Train Pics

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Great shots guys! Keep it up.

 

[Cota1992]

A friend emailed me this a few months back

 

[syscom3]

Nice one of the engines and the capitol dome.

 

[Lucky13]

Great pics! But D*MN are those modern diesels butt ugly! Give me a Trainmaster, Alco 630 or a SD-45 any day....

 

[Lucky13]

If only Milwaukee Road had still been with us today.....among others! 8)

 

[Cota1992]

Yes the new ones can look like brutes- but being as they are locomotives is that a bad thing?
One thing I like about NS- the balck paint gives them the same feeling as a steam engine- all business.
My marriage and Norfolk southern- A brief essay:

All shots taken in Manassas VA

The high nose GP-38 is the first NS and first high nose locomtive I saw in person- and I just got my wedding license right before I took this in 2004

The rest are of a coal train that came by and did a shuttering voilent stop right in front of where we wer eating outside (In fact the most violent stop I have ever seen a train do) we were on the way to our wedding rehersal and had the family with us. The last shot is our last posed photo (outside the wedding rehersal shots) before we were married in septemeber 2004.
That's about it for NS trains for me- I've been thin on the ground where they run living more in the Crash Spill and eXplode land back here...

Art

 

[Lucky13]

To me, modern locomotives look like they're designed by people that's just discovered the ruler....

 

[Cota1992]

To me, modern locomotives look like they're designed by people that's just discovered the ruler....

Yeah- no GG1s here or even F units these days, but I like them all.
I wish there was some Milwaukee Road around, you'll get no argument from me!
Love that Reading Alco!
Art

 

[syscom3]

The great thing about the old locomotives were the large numbers of operators as compared to today.

 

[Messy1]

Being a engineer has always been one of the jobs I thought I would love to do. Traveling throughout the country along the rails watching the country side roll past, always seemed like a enjoyable job to me.

 

[Cota1992]

I wanted to be a engineer too but then I started talking to railroaders and finding about the hours and conditions and decided I'd just enjoy trains trackside-I've already done the" give every waking hour of my life" thing when I was working on the ranch.
This is the best blog I've seen on railroading from the engineer's seat- the entries are a bit dated but the reading is priceless.

Hot Times on the High Rail

RAILROAD.NET - Hot Times on the High Iron

 

[Cota1992]

A few from San Diego in 2003
Amtrack locomotives sleeping in Downtown SD, a BNSF frieght leaving San Deigo past Petco Park which is still being built and last a shot of the San Deigo and Imperial Valley going through SD Trolley station at midnight in El Cajon CA.
Sorry for the small sizes, the ornigals have been lost out of my files somehow.

The shot of the BNSF going away with the tall building on top is my favorite train photo that I have taken...

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Interesting shots Cota! Thank you for sharing.

 

[Cota1992]

Some from Train Days in Brunswick MD in 2004 (back when the special train ran to West Virginia through Harper's Ferry)

I liked this set, when took the train and rode in the last car and therefore were next to the Engineer when he ran the train back towards brunswick- forget texting and running a train, this guy was talking to the mother in law and running the train....
The mother in law was here with us this day and also liked to take pictures of things, like us photographing another train going by...
Good Day..

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

 

[vikingBerserker]

I had an old friend that always wanted to be a special train agent (some type of Cop). He said the jurisdiction was something like 20? miles from the track. Sounded pretty interesting.

 

[Lucky13]

Great pics!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Went through Dante today Lucky and got some more shots of the yard.

 

[syscom3]

Nice!

 

[Cota1992]

Very cool- love the Chessie caboose too!