Posted this one before. Taken in Albany Or. in 2010. One of my favorite shots. I have a slightly more cropped version of this framed on the wall of my office.
Here is one that I do not think I have posted before. It comes from the Gordon Motts collection. One classy lady, I think this is shot in Lordsburg, New Mexico, probably late 1940's. A 4-10-2 that is double headed with ?............. I think I can barely make out the 3rd cylinder. Looks like the 2 hogheads are talking it over.
It is big but looks like one set of cylinders. I would guess by the shape of the rectangular tender that it is either a Mountain or a GS-1.
A scene now gone, this was taken a few years back. Just a couple of weeks ago, BNSF cancelled the lease of Mission Mountain RR, for this portion of their operations. Columbia Falls, Montana:
A westbound string of tank cars is heading west as this beast seemingly pulls them up out of the weeds......
The portion which ran into downtown will be gone. The city money wasters want a trail, which they wildly believe will "revitalize" downtown. How nobody can figure out.... But I digress. The rest will remain in service. To replace the customer sites a new "rail park" was built just northeast of town, and everyone's arms well twisted to relocate there, so that trail can be built. CHS has a new facility. (The only remaining active grain elevator business in the west of this State and further.) A large building supply moved there as well. I believe a new customer is or has set up. Other active local customers on the line are Pacific Recycling and Plumhaeuser. Beyond that all other current shippers are in Columbia Falls. BTW- This is a remnant of the original GN Haskell Pass main line, before it was re-routed via Whitefish in 1904. The depot still stands, which once housed dispatchers, superintendent, engineering, etc, etc. There was once a yard, roundhouse, etc. And this is why this region remained until BN named as the Kalispell Division.
A road trip today to Northern Plains Railroad found this old Russell plow on the end of the spur track on the former GN Mohall-Granville branch.
This totally looks like a cartoon, like it's alive! The seats in the upper windows look like eyes, and the plow is a big happy face ready to devour some snow, lol!
That reminds me of the kid's show "Chuggington". Trains with faces...!! Your cheery plow would fit right in.
