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Montreux Thursday, 1980
Montreux, Switzerland. Re4/4 11241 arrives with an eastbound train. This might be the 1602 train that I left on. I like the way the city just surrounds to railway. There is not a lot of space between
By Mike Tisdale · #1307 ·
Snowy Wednesday, 2012
21 Dec 2012, Truckee, California, snow service GP38-2s on flanger sets.. The frames on top of the units are icicle breakers, used to smash hanging icicles in tunnels and snowsheds. When snow is
By Mike Tisdale · #1306 ·
Emigrant Gap Tuesday, 2007
UP 4267 west passing the WW2 troop diner at Emigrant Gap, California. The old car was there for many years and used to store maintenance of way equipment, but by 2011, it was gone. Emigrant Gap is at
By Mike Tisdale · #1305 ·
San Joaquin Monday, 2013
January 2, 2013? San Joaquin 704 approaching Elvas, where it will turn south onto the Fresno Sub en route to Bakersfield. P42 158 pushing. ¡ª in Sacramento, California. isd Mike Tisdale
By Mike Tisdale · #1304 ·
Darjeeling Sunday, 1980
At Tung, we met an uphill mixed behind 791 that was taking water. We were on the downhill Darjeeling Mail on the left. The car with the red window stripe was a working mail car, what we'd call an RPO
By Mike Tisdale · #1303 ·
South Kenton Saturday, 1980
April 25, 1980? London-Birmingham BR EMU at South Kenton. I think this is a Class 310.?? I'd ridden the London Underground here and was watching trains from the Underground platform, note the 3rd
By Mike Tisdale · #1302 ·
Happy New Year, San Francisco PCC 2014
San Francisco, California Powell and Market, PCC car 1050 in SF Muni colors 31 December 2014 Mike Tisdale
By Mike Tisdale · #1301 ·
Palisade, Nevada
i've gotten some comments on the Palisade photo.?? Someone sent me this 1880 photo of the town The train in my photo was curving around the cliff on the right of this shot on the track the Western
By Mike Tisdale · #1300 ·
Colfax Thursday, 2006
BNSF 7698 eastbound at Colfax, California. 2 warbonnets and a blue/yellow Geep were also in the consist. 30 Dec 2006 Mike Tisdale
By Mike Tisdale · #1299 ·
A Morning at Palisade for Tuesday, 2018
August 24, 2018??8631 was DPU on a no grainer. The colors of the canyon remind me of Maxfeld Parrish. Some railfan friends and i camped at Palisade in 2018 and 2019. This eastbound empty grain train
By Mike Tisdale · #1298 ·
A Tenderful of Coal for Tuesday, 1980
WP 4-6-2 7452. of the Western Railway (others at Bhusaval are Central Railway). Coaling by hand. At Bhusaval, the passenger engines were fueled by hand, while cranes were used on the freight engines.
By Mike Tisdale · #1297 ·
Re: BNSF at James for Monday, 2019
BNSF 7513 is a GE ES44DC and BNSF 4011 is a GE C44-9W.? The C44s get 4400 HP from a 16 cylinder FDL engine, while the newer ES44s (GEVOs) have GE's newer Evolution Series engine and get the same HP
By Mike Tisdale · #1296 ·
Re: BNSF at James for Monday, 2019
The second unit is BNSF 991, a GE C44-9W, built in 1996.? Here are a couple of other photos of it in the Feather River Canyon.?? BNSF has had several variations of its orange paint scheme.? We see
By Mike Tisdale · #1295 ·
BNSF at James for Monday, 2019
August 25, 2019?? James, California BNSF 7513 west. James is on the line built in the early 1960s to avoid Lake Oroville between Oroville, California and the Feather River Canyon. Mike Tisdale
By Mike Tisdale · #1294 ·
Re: SP in SF for Saturday, 1973
That is very possible.? I don't recall if both were running.? It was over 48 years ago.?? Mike Tisdale
By Mike Tisdale · #1293 ·
Re: SP in SF for Saturday, 1973
Just a guess, the first one had a mechanical and it was most expedient to just get the second unit to take the bad locomotive to Newhall Street to get fixed?
By Bill Hough · #1292 ·
Re: SP in SF for Saturday, 1973
Hi Bill,? ?it wasleaving, that is why it was crossing 4th St.? ?I don't know why there were 2 GP9s, as the train had 2 or 3 cars.? Mike Tisdale
By Mike Tisdale · #1291 ·
Re: SP in SF for Saturday, 1973
follow up: and why two locomotives?
By Bill Hough · #1290 ·
Re: SP in SF for Saturday, 1973
Was this a special Saturday? that train seems longer than usual for a weekend.
By Bill Hough · #1289 ·
Fw: Truckee Webcam - Flanger eastbound
My friend Paul? got these screen shots of the Truckee, California web camera on Christmas morning.? A blizzard on Donner Pass closed Interstate 80 over the mountains today, but UP and Amtrak
By Mike Tisdale · #1288 ·