A lot of trains in our topics. How about the supporting structures? Such as this grand old lady receiving a spring spruce up job, of new landscaping. MILW Butte, Montana:
I took this one on March 26 back in 2011 of bridge on the Bell County Branch just a little bit away from the switch to the Apollo Fuels loadout.
I caught CSX #4710 leading, with 997 trailing, a single stack train northbound towards Chambersburg intermodal terminal on Wednesday. Passing the Waynesboro Model Railroad Club.
Roaring Camp Railroad's Santa Cruz train returns back to Felton through the Redwoods and the late afternoon soon. It's an ex-ATSF CF7.
Two pics from yesterday in Elkhart and Goshen, IN. Those are IH and New Holland tractors in the second pic.
Nice shot - and in honor of that I present one older and further away (the Iraq/Syria border, to be exact):
I'm not 100% sure but I wouldn't be surprised if they were. Later that day I caught another string of tractors heading east as well. This time a few Deeres.
There have been some similar moves of Deeres through this region. As told to me by a RR source, exports to Asia- China as I recall the conversations.
Many years ago, a trainload of Deere tractor components in containers came from somewhere in the Mid-West to the Port of Gulfport. 3-6 months later a shipload of fully assembled Deere tractors arrived from Brazil and were loaded onto a train for delivery to somewhere in the Mid-West. The USA's concern for Brazilian factory laborers kind of brings a tear to your eye, don't it.
