Post your Train shots!

[Texas]

 

[nikonpup]

View attachment 303266[/QUOTHOPE THAT IS NOT THE GRIM REAPER DRIVING.

 

[Chucktin]

Thanks jkinzel. That train looks European or Japanese to me so I was wondering.

In the far background is the Port of Tacoma, Tacoma, WA. The two Navy ships are part of the modern version of the MSTS. I only know one by name, Cape Intrepid.

 

[Sandpatch]

Caught NS today departing Columbia, SC with a local freight, my first train picture of 2019. It's backlit, but it was good to be outside taking pictures.



The lead unit is a survivor, built in 1980 and rebuilt in 2005. I thought it was worth getting a roster shot of this veteran in better light a few blocks west.

 

[nikonpup]

 

[Sandpatch]

With some patience waiting for good light and with some good fortune, I caught up with Norfolk Southern's Delaware, Lackawanna & Western "Heritage Unit" today. I'd never seen this one before and it's beautiful from any angle.

 

[crashton]

Wow what a great catch Sandpatch! :encouragement: That is one of if not my favorite paint scheme. With those flared radiators it has a passing resemblance to an SD45 that Erie Lackawanna used to run. Spent many an hour track side exposing film of them back in the good old days. What I really lusted after were their E8's running in sets of 4. Those things were rockets as they sped though Ohio.

 

[Sandpatch]

As I waited for the Lackawanna unit to tie on to its train, NS 238 with a lengthy load of double stacks arrived en route to the Port of Charleston.

 

[Sandpatch]

How neat that you have memories of the E-L. Those E-8s must have been quite a sight. The Friendly Service Route, also the Strong Man of The East until Hurricane Agnes hammered the road in June of 1972, depleting its cash reserves and bringing it to bankruptcy.

Do you have a way to scan your E-L work? It'd be a treat to see anything E-L here. :encouragement:

 

[crashton]

Sorry no scans, but somewhere in the boxes of slides I have images. Your Heritage unit pictures stirred some very fond memories. It took me back to 1970 Wadsworth Ohio track side. I wanted to chase the train into the sunset, but my old 1960 VW Bug didn't stand a chance. :wink-new:

 

[crashton]

This Geep is building a train of grain cars in the small Sandusky Ohio NS yard.

 

[Skwaz]

 

[Bengan]

 

[grandpaw]

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I really like this one!!! This really works well in B&W.

 

[Sandpatch]

Caught NS Train 24Q this morning, a weekly "baretable" train that runs empty well cars from the Port of Charleston, SC to Elizabeth, NJ. That's the Lackawanna heritage unit trailing as I posted here a week ago, along with an old GP unit probably headed to the big yard at Linwood, NC for servicing.

 

[crashton]

Nice catch Sandpatch. That well worn Geep sure is a contrast to that clean & spiffy heritage unit. Looks like fine weather in your part of the world. Here it was -10 this morning with a load of snow. My train watching will be online for a while.

 

[Sandpatch]

Thank you. Man your weather is COLD and topped off with snow too? Brrrrr.

Our high today was 40 Deg and it'll drop to 21 Deg. tonight, which is cause for near panic. "Bone chilling cold" they call it on local TV. Thank heaven Mrs. Sandpatch's Volkswagen has seat heaters, else she might perish on her five mile commute.

 

[Sandpatch]

Went out yesterday in search of NS's Nickel Plate heritage locomotive, but failed in my quest. As consolation, I grabbed a few roster shots of Lancaster & Chester locomotives.

 

[crashton]

Those are nice Sandpatch. That small switcher brings me back to Republic Steel & the River Terminal Railway. One summer I had a job working the extra board as a fireman on that type of engine.

This one is at the NKP & Mad River museum in Bellevue Ohio. I don't know who it once worked for.

 

[Sandpatch]

These were certainly durable little locomotives weren't they? That's so neat that you got to fire on one during a summer. I checked to find that the L&C unit is an SW-900 built in '65, but I couldn't find anything about the locomotive in your photo.

Amazingly, I did find that the museum has a Lehigh & Hudson River hopper. The L&HR owned relatively few pieces of equipment and it amazes me that an example of these early steel cars survives. [Not my photo].