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
|
Moon and Signal Saturday, 2014
15 April 2014
Moonrise and signal at Swanston, Sacramento, California
Mike Tisdale
|
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 pulling some of the Sacramento Southern excursion trains in recent years (2022)
Compare to
with the V&T Genoa steamed up, a new Amtrak F40 and Amfleet car and SP, WP and ATSF bicentennial? units 6 years earlier.at the opening of the CP passenger station portion of the museum;? ?What became the turntable lead that the F7 is on in the top photo is the stub end track on the left.
¡ª in Sacramento, California.
Mike Tisdale
|
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 the parallel light rail line was constructed a few years later.
Mike Tisdale
|
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 something...maybe to photograph an excursion train. We might have wound up at PLA's Castro Point RR, where I took the photos of Quincy RR #2 in another album.
Mike Tisdale
|
April 10, 2016
My friend Andrew uncoupling Quincy RR 2, a 2-6-2T at Sunol, California
¡ª at Niles Canyon Railway.
Mike Tisdale
|
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 run from Reno to Sacramento
4449 leads the American Freedom Train into Dunsmuir, California. November 1975. A bit of the Sacramento River is at lower right.
The American Freedom Train behind 4449 and 3 SSW SD45T-2s in Sacramento River Canyon, November 1975
4449+9389 on American Freedom Train, Red Bluff, California
November 1975
4449 is lubed at Roseville, California before heading east over Donner Pass with the American Freedom Train. Nov 75
A pacing shot of 4449 on the American Freedom Train in Loomis, California. Thanksgiving 1975. This was shot out of Bill Calmes' Dodge Polara as we drove along the old Lincoln Highway in the Sierra Foothills. Kevin isn't in the picture, but he was in the car.
Mike Tisdale
|
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 wanted to visit a place known for pirates and Major Generals who know less of tactics than a novice in a nunnery.
So, one night, I got on a train at Paddington, found an empty compartment in a first class Mark 1 coach and stretched across the seats, and awakened the next morning to find myself in Cornwall. After a couple of hours of eating breakfast, watching trains and seeing a bit of the city, I caught another train out of town. I rode this one as far as Plymouth, getting photos of the Royal Albert Bridge as we went over it.
Mike Tisdale
|
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 UP cross.??
The people enjoyed the trains and each other and the dogs enjoyed people petting them.
Thanks, Ryan!
Mike Tisdale
|
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 autorack train cleared, but the CP manifest was still in the way as a CSX stack train rolled east. In the distance, a manifest with BNSF power was coming west on the B&OCT. 4 trains in one photo,?
26 April 2010
The two tracks closest to the camera are Indiana Harbor Belt, the farther two tracks are CSX/B&O Chicago Terminal.
Mike Tisdale
|
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 Pacifics. They were a on of the Indian Railways post independence standard classes.
The AWCs were WW2 era, American built 2-8-0, American War Department Consolidation. They were a broad gauge version of the S-160 2-8-0s used in Europe during and after WW2. A mechanic is doing work in the smokebox of the AWC.
I just noticed the date. 5 years later, I was getting married. ? 9 Feb 1980
|
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 Sunset for the run to Los Angeles.
At Marshall, the former Texas and Pacific line to New Orleans meets the former MoPac line coming south from Texarkana, Little Rock and St. Louis. The grain train is empties heading north for another load. I'm not sure if it dumped its load for export on the Gulf Coast or somewhere in Texas or Louisiana for domestic use.
The railroad in east Texas is a corridor through woods on both sides of the track.
The Eagle turns right at Marshall and heads west to Dallas
28 April 2010
|
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 train.
This is on the iron ore railway north of the Arctic Circle between Kiruna, Sweden, site of the mine, and Narvi 27 March, 1980
Mike Tisdale
|
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
|
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 Tisdale
|
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 staying with my friend Luc, whose house is cut off at the far left of this photo.
When I next visited Dendermonde in November 1981, this line had been electrified and EMUs were used on these trains.
English Wikipedia has a stub about these Class 51 units, but you can run French Wikipedia through a translation program and get some information about these units
?
23 Feb 1980
Mike Tisdale
|
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 Humboldt River. This is a few miles west of Carlin, Nevada, and if your map doesn't show Carlin, we are about 30 rail miles west of Elko.
21 June 2019
Mike Tisdale
|
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
|
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 update your records accordingly.
BH
On Monday, March 28, 2022, 10:50:29 PM PDT, Mike Tisdale via groups.io <tisdalem2001@...> wrote:
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 Grande's line was closed in March 1983 by the Thistle, Utah mudslide and the Zephyr stayed on the UP through Wyoming a few months longer than planned, until the Rio Grande line was open again. Amtrak renamed the SFZ to the CZ about the time it started running on the Rio Grande, but nearly 40 years later, I don't recall quite when that was.
23 August 1983
Mike Tisdale
|
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 Grande's line was closed in March 1983 by the Thistle, Utah mudslide and the Zephyr stayed on the UP through Wyoming a few months longer than planned, until the Rio Grande line was open again. Amtrak renamed the SFZ to the CZ about the time it started running on the Rio Grande, but nearly 40 years later, I don't recall quite when that was.
23 August 1983
Mike Tisdale
|
