Our favorite brew pub near where we work on our train cars moved. They just reopened at a new location near the tracks for Austin Metro. Great view of the trains.
Friday on display in Davenport, IA during the Final Spike Steam Tour Event. Saturday morning, 40B departs for Kansas City, MO. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
From 04/02/2016 at Columbia SC, SOU SD-40 3170. I'd stopped by the engine terminal at Andrews Yard on a Saturday and found this sight, surely a mirage. I was elated to get the picture, but knew nothing about the unit and why it was in fresh SOU paint. I later learned that it was retired in 2007, rebuilt in 2015 at the Junita Shop in Altoona, painted at DeButts Yard in Chattanooga and put to work all over the Piedmont Division as a legit Heritage Unit. In 2016, NS announced its plans to donate it to the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer and it remains there today, though I'm not sure it's still operable.
At the Austin Western Railroad Summit Yard near Burnet, Texas seven years ago today. It is a WATCO operation hauling crushed lime stone.
We got stopped at a crossing outside of Alliance, Ohio, by a westbound NS freight (the locos were *shiny*) on the Ft. Wayne line. I didn't get pics, but we caught up with it again as it pulled into the yard on the east side of Canton. I didn't get much, but I thought that the string of Wisconsin Central Limited boxcars was interesting. Sent from my SM-S901U using Tapatalk
CP 2816 leaving her party to prepare for the trip the next day to Kansas City. Davenport, IA May 10, 2024 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
From June 1980 at Ringoes, NJ, Black River & Western's former PRR doodlebug 4666 is on its way to the end of the line at Lambertville, NJ. She's a J.G. Brill Gas-Electric Model 660 built in 1930, and yes, she sounds as sweet as she looks. The unit has since been sold to the Allentown & Auburn RR in Topton, PA. The BR&W no longer serves Lambertville, but is working to reopen the line a little bit at a time.
About the only track remaining of the San Antonio & Aransas Pass line that once ran north from Giddings, Texas, through Waco to Ross. This mile long section in Cameron, Texas is maintained by the BNSF to service some businesses on the north side of town. Here a BNSF ballast train is parked on it.
