BNSF eastbound grain train crosses the Missouri River at Bismarck, ND on the massive, former-NP trestle: DMVW northbound wayfreight crosses Painted Woods Creek, near Washburn, ND. Same DMVW wayfreight pausing in Washburn to make a pickup: CP 2H92 drifting into town on a stormy afternoon: The real reason I waited on a crummy light day, Central Maine & Quebec roamer, 9010:
Lucky shot of the receding nose of an inbound Acela: Some good news. This may be the last from my perch here. I found a new one with a much broader arc.
One from my archives - CN 3684, a beautifully preserved and operable MLW RS-18: These locos will always have a warm place in my heart. Way back in the 1970s (1977-1978), when I went to a school near the train station in Ste-Thérèse, Quebec, I spent many a lunch hour watching the action, or just exploring the storage tracks filled with MOW equipment. Most trains were powered by CP 8700 series RS-18s,.and the music of their 12-cylinder 251 engines plays back in my mind when I see one of these beasts (a great crescendo when the engineer gunned them to start the train ). I tried to stick around as long as possible before running all the way back to school (I haven't done that in a long time! ) to catch the afternoon classes. Exporail, June 21st, 2008.
As seen on Thursday at Killian, SC, NS's 1066, the NYC Heritage Unit. The weather was awful and I was losing daylight, but I'd never seen the NYC and found a place to park where I could stay dry in the car while keeping an eye on the signal.
Thank you. I was hoping that the NYC might hang around Columbia, SC, so that I could try again, but it went out that night to Macon, GA trailing on 191 and is now on its way to Atlanta on another train. I'm down to three I haven't seen, the NKP, CR and CNJ, and I'd like better photos of the CofG and LV.
