Train Pics

[Lucky13]

An eastbound coal drag behind Y6 2129 and class A 1216 pull upgrade near the summit of the Blue Ridge grade.

Y6b 2179 is one of the newer engines and is on pusher duty this morning. The engine pushes a coal drag pulled by Y6 2129 and class A 1216. The level of water in the tender is evident in the August humidity.

Can't you just hear them working hard.... 8)

 

[ontos]

Great shots, I would not want to be on a train going over that bridge, I'm afraid of heights, well except for flying, I could never figure that out. .

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Good stuff Jan!

 

[Lucky13]

A rather famous wee lass, Norfolk Western's Class A, number 1218!

 

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Two Y6s pull on an eastbound freight and the lead engine has an obvious steam leak.

 

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It is late afternoon and the shadows are getting long as the 484 with its helper cut in ahead of the caboose pulls a Cumbres turn into the small yard at the top. It is the crew's second trip up the 4 percent hill that day. They will return to Chama for a second night away from home, then bring a third cut up the hill in the morning. The three cuts will then be assembled into a 70 car train and one engine will take everything down the 2 percent grade to Antonito and into Alamosa. This is a good overall view of Cumbes Pass as it used to be, as seen on the approach from Chama. In the distance the section house, snowshed over the wye, and water plug are visible. Near the left edge of the picture, peaking over the top of the low ridge, is the roof of the building that once was the home for a resident car inspector who inspected and repaired brakes prior to the decent down the 4 percent grade to Chama. In the the middle of the picture you can clearly see how the old road originally passed underneath the tracks west of the section house. Much remains the same today on the C&TS, but also much has changed. The road has been relocated and now crosses the railroad at grade on the other side of the section house, and the snowshed is gone.

 

[Lucky13]

The roar of the 567s wakes everyone in town, Elwood, Iowa, up from their afternoon nap...

 

[Lucky13]

A warm evening in August of 1971 as Chicago, Milwaukee, St.Paul Pacific "Little Joe" #E79 is ready to head East out of Avery, Idaho. The depot still served as an order office, lunch counter, and community hangout. Avery was the Western end of the Montana Division electrification. At Othello, WA, the line would again be under wire...

 

[Lucky13]

A Milwaukee Road freight has lost its air in Winona by the passenger depot and the fireman looks back to see how the brakeman is doing before the train can proceed east..

A Milwaukee Road "Sprint" train pauses at the east end of Milwaukee Union Station...

Milwaukee-Chicago train #120 pumps up the air as it gets ready to leave the Brew City...

Train 211 deals with brake problems just after a crew change at Union Station...

Milwaukee Road U28B idles in the BN Portland Roundhouse next to BN Alcos and other locomotives in August 1972...

On a cool night in July 1973, Milwaukee Road's Tacoma Junction Tower stands as a sentinel to control movements of the Milwaukee and Union Pacific...

Boxcab electric E29 sits quietly outside the Avery engine shed at night...

As 10200B this unit was the first road electric unit (with sister 10200A) built for use on this continent for a major mainline electrification. (Earlier ones were terminal and tunnel applications.)

Electric EF-1 and Little Joe at Deer Lodge, Montana, June 20, 1974...

Electric ES-2, also at Deer Lodge, Montana, in June 20, 1974...

EMD SD40-2, again at Deer Lodge, Montana and in June 20, 1974...

 

[Lucky13]

The best looking FM H24-66 Trainmaster of them all....

Three former Lackawanna Train Masters are eastbound with hopper cars on a Sunday. The big units were often used on weekend freights as they weren't needed for commuter trains. There was no mistaking that Fairbanks-Morse sound before they rolled into view...

 

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Rio Grande's 'Short Line Transfer' emerges from UP North Yard in Salt Lake City with cars bound for D&RGW's Roper Yard in South Salt Lake...

 

[Lucky13]

Can you imagine the sound of these....! 8)

Eastbound extra in downtown Marion...

 

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The Guest of Honor at the ceremony was John W. Barriger III, the father of modern railroads and CEO of the Boston and Maine Railroad. Mr. Barriger had been CEO for MON, MKT and P&LE prior to coming to the B&M. He was one of the strongest advocates for the P&W formation. CSX, NS, BNSF, UP, CP, CN and KCS are the super railroads he would be glad to see...

I know who he is, was, never been a fan of the super railroads as they are today, but there you go...besides, my interest 'stops' at '76 and the creation of that 'thing' Conrail....

 

[Lucky13]

Why railroading was better, back in the day...

Mechanicville to Binghamton freight on a cuve by a field of daisys, Otego,New York....

While most freights south of Mohawk fetured chopped nose power one sold RS-3 lashup was still runing daily to Binghampton, Esperance, New York....

View taken from an old footbridge that passed directly over the LV engine terminal. It was old, shaky and on a nice sunny day, might have been near capacity when railfans were in town.
Lehigh Valley engine terminal shop at Sayre, Pennsylvania...

Southbound Corbin-Norton through freight coming through Triple Cut into town...

The L&N Cumberland Valley Division dispatcher at Corbin has decided to run Corbin, KY-Norton, VA through freight number 55 as an extra between Loyall, KY and Norton, since it's fairly far behind schedule at this point. At milepost CV 269 about two miles or so west of Olinger, VA, the eclectic mix of Alco and EMD first generation power responds to one more throttle notch as the train roars out of a long tangent at about 50 MPH. A mix of such power had an interesting sound under full load, although the EMD 567 prime movers tended to rise above the Alco 244s in decibel level...

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

That last one is not far from me.

 

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[Gnomey]

Good shots guys!

 

[Lucky13]

After topping off the tanks with motion lotion at the fuel rack, overheard from the Engineer, "Did you check the air in the tires?" AT&SF SD-24 4566 is about to blast off from Belen, N.M. headed for Winslow, Az and on to Calif. on Aug. 11, 1970. Note the hooded telephone box on the pole.

 

[Lucky13]

Double post.....

A set of five SD 24's taken out of storage and used in captive service between Barstow and Bakersfield lead an eastbound Santa Fe train about to leave SP tracks at Mojave and return to Santa Fe rails for the run to Barstow.