Post your Train shots!

[nikonpup]

all sizes welcome.

 

[Blackhat]

A pair of standard cab NS EMDs idle near the old Wheeling-Pitt steel mill, just south of Mingo Junction, Ohio. (9 Jul 2016)

 

[Sandpatch]

Caught CSX No.1 leading a coal train in Catlettsburg, KY on Saturday. All just dumb luck, being trackside at the right place and time. No sun, but that's okay.

 

[Sandpatch]

A coaling tower still stands along the former L&N main in Chaska, TN and an L&N interlocking tower does likewise in Baxter, KY. A deluge arrived seconds after I clicked the tower shot.

 

[crashton]

Sandpatch- Very nice catch on the CSX. Really great shots of the track side infrastructure. I wonder how long they will remain standing? That tower looks great, I'd love to live there. Thanks for sharing them. :encouragement:

It's been a while since I've hunted the steel wheeled beasts. Life has gotten in the way.

 

[Sandpatch]

Thanks Chuck. I hope your load lightens soon and that you're able to find some trains and cooler weather.

I also found that RU Tower (to be correct, I should call it RU Cabin in C&O parlance) still stands in Russell, KY along with the depot. Neat stuff.



And in Catlettsburg, KY stands BS Jct. (Big Sandy Jct.), right out of the 1950s. I doubt it handles tower duties in this era, but CSX has it immaculately maintained. The Big Sandy Sub from the coalfields meets the mainline here.

 

[crashton]

More nice pictures Sandpatch. Out along the Ohio River I see. Been a while since I've been down there. Great looking tower, it looks like it had a room addition at one time. Nice station in Russell too. That one in Catlettsburg looks like a the prototype for the Lionel plasticville station. Neat stuff! :encouragement:

 

[nikonpup]

​seen in prosser, wa.

 

[Sandpatch]

Taken yesterday, a Carolina Piedmont turn sets out from Laurens, SC and NS stacker No. 213 with some old skool piggybacks on the head end approaches Spartanburg, SC.

 

[crashton]

I found myself driving up through Fostoria OH on Monday. I was stopped by this NS train. One NS Locomotive & three CN ones pulling a tanker train. As always the best light was on the other side. :shame:

 

[Sandpatch]

Nice shot Chuck. Despite the light, it still turned out great and is nicely framed.

 

[crashton]

Thanks Sandpatch. Little did I know had I been on the other side I'd have gotten another train going in the other direction. Trouble was I didn't want to leave my car on this side while I scampered to the other.

These zebra striped ones are Wheeling & Lake Erie SD40-2's waiting to pull a stone train out of the quarry in Carey Ohio.

 

[crashton]

Hey Sandpatch nice captures. :encouragement: I was going to make a comment on the circus wagon paint job on that Carolina Piedmont GP, but then I posted those Wheeling SD 40-2 units that look like zebras so I won't. layful:

 

[nikonpup]

a couple of oldies working in yakima. (70'S)

 

[crashton]

As I was meandering through Carey Ohio I came up on this guy going less than a walking pace pulling a rail train. Looks like the CSX W&LE interchange is getting new rail. I'm guessing those stone trains put a hurting on it.

 

[Sandpatch]

After so much NS black and CSX "Dark Future", my D5100 would probably explode trying to process a W&LE photo.​

 

[Sandpatch]

a couple of oldies working in yakima….

When we look back, SD-40-2s were everywhere, as common as Dash-9s today. Who'd have ever thought a -2 would bring excitement, but here we are. Some day fans will be chasing -9s …..

 

[crashton]

After so much NS black and CSX "Dark Future", my D5100 would probably explode trying to process a W&LE photo.​

I'm sure your trusty D5100 could handle it & if not there is always that D500 you want to buy. :encouragement:

 

[Sandpatch]

Quiet afternoon in Asheville ….

 

[crashton]

Great shot Sandpatch. I really like how the tele lens compressed things. The rails in the foreground really add depth to this shot.