San Francisco Bay Alco S2 23 and 25.? #23 was about to be started for a few hours of switching.? This was between 4 and 5 am on 21 June 2018 in San Francisco, California.? The Alcos were over 70 years old and had worked for the State Belt, SF Belt and now SF Bay on the same track for all of that time.
Mike Tisdale
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Chicago L Wednesday, 2015
November 12, 2015??
L train leaving La Salle St station and turning north onto Wells. St.
¡ª in Chicago, Illinois.
Mike Tisdale
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Unlike Ottumwa's 4-6-4, 3003 is close enough to the BNSF track that it can be incorporated into photos of main line trains. Burlington preserved a good number of steam locomotives and S-4 4-6-4s are stuffed an mounted at Ottumwa and Burlington, Iowa and Galesburg, Illinois along the California Zephyr's route.
I think the lead SD70MAC on the westbound empty coal train is BNSF 9924.
This is in Burlington, Iowa. I stopped off there en route to Chicago on a trip on 21 April 2010.
Mike Tisdale
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NYTimes: Chasing a Mighty Relic of Yesteryear: Union Pacific 4014
Chasing a Mighty Relic of Yesteryear: Union Pacific 4014
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Amtrak's 51st Birthday, 2022
Today is Amtrak's 51st birthday and 2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the Capitol Corridor trains between Auburn, Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently there are 11 Capitol Corridor round trips between Sacramento and Oakland on weekdays, with one train going to and from Auburn and six trains serving San Jose. This is a few less than in pre-Covid days, but the service will probably continue to expand as the trains are getting crowded again.
I took a trip from Sacramento Martinez on Thursday, 29 April and spent some of my time in Martinez, California walking around and photographing trains.
Here is eastbound train 536, pushed by F59PHI #2014, crossing the Benicia-Martinez bridge and passing tanker Sperchios. It had made its station stop at Martinez at 4 pm and is catching some nice afternoon light
Mike Tisdale
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Tullnerbach, Train of 4 wheel cars that I rode from Vienna to Tullnerbach.
Tullerbach is about 27 km west of Vienna. After arriving on an overnight train from Frankfurt, I spent the morning and early afternoon in Vienna before riding a train until a station looked interesting to stop at, which turned out to be Tullerbach. I probably saw this train of older 4 wheel coaches and decided to ride it to wherever looked good. 4 wheel cars on the main line out of the capital were not found in many European countries in 1980.
The engine looks like it might be a BR 4061. I have no idea where this train would wind up and I don't think I got a good shot of the engine, but the 4 wheel cars are a good subject.
Mike Tisdale
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UP 8444 and 3985 at Applegate, California.
The UP steam engines were en route to Railfair 1981, the opening of the California State RR Museum history building in Sacramento. 3985 had just been restored to operation. A lot of people were chasing the engines over Donner that day. A fair number came to this spot in Applegate for the over and under shot.
Mike Tisdale
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Worth Valley Friday, 1980
May 1980. Keighley, West Yorkshire, England. ex-USATC 5280, an S-160 2-8-0 built during WW2, departs Keighley with a Worth Valley train. The locomotive spent most of its career in Poland and was bought by the Worth Valley in 1977. It was used in the movie "Yanks".
Mike Tisdale
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Emigrant Gap Thursday, 1994
April 27, 1994? ?Westbound California Zephyr at Emigrant Gap, California. F40 395 leading.??
This is on the west side of Donner Pass, about 15 miles and 1800 feet below the summit at Norden.??
On the left is an old WW2 troop train kitchen car that was used for storage at Emigrant Gap for many years. It vanished a few years later.
Mike Tisdale
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July 20, 1983??
Following the pigs, UP 3772, led a combined Geneva, Utah to Pittsburg, California steel train and grain hopper train.
At the time, it seemed that EVERY UP train was pulled by SD40s and SD40-2s.
I was in Wendover, Utah with my Air National Guard unit supporting a Red Flag exercise.
