We're getting another short cold snap, with -20C nights and days not much warmer... so let's warm up with steam! IMGP1667A_CN-1112_4-6-0 by Mike VE2TRV posted Mar 3, 2017 at 9:49 PM CNR 1112 is an MLW product, a Ten-Wheeler built in February 1912 for CN predecessor Canadian Northern. In 1919 it joined the CN combined roster and stayed there until October 1952, when it went to Quebec, North Shore & Labrador (a mining road) until retired in 1961. It was donated to the Canadian Railway Museum in 1962, where it was displayed for 30 years until 1992, when it found its new home, shown here basking in the summer sun, at the Railway Museum of Eastern Ontario, in Smiths Falls, Ontario. Amazingly, it kept its original road number, 1112, throughout its lifetime. My photo, Smiths Falls Trainfest, August 24th, 2013.
Wow, I finally caught a train on the old SA&AP line in Cameron, Texas. The San Antonio & Aransas Pass built through Cameron on its way from Yoakum to Waco back in the late 1880s. The last passenger train, #50-51, a doodle bug and trailer, was discontinued in August of 1949. The line was abandoned by the mid 1960s leaving this short piece heading north out of Cameron a few miles to serve some freight customers. The Santa Fe took it over at that time.
From April 2016, NS Train 156 heads north at Ridgeway, SC on its way from Savannah, GA to NS's large yard in Linwood, NC:
There was a time when I may have tried, but I have enough strained muscles and old worn out joints already so I don't want to aggravate things any further.
Nothing fresh from me, so here's a blast from the past at Birdseye, MT. A heavy MRL westbound is clawing its way up Mullan Pass with 3 SD70MACs and 2 SD45s midtrain.
Normally the BNSF uses this line to deliver covered hoppers full of plastic pellets to a pipe manufacture two miles north on the line. However, I believe it was ballast in this train. They had cleared the main line and were waiting to pull out again after two south bound trains and one north bound had passed. Here is the other end with the double main in the foreground.
Tried the cameras night function. This coal train was hitting 25 on it's way out of town. The pickup headlights are lighting it up here at the west end of the mainline, the DP pushers were a roaring! And it was just spitting snow while this grain train was waiting for a crew to take her east. That lost KCS unit is still trying to go home!
