Post your Train shots!

[Needa]

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.

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

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Walt, I don't believe they are designed to be separated in the usual sense, they are used as a unit. All the load in those sections is going to the same facility were the containers are remove for another form of transportation usually truck or container ship.

 

[cwgrizz]

Walt, I don't believe they are designed to be separated in the usual sense, they are used as a unit. All the load in those sections is going to the same facility were the containers are remove for another form of transportation usually truck or container ship.

Thanks Jeff, That's what I figured, but some had four units together and some three between disconnects. The units must have some way to pivot even though they only have one set of wheels between the units.

 

[Sandpatch]

... 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.

You have a good eye for detail. These are called "articulated" cars and they don't separate the cars joined by a single "truck" (that's railroad-ese for a set of wheels). These cars usually have 3, 4 or 5 wells for double-stacked containers with each end having a normal truck and coupler. They are engineered like that to save tare weight and to reduce slack (run in and run out as brakes and throttle are applied) in the train.

 

[Sandpatch]

Evening comes to Encino NM, June 1997. [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

 

[Sandpatch]

Big wheels keep on rolling. Jarrett's Tunnel, west of Old Fort, NC. [D5100, 12/26/2014]

 

[Needa]

Big wheels keep on rolling. Jarrett's Tunnel, west of Old Fort, NC. [D5100, 12/26/2014]

Interesting perspective.

 

[Sandpatch]

Interlocking machine bed and levers at the CNJ's long abandoned tower structure at Whitehouse, NJ in 12/1980. It has since been demolished. The levers were connected to signals and track switches and it took some muscle to move them. They're called interlocking machines because they were connected to a complex bed of sliding bars that mechanically prevented human error when a route was being set up. [Nikon EL-2, Kodachrome]

 

[Sandpatch]

From March 1994 at Columbia SC, Norfolk Southern Operation Lifesaver Model GP-59 4631. Operation Lifesaver is a promotional effort by U.S. and Canadian railroads to increase driver awareness of safety at railroad grade crossings. Specially painted locomotives like this one circulate on trains from various railroads all over North America. [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

 

[Sandpatch]

Santa Fe Railway water tank and moon at Hackberry, Arizona in March 1997. This tank survives from the steam locomotive era. Water quality from desert wells was high in mineral content, so contributed to greater expense in water treatment and locomotive maintenance. Diesel locomotives had no need for water stops and the cost savings helped to accelerate Santa Fe's change to diesel power in the '40s and '50s. [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

 

[Marilynne]

Santa Fe Railway water tank and moon at Hackberry, Arizona in March 1997. This tank survives from the steam locomotive era. Water quality from desert wells was high in mineral content, so contributed to greater expense in water treatment and locomotive maintenance. Diesel locomotives had no need for water stops and the cost savings helped to accelerate Santa Fe's change to diesel power in the '40s and '50s. [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

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I guess it's not standing any longer.
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[Sandpatch]

June 1997, losing light at Williams, AZ [Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]

 

[Peter7100]

Some not very good images taken with my phone but I know there are some enthusiasts on here thought I would give them the chance to guess the country.

 

[Marilynne]

Some not very good images taken with my phone but I know there are some enthusiasts on here thought I would give them the chance to guess the country.

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Does the last car have END on it?

 

[Sandpatch]

Hungary maybe?

 

[Peter7100]

Hungary maybe?

Correct

 

[Sandpatch]

From my black and white days in 1975 at Fox Lake IL, a model E-9 locomotive in commuter train service on the Milwaukee Road, built in 1961. She was later saved at a museum in Green Bay WI, but the locomotive was in terrible shape by then and after being stored outside for some years, it was later sold or scrapped. I'm not sure what became of it. [Nikkormat FTn, Plus-X]

 

[nikonbill]

I finally got a train shot - while walking about "Railroad, PA" (yes a real town) with my camera I heard a train coming along the North Central railway. The NCR operates a replica engine to the one that carried President Abraham Lincoln to Gettysburg when he gave the the most famous "few words" to dedicate the cemetery there. They also operate this engine the Jeddo Coal Company #85. A saddle tank steamer by Vulcan iron works in 1928 it worked until the early 1960's. They run the engines on a 5 mile run from new freedom PA giving a very nostalgic ride on a famous rail. I just happened to be in the right place at the right time today.

 

[Sandpatch]

I finally got a train shot - while walking about "Railroad, PA" (yes a real town) with my camera I heard a train coming along the North Central railway. The NCR operates a replica engine to the one that carried President Abraham Lincoln to Gettysburg when he gave the the most famous "few words" to dedicate the cemetery there. They also operate this engine the Jeddo Coal Company #85. A saddle tank steamer by Vulcan iron works in 1928 it worked until the early 1960's. They run the engines on a 5 mile run from new freedom PA giving a very nostalgic ride on a famous rail. I just happened to be in the right place at the right time today.

That's a super fine shot Bill! That's a li'l 0-4-0T "saddletanker" (so named because its water supply is carried over its boiler like a saddle) that carries its own fuel and water without need for a tender behind it.

 

[Sandpatch]

On the other end of the steam locomotive scale is Norfolk & Western 1218, a 2-6-6-4. [April 1988, Attalla, Alabama, Nikon N2020, Kodachrome]