 203, wrapped (as it has been for two years) in an Operation Lifesaver promotional scheme.
CSX M409 meets M216 just around the bend, and a pair of MOW gons occupy the out-of-service 4th track.
This week's video is also DC-themed, featuring a B32-8WH (less powerful, passenger version of the freight B40-8W) leading an early morning Florida train. With the early hour and weekend traffic, I successfully managed to follow the train across the river from Alexandria to DC's Union Station, where I filmed the locomotives uncoupling from the train for replacement by an electric. In the 1990s, these units wore the award-winning "Pepsi Can" variation of Amtrak's phase 3 paint. For the company's 50th anniversary, Amtrak repainted one of their P42DC locomotives, number 160, into a commemorative version of that scheme. I caught that unit twice on Florida trains, both times in twilight.
Dan, it’s been a lot of years since I worked in Virginia and saw the trains at various points between Alexandria and Richmond! Excellent video as always!!
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