Post your Train shots!
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Here's a scan of my 35mm slide of the Illinois Central Railroad's interlocking tower (a "signal box" on British railways) at Tuscola, IL USA as taken on October 21, 1990. Manned interlocking towers have become extremely rare in North America, as remote control technology has largely displaced them. This tower has since been razed as have so many others. I've had a lifetime fascination with these structures. They are known as interlocking towers because the track and signal functions are interlocked via a machine so as to prevent human error in setting up a conflicting train movement.
This just in from the Circus train forum for anyone interested from Orlando to Miami
RBBB's Red Unit Circus Train is currently storing in the James E. Strates CARNIVAL TRAIN facility in Taft [south Orlando], and is to depart on CSXT from there, after sunrise on Sunday morning. Rumor has the train departing around 7am, however with a Ringling' Circus Train, that's always "up in the air" (pun intended).
2014 Red Unit Circus Train:
---60 Cars (39 conventional passenger-type cars; 21 TTX-[type] piggyback flats)
---4,370 Tons (when fully loaded)
---5,320 Feet (WITHOUT host RR's power attached; 1 mile = 5,280 feet)
(This RBBB train was shown on the History Channel TV series "Extreme Trains.")
RBBB's Red Unit Circus Train is currently storing in the James E. Strates CARNIVAL TRAIN facility in Taft [south Orlando], and is to depart on CSXT from there, after sunrise on Sunday morning. Rumor has the train departing around 7am, however with a Ringling' Circus Train, that's always "up in the air" (pun intended).
2014 Red Unit Circus Train:
---60 Cars (39 conventional passenger-type cars; 21 TTX-[type] piggyback flats)
---4,370 Tons (when fully loaded)
---5,320 Feet (WITHOUT host RR's power attached; 1 mile = 5,280 feet)
(This RBBB train was shown on the History Channel TV series "Extreme Trains.")
This just in from the Circus train forum for anyone interested from Tampa to Orlando
151.625 is the Circus Train Operations radio frequency.
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JANUARY 6 BLUE UNIT Train-run from Tampa to Orlando FL. (Train "might" store in the James E. Strates CARNIVAL TRAIN facility in Taft [south Orlando] upon arrival.)
2014 Blue Unit Circus Train:
---61 Cars (40 conventional passenger-type cars; 21 TTX-[type] piggyback flats)
---4,490 Tons (when fully loaded)
---5,409 Feet (WITHOUT host RR's power attached; 1 mile = 5,280 feet)
151.625 is the Circus Train Operations radio frequency.
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JANUARY 6 BLUE UNIT Train-run from Tampa to Orlando FL. (Train "might" store in the James E. Strates CARNIVAL TRAIN facility in Taft [south Orlando] upon arrival.)
2014 Blue Unit Circus Train:
---61 Cars (40 conventional passenger-type cars; 21 TTX-[type] piggyback flats)
---4,490 Tons (when fully loaded)
---5,409 Feet (WITHOUT host RR's power attached; 1 mile = 5,280 feet)
Can't quite see the train. Out in western U.S.? They run them fast out there, with track speeds of 70 MPH plus. We have a video of a Santa Fe intermodal train overtaking us as we drove at the speed limit on I-40 in Arizona.
Oh, now I can see it -- quite a sight. Thank you! The train frequency on that line is astounding at 90 to 100 trains each day. It's now double track all the way from Chicago to Los Angeles -- in 2011 the BNSF completed double tracking the last chokepoint in Abo Canyon, NM.
Here's a low-rez scan of a slide I shot at West Defiance NM in October 1996.
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Building on my growing collection of photographs of special Norfolk Southern locomotives in trailing positions (i.e. not heading up the train) comes this morning's shot of their Veterans locomotive in Columbia, SC. This is a northbound train, so the sun is in the lens during its run and it's tough to get a good shot.
That's narrow highway tunnel!
Thanks weebee! By the way, if anyone wonders what CSX stands for as a corporate identity, it's an amalgamation of Chessie System which controlled lines in the northern states and Seaboard System which operated lines in the southern states. The X is meant to indicate a crossing or combination of the two. Norfolk Southern sounds a whole lot more like a railroad.