Wendover is where the ex-WP and Interstate 80 cross from Utah to Nevada. The community straddles the state line, with gambling being legal on the Nevada side.
The train stopped, the crew got out and went to a nearby restaurant to get dinner and bring it back to eat on the go.
Mike Tisdale
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April 24, 2010??
Lake Forest, Illinois. Metra-C&NW station.
I loved what the fog did with the lights on the street
and platform. The trees along the platform were in bloom.
Lake Forest is a suburb north of Chicago served by both
the C&NW and Milwaukee Road METRA commuter lines.
Mike Tisdale
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April 25, 2010, Dolton, Illinois. ? CSX GP38-2 on a short local freight heading east on the B&O Chicago Terminal. .
The sidelight brings out the bright green of spring.
Dolton is south of Chicago. The Indiana Harbor Belt and B&OCT cross the former C&EI, now jointly owned by UP and CSX, at Dolton. NS has a short, former PRR Panhandle, line that comes off the IHB here and goes to a steel plant. The Panhandle used to cross the IHB and C&EI here at a 45 degree angle, but is mostly abandoned. Still, the junction sees many trains every day.?
Mike Tisdale
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April 24, 2010??
Lake Forest, Illinois. Metra-C&NW station.
I loved what the fog did with the lights on the street and platform. The trees along the platform were in bloom.
Lake Forest is a suburb north of Chicago served by both the C&NW and Milwaukee Road METRA commuter lines.
Mike Tisdale
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South Station Sunday, 1977
MBTA GP9 7543 arrives with a train of ex-New Haven coaches. I'm guessing the train is from Worcester or Providence. A PRR P-70 coach that was in the mix with the New Haven American Flyer cars is on the left and Amtrak and MBTA units await their next call to duty.
South Station, BostonMBTA GP9 7543 arrives with a train of ex-New Haven coaches. I'm guessing the train is from Worcester or Providence. A PRR P-70 coach that was in the mix with the New Haven American Flyer cars is on the left and Amtrak and MBTA units await their next call to duty.
South Station, Boston, Massachusetts.
8 June 1977.
Mike Tisdale
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July 23, 1988
The mountains appear as we approach East Glacier, Montana.?
Taken from the westbound Empire Builder.
Mike Tisdale
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Across the highway at Martin, the Utah Railway was assembling a train. Martin is the HQ of the Utah with its shops, the former office building (now not used as Utah is owned by Genesee and Wyoming) and the old water tank up the hill.
I spent a day in Helper, Utah in April 2010 on a trip from Sacramento to Chicago via the California Zephyr. Martin is a short distance from Helper.
19 April 2010
Mike Tisdale
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New Perspective Thursday, 2022
Sacramento, California 20 April 2022 A new perspective? on Sacramento's SP? station.? I was on the 6th floor of a fairly recently constructed medical building a block away from the station and had a good view of it.??
This is a new angle on a building? I've been photographing for 50? years.??
A stack train stopped for a while, with? a? gray? KCS unit in the consist.? ?Unfortunately, I only had my cell phone and the zoomed photo is not particularly clear.
Mike Tisdale
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Crosshead Wednesday, 2018
The crosshead of Virginia & Truckee 2-8-0 #29 at Virginia City,, Nevada
21 July 2018
Mike Tisdale
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UP 5953 on EB empty grain train, Antelope, California.
Antelope is the west end of the Roseville year.
In 2011, patched SP units were well worth a photo, even if they were not leading 17 April 2011
Mike Tisdale
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June 22, 2019?
UP 9016 west crossing the Humboldt River, passing through a tunnel and crossing the Humboldt River again.
¡ª in Palisade, Nevada.
Eureka County, Nevada has about 1800 people in 4000 square miles/10,000 square km. None of them live in the field? of view of this photo, although the ranch that is what is left of the town of Palisade is behind me and a couple of other? ranches are along Palisade Road on the way to the state highway a mile or so away.
Mike Tisdale
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