Wow! That's a beauty, for sure. There's something about the 4-8-4 arrangement's symmetry that I like. 4500 really shows it.
Shown here on July 24 of 2007, the former New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, Berkshire locomotive #763 is being pulled from the collection at the Roanoke Museum of Transportation to be moved to the Roanoke Shops. The Ohio Central Railroad had acquired it and would use the shops to ready it to be towed on its own wheels to their facilities in Ohio to eventually be restored to running condition. All the "collectible" bling such as bells and whistles have been removed for its trip. It is now on static display awaiting restoration at the Age of Steam Roundhouse in Sugarcreek, Ohio. The restoration is estimated to cost more than one million dollars.
Another magnificently massive beast! Even in the shape it's in, it's impressive. Once it's running and polished up, it's going to be beautiful.
An MKT switch job works on the west side of down town Dallas, Texas on 5/9/1987. A small MKT freight yard is at the top. Fifty-eight years ago on 11/22/1963 a tragic event happened here at this location, Dealey Plaza. Paul Janson Photo from Reunion Tower observation deck.
Interesting that in my area there has been very little to hear or read of the date, as any historical reminder.
I had this tingling feeling in my spine as I recognized the book repository building. I was born just a month or so earlier than that terrible day. My eagle eye is back at it - an obvious former track alignment forming the curved end of the baseball field shaped parking lot on a somewhat less grassy knoll. It seems to form a wye with the track the switch job is on - which itself was at least doubled in the curve. There used to be a lot more trackage around here. It would be interesting to see an aerial photo of the same location but back in the early 1960s. There's still a tower (small white building in the middle of the vacant area) remaining there.
This eastbound full of old units was sitting in town most of the day. An H1, a 'Hockey Stick' CSX and a pair of 40-2's with an H2 MAC next!
That's a fine shot. I wonder if that's an old interlocking tower in the center, isolated by progress?
That was Tower 106 or what was called North Tower at the Dallas Union Terminal complex. http://txrrhistory.com/towers/106/106.htm
The tower is from where railroad workers supposedly saw men in the parking lot with guns but it was proven to be just more made-up nonsense by conspiracy nuts. I see after reading the article, it was Lee Bowers whose name I forgot. I used to research and take part in many debates online concerning JFK's assassination. At the time, there were more tracks over the triple underpass toward the east side of the structure. Arguably THE most traumatic day in American history. I saw it all unfold on TV as I got sick at school right about the same time as the actual assassination occurred and was at home laying on the couch. My mom was in the living room, ironing. Doug
Neat capture BNSF FAN! Where did you find this? Some 25 years ago, the quarry in nearby Cayce used an RS-11, but there was no way to get a picture of it.
It is a Relco engine. Who is using it? When I first saw the photo, I wanted to say much faded ex-C&NW, but probably not?
