Found some freight car snapshots today from my younger days. The b&w shots were likely from about 1975 and the color from the mid-1980s. I'm showing my age, but I don't find today's freight car graffiti awesomely attractive in any way.
"Cheating over Gassman" S-SEPLPC1-17, an eastbound 1x1 stack DPU rolls into Minot. Yes, it's a cheesy going-away shot, but it was facing west!
Beautiful photo, Hemi!!! I really like the trestle and the lighting is great. Thank you for posting. Joe
Photos from 1925 of the Sugar Land Railway (for some unknown reason they lettered the locomotives "SUGARLAND" one word). One photo shows the depot at Dewalt in the background. Dewalt was along the line south east of Sugar Land. From the collection of Howard Hill who's grandfather Cal Dean Hill worked for the railroad.
Wow, what a fine looking locomotive! Almost makes me wonder if the photos were taken upon its delivery (new or used)?
Found some more snapshots. These were taken by my father in 1968 in South Carolina on the SCL (former SAL). That's the Savannah wreck crane, 771255. I don't know if it was steam powered at the time. This appears to have been a wreck at high speed.
Dang, that is a serious derailment! Definitely looks like it was at speed! That wrecker indeed looks to be steam powered.
Taken during a family trip to the area, I shot the CB&Q depot at Monmouth, IL in October 1976. From what I read, it was razed in the early'80s.
That's my guess too. A surprising number of large wreck cranes remained steam powered long into their lives. Someone told me that the L&N's Montgomery, AL wreck crane was steam powered into the 1980s and that a low fire was kept banked in it to keep it at the ready.
Wow. Smashed up a bunch of tin cans! Yes. That wrecker is steam. Very interesting to listen to one of these in action. Chuff, chuff, chuff.
Here is the builder's photo of #9 taken earlier. Of course they sometimes gussied them up for the builder's photo and then repainted them in a simpler scheme before delivery. No number boards beside the smoke stack and a different headlight.
Taken in July 1976 is the former New York & Long Branch station at Red Bank, NJ, gingerbread trim and all. The NY&LB was jointly owned by the CNJ and the PRR, with the combined enterprise dating back to 1882. Passenger service on this line has thrived through most of its life. It's now operated by NJ Transit and the line is electrified with overhead wire!
Dakota and Iowa RR 2506 returning home on CN train L57191 24 thru Cedar Falls, IA. July 24, 2019 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Looks like Crocodile Dundie is driving! That's alot of weight behind that little Jeep to try and stop suddenly!!
While looking for a railroad map on the internet, this unrelated one surfaced of The Montana Railroad as of 09/01/1899. I've never heard of it. Can someone shed some light on its history perhaps? It's a very nice map. I can't help but notice that the road's V.P. has a last name of Harlow. Maybe he or a family member founded Harlowtown?
The town was founded and named after him in 1900. The line became part of the Milwaukee Road in 1908.
