Despite covid, we're getting ready to display our club t-trak and sell some donated items and the Sacramento great American train show. While driving from the club to the cal expo center cause this short and way overpowered trackage rights train. I remember when I used to be bored by BNSF orange. Now I'll take anything to get away from the yellow borg.
How about some gondolas (gondolae?): Part of a 90-car train headed by CN SD70I 5601 and (a very grimy) SD60F 5516, from Montreal and going toward Hervey Junction, where there's a split between this and three possible routes: to Québec City via Cap Rouge, up to the Saguenay region (over a route that was dieselized early with MLW FA1s), or up to La Tuque and straight west through some remote woodlands (over the former National Transcontinental that went all the way to Winnipeg) to the Abitibi region. This train was a hodge-podge of gondolas (high and low-side), box cars, tank cars, hoppers, and other assorted rolling stock from various railroads and car owners. Note the thaw-swollen Maskinongé River flowing underneath. It was noisier than the train! My photo, Chutes-Ste-Ursule, Québec, April 2011.
@Mike VE2TRV Train, bridge, noisy river, What more can you ask in a photo? Great! Catch. Snow, wind, bird aka the hardest pic I ever took: Despite or perhaps because of it I went out to my favorite spot in the Arnold Arboretum. Carefully timed I got there with a few minutes to spare before the commuter train. There was a bird behind me warning me to 'go away or else!'. Well, I couldn't see him but I knew where he had to be so I took a pic of the tree. Just as I turn to get a pic of the train the wind picks up and dumps snow from a tree in my face. Arth, all I wanted was Train, Stone Arch Bridge, Peace and Quiet. Bird: Insert Train Here and Watch Tree Dump on Me Very Poor pic of BiLevel on Stone Arch Bridge I am pleased with the shot but the grade should go up from left to right.
From 02/1976, PC 23128 is a former PRR N5c Cabin Car, seen at the MILW's large Chicago-area yard in Bensenville, IL. The PRR began building these in 1942, with 199 completed. These were of a durable design; 169 went on the serve CR. You've gotta love those trademark portholes and streamlined cupola. The stencil reads REBLT 12-66.
Where was this photo taken? That track structure underneath looks a bit neglected. Is this a less used spur or side track?
On the Austin & Western RR. A siding where they park their locomotives during the day. They run mostly at night when Capital Metro is not running commuter trains between Austin and Leander. https://www.google.com/maps/@30.7573737,-98.1716904,2190m/data=!3m1!1e3
Most of the recent snow on the East Coast has missed us, just got a couple of inches Thursday night. It was a balmy and bright 22 degrees this morning in Wernersville, PA, as NS 65K, a long ethanol empty passes the old station behind 4 units all running elephant-style. NS 7509, badly in need of paint, still bears an ES40DC stencil on the cab, although upgraded to 4400 HP some years ago. NS 7295 started out on UP as a SD90MAC, and was rebuilt in Juniata as a SD70ACU.
We get some NS action in ND now and then--here's 2 Catfish in Rocky's backyard, the old GN yard in Minot, ND. The second unit was a rebuilt DC-to-AC conversion, the first I've seen. You know it's cold when the outside of the tank cars frost over:
On the upside, you don't need a gauge or a dipstick to see how full the tank car is. Up here, we have three words in French to describe cold: Froid: Cold Frette: Really cold Frette en @#$%&!: Bleeping cold. In the next few days, we'll have some of the last one. Brrr...
NS 4108 was originally built with a standard cab and rebuilt with a wide nose and AC traction motors from a Dash9.
