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[Sandpatch]

End of overhead wire at Dover, NJ. The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western completed electrification of its busy commuter line between Hoboken and Dover in 1931. Thomas Edison was at the throttle of the first electric train on the line. [September 1982]

Service began with cars like these which continued in service until 1984! [Hoboken NJ, January 1981]

 

[Sandpatch]

Another electric, a former Pennsylvania Railroad GG-1 locomotive at Newark NJ, February 1983. These were of extraordinary design, many working in excess of 50 years. The last was retired the same year I shot this.

 

[Sandpatch]

This afternoon's empty grain train 51D moves north at Simpson, SC. [D5100]

 

[Needa]

 

[Marilynne]

 

[Sandpatch]

That's a beautifully maintained right-of-way @Needa. Those trains run pretty fast, right?

 

[Sandpatch]

NASSAU Tower at Princton Jct., NJ in July 1978. It was built in 1944. Railroad towers were often named and this one was named for Nassau Hall on the nearby Princeton University campus. Nassau Tower has since been remotely controlled and is closed today, but it still stands. [Nikkormat FTn, Kodachrome]

 

[Needa]

That's a beautifully maintained right-of-way @Needa. Those trains run pretty fast, right?

Yes they do but that one had just stooped at the station. The travel at up to 70 MPH in metro areas and were planning on faster above West Palm Beach in route to Orlando.
On the right they are building condos. Caveat emptor!

 

[Sandpatch]

Yes they do but that one had just stooped at the station. The travel at up to 70 MPH in metro areas and were planning on faster above West Palm Beach in route to Orlando.
On the right they are building condos. Caveat emptor!

Hahha! Sounds like a place I'd like to call home.

 

[Sandpatch]

This was Mifflin Tower at Mifflin PA, one of classic Pennsylvania Railroad design, then owned by Conrail. It was open at the time (May 1981), but was closed and demolished several years later. [Nikon EL-2, Kodachrome]

 

[Sandpatch]

August 1990 at Binfield, TN when coal was king. [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

 

[Sandpatch]

September 1989 at McPherson Square Station on the Washington DC Metro. I slowed the shutter speed to blur the train. [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

 

[Sandpatch]

October 1983 at Lehighton, PA. A fantrip has been arranged to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Philadelphia & Reading RR. The locomotive is a Canadian Pacific 4-6-0. [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

 

[Sandpatch]

Norfolk Southern 8556 leads at Harriman TN, March 1990. They called these 'Hammerheads" in recognition of their shark-like profile. [Nikon N2020, Kodachome]

 

[crashton]

Easy to see why it got that name. I wonder if that locomotive was once a Southern unit. I believe Southern used a lot of locomotives long hood forward. Great catch Sandpatch.

 

[Sandpatch]

Easy to see why it got that name. I wonder if that locomotive was once a Southern unit. I believe Southern used a lot of locomotives long hood forward. Great catch Sandpatch.

Thank you. Southern Railway crews must have had some extra confidence at grade crossings. Found hammerhead B30-7 3505 in SOU paint running long hood forward at Leeds, AL in 1990. [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

 

[Blue439]

Structurally unstable (circa 2010)

Perrache railway station, Lyon, France.

Nikon D3, Nikkor 70-200mm, ƒ/2.8 G VR lens, handheld.

 

[Sandpatch]

Perrache railway station, Lyon, France. Nikon D3, Nikkor 70-200mm, ƒ/2.8 G VR lens, handheld.

Wow, that's a fine shot @Blue439, composition, color, DOF, everything about it. Thanks for posting!

 

[Blue439]

Wow, that's a fine shot @Blue439, composition, color, DOF, everything about it. Thanks for posting!

Thank a lot!

 

[cwgrizz]

Posting these photos to illustrate my train question. Some of you more familiar than I am will know the answer. I saw a train that only had a single set of tandem wheels between the cars for three or four connected cars and then the normal sets of wheels between two cars,, each on the end of the car. How do they separate the two cars with only one set of wheels as in the first picture, or do they? I hope this makes sense when you see the photos.

Three or four cars connected as in the picture above and then another set of three or four are joined as the picture below.