CSX repainted the CSX 4617 back into C&O colors, it's at their Huntington,WV shops. COHS is having this done, it's being leased to the Buckingham Branch Railroad near Clifton Forge,Va. Curtis
While out on my morning bike ride yesterday I spied an old Santa Fe Cub Scout in a BNSF consist passing on the other side of the airport from where I ride.
Interesting that the expensive and impressive signal bridge at Tolono holds only one signal mast. One of IL's last manned interlocking towers stood at Tolono; gone now.
On Saturday 6/3, myself and a couple friends drove down to Westernport, MD , home of the Georges Creek Railroad for a wash and wax party for GP9 #25, SD40 #7471, and SD35 (SD38P) #7436. Afterwards, everyone let their inner foamer out and took pictures. Here I am, trying out the conductor seat. I'm hoping to see more of a similar seat in the future 20170603_160110 by Adam Henry, on Flickr On a side note, pretty smart to invite rail fans to wash and wax your investment
Insert train here. This is west (downgrade) of Sierra siding, east of Ft. Garland, Colorado on La Veta Pass. The problem with this line is trains run the most scenic part of the route at night! Sierra siding is used for car storage, and theeast switch marks the beginning of a 2.5% grade. Strings of empty and bad-ordered cars occupy Sierra siding.
So, I had to sit and stare at the google satellite view to work this out, because it's been 11 years and I've only been there once. The mains are the NS line east west (former Wabash?) The fancy signal bridge appears to control a multi track interchange with the north south CN (nee IC) that interchange is east side of NS to south side of CN. The dilapidated track is the east to north interchange and per google satellite imagery has been partially removed. I cannot remember if it had been removed when I was there.
On last wednesday, 3 days ago, while on layover in Montreal, QC, I was driving from Montreal to Gatineau and purposedly I chose to make the trip staying as close as possible to railroads. I found a very nice road, running Hawekesbury then Grenville to Gatineau on the left hand side embankment of the Ottawa River. I chose this final road because most of it is only a few dozen yards from a single track railroad line that I discovered on the interractive map of my I-pad. I made a stop in Thurso (something like 40 km east of Gatineau), close to a big paper mill, to investigate whether something was moving or not. All was quiet, only a few boxcars laying on a siding, and watching the railroad's rails, these looked in average shape at best, but definitly shining. So I resumed driving westwards, and not long after Thurso I spotted 2 eastbound G&W painted Geeps moving 15 or so freightcars at a slow pace. Excellent! I came to the conclusion these units were probably the property of Quebec & Gatineau Railway. And good luck, as even when you're very close to a railroad you can miss a move simply due to a tree line, a few structures, houses or barns, or a small hill. As this train was not that fast, I quicly stopped my car, made a one-eighty and hurried on the opposite direction until I found grade crossings with good straight extents of rail... Sorry, the sun was mostly against me, as on a shortline that sees one to three trains a day you can't chose your best angle relative to sunlight. You take what comes to you. Thatis why some shots are twisted and why most are over-exposed, although I re-worked them with Photoshop. First unit is a former GP35 that has been refurbished into a GP38-2 and the second one a GP39-2u. Dom
