Speedshotz wrote:
Early last summer, Southern Pacific’s X4449 was heated up for a run on the UP tracks out of Portland, for an excursion down to Salem, Corvallis and Eugene. I was lucky enough to catch it in the yard, awaiting clearance to enter the mainline for a short run over to the P&NWRR trackage. This split off takes it over a small wooden trestle over hwy 99E in the town of Milwaukie in SE Portland. What a sight it was coming over that trestle under full steam. I was reminded by my wife earlier today, that this engine is again running both this weekend and next on a short 40 min roundtrip excursion with the great Mr. S Claus as a fundraiser to help restore a couple more steamers. Anyone in the PDX area should come out and ride this beauty! We plan on going next weekend and hopefully I will be able to post some fresh pics of this fantastic steamer.
Well - as i see all those winter wonderland snow scenes of the trains that brave the miserable cold... I had to go over to the park yesterday and shoot through one of our blustery miserable cold December 70degree days down here in Georgia...
Shirt sleeve weather is tough to get used to but here is a shot from yesterday.
Just to clarify--what Jay pointed out is correct but posting multiple images that way requires you to have a site--such as Zenfolio, smugmug, etc.--where your images are stored. The URLs you embed in your post would each point to a separate image on that site. I've been paying for the upload service but I now have a Zenfolio site which I'm going to start using. It does make life much easier--and neater--for posting multiple images. Keep those train pics coming...
This long wooden trestle is on the BNSF line between the Canada/US border and Vancouver, B.C. It crosses a stretch of water where the Serpentine River flows into Mud Bay and is about 2500 feet in length. Amtrak is a regular user of the trestle and one will occasionally see a CN freight making use of it. Sorry, but I didn't catch any trains when I was there the other day--but I will...
An interesting pic of the coaling tower. I think it's very important to capture lineside structures like this since the current railroad boom and push to modernization is making them disappear faster that I think we appreciate. Whether it's coaling towers, old stations, branch lines, signal towers or what have you we need to record them now because they will be gone sooner rather than later...
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