That remains a great picture Russell, recalling nice memories from long ago when I looked up from the waiting area to see all of that extraordinary detail. As a teenager, I didn't have the wisdom to photograph it.
West of Chicago, the MILW main crossed the EJ&E at Spaulding, IL. These pictures were taken 02/26/1977. The J's Spaulding Tower was saved and moved to the Illinois Railway Museum, but an arsonist burned the MILW's station in late April 1980.
You might be right. Also the station eaves include fretwork, all to make a simple country station something attractive. It remains a tiny place with a population under 600.
I saw that. Wondered if any other depots had such a design. They did have one up there, which was a wagon wheel type window. Most that I have seen photos were in Wisconsin, built by predecessor companies.
New Jersey's Black River & Western once operated a vintage PRR doodlebug, built by Brill in 1930. Powered by a 6-Cyl. Hamilton diesel with a 4-Cyl. Waukesha diesel for excitation and battery charging, and two-chime horn, she sounded as fine as she looked. The 4666 survives today on the Allentown & Auburn in Topton, PA. Note the PRR cab signals at the upper left in the last photo. I actually got to run it for several miles under the watchful eye of the Engineman.
Pea soup fog inundated the Flatirons this 30th of April 2005, but Uncle Pete kept running trains. East of Tunnel 7 on the Moffat, eastbound coal loads ease downgrade towards Tunnel 6's west portal.
Seeing UP locomotives without the flag on the side or the wings on the nose makes me uneasy. I don't know what it is, but they seem like they are always missing something, like it's a trick or they just got photoshopped out. Unlike BNSF, I never really think about UP having different paint schemes.
On 07/20/1976 on the former RDG main at Hopewell, NJ, a B&O freight makes its way toward Philadelphia. HOPE Tower shown in a previous photo can be seen to the left behind the signal bridge. CR is just four months old.
Indeed it is. I just checked it out on Earth. It looks to be in very good condition, so maybe someone restored it. It's on the Historic Register and may become an operating station again if NJT expands their West Trenton Line. There is a short Wikipedia page on the building with some cool interior photos too.
It looks like something straight out of the Addams Family! It's gorgeous. At least Gomez played with trains.
My girlfriend (future wife, future ex-wife) lived in an apartment in an old mansard roof building, here in town, in the early seventies. It was originally an L-shaped hotel on Main Street in the mid eighteen hundreds and they moved half of it about five blocks west sometime in the late eighteen hundreds. It is still there. Sadly, my ex died in 2018. Doug
I couldn't think of the word Doug, but you did -- "Mansard". This style seems to have been popular back in the latter 1800s. The RDG's Skillman, NJ station (which still stands as a residence) is similar to Hopewell and the CNJ's at Bethlehem (seen here) has a mansard roof as well. [Kodachrome, August 1980]
From July 1976, BN 1582 (former CB&Q) works near Galesburg, IL. Looks like a Trainmaster is supervising on the ground.
