Happy memories. I'd hear an EJ&E airhorn, jump on my bike and pedal like mad to get near trackside. I also have a nice memory of being on our back porch one summer evening with my parents and thinking the flashing rooftop beacons on a pair of the J's centercabs stopped near our house were so cool. I was too young to know what was going on, but a meet had been set up.
I was about the same age when I attended class at a high school (1st-2nd years) that was a stone's throw away from Ste-Therese station. Every lunch hour I could, I'd grab my lunch box and head out to the station and explore the storage tracks where the MOW equipment was stored, or sit on the bench in front of the station building and have my lunch, watching the train action. Lots of MLW/Alco power, so I came to appreciate the gurgling of an Alco 251 engine. The occasional long freight train came by, and I was torn between heading back to school or staying as long as possible and run back, possibly being late for class. I decided it was worth the risk! And enjoyed every second!
CP 8876 the Vancouver Olympic Unit (or what’s left of the design), is passing through Muscatine, IA on train 261. I’m disappointed that the emblem was marked out on the sides and that the unit has fell into “disarray”. April 27, 2022 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Was on our way home from a very fun and exhausting Railfair weekend in Livingston/Helena, MT and appropriately we caught this coal train heading east along the old NP main just east of Terry at sunset. A fitting last train for the weekend!
While waiting for that coal train to start it's run up the hill out of Helena, we almost caught this helper set, Did see this guy follow the helper by about 30 minutes, And were entertained by this guy doing laps, touch downs and lift offs,
Hood River, Origon. The UP mainline curves off to the left as it follows the Columbia River to the east. The Mount Hood Railroad heads off to the right to head south. June 2009.
That was shot from the dome of the venerable old ATSF 509. After Santa Fe I believe it went to the Auto Train, Holland America and Westours before landing on the Mount Hood Railroad. Those weird blue beacons were added somewhere along the line as well as the bulbous air conditioning pods on the roof.
On the first part of the Mount Hood RR excursion up out of the Columbia River Valley, the dome car was like cab car on a commuter train in the front. Then the train encountered a switchback and we reversed direction to our destination. We were then the "caboose". We had a meal and reboarded the train. Then they brought the locomotive around and hung it on the end of the dome for the trip back down.
From my trip to Osaka last week-a few shots of the 700. And a few shots as we passed by a JR yard near the port in Osaka. The locomotive was trying to hide on the other side of the platform. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
A cool catch from this past week is CN (IC) 1035. The ole girl is working the former EJ&E yard in Joliet IL on Wednesday evening 04/27/22. The place sure seemed different from the last time I was there 20+ years ago.
From 09/22/1991, Columbia, Newberry & Laurens station at Joanna, SC, closed in the late 1970s and razed in 2007. It was an agency station that once supported a very large cotton textile mill.
More of the neat modern railroad architecture from the fifties and sixties. I have been trying to find a picture of the little depot in Skokie they had in an article in MR (may have been Trains) years ago. I seem to remember it was cinder block and had a bunch of windows on one side of the front. Light blue colored? I know I still have the issue but I would have to guess about when it was and start looking through them. Doug
