I've shown other shots of this trestle on this day in 2010 in the past, but I took a lot of good ones. 3 GP39-2s step out onto the Dick Rd./Holcomb creek trestle on the PNWR's United Railways line. They're header for Banks where they'll swap ends and make the journey back to Beaverton.
Extreme rivet counting. One of my Santa Fe modeling buddies and I got permission at the Galveston Railroad Museum to get on top of the collection before the place opened one Saturday morning. He was generating drawings of the ATSF business car they have in their collection there.
Taken on Tuesday, NS 173 moves south behind UP power at Lowell, NC on the former SOU mainline at MP 394. The vintage SOU signal bridge and signals are worthy of note and have become a very rare sight.
"Soo Tower Sucker Hole" Gray skies dominate the morning, but a brief sucker hole opens up at train time (which usually doesn't happen). Rokinon 14mm.
Got another one from close to home this week. Huron and Eastern 3865 and 3038 were passing the Marlette depot in this shot. 3865 is looking very workworn these days with substantial patches of rust showing, while 3038 is looking resplendent in new Genesee and Wyoming orange and cream. 3865 is former Rock Island 4353 and P&LE 2058. It was one of the four original GP38-2's that came from P&LE in the 90's and was repainted in the Pere Marquette heritage scheme as HESR 201 prior to receiving RailAmerica livery.
What is the structure we can see in the bentwork? Too thin to be a concrete pier. Some sort of sheet metal?
I wondered about that myself. Very nice photo, BTW. Is that the same patched out Santa Fe unit as in last week's photo or just one of several?
Snapped this shot of the Hawaiian light rail under construction, seems most of the western end is in place now.
Took this photo leaving my club in Livingston, MT. The eastbound train is on a passing siding as westbound just passed it. I am guess that the tank cars are emptirs heading to the oil fields in North Dakota.
I would really like to see more photos of this construction process. The bit of equipment seen here looks fascinating.
I'll try to take some more photos when I'm back on that side of the island. It seems they first construct the piers in place, then this machine crawls along the top lifting the bridge segments into location. The bridge segments are casted off site and trucked to an access point. The western end seems to be mostly complete, managed to catch a glimpse of the terminus on approach to Hono.