Recent content by Sandpatch

Caught today in serendipity at Austell, GA, Norfolk Southern's Nickel Plate Road heritage unit 8100. This is another of NS's locomotives painted in historic colors that trace NS railroad history. [D5100]

Those are beautiful @BF Hammer! I'm guessing that it runs at 10-15 MPH? Yeah, I've got to get up there to ride.

I love the look of focused determination there. Another beautiful picture. ☺️

Taken 50 years ago today on 07/22/1976 on the former Delaware, Lackawanna & Western at Far Hills-Bedminster, NJ. The Lackawanna's suburban electrification was extensive, covering the mainline from Hoboken to Dover and two branches. Their durable fleet of electric passenger cars were in operation...

In an amazing twist, I came across this same locomotive 19 years later in September 1995, rusting away in the weeds on a small railroad at Red Hill, SC. She's wearing paint from Chicago's Regional Transportation Authority who later took over commuter rail operations. This was likely the 520's...

"E-Units" as they were known were the face of American passenger railroading as diesels vanquished steam, with many later finding second lives hauling commuter trains. I shot this as a teen in May 1976 from the window of Barrington Tower in suburban Chicago. She's an E-8, long since scrapped...

From Sunday at Pinehurst, NC, an Aberdeen, Carolina & Western E-9 locomotive. Built in 1955 for the Union Pacific, it's also served Amtrak, Wisconsin & Southern and the Alaska before finding a new home amongst the golf courses in Pinehurst. The AC&W is primarily a freight railroad, but runs...

That's a nice find @BF Hammer, a former Soo Line station. I've never been to that area of WI; looks like I need to. :)

Some exceptional street art at Hamlet, NC, once the Heart of The Seaboard Air Line RR. Five lines intersect there, all owned by CSX today. [D5100]

The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie's Terminal Station at Pittsburgh, now with an adjoining hotel. We wanted to stay there, but couldn't afford the fare. [September 1997, Kodachrome, Nikon N2020]

Railroading requires a lot of walking. [March 1993, Greenwood, SC, Kodachrome, Nikon N2020]

I'll abstain from voting -- they're all such beautiful images!

Right on. I thought back to the summer of 2018 when UP 844 killed a woman in CO who was standing so close that she was hit. I forget the exact circumstance, but I think she was a "daisy picker" (not a railfan, not versed in railroad safety) and perhaps thought that trains didn't overhang...

Wow, lots going on there at Sauk City. I sent you a Kodachrome scan from April 1987 of the Sun Prairie depot. I found the Mazomanie depot in October 1990 prior to its restoration. Built in 1857 and modified numerous times over its life, it's the oldest in the state.

Your riverfront view is beautiful, so peaceful. Does the Milwaukee Road's Sauk City depot still stand? I shot this in April 1987. [Kodachrome, Nikon N2020] (If you want me to delete this photo, I'll be happy to do it.)