Nice lashup in the last two photos. Cool to see the distinctive roofline of a GP30 in there... but where are the radiators? Nooooooooo... it's a road slug!! Makes me want to do the sackcloth and ashes thing...
Just digging old stuff up. Part of a doubleheader years ago with 261 if I remember right, Canadian Hudson 2816. My memory has gone so bad, can't give date, but I remember Doyle McCormack to my surprise was running her.
That's cooler than cool! Just plain cold, but really cool! That one gets my vote for 1st prize at the snow carving contest. Reminds me of the one who carved a complete car out of a snowbank on the side of the road. That was a traffic stopper... You got that right! CP had some of the finest looking non-streamlined steam locos - they just cleaned up the outside clutter and added some maroon and other accent colors. Hogging a CP Hudson, restoring an Alco PA... That guy knows how to have fun!
"Dawn's Early Light" Amtrak 7, led by heritage unit 184, makes an early arrival in the Magic City, Minot, ND, and is about to cross under a Great Northern Railway-era footbridge across its "old yard" that predated Gavin Yard to the east.
While I was out looking for 'Trains in the Rain' I ran into a couple of rail fans playing chicken, er, I mean 'seagul'. awk, awk, awk.
Sunday, December 12th, dawned clear but 25 degrees colder than Saturday. An EMD SD70ACe leads NS 10K on its cross-Pennsylvania trek from Conway to Allentown through Wyo JCT.
A NW hopper in 2021?!? Nice catch! "Profile" The unmistakable profile of rail head, web and base mingle in a corroded, disarrayed pile near Gassman Coulee Trestle at last light.
The cotton was sprouting in the fertile soil of the Brazos "Bottoms" last spring as a UP train heads north on the old MoPac outside of Hearne, Texas.
There are a lot of different rail weights in there. The smaller ones look like they're about 2/3 (or less?) the size of the taller ones. They must have come from several different places. Upgrade to welded rail, upgrade in rail weight, or just plan abandonment. Nice and crisp photos! I like the Reading & Northern hoppers. For a fraction of a second I thought they were WM but then I started "Reading"... need more coffee. And the N&W hopper! it must have come through a time rift or something. Apart a bit (OK, a lot) of grime, it's in pretty good shape. No "art" to boot.
Although overcast, today's weather was unseasonably warm at the restored and relocated ex-Reading station at Annville, PA. I hope these pictures are sufficiently random. NS 10K included yet another old yet untagged NW covered hopper. There's no missing the reporting marks on this repainted Reading & Northern box in NS 19G, which also included two long pipe loads spliced by a spacer flat.
New rail for when KCS was rebuilding the old SP "Macaroni Line" between Rosenberg and Victoria, Texas in 2008.