More Alco... Ontario Northland 1400, MLW RS-10 built 61 years ago, in December 1955: IMGP10248A_ONR_1400_MLW_RS-10 by Mike VE2TRV posted Dec 16, 2016 at 5:05 AM She was retired in 1985 after a 30-year career in some of the toughest environments on the continent (it can get cold up there!). A little worse for wear, but I hope the museum people will soon restore her, maybe even to original ONR colors ... RS-10s are basically RS-3s housed in an RS-18 carbody (they're externally indistinguishable), with a 244 under that hood instead a 251. Exporail, June 23rd, 2013.
It was cold and snowing! OK, really it was, but in the above picture it was just the fog on the lens from stepping out of my warm vehicle into the cold! It made for a neat scene, tho! This pic below was a westbound oilcan set waiting for a crew.
Motion is carried! It's like the old photographer's trick of taking a clear filter and rubbing vaseline over it to soften the scene (like for taking pictures of pretty girls ).
An old Kodachrome from early 2004. This was a rainy day as we were working to get the decommissioned Tower 17 ready to move off the UP and BNSF main lines and to a new site at the Rosenberg Railroad Museum. Every time a train came by, we would drop what we were doing and run to the windows to watch them go by. Awesome rail fan site while it lasted. You could almost reach out and touch them. A UP track crew was working on a switch frog on the left. There is a siding hidden on the other side of the train. The points for that switch are right under the lead locomotive fuel tank. They would also have to drop everything and turn over track authority every time the dispatcher notified them of an approaching train.
It was absolutely frigid in Minot this morning as an hour late Empire Builder stops in town. The mercury was curling up in the bulbs of thermometers at -17°F.
Saturday morning we hit -25 and a slight breeze. Brrr! I only rolled down the window to get these waiting for crews on the west end, and it sounded like they were all in high idle!
I love the old domes where you can look forward. My one experience was through western TN and KY, and southern IL at night. It was fascinating following the headlight beam along the rails, offset by the darkness and occasional lights on either side.
