October 1980, Bethlehem, PA. Moving off the former LV main onto a connection over the Lehigh River onto the former CNJ.
The hopper cars in this photo have a dubious place in history. They were used in the construction of the O'Shaughnessy Dam on the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park from 1919 to 1923. This created the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir which has remained controversial to this day. Originally the political machine in San Francisco managed to force the Raker Act through Congress to overrule the intent in creating the National Parks. In the opinion of many, such as John Muir, this was one of the most beautiful valleys in Yosemite Park. There is still a powerful movement today to remove the dam and restore the valley to its original state.
Scary stuff, the power of nature. And knowing there is no safe place anywhere on this planet................
November 1981, B&O GP30 at ND Tower at Viaduct Junction in Cumberland, MD. This tower was razed in the late '90s I think.
July 1984, in the hole at Schneider, IN. I still miss Big Blue. Check out the rarely used siding and how it curves around the signal base! That's not very prototypical.
The west end of the Milwaukee Road yard, at Cedar Falls, Washington. West of the yard leads, where the siding met the main.
I am looking for Photos from Diesel shops and fueling stations. Is there a good shoot from a BNSF Fueling rack?
Went out looking for the Blue Ridge Southern today and came home with these. First on a nice overlook at East Canton, NC: Arriving at NS's Asheville, NC Yard: And on the return trip by a cornfield at Candler, NC:
I've got a train order copied as Viaduct Junction in my collection. It's great fun seeing these places, and holding such paper in my own hands.
I am impressed by their nice paint scheme, and seemingly clean appearance. Hope this is as well run as it has me thinking. Some of these spinoffs just aren't....
That's so neat. In the '93 and '94 my wife and I set out to find and photograph some of the remaining B&O towers, one of which was very remote Q Tower in Hardman, WV between Terra Alta and Grafton. The friendly Op invited us upstairs and we spent over an hour inside warmed by a coal stove. He invited my wife to throw some Armstrong levers to set up a route for a train. We had such a memorable time. The Op was close to retirement and Hardman met its doom in 1999.
