A nice Golden Rodent 'Deuce leads a J12 local shuffling the deck in Minot: A baretable westbound rumbles past Lonetree, ND as auroras chase away blue hour: 14 Axles is what the detector at MP20.1 said, so I know it was a geometry train. Not that anyone can tell here! The dark of night is settling in and the aurora borealis is becoming stronger.
From a drizzly 09/23/1997 at Lima, OH, five brand new GE AC44CW's (297, 292, 295, 294 and 293) are fresh from GE's plant at Erie. They're passing NS Tower. NS was former PRR, built 1924, closed 1995 and razed in 1999. It remained an armstrong plant until the end.
Heading west into Ft. Worth on Saturday April 15, 2023. This is the pull direction on the Push/Pull operation. The paint scheme TRE choose for this equipment does look really neat.
Waiting on the Palestine Sub just west of Valley Junction outside of Hearne, TX today. I wonder what is in the "take out" bag on the dash. Probably some Louie Mueller BBQ they picked up in Taylor when they stopped earlier.
The Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Railroad Bridge is a 558-foot-long rail vertical-lift bridge. Built in 1959, the bright blue 558-foot long span of the Arthur Kill Vertical Rail Bridge is the longest lift span of any bridge of its type in the world. Connecting Elizabethport, New Jersey and the Howland Hook Marine Terminal on Staten Island, New York. It was built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1959 to replace the Arthur Kill Bridge, a swing bridge opened in 1890. http://thebridgeguy.org/2021/08/vertical-lift-bridges-raising-the-roof-on-bridge-design/
I really don't know. Perhaps they were anticipating the steep grade they are approaching coming out of the Brazos River Bottoms heading up into the massive east Texas mountains.
Nice catch on that old NP stock car! The MRL shot looks like you're at Skyline Trestle, right? I haven't been out there since 2009.
