Tortuga Sunday, 1980
Milan - "Tortuga" electric, 444-056. The 444s had a maximum speed of 200 km / hr, so the "tortoise" name is a joke. Note that the starting signals are semaphores. 10 March 1980 Mike Tisdale
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Mike Tisdale
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Moon and Signal Saturday, 2014
15 April 2014 Moonrise and signal at Swanston, Sacramento, California Mike Tisdale
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Mike Tisdale
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WP F7 Thursday, 1982
14 Aug 82, California State RR Museum , WP 913. 913 is an EMD F7 that was WP's representative at the opening of he museum in 1981. While it was there, WP donated the engine to the museum. It has been
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Mike Tisdale
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Caboose Wednesday, 1982
14 Aug 82, Sacramento, California, Ben Ali, Marconi Ave. crossing, caboose 4634 on X8290 east. Marconi Ave. now crosses the track on an overpass. The grade crossings in this area were eliminated when
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Mike Tisdale
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GP9 Monday, 1976
3 SP GP9s , with 3405 leading, on a westbound train coming off the Yolo Causeway between Davis and Sacramento, California. This was 1976, IIRC, and a friend and I were driving to the Bay Area for
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Mike Tisdale
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Sunol Sunday, 2016
April 10, 2016 My friend Andrew uncoupling Quincy RR 2, a 2-6-2T at Sunol, California ¡ª at Niles Canyon Railway. Mike Tisdale
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Mike Tisdale
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Freedom Train Saturday, 1975
These are scans from prints.? One of these days, I'll get the slides from those days scanned 4 of the photos are from its run from Eugene, Oregon to Reno, Nevada.? The Thanksgiving photo is from its
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Mike Tisdale
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Saltash Friday, 1980
Saltash, UK, the Royal Albert Bridge from the 1023 Penzance-Leeds train. Brunel designed it in 1859 and it is still in service today over 160 years later. On my tour around the UK in April 1980, I
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Mike Tisdale
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Stockton Railfest Thursday, 2022
Ryan Clark's Stockton Railfest returned on 2 April with a lot of people having a great time and UP, BNSF and Amtrak sending a good number of trains by the Stockton, California diamonds, where BNSF and
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Mike Tisdale
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4 Trains at Dolton Wednesday, 2010
Ever had too many trains when you're railfanning? We did as soon as we got to Dolton. The autorack train was on the near track and as it passed, a CP train came west on the next track over. The
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Mike Tisdale
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Roundhouse Tuesday, 1980
Erode roundhouse: WLs 15014, 15089+AWC 22625. This is in Erode, Tamil Nadu, southern India. WLs were light axle load 4-6-2s for passenger service on lines that could not handle the heavier WP
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Mike Tisdale
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Marshall Monday, 2011
UP grain train DPUs heading north at Marshall, Texas. The view is out the back of the Texas Eagle, which I was riding from Chicago to San Antonio, where my coach was switched onto the end of the
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Mike Tisdale
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Swedish Sunday, 1980
SJ Dm3 #1202 on an ore train, somewhere west of Kiruna, Sweden. This is possibly as we were leaving Kiruna, taken out the window of the Nordpilen (Northern Arrow), the overnight Stockholm-Narvik
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Mike Tisdale
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Stockton Railfest Saturday, 2022
UP 8218 leads a train with 2 CP and 1 BNSF units north across the Stockton, California diamonds today, 2 April 2022. Only the first two units appeared to be on line. Mike Tisdale
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Mike Tisdale
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Conrail Friday, 1977
Amtrak's Broadway Limited overtaking a Conrail freight dropping down into Altoona, Pennsylvania, Look at the haze of brake shoe smoke. Conrail was formed on 1 April 1976 Photo taken 7 June 1977 Mike
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Mike Tisdale
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Belgium Thursday, 1980
SNCB 5112 brings an all stops local train from Dendermonde to Brussels into Dendermonde-St Gillis station. St Gillis is the first station on the line to Brussels after leaving the main station. I was
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Mike Tisdale
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Tunnel 40 Wednesday, 2019
Palisade Canyon, UP 7865's eastbound stack train at Tunnel 40 . The train is on the former Western Pacific track here. I'm standing next to the former Southern Pacific line on the opposite side of the
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Mike Tisdale
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Cisco Tuesday, 2011
Another photo from Cisco, California, 28 years after yesterday's shot. Jordan spreader plowing snow, pushed by two snow service GP38-2s. 30 March 2011 Mike Tisdale
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Mike Tisdale
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Re: Cisco Monday, 1983
50 years of Amtrak Trains to the rescue. "With the departures from each end on July 15, 1983, it became the California Zephyr, and the next day became the first Amtrak trains over the new route." So
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Bill Hough
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Cisco Monday, 1983
Amtrak #6 at Cisco, California. The lead F40 is in its original paint. Note the engineer waving. I'm not sure if the train was the San Francisco Zephyr or California Zephyr at this point. The Rio
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Mike Tisdale
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