Train Pics

[109ROAMING]

Sweet shots Guys!

 

[pbfoot]

a picture of a train that i got in Fort Erie which is just across the river from Buffalo NY

 

[Lucky13]

Nice shot PB!

 

[pbfoot]

Nice shot PB!

I'll do better and get up closer

 

[Geedee]

Damn...those are some impressive looking bits of kit, real engines !.

Reminds me when I was five, my parents where on an overseas posting and the R and R was two weeks in Africa. So there we are driving through the Serengeti when we come across this bridge ove a rail track. Dad, who was a died in wool steam fanatic, pulls the car over... a left hooker VW Beetle and says 'Come on, everyone out, quick !'. What we hadnt seen was a very tall plume of smoke making its way across the plain towards us.


Picture the scene....me, at five years old and about knee high to not a lot, holding onto dads hand when with out any doubt, the most jinormous, fire breathing monstrosity I had ever seen trundles into view. It was absolutely huge and it seemed to be pulling atrain that stetched for ever and ever.

I didnt know any swear words at that age, but I did think it was wonderfull sight to behold....right upto the point when the driver, seeing a little boy waving like crazy from a railway bridge....blows the whistle !.

I thought I'd died I did !. Feck Me !!! The noise was simply staggering...even though it was almost but not quite, drowned out by a little five year old boy who was now screaming his head off in absolute abject fear !!!!.

I will never ever forget that moment, when a Beyer-Garrat blew it whistle for me...i think my ears are still recovering !

Keep the pics coming guys

 

[Lucky13]

EAR Class 59 4-8-2+2-8-4 Garratt.....8)

 

[Geedee]

OMFG....my ears have just jumped off my head and have run away...thats one of 'little' darlings !

What a gorgeous beastie...

 

[syscom3]

That is plain nasty!!!!!!!

Good god .....

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Have any of you seen the web site hex o plex delirium. I can't find it, it use to be attached to one of the Union Pacific sites. It showed drafts of steam locomotives that never made it off the drawing board. These would have been monsters!!! I'm talking almost twice the size of a Big Boy.!

 

[Lucky13]

Some more re-runs.....

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

To coin a phrase, "Most Excellent" Lucky!

 

[syscom3]

Nice!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Hey Gary, Lucky, and syscom. These are for you. I've gotten into a some settings that I'm not sure of so these need improving I know The first set of the trestle is at the Clinch River Crossing, the second set is at the Natural Tunnel.

 

[Lucky13]

That's some superb pics mate! If it only was steam! Looking forward to more pics buddy, keep 'em coming!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Thank you Lucky. The images aren't the best but the material helps make up for the low quality.

 

[Lucky13]

What!? I think that they're great! Btw, isn't that old Southern tracks, the tunnel, can't remember the name of the place....or is it on old Norfolk Western's Shenandoah Division?

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Let's see if I can remember this correctly. In the trestle pics, the upper track is CSX property and the lower track is Norfolk and Southern which use to be Norfolk and Western. The lower track is about a 15 minute run from the Natural Tunnel so it is Norfolk and Southern. I think I got that right ..http://www.naturaltunnel.info/index.html This is a link to the Parks site where I took the photos.

 

[syscom3]

Thanks Aaron!

I hope you can take more pictures from the same vantage points this spring, summer and fall!

 

[syscom3]

Heres some pics for you all.

 

[109ROAMING]

Bloodt nice shots guys! 8)