Random Railfan Prototype Photos For All

Hardcoaler Mar 26, 2015

  1. MetraMan01

    MetraMan01 TrainBoard Member

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    Thanks for sharing. I recently picked up CP 8702 from FVM. I usually check out the rrpicturearchives site for weathering from prototypical photos. But these are so much better!


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  2. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    He took a video and sent it to me that night. He's a good guy!
    Happy to hear they are helpful! Otherwise, I'm just burning expensive gas for kicks!! :eek::D
     
  3. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Back in August 2004, I was hanging out with Flash Blackman in San Antonio. We were at the old Southern Pacific south yard to do some train watching. We got chased off from a good spot with good sun angle and wound beyond a fence on the "Dark Side" but on public property. This old trooper did not photograph well but we were still having a good time.
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  4. Hardcoaler

    Hardcoaler TrainBoard Member

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    From yesterday morning, the temporarily combined Silver Star/Silver Meteor running late at Whitehead, SC. This is normally a nighttime passage, so it's a treat to see. Amtrak extended the "merging" of the two trains for several more months and it makes for an impressive sight in these parts. I guess it'll be a while longer before I see the new Siemens ALC-42s here.

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  5. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Old slides from my pre-digital days. The old Rock Island yard in Dalhart, Texas.
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  6. gjslsffan

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    I went thru Dalhart a few years back, and was surprised at how much building was going on there, and how busy of a RR town it is.
     
  7. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    All glinty and stuff.
    Both near CP2030, BNSF KO Sub milepost 203.X, different days, different directions.
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  8. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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  9. Hardcoaler

    Hardcoaler TrainBoard Member

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    From exactly 30 years ago on 05/16/1992 at Ridgeway, SC, what I'm thinking is #156 advances north.

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  10. HemiAdda2d

    HemiAdda2d Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    What was boring then with legions of SD40-2s on everything and everywhere, is now classic and appreciated. Nice capture, Hardcoaler!
     
  11. Kurt Moose

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    I'd give anything to see a quartet of Cascade Green SD40-2's over Stevens Pass one more time....

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  12. BoxcabE50

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    As much as I loathed their takeover, nowadays I wish for the same. Along with the thunder of their power plants.
     
  13. r_i_straw

    r_i_straw Mostly N Scale Staff Member

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    Early auto racks. I had to stand on the roof of a brand new car to get this shot.
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  14. Doug Gosha

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    1940 Fords. Didn't they get mad when you left your Air Jordan shoe prints on the roof of that car?

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  15. Hytec

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    I remember 4-40 air conditioning, standard with the '40 Ford. Four windows open, forty miles-an-hour. :cool:
     
  16. Doug Gosha

    Doug Gosha TrainBoard Member

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    The closest I ever came to owning a 1940 Ford was with an AMT model when I was a kid. I actually bought two kits, one was a coupe and one was a sedan and you could build them either as a 1939 Ford or 1940 Ford. I built the Coupe as a '39 and the sedan as a '40.

    They were both lost, along with several other model cars, when the big attic clean-out happened in the early seventies and my dad thought I didn't want them anymore and I wasn't there to "supervise".

    Doug
     
  17. Akirasho

    Akirasho TrainBoard Member

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  20. Mike VE2TRV

    Mike VE2TRV TrainBoard Member

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    Nice cars, beautiful shapes. At least they had enough real metal in them to stand on the roof without falling through...

    "No beer cans were harmed in the manufacture of those automobiles."

    I sympathize, brother. Been there, done that...:(
     

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