It's been a rough week here. Hot and stir crazy preschooler and toddler. No time to pick a photo, so hopefully you all will make up for it.
Proudly kicking off the making-up run, here's a CN SD75I leading a SD60F at Ste-Ursule heading east over the Maskinongé River to Hervey Junction, April 2010: IMGP5783tb by Mike VE2TRV posted Jun 3, 2016 at 10:07 PM That was a nearly 100-car train behind it. It made lots of nice music for a while going over that bridge.
NS still owns this bridge, but doesn't use it . CSX is taking a turbine from Point Pleasant,WV across the bridge to their track on the other side into Ohio. Curtis
Here are some from Temple, Texas when Santa Fe delivered an old Alco the the museum there in 19923. Alco HH600. Built in 1937. Being delivered from the Palo Duro Grain Company to the Santa Fe Museum in Temple.
On 04/17/2016, CSX Q463 rolls south at Pontiac, SC on the former SAL main. This segment of the SAL's passenger main north of Columbia, SC wasn't completed until 1900, as the system was stitched together. It was a rolling, twisty route (you can see the grade here) that was poorly suited to heavy freight tonnage. This was remedied several decades later upon completion of the East Carolina cutoff between Hamlet, NC and Charleston, SC and on to Savannah, GA that carried freight on a flat and straight route closer to the Atlantic coast.
I caught my first NS heritage unit this week. The Monongahela unit eases an oil can east from the crew change in Minot, ND. Sent from my GT-I9505 using Tapatalk
My son thought it was Amtrak. He was so excited! This one is Amtrak. Over 2 hours late today westbound, it pulled into Minot behind a freight locomotive leader. Sent from my GT-I9505 using Tapatalk
This means there was at least one dead GE in the photo. Can't wait until the heat of summer, when even more will be crapping out. Good thing BNSF has a surplus of engines available for stand-in duty!
Saw some IAIS over in Council Bluffs on Saturday. And they had this shiny clean CN unit settin there, too!
Nice photos, Alan. I really like the one of 713 with the construction in the background - the sky in that shot is gorgeous! Really sets a mood for the photo.
Here are a couple of photos from the weekend. The first is from Saturday and shows Pere Marquette 1225 passing the elevator at Marion, MI. Second was from the trip home on Sunday. Caught these two Huron and Eastern engines at Vassar, MI, the 3866 in the old RailAmerica livery and the 3038 in new Genesee and Wyoming orange and cream.
Two photos from the past weekend. The first is from Saturday- Pere Marquette 1225 passing the elevator at Marion, MI. . Then, on the way home on Sunday, we caught these two Huron and Eastern diesels at Vassar, MI. - The 3866 looking somewhat the worse for wear in the old RailAmerica livery and the 3038 in Genesee and Wyoming orange and cream
