The ASPLUNDH Spray Train approaches Brooklyn, IA westbound. IAIS 715 leads. Train will resume when clear skies and mild winds are present from Des Moines to its terminus at Council Bluffs. Video— Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Like the look of this loco. Made me think ALCO or Baldwin when I saw it - Moscow Russia - Spring 2005
Not surprising that it looks a lot like an Alco. After WW2 they copied the RS-1 for their own production (like they copied the German V2 rocket to make the SS-1 Scud...). This one even smokes like an Alco!
How many of y'all admit to sometimes "landscaping" an area you choose for a rail photo by picking up trash, snapping off distracting tree branches and stomping down brush along the right of way? I do it and have seen evidence of it in photos by other photographers. I try my best for good compositions and If I'm waiting on a train, I've nothing better to do. I'm certain the hosting rail carrier appreciates the manicured result too.
Yup, especially up on Stevens Pass here in Washington, it's so overgrown up there. I try to not remove too much foliage, as I like to preserve the great outdoors, but there's always that one darn branch.......
I'll admit I've removed the occasional weed or limb here and there. However, no where near as hard core as someone I used to see out railfaning in the same places I would go back in the late 80's who carried pruning sheers in his car. Once, I remember him bringing a gas powered weed eater out to a spot that was a bit overgrown for what he wanted in his shot. Gave us all a good laugh. It's a wonder he never got in trouble for it.
When I lived in NJ in the early '80s I came upon a site in Phillipsburg which had been cleared of trees like I'd never seen. A vista that hadn't been available for decades had been opened up. A fantrip had rolled through weeks before and fan photographers took the event seriously.
What RR? Almost makes that old Geep have an ALCo like look. What is the tube sticking up, back by the radiator grilles?
Taken in the summer of '75 or '76 at New Hope, PA is the New Hope & Ivyland's No. 40, built 1925 for South Carolina's Lancaster & Chester Railroad. (The L&C is very much alive today; I posted a photo of the L&C's "new" ex-SP tunnel motor earlier this month.) Better put away that shovel leaning against the drive wheel before whistling off.
