Post your Train shots!

[Alan]

I took these some time ago at the Train museum at Lancaster PA. Sorry,some of the pics are not very good.

Nice shots. Love that place. Going there this weekend but probability will not do the museum. We have tickets for a train ride with the grandson across the street.

 

[weebee]

Have fun! I may do that again as well. There's a cave in the area that I went to as well.Penn's cave I think it was.Now that I have a decent camera perhaps I can get better pictures this time!

 

[Alan]

A couple shots from Strasburg Railroad today.

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[Daniel Aegerter]

Here's a shot from the steam train at the Furka pass in Switzerland: ​

 

[RockyNH_RIP]

Here's a shot from the steam train at the Furka pass in Switzerland: ​

Very Nice Enduro!

Pat in NH

 

[mikew_RIP]

Here's a shot from the steam train at the Furka pass in Switzerland: ​

Nice train in a great setting

 

[Marilynne]

Here's a shot from the steam train at the Furka pass in Switzerland: ​

Really nice!

 

[Daniel Aegerter]

I've got some more:

Apparently, it is quite an experience to ride that train. (dfb - *Die Welt der Furka-Dampfbahn) according to my kids and in-laws, as I was not to ride the train but to take photos of the passing train.

 

[Sandpatch]

It's a little over 20 years ago in October 1993 and we're at Falls Cut Tunnel near Fairhope, PA on CSX's former Baltimore & Ohio mainline on Sandpatch Grade watching a train drop downgrade to Cumberland, MD.

 

[weebee]

 

[Sandpatch]

That outdoor railroad is so VERY cool! The tracks look like they're laid upon concrete, making a neat and tidy right-of-way. What a fine looking railroad. Thanks weebee!

 

[Sandpatch]

It's July 1989 and Norfolk Southern is operating a steam train led by former Nickel Plate 587 at Nocono, NC. It's a lovely day and all is well. The last time I visited Nocono, one of those small trees in the foreground had grown to enormous proportions, thus preventing photography from this spot.

 

[Rick M]

It's July 1989 and Norfolk Southern is operating a steam train led by former Nickel Plate 587 at Nocono, NC. It's a lovely day and all is well. The last time I visited Nocono, one of those small trees in the foreground had grown to enormous proportions, thus preventing photography from this spot.

Curious whenever I see an old steam loco with a modern one, are these old engines just making smoke for looks? Are they no longer able to pull a load?

 

[Sandpatch]

Curious whenever I see an old steam loco with a modern one, are these old engines just making smoke for looks? Are they no longer able to pull a load?

In most cases, the steam locomotive is the real deal -- pulling hard and working all the way. The diesels you sometimes see trailing are often there as insurance, so that the train can be moved quickly to a siding if the steam locomotive were to suffer a failure. In some cases the diesel is there to give a gentle assist if the steam locomotive is small and the train is heavy.

After making an exit from operating steam over a decade ago, Norfolk Southern will again run trips when it completes a renovation of its lovely No. 611, a large 4-8-4 built for the Norfolk & Western in 1950.

 

[Sandpatch]

... After making an exit from operating steam over a decade ago, Norfolk Southern will again run trips when it completes a renovation of its lovely No. 611, a large 4-8-4 built for the Norfolk & Western in 1950.

To show the size and beauty of this locomotive, here's a shot of No. 611 taken in May 1993 working east from Asheville. [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome, 80-200mm Nikkor] This is a rugged and scenic piece of railroad, replete with many tunnels and loops as the line makes its steep assault from Old Fort to Asheville to gain 700 FT of elevation.

 

[Alan]

Steam Into history New Freedom PA. This rail bed is the same one that Lincoln traveled to Gettysburg on in 1863 and that his funeral train traveled in 1865.

 

[Alan]

This engine is a reproduction that was built this year. It heats the water on fuel from recycled oil. Kinda makes it Eco-friendly.

 

[Sandpatch]

It's July 1980 and we're at Bennington, PA deep in the mountains west of Altoona watching a Conrail freight work its way to the summit at Gallitzin. We camped near this location for two nights. In this era, all four mainline tracks were still intact; today there are three. Those distinctive Pennsylvania railroad position light signals can still be found, but are being replaced with more modern types.

Bennington is famous in railroad history as the site of the 1947 wreck of the Red Arrow passenger train. The Red Arrow exited the tunnel at Gallitzin heading downgrade, but thick winter fog made it difficult for the Engineer and Fireman to know their exact location and their speed gained as they came downgrade. The Arrow derailed on Bennington Curve a short distance behind this freight and the train spilled over the embankment.

 

[Sandpatch]

Come to think of it, I have this low-rez scan of Amtrak's Broadway Limited on Bennington Curve taken the same weekend in 1980. You can see the sharp curvature in the photo. Happily, the crew has the Broadway well in hand this day and a safe stop in Altoona is ahead.

Our campsite was on the rocky overlook in the background above the first locomotive.

 

[nikonpup]