Late / Early? to the party: A very strange looking car near MIT in Cambridge MA. That was as close as I could get to it with my zoom and I won't trespass. Maybe I'll get better pics in the future. Boring string of flat cars near by:
Sorry I'm late, I blame the West Coast and a 5 month old distraction. This Santa Fe Steamer is deteriorating with one of it's stablemates along the river walk in Sacramento. I believe at one point these 2 were primered and that they used to sit over in the Sac Locomotive works, but were moved recently due to Stadium plans. Hopefully the California State Railroad museum will be able to fix them up eventually.
Thanks for moving it. No criticism was intended. Here is another. According to family legend this is President McKinley's funeral train. It is said that one of my "great, great ..." grandfathers was the conductor. According to Wikipedia that would have been 1901.
While training for The Four Days March (http://www.4daagse.nl/en.html), I have been doing a ton of walking/hiking thru my part of Germany. Some of the trails are old railbeds, some take me along active trackage. Here's some of what I have seen recently. A nice brick depot turned residence in Schönenberg-Kübelberg: A tunnel! (naturally) The busy Mannheim-Paris mainline: And an oops on the Kaiserslautern hump:
I don't see any tracks, so assume this is along one of those abandoned lines? Guess one would need to be a native to identify it as a depot. It does look like a house, excepting that signage.
I think this is my first contribution to a Proto Fun thread. Below are some shots I took of Southern 630 arriving in Charlotte, NC on Tuesday. The first shot is my son looking on as he hears the whistle of his first main line steam locomotive. Coming around the corner at Graham. The 630 was whistling freely for men and equipment working on the diamond. This is as close as we could get as it was being serviced at the Charlotte Amtrak station.
Oh, that is sad....the pair, 80" drivered ATSF 2925 4-8-4 and 74" drivered 5021 2-10-4, arguably the finest examples of their type, were "donated" (dumped?) by the Santa Fe to the CSR Museum back in the mid eighties. There are no known plans to restore them or even protect them from the elements. Truly sad, and with the state budget in tatters, chances of even just cosmetic restoration are slim. Regards, Otto K.
Indeed. Places along the trail that do not follow the railbed have large trees growing in the ROW, indicating at least 30 years since it was pulled up. The depots are nearly identical, the signage and location along the old ROW gave it away.
Caught this late last year. With use of DPU engines, helpers are less frequent across Marias Pass. That day, there was not just one, but two sets (both symbol K-ESXESX) working out of Essex, Montana:
Talked to some friends that volunteer at CSRM. They were not dumped. The museum plans to cosmeticly restore both.
Guys is this the tread to put some pics in? Here's one from the NS WV Sec. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-J5sLPzT2x7Q/T9KOPF_LQpI/AAAAAAAAIrM/6-KLqnK6wvY/s800/IMG_0323.JPG Curtis
