I took this more years ago than I care to think about. Morris County Central Consolidation 2-8-0 # 385; shopped out by Baldwin in 1908, for the Southern. Done up in Southern's passenger service colors. Taken at Green Pond in 1977.
Baldwin 0-6-0 switcher, built 1944 for use in Europe. I was never shipped, and the Morris County Central found it packed in crates and cosmoline in 1970.
Not exactly a train or engine but a vital piece of equipment nonetheless. A Kershaw ballast spreader working on a new Surrey Rail Link bypass track at Cloverdale B.C.
WOW! I just found this thread and I love it! Trains are my first love and I've been foolin' around over in Mustangs for a while - but this thread and the wonderful images here brings me home. I grew up close to the Santa Fe line in south Wichita and my love for the war bonnets started when i got to ride on them to Oklahoma. Rock Island's line was just a few blocks away and we'd stand as close to the rails as we dared as kids in a game of chicken cause RI's rails were so bad the boxcars would sway so much the wheels would come up off the tracks as they went by. What fun!... or throwing rocks at teh boxcars to see if a hobo would come to the open door and shake his fist at us... the stories I could tell!
jbear,
Welcome to the trained-nuts group! I too have been following the Mustangs and have seen your great work over there. Glad you found your way here!
This BNSF GP38-2 was sitting idling on the CP Rail/BNSF interchange track which crosses the Canada/U.S.A. border at Sumas, B.C./WA last July. The picture was taken from the Canadian side but the engine is actually on American soil. The rear of the engine is virtually inches from the border (the concrete barriers).
A few years ago, we drove up to Winslow Arizona, looked at Jackson Browne's statue and hoped to see a few war bonnets parked near the old hotel. Nothing but the new paint scheme on the BNSF - I'm surprised though how many war bonnets are still in service.
Went out and shot a few train shots this morning along the old Southern rail line running though south Tennessee.... this one coming down the line heading east had a surprise on the end. For some reason, i told myself to wait cause there might be something worth shooting. I talked myself out of it since I had been waiting for this one to come by for 2 hours. Sure enough, after I had gotten in the car with everything put away, the end was a BNSF engine that I coulda been creative with speed and direction... had I only waited. Oh well.
An autorack let by an AC44CW slams over a crossing at Meyersdale, Pa.
The old Sigma 70/210 APO on the D50 makes it up close and personal! http://www.pennswoods.net/~wemullan/ar.jpg
You've got some nice train pics from B.C./Alberta. When were you here? If you ever get back to B.C. again I'd be happy to show you some "spots".
A few pages back on this thread I posted an image--taken from the same basic location as yours--of westbound Via Rail F40PH-2 at Jasper in late May of this year. The image above shows the same engine eastbound on the CN main near Viking, Alberta, about 120 km east of Edmonton.
You've got some nice train pics from B.C./Alberta. When were you here? If you ever get back to B.C. again I'd be happy to show you some "spots".
A few pages back on this thread I posted an image--taken from the same basic location as yours--of westbound Via Rail F40PH-2 at Jasper in late May of this year. The image above shows the same engine eastbound on the CN main near Viking, Alberta, about 120 km east of Edmonton.
IŽve been a few times in BC and Alberta already and I am traveling a lot. I might even go back to Canada during next summer... IŽll keep you informed (several people already proposed to meet me... I met an FMer in San Diego last summer and I just met another one in Hong Kong... so Canada and BC are definitely on my list )
see https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/591557
gugs wrote:
IŽve been a few times in BC and Alberta already and I am traveling a lot. I might even go back to Canada during next summer... IŽll keep you informed (several people already proposed to meet me... I met an FMer in San Diego last summer and I just met another one in Hong Kong... so Canada and BC are definitely on my list
Guy
I've lived in B.C. all my life so in one sense I'm a bit spoiled by everything we have to see but on the other hand when it's so close all the time you tend to take the beauty and wonder of this area for granted. Hope you get the chance to come back...
Hanging around Fullerton a couple of years back the grinder came right up to the east end of the station then began grinding to the east. The first shows grinding, the second is the rear-end, spraying water and observing any potential problems on the ROW.
The next fits the thread, or at least, "Not enough trains." The El Portal turntable on the abandoned Yosemite Valley.
One can wonder what some 20-20 foresight could have done if this shortline had been kept alive.
