Some CEOs don't have an office that posh, even today! Today's tractors drive themselves in the field, thanks to GPS. The farmer just rides along!
Curiosity is a double edged sword (Google Search). https://www.journal-news.com/news/photos/train-caboose-catches-fire-carlisle/9RyZ3Hop8koLFG5IjhZ2RI/ Weird... they were demolishing it anyway!
At least this one fared better. It's in Xenia, OH on the grounds of the town's former depot (now a bike hub). It has undergone at least one repaint over at least 2 decades of display. That signal and crossbuck are static display as well. Xenia has no rail service today but five old right of ways that met here, now make up a very extensive Rails to Trails system.
NS Scale Test Car NW 514763 as seen today and looking well used. These are calibrated by filling with steel shot. I'm surprised to see this car within a train, but it rides on normal trucks and has a worthy underframe. In my work with a large shipper served by another railroad, these were usually smaller two-axle cars tied on at the rear ahead of the caboose so as to protect the small and vulnerable car from the rigors of slack action.
Well, they still run at least a similar locomotive if it is not the same one. I don't know if they renumbered it from 40 to 41.
Cool! Looks like Mehring Way. I often drive nearby on the 6th St. viaduct. Usually manage to pass under CSX and NS traffic there. I remember driving into Cincinnati on Mehring Way occasionally, when lots of freight cars were slowly moving or parked on on the shared road near the old B&O warehouse. Sometimes you couldn’t be sure of getting through! And of course, Union Terminal.
Funny, I caught this very locomotive at Cajon Pass. I don't remember exactly when, must have been circa 1996... Dom
Starry night at Des Lacs, ND. The ice fog and snow caused the village lights to cast vertical pillars of light.
It's an MK5000 in its final version. Initially they started with 5000 hp - some good-looking monsters, but that didn't go well, so they rebuilt them with SD50 hoods and 645 engines. They are practically SD50s.
returning on CSX Trotwood spur, W Third St, Dayton, OH circa 06 13 2009 Minutes later, moving off CSX main to Inland spur
Mystery siding. I was much more interested in this first shot for the telephoto on the signals... then, I saw this I had no idea there was a siding! The area in question is heavily wooded with no apparent industry. Indeed, you can see the rail stop near the front of the engine which marks another siding. Also note the grade. I've never seen anything else on this "spur" to nowhere. Like a Tardis, whatever is back there is bigger on the inside!!!