Caught some switching in Pawtucket RI his am... Good way to end the week!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
April Fools! That was taken at the Great Train Show in Richmond at the old Tank plant. My actual prototype shot, which I actually got, in the last actual week is not nearly as nice. I tried to race to Rocklin Road before the gates went down, but missed it, so I was on the wrong side with direct bright sun shining down. Phone camera grab shot while I was out shopping. Still, it's a photo, of a train. A really really really really long UP Manifest heading up Donner. DPU 3x3x0. All screaming in run 8 and we haven't even gotten to actual hills yet.
I like our less-than-perfect-light theme. Here's NS Train 135 in twilight at Jarratt's Tunnel, getting underway again having stalled on the Blue Ridge grade on the "Loops" east of Asheville, NC from a diesel failure. The first three units were cut off a westbound coal empty and run east to rescue this train. The sound was magnificent!
NS cut the rails at mp116 and mp66, about 50 miles of track not being used. This goes from Hobson Yard to above Athens,Ohio.This is the NS West Virginia Sec. Curtis
That's the same technique NS used on both ends of the Saluda, NC grade. Sad to see. Not sure why they didn't go with derails -- would have been much simpler. Maybe having the segments absolutely and unquestionably disconnected earns beneficial property tax treatment and/or FRA regulatory relief. I just don't know.
OK. Following the low light theme, here is a slide scan from twenty five years ago. The sun was just setting, so it confused my camera a bit. The Anacortes Local in western Washington:
50 ton Shay at the Canadian Museum of Science and Technology, July 2008: IMGP1723A_Lima_50ton_Shay_3 by Mike VE2TRV posted Apr 1, 2016 at 8:34 PM I just love watching that mechanism at work. Mesmerizing.
Nice shot Ken, despite the light. When BN was formed, I thought their logo and Cascade Green were the coolest thing on wheels. It also got me to thinking of a BN TV ad that I recall seeing on NFL football games. We lived in Chicago at the time.
Box - Just got to love that whiteface paint job, it really made the colors stand out! Russell - Thanks for an awesome mood shot! Mike - While you are mesmerized by the action....don't touch it!! Caught this inspection train as it came into Glendive from the north, Sidney branch, and then got it leaving town eastbound, in great "into the sunset" lighting! And from behind a fence and bushes as it entered the wye.
Yeah and the head on the signal mast is pretty huge too. It appears to be along side another track much closer to the camera so must be an optical illusion. Kind of like when a guy holds a snake on the end of a stick toward a camera to make it look much bigger than it really is.