Mississippi
This is not the first thing that comes to my mind when I think "Mississippi", but Isaac Fulford knew of this spot along the Gulf of Mexico with the CSX ex-L&N line running over an inlet and was there
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Mike Tisdale
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Snowy Saturday, 2011
27 March 2011 UP 604 at Soda Springs. Snow has closed Donner Pass. UP was working to get the line open, but the crews had gone dead on the hours of service law and this GP38-2 and flanger set was
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Mike Tisdale
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Minnesota
Minnesota is represented here by the BN, with an ex-GN Geep leading a train in Duluth across an NP bridge. It is 1973 and BN is still a rainbow, both on the head end and back in the train. Bill Edgar
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Mike Tisdale
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American River Thursday, 2018
March 31, 2018 UP 9904 leads an eastbound train over the American River¡ª in Sacramento, California. Mike Tisdale
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Mike Tisdale
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Michigan
Isaac Anderson has given us a Michigan sunset with a CN train crossing a frozen pond last December. Stunning. https://www.railpictures.net/photo/764374/ Mike'Tisdale
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Mike Tisdale
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Massachusetts
Donald Haskel took our Massachusetts photo of a New York Central mail train in 1966, before most mail was diverted to planes, trucks and freight trains. The photo was at Grafton, along the Boston and
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Mike Tisdale
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Rhein Tuesday, 1980
March 30, 1980?Local train across the Rhein from Bingerbruck Germany, pulled by a Class 141. This is the south end of the Rhein Gorge. Mike Tisdale
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Mike Tisdale
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Maryland
This view of NS taking John Deere tractors to the port of Baltimore, Maryland really struck me when I saw it on Railpictures. Maybe green era Katy might have made it even better, but the NS units at
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Mike Tisdale
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Re: BART Sunday, 2015
Interesting,thanks for that, Richard.? ? I don't know that the BLE (Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers) represents operators at any transit agencies in the US that were not originally "steam
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Mike Tisdale
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Cable Car Monday, 2015
March 28, 2015, Cable cars, California and Drumm St., San Francisoco. SP building dead ahead. This is the eastern terminal of the California Street cable car line. It runs a couple miles west, up and
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Mike Tisdale
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Re: BART Sunday, 2015
The gauge is 5' 6"? maybe India could pull them with a WP On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 4:10 PM, Alwyn Smith<alwyn.smith@...> wrote: #yiv4473112056 #yiv4473112056 -- _filtered {} _filtered {}
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Mike Tisdale
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Re: BART Sunday, 2015
Bill, Thank you for these corrections. I wasn't aware of this book but it sounds interesting. Phil Burton
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Phil Burton
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Re: BART Sunday, 2015
Since obs car is ostensibly about railroad art & literature, I will point out that former BART? spokesman Mike Healy wrote his history of BART based on his career there. it's called?BART: The
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Bill Hough
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BART Sunday, 2015
I had 2 trips in March 2015. I was in the Bay Area with my wife and daughter. They dropped me off at the Sausalito ferry and went off for a few days of mom and daughter time and I used a combination
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Mike Tisdale
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Maine
What is more Maine railroading than the 2 foot gauge railroads that used to link remote areas of the state to main line routes andd waterways? Happily, part of the Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington
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Mike Tisdale
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Louisiana
Railpictures' first Louisiana photo is today's photo of the state's railroading. Amtrak's Sunset has a couple of private cars on the end as it crosses a drawbridge shortly after the beginning of its
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Mike Tisdale
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Kentucky
Kentucky has some high bridges and one of them, at Burnside over the Cumberland River, features in today's photo of an NS freight in the state by Brad Kindschy. The Southern heritage unit shows in
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Mike Tisdale
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Long Ravine Thursday, 2009
2009-02-24, EB empty grain train, led by UP 7798, Long Ravine, near Colfax, California. Mike Tisdale
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Mike Tisdale
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Wednesday in Oakland, 2021
Amtrak San Joaquin train 713 arrives at Oakland, Jack London Square as it completes its journey from Bakersfield, California. F59PHI #2015 leads the train. The Comet car is there to add axles, to get
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Mike Tisdale
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Kansas
Kansas has wheat fields and elevators and this photo of the Cimarron Valley RR at Satana has the rail line's reason to exist in living color. Kevin Burkholder caught the big GEs, the lead one with a
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Mike Tisdale
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