May 19, 2018??
Vacaville, California, Amtrak 728.
The Bay Area to Sacramento Capitol Corridor train is passing through some typical Central Valley farmland.
Mike Tisdale
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Welded Rail Wednesday, 2013
May 18, 2013
Welded rail train, Rocklin, California.
UP was replacing a lot of rail on Donner Pass that year
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On the way to the May 2014 Calrailfans meet at Eckley, I saw these GP38-2s switching near Dixon, California.
Dixon is the next town west (by timetable, southwest by direction) of Davis on the Cal-P line between Sacramento and Oakland. 17 May 2014
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The last location where my dad and I saw the train was a bit north of Bray, California in perfect light as 4449 leads its train north.
Greg Brown tells me that this is near the site of a siding called Jerome.
4449 returning north to Portland after Railfair 1981. This is a few miles south of the Oregon border, still in California.
16 May 1981
Mike Tisdale
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A westbound Capitol Corridor train approaches the Suisun-Fairfield, California station behind SC44 #2123
Mike Tisdale
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Young railfans and the mom of 2 of them watch and photograph CN 3005 on a westbound UP autorack train at Eckley Park, Crockett, California. It is good to see young people seeing and making photos and videos of railroad action. The kids knew that the CN unit was on this autorack train and insisted that their parents wait until the autorack train passed. 
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Photo of the Day: UP 9910 leads the California Northern connection train at Cordelia Jct. in Fairfield, California. The train arrived at the blue hour.
13 May 2022
Mike Tisdale
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March 28, 2015??
Cable cars, California and Drumm St., SF, SP building in the background.
San Francisco, California
Mike Tisdale
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On Friday, 29 April 2022, I took Amtrak Capitol train 541 to Martinez for a few hours of train watching. We had SC44 2123 and 4 California cars, all pretty full, which means that ridership is getting back up to pre-Covid levels.
?I spent a few hours at Martinez and caught several UP freights as well as the usual Amtrak Capitols and San Joaquins.
Photos with SAC in the title are in Sacramento, those with MTZ are in Martinez.
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Port Orange, Florida East Coast GP40 401 We were in town visiting my wife's sister and her family, who lived a couple of blocks from the FEC track
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Thank you.? 1980, of course.? I have no idea why I typed 1920.
It is meter gauge, so that accounts for the center coupler and no buffers.? ?The FO has a branch down to Goschenen from its mainline that went over the Gotthard Tunnel.? Goschenen is at the north portal of the Gotthard Tunnel, the old one that still sees some traffic as the base tunnel now has most trains.? ?In 1980, of course, all traffic went through the old tunnel.
I'm glad someone reads my posts!
Mike Tisdale
On Monday, May 9, 2022, 07:06:45 AM PDT, Phil Burton <philip-b@...> wrote:
Mike, ? 1920 or 1980?? (You¡¯re not that old.? J? ) ? Unless it¡¯s just the lighting,? I don¡¯t see the usual buffers on the front of this engine. ? Phil Burton ? ?
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Mike, ? 1920 or 1980?? (You¡¯re not that old.? J? ) ? Unless it¡¯s just the lighting,? I don¡¯t see the usual buffers on the front of this engine. ? Phil Burton ? ?
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Mike, ? 1920 or 1980?? (You¡¯re not that old.? J? ) ? Unless it¡¯s just the lighting,? I don¡¯t see the usual buffers on the front of this engine. ? Phil Burton ? ?
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Hi Phil,
The train I was on in Sri Lanka that was so crowded was downhill from Kandy to Colombo.? Not sure if they needed an extra unit to get the crowd up the hill or not.
Bangladesh is a giant river delta.? The main grades the railways there face are approaches to bridges.
In either case, the people in both Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are not large by American standards.??
Mike
On Sunday, May 8, 2022, 06:11:48 PM PDT, Phil Burton <philip-b@...> wrote:
Mike, ? With so many people in each car, and a long train, did the engine have problems on grades? ? Phil ?
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Subject: Re: [ObservationCar] Open Air Dome Cars ? No, they can't really sit inside.? They can stand sorta like matches in a box,1000 per coach or so.?? I was on a car that overcrowded in Sri Lanka (nobody on the root due to tunnels) and it was sorta like standing at attention in formation, except if I fell over, I wouldn't fall, I'd just lean on someone.? At the first stop, the engine crew took pity on the 3 Europeans who'd gotten off for a bit of air and let us ride in the cab of the German made diesel hydraulic for the rest of the trip. On Sunday, May 8, 2022, 08:39:59 AM PDT, Andy Smith <andysmith22@...> wrote: Do they know they can sit on the inside too??
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Love your posts Mike, keep em' coming.?
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Furka Oberalp #21 at Goschenen, Switzerland.? 10 Mar 1920
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Mike, ? With so many people in each car, and a long train, did the engine have problems on grades? ? Phil ?
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Subject: Re: [ObservationCar] Open Air Dome Cars? No, they can't really sit inside.? They can stand sorta like matches in a box,1000 per coach or so.?? I was on a car that overcrowded in Sri Lanka (nobody on the root due to tunnels) and it was sorta like standing at attention in formation, except if I fell over, I wouldn't fall, I'd just lean on someone.? At the first stop, the engine crew took pity on the 3 Europeans who'd gotten off for a bit of air and let us ride in the cab of the German made diesel hydraulic for the rest of the trip. On Sunday, May 8, 2022, 08:39:59 AM PDT, Andy Smith <andysmith22@...> wrote: Do they know they can sit on the inside too??
j/k j/k
Love your posts Mike, keep em' coming.?
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Thank you, Andy.
No, they can't really sit inside.? They can stand sorta like matches in a box,1000 per coach or so.??
I was on a car that overcrowded in Sri Lanka (nobody on the root due to tunnels) and it was sorta like standing at attention in formation, except if I fell over, I wouldn't fall, I'd just lean on someone.? At the first stop, the engine crew took pity on the 3 Europeans who'd gotten off for a bit of air and let us ride in the cab of the German made diesel hydraulic for the rest of the trip.
Mike Tisdale
On Sunday, May 8, 2022, 08:39:59 AM PDT, Andy Smith <andysmith22@...> wrote:
Do they know they can sit on the inside too??
j/k j/k
Love your posts Mike, keep em' coming.?
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Do they know they can sit on the inside too??
j/k j/k
Love your posts Mike, keep em' coming.?
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Calrailfans at Mariposa Yard, Stockton, 12 Feb 2022 -- for Friday
Calrailfans at Mariposa Yard, Stockton, 12 Feb 2022 Our February 2022 Calrailfans meet was at Mariposa Yard, near Stockton, California. I got there fairly late in the afternoon, after the sun had swung to the west side of the track. The light was not on our side on the east side of the line, but I joined the photo lines for the 2 Amtrak San Joaqunis and 2 BNSF freights that passed in the time I was there. A Ferromex EMD unit was a high point of the day,
Mike Tisdale
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It is Eid al Fatr and trains are full in Bangladesh.
Mike Tisdale
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