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  1. Hardcoaler

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    Hendersonville, NC is located between Asheville and Saluda. In July 1982 it too was an open agency with a train order signal. The second photo shows the depot in 1995, beautifully restored in proper Southern Railway colors and housing the Apple Valley Model Railroad Club's layout.

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  2. HemiAdda2d

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    Wind River Canyon, WY at first light, 2007:

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    Lovely scenery. Though it makes the train look like N-Scale.
     
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    November 1992 at Parkton, NC, Red Springs & Northern's #104, a GE 70-Tonner. The line operated a segment of an ACL branch that is now defunct, though a group is operating speeder tours on it and hopes to restart rail service. I don't know the whereabouts of the 104 today.

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    Taken in February 1992 is CSX at Weldon, NC, Richmond bound on the former ACL main. Below is the former SAL. The depot to the left was actually a Union Station, built in 1912. The ACL side was reached by an elevator. The lower photo taken from the about same spot shows Weldon in its golden era.

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    In 1968 the SCL removed all but the center span of the nearby SAL bridge across the Roanoke River and reconnected the SAL with the ACL north of town.

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  6. r_i_straw

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    A Santa Fe office car at the Texas Transportation Museum in San Antonio. Could use a little work along the side sill and some paint. November 20, 2006.
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  7. BuddyBurton

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    CP 7042(SD70ACU)—CP 374-26
    Bellevue, IA

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    CP 7049-DPU on CP 374

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    CP 7006(SD70ACU)North—CP 475-26
    Clinton, IA


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    North Carolina's Aberdeen & Rockfish Railroad began in 1892. It still operates today with about 50 Miles of road and remains family owned. My wife and I made a brief stop at Aberdeen in November of 1992 and had no time to find its train out on the line. I grabbed a few shots, including its stately general office, retired caboose 304 behind the SAL/A&R depot and the only three way stub switch I've ever seen.

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    Monroe, NC is located on the former SAL main between Hamlet, NC and Atlanta, GA and is where the SAL's important branch to Charlotte originated. The branch continues through Charlotte and winds west to Bostic, NC where interchange with the former Clinchfield is found. The depot was built in 1906 and remains in use by CSX with a renovation sometime after these Kodachromes were snapped in 1995 and 1996. The bottom slide shows the branch exiting the main to the right.

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    Just a few more shots at Monroe, NC, these at the yard just east of the depot taken in July 1998. My wife shot an amusing video here with a CSX engineer throttling up with a long freight and leaning out the cab window announcing, "Say goodbye to MON-rO!" :LOL:

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  11. HemiAdda2d

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    Great catch, Buddy!
    I have been completely unsuccessful catching any of the SD70ACUs, but reasonably good at catching the AC4400CWMs.

    "CP 199 From the Levee"
    As part of the sprawling flood protection project in Minot, a new levee parallels part of the CP Portal Sub west of the Souris River crossing.

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  12. r_i_straw

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    More rail fanning from behind the wheel. South of Wallas, Texas. November 20, 2006.
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  13. Hardcoaler

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    From October 1996 in CO, Santa Fe action at Larkspur and BN at Parkers Lake.

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    More from October 1996, but at Pueblo, CO from a highway bridge near the station.

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  15. HemiAdda2d

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    Now you're cookin! Joint Line action in CO! Palmer Lake is a great place to watch. If you go to Rock House Ice Cream Shop, you get a great view and can get a sweet treat to cool off.
     
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    Oooo -- ice cream always sounds good! I found my western slides today. I haven't seen these in many years and it will be fun looking through them. My wife and I made several trips west to CO, NM and AZ in the late 90s and made a few more brief visits years later. Our trips were all post-BNSF, but a lot of locomotives remained untouched at the time. My wife was the Chief Videographer throughout, shooting the C30-7 helpers as seen below at Castle Rock.

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    The Santa Fe in Santa Fe. These were taken in October '96. The bottom photo is of Santa Fe's car Acoma, which I read was built in 1936 by Budd for the all-new Super Chief. Us Carolinians were astonished to find snow there in October. At 7,200 FT above sea level, winter comes early.

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  18. HemiAdda2d

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    I've been on a early 80s coal car research project recently. I love seeing old steel coal bathtubs and hoppers. Aluminum is the rule nowadays, though.
    By the time I got out west, steel was the exception.

    Since we're on the Joint Line, I can play a bit now...

    Larkspur, CO, sometime in 2004-2005:

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    And again near Greenland, CO.

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    Catching CP 374 with the SD70ACU’s was more of a stroke of luck than knowing.


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    Many years ago the power generating subsidiary of Houston Lighting & Power, Utility Fuels Inc., bought what was then the largest fleet of privately owned (non railroad owned) freight cars. Those ubiquitous UFIX steel bathtub gondolas to bring coal down from Wyoming to Smithers Lake generating plant not far from where I live. They are all long gone now replaced with aluminum. Here are three different trains full of them at the rotary dumpers at the plant.
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