Still no time to sort through new pictures or take more, so back to the Archives. EB Empire Builder meets BNSF train just outside the Vancouver Yard. This was taken back in 2010. All of this work is now complete. All the track leading in to the yard and around the station is reconfigured.
A couple photos from Sunday morning coming down the Canadian Pacific's Kicking Horse pass. The locomotives can barely be seen on the far left coming around Wapta Lake. The sign says Ottertail.
Spectacular photos, Russell. They're just right to make me dream about being there, taking a lungful of that cool, crisp mountain air, listening to the throbbing of those engines... And Curtis, that is really a proper paint job. NS is one of my favorite schemes, and it looks really good on that SD40-2.
You realise that you have spoilt my fun forever ;-). I always critisice (its easy when you only own 3 fT of railroad) folk for having non vertical telegraph posts. You only go and give them an excuse now, its at a worse angle than those poorly positioned on a model ;-). Great pictures.
Actually, in my experience, angled poles are as likely as straight. More likely in some cases. So I wouldn't criticize.
Especially when they are old and abandoned. There is a fortune of scrap copper still hanging out there unused. The cost of recovering it may be the hold up. The BNSF only recently had all the wires brought down along the Galveston Sub.
Time, maintenance, winds, snow loads, tension/wire weight versus a line negotiating its way around a curve. Best place to find straight poles is on a tangent section, but even that is seen untrue in Russell's photo
I needed a little time away so I went train watching for about 30 minutes in Converse, Texas. Looks like CN was passing through. Pool power, I guess. This track is the Sunset Route.
It goes both ways. Here is some "Foreign" power in the CN yard in Surrey, British Columbia. BNSF actually serves Vancouver so that should not be unusual. What is unusual it the unpatched Santa Fe unit.
