The only other two pictures I can recall being taken through a window on a train are these two, taken from Amtrak's Blue Water as I rode home from East Lansing, MI to Chicago on 04/13/1997. They're terrible, but I kept them anyway. The first is of EJ&E SD-9 611 at Gary, IN, maybe working the hump at Kirk Yard. It ended up on MRL as their 608. The second is of CR E-8 4022, former Erie 821 at Chicago. CR acquired it from Amtrak to work office car specials. It has since been sold numerous times and was last for sale at Port Jervis, NJ.
I have lots of photos taken from trains. Most are not so good but I keep trying. This one was taken from the Amtrak Cardinal along the New River Gorge in West Virginia in 1991. I believe this is the US Route 19 bridge in New River Gorge National Park & Preserve.
SEPTA cut service to Philadelphia on the line to Bethlehem, back to the end of electrified territory at Lansdale, in 1981.
Passing Kyle Field Stadium at Texas A&M University in College Station. Texas A&M College was founded as Texas' first state institution of higher education, inaugurated in 1876. The following year, the United States Postal Service designated the area "College Station, Texas" after the name of the Houston & Texas Central train station located to the west of the campus. The H&TC became part of the Texas & New Orleans Railroad, then the Southern Pacific and now the Union Pacific. This was a UP excursion behind steam locomotive 3985 in September of 1992.
Terrible? To use a polite but quaint exclamation, Poppycock! Black and white photography is a lot more forgiving than color. In a lot of cases, it gives a more historic and artistic feel to the photos, like these two. The SD9 photo is great, showing an old soldier still working hard to earn its keep, in a concrete, brick and steel jungle. The Big Blue E8 almost looks sad, also surrounded by a jungle of concrete, brick and steel, no longer free to roam the wide open spaces. I like the faded-out look of the buildings in the far background. As one PBS TV artist said, there are no mistakes, only happy accidents.
Saucon Yard? The roundhouse there survived for years after its railroad use ended. PennDOT kept it for storage. It's gone now, but I believe the turntable bridge has been preserved.
Two locomotives, same number, same builder, but different models. I found CR B23-7 1977 at Dickinson, WV on 04/11/1988 and CSX U-18B 1977 at Montgomery, AL in 02/1989.
You are correct, from the Santa Fe to the Bangor & Aroostook to the Housatonic RR The other one (1751) was GTW (Battle Creek rebuild) to CN to (?) G&U
The view from google maps suggests that about six stalls from the roundhouse remain standing. The site is presently occupied by a recycler of concrete and shingles. The right-of-way from Saucon yard to within a few blocks of the former union passenger station is now the South Bethlehem Greenway. The turntable bridge was saved by the Reading Co historical society.
Thanks Point353 and Sepp K. I never quite knew where Saucon was located; never made it there. Here's another shot I took of the RDG platforms, this one featuring a hastily re-labled PC GP-38-2. [10/1980]
CR was hustling trailers west on the LV side that day. From what I read, Bethlehem Steel's works as seen in the distance is now a casino. Instead of coal, its furnaces are now fueled by slot machines and blackjack.
Next year, it will be the venue for the National N Scale Convention. https://www.nationalnscaleconvention.com/
LV 40 rests in retirement at the RR Museum of PA. After the demise of Lehigh Valley passenger service, the RDC passed to Reading RR, and eventually ended up in the Museum's collection through SEPTA.
Texas South-Eastern's Pineywoods Special in 1966. This was a fund raiser excursion out of Diboll, Texas.
The Rio Grande Railroad was built in Texas as a local line of about 22 miles running between Brownsville and Port Isabel. Begun in 1871, making it one of the earliest narrow gauge railroads, completed 1874. The route was mostly on coastal lowlands, making it susceptible to hurricane damage. As late as 1911 an extension was authorized to San Antonio, but was never built. Converted to standard gauge in about 1925 and reorganized in 1926 as the Port Isabel & Rio Grande Valley RR. Abandoned 1941. The cosmetically restored Baldwin locomotive now resides at the Historic Brownsville Museum in Brownsville, Texas. This may not me the same locomotive as it appears to be standard gauge.
