Here we are at the end of 2021 getting ready to welcome in the New Year! I had a chance to get trackside this week and the traffic didn't cooperate. A normally very busy line produced all of two trains in six + hours. Here is the only good shot I got that was decent. Looking forward to getting out more in 2022. Happy New Year everyone!
Yesterday, although warm for the end of December in PA, was a bit dreary and dark. Here an EMD SD70ACe leads "Oscar", NS 63V, westward with two additional GE's through Wyo JCT.
A seasonal snow scene from 1976 of EJ&E's daily No. 6 at Barrington, IL. SD-38-2 658 is just over two years old.
Into the late 1970's and early 1980's, one could still chase steam engines daily on the British Columbia Railway. No. Not the Royal Hudson! Here we see one of three ALCo S-13 steam engines on their roster, #1003. Busy switching yards in North Vancouver:
A couple I may have posted before, still Dec 21 shots. BNSF V-train gets underway out of Minot. Soo Tower is in the background. Westbound grain loads silhouetted over Gassman Coulee Trestle in blue hour.
It was way back in the fall of 2007. I was out chasing trains in the country side at a simple crossing. No lights, no bells. When all of a sudden, I seen a ghost. I tell yah, it was right there in front of me.
Started off the New Year by finding NS 8114 in the hole with a rock train at Simpson, SC this morning. This is the first interesting thing I've seen on the railroad since October. Nice to start 01/01/2022 on the right foot.
Amtrak 8, the eastbound Empire Builder, is over 13 hours late into the Magic City this first day of 2022. Absolutely frigid weather and blowing snow has required trains to operate within the constraints of System Special Instructions item 33 (from what I gathered via scanner), as the cold weather threshold exceeds -20°F. The whole of the state is gripped in Jack Frost's (or Elsa's) fist, and Amtrak has been restrained by SSI item 33 all day. While I'm not sure what the SSI says, tracking showed #8 at only around 65 MPH where it would have been authorized up to 79 MPH. Following a heavy winter storm and plenty of double-digits below zero cold, Gassman Coulee is bedazzled in white as the silver thread carries its crew and passengers into Minot, ND. Photo from private property, with permission.
