Random Railfan Prototype Photos For All

Hardcoaler Mar 26, 2015

  1. Hardcoaler

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    As caught today in gloomy overcast on the former SAL main outside Columbia, SC, another very late northbound combined Silver Star/Silver Meteor.

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  2. HemiAdda2d

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    Eastbound grain empties roll into the rising sun at CP2030, BNSF KO Sub, Minot, ND.
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  3. BuddyBurton

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    What NOT to do at a RxR crossing.
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  4. Doug Gosha

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    Ah well, Iowegians, what ya gonna do?

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  5. BoxcabE50

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    How close was the train? If they had any speed going at all, just a few seconds apart?
     
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    Train was getting up to speed after working the yard(background).


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  7. MetraMan01

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    Photos from last weekend’s Friendship Festival at Yokota Air Base. No trains, but a few photos of different US and Japanese aircraft for anyone who may find them useful.

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    Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) SH-60J Blackhawk. Similar to the US Navy’s SH-60 Seahawk and the US Army’s UH-60 Blackhawk variants made by Sikorsky.[​IMG]
    Japan Ground Self Defense Force (JGSDF) OH-1 Ninja. Reconnaissance helicopter made by Kawasaki.
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    USAF UH-1 Huey. The Air Force still uses them out here, mostly to move VIPs around the Tokyo area.
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    USAF C-12. Used for limited aeromedical evacuation and for VIP movement around Japan.
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    JGSDF CH-47. Cargo helicopter that is about the same as the US Army’s CH-47 Chinook.
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    JASDF F-15J. Made by Mitsubishi, based off the USAF F-15 built by McDonnel-Douglas
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    JASDF F-2 by Mitsubishi, based off the USAF F-16 from General Dynamics.
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    JASDF C-130.
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    JASDF F-35.


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    A few more:

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    USAF CV-22 Osprey
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    JGSDF Type 16 combat vehicle.
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    USAF KC-10 (aerial refueling tanker)


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  9. r_i_straw

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    Late afternoon in Rosenberg on November 14, 2009.
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  10. Mike VE2TRV

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    Nice contrasting sky, and a low sun angle makes this photo interesting!
     
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  11. r_i_straw

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    It was in 1937, when the crew of a Red Stack Tug was ferrying a railroad car-float across San Francisco Bay from Point Richmond to San Francisco and Pier 43, the car-float loaded with Santa Fe Railway refrigerator cars bringing chilled foods into city wholesalers. What the crew didn't know was that super gale was rapidly forming in the North Pacific and heading inland. Ships out at sea were getting hit hard by extremely high winds and high breaking waves.

    Around mid-afternoon, the gale swept past the Golden Gate and raced across the bay, catching the unsuspecting tug and its cargo cross-wise. The car-float was caught in a sharp swell and with the powerful gusts of wind three of the reefers derailed, one nearly rolling over sideways, it stopped from going completely on its side by its nearest neighbor reefer, which also tried to flip over. Then the winds subsided as they rushed further inland. On arrival in San Francisco, port authorities met the tug crew, as did the railroad's freight claim agents and together they tried to figure out what to do next. Right behind them came a San Francisco Examiner news photographer, anxious to get some sensational record shots as a scoop for that evening's street edition.

    Photo: U.C., Berkeley - Bancroft Library, San Francisco Examiner Collection
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  12. Hardcoaler

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    Wow, that's a great picture. I'd hate to be the guy who's phone rang with a request to supervise the clean up. :eek:
     
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  14. HemiAdda2d

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    Clean autoracks on CP 149 at milepost 481, CP Portal Sub.
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  15. Hardcoaler

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    From exactly 29 years ago today in 1993, 611 has arrived at Melrose, NC after descending Saluda. She's heading an Asheville <=> Spartanburg round trip.

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  16. Mike VE2TRV

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    Beautiful view of this grand lady.(y)

    This view also gives a good idea how steep Saluda grade was - they way the train snakes upwards in the distance is a reminder of how tough that grade is for any train, up or down.:eek:
     
  17. Hardcoaler

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    Thank you Mike. What none of us knew at the time was that the next year of 1994 was to be the last of NS's steam program and in 2001, the route itself would be taken out of service.

    I took this shot in August 2019 from roughly the same spot. You can reference the gray telephone/relay bungalows to the right in both pictures and the signal on the left can be seen just above the cab of the second diesel unit in the above picture.

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  18. Doug Gosha

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    Very sad. The first photo is beautiful.

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  19. r_i_straw

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    An ad that my mom clipped from a magazine. I don't believe I have ever heard the phrase "hie yourself off to" before.
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  20. BoxcabE50

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    That fellow on a horse reminds me a lot of Roy Rogers.
     

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