"H1-2-3" A chronologically-correct set of toasters leads an empty grain train toward Soo Tower in a snow squall.
From a few years ago, the New Braunfels showing off her new paint job. We have put a lot of volunteer hours into restoring this car to service and are really proud of it.
A couple of weeks ago, I posted some pictures of a transformer load being unloaded from a heavy-duty depressed center flat. Today I caught the empty being returned to NS at Spring Street, Reading, PA. A good bit of the snow had melted since Tuesday.
A pair of KCS units and a CN North American Map unit leading G88891 by Winthrop, IA. February 3, 2021 Most people get drunk, others want sex but as for me, I go Railfanning.
I hope they remembered to release the car, as soon as it was unloaded. Otherwise they'll get a nasty bill for demurrage.
Caught the arrival of NS 238 in Columbia, SC on Wednesday behind GE AC44C6M 4003. She's a DC-to-AC conversion and received special paint. The train is bound for the Port of Charleston.
Sonic Bonnet! Nice catch! CP train 499 rolls thru the frosty fog at Bowbells, ND on the CP Portal Sub. The white sign under the speed limit marker indicates there is a crossing 1 mile south (east) of here--the ex-GN, BNSF Niobe Sub. This 499 was very long, and wouldn't fit hardly anywhere, so it is undoubtedly stretched through the crossing and back to Spiral Siding, just east of the crossing.
The tunnel arrangement at Point of Rocks has a rather complex history, including a dispute with the C&O Canal. The tunnel was built in the 1860s with double track capacity, then rebuilt in 1902 with larger clearances for both tracks. Sometime later as expanding clearances again demanded, the B&O single tracked the tunnel and moved the other main outside on real estate that the original mainline was placed on before the tunnel was bored. I shot this photo in 09/1989 after a long wait for a train that never came. I love the brickwork. The Potomac River is known to flood in a big way sometimes. This is not my picture.
Yesterday they pulled an old railroad bridge that crossed Hempstead Road in northwest Houston near the old Eureka Yard. Here it is still in place as seen on Google Street View. https://www.google.com/maps/@29.783...4!1seeSDzs7tQLt3KRarMUOXEw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
Re, Point of Rocks tunnel: May I assume the hill continued farther down back then, when first bored? I mean, why would they bore a tunnel so close to where they could just locate the right-of-way out in the open? Was flooding a factor? Doug
I'm not sure, but it may have been a result of the property dispute with the C&O Canal. I've read several accounts, none clear.
There are a few of these old GN switch stands scattered around the valley where I reside. A few seeing service as mail box stands, or holding up the family name sign at the entrance to a driveway. This one still had it's old number showing. If I could locate a booklet I was given many years ago, I could find out exactly where it was once employed:
