I think I've posted this here, but I suffer from CRS (Can't remember squat), so here goes again. The head-end shot was unsavable, but the DPU of this eastbound Stockton-Denver train is about to enter the west portal of Tunnel 24, one of the toughest to access points on the Moffat. 24 Sep 2004.
I have 10s of this bridge. At time of pic it was under replacement. They built a 2nd bridge just to support a crane to put the beams in. Sadly I was out of town when they did it. sigh.
From high atop the Imperial Sugar refinery in Sugar Land, Texas, looking east along the SP Sunset Route in the late 1930s. It started out as the first railroad built in Texas, the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado Railroad. Following the Civil War it was reorganized as the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway. After the Southern Pacific gained control it was merged into the Texas and New Orleans Railroad. On the right you can barely see Tower 114 which controlled the crossing with the Missouri Pacific. That line started out as the Sugar Land Railway. After MoPac acquired it, they merged it into the International and Great Northern.
There's a nice little switching layout idea in that photo. Lots of industries, tracks, etc. Some of those buildings are nicely weathered.
Yeah, Point353 knows about my NTRAK modules of that scene. I really need to take a photo of it from that vantage point on the tall brick building some day. I modeled it as it was in 1951 so a few things are different. In these photos you can pick out a few of the same buildings looking back from the other direction. When set up, the club was known to do some switching on the tracks when we got board running trains round and round on the NTRAK loops.
Crushed limestone from the quarries in the hill country of Texas to the concrete plants in Houston. A constant stream of cars it seems.
Going back about 35 years, I caught this one on a chilly but sunny winter morning. Steeping right along, so not exactly as sharp as I would wish, this was BN Train number 7, a HOT intermodal. SD40-2 #7827 leading through Monroe, Washington:
A pair of BNSF Dash9's leading a stack train are about to enter the shadow of East Glacier Park station on September 7, 2021.
Nice Fakebonnet catch. Those are starting to look either faded or just plain clapped-out. More than a decade ago at Birdseye, MT:
When I worked graveyard shift, I spent weekend nights trackside. 23 Nov 17, WB BNSF autoracks leave the long siding east of the crew change point. Canon T5, 18-55mm @ 18mm f/20 634sec
Southern Ps-4 at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.