Continuing on from last week, this is from the same essential location. Perhaps a block or 2 away. The UP (Former C&NW)crosses the EJ&E here and they also had MOW crews out on that humid Oct day.
Cool! You caught a GP15-1, probably from MoPac's big herd of them. Interesting, that lighter patch on one of their own locos - you'd think they could find a matching shade of yellow somewhere in their paint shops! MoPac, C&NW, EJ&E... used to be you could see all kinds of roads on any given territory. Those days are long gone, as everyone is absorbed by everyone else. Jeez, they're railroads, not sponges! One from back before the sponges took over the railroads: S3278_Napierville_Junction_Caboose_SE75 by Mike VE2TRV posted Sep 23, 2016 at 10:17 PM Napierville Junction wood caboose 34 was originally built by Delaware & Hudson in 1912, went to the NJ in 1957, before becoming part of the Exporail collection in 1968. Photo by my Dad, September 1975.
This car set on the CSX High Line in Parkersburg,WV for years on a side track. Looks like someone is moving it. Curtis
I took this a few weeks ago, at Downers Grove Main Street Station, on the BNSF Metra line in Downsers Grove, IL.
October 1990 in Elmore, AL finds Amtrak's short-lived Gulf Breeze crossing Mortar Creek on the former L&N main.
Sometimes we overlook the folks who provide all this entertainment to us railfans. This shot is of engineer Dave Proffit at the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad, taken a couple of years ago.
So true. Back in August, while at the museum, while I sat in the engineer's seat on CNR FA-1 9400 (the first Canadian FA-1), an older gentleman came into the cab, and we started talking. It turned out he was a CN mechanic back in the day, and he actually worked on the locomotive we were in! We talked about the 244 engine and its quirks, and its successor, the 251, and other railroad related subjects. Beyond all the big metal sitting there, this was by far the highlight of my visit. To actually talk to someone, flesh and blood, who played a major role in what I enjoy so much, that's priceless. Turning back the dial on the time machine, I go back to my younger days in the 1970s, standing by the tracks, looking (way) up in admiration at the man in the cab of the RS-18 that rumbled by, with the noise, smoke, and vibrations in the air and ground, and wishing I was that man in the cab, with my hand on the throttle, controlling all those horses under the hood, controlling the noise and smoke and vibrations... moving all that steel down the rails. If it weren't for those people, like that mechanic, and the engineer... a lot of kids would not have a great hobby to honor those people with. My hat's off to them.
I love these photos Russell! It's a view that most of us will never get to experience in real life. Thanks.
It has COHS (Chesapeake and Ohio Historical Society) on the side of it near the rear. Maybe they are going to restore it? Sent from my XT907 using Tapatalk
The world's youngest steam railfan. Just got this from our granddaughter in Kingman, AZ. Railfan is our one year old great granddaughter.
The bell on the nose gives it away as a C&NW unit. Though you can also spot a more typical bell on the frame. Even as late as 2005, most of the yard engines were still living close to their original home...although I do have a shot of a C&NW GP40 with just a patch in West Colton, perhaps a year earlier.
