On Sunday, we got lunch at Twain and packed up at the Virgilia camp site, then a horn was heard and we prepared to head west. Instead of the BNSF manifest, which we'd left awaiting a new crew at Keddie, a UP manifest, the MNPRV (North Platte, Nebraska to Roseville Manifest) with 1 on the point and 1 DPU came by and the chase was on.
We'd set up at Rock Creek trestle on Saturday first high above, when we saw two trains, then below but no trains had passed when we were at ground level. The UP manifest crosses Rock Creek here in perfect light.
The location? is the Feather River Canyon, California
2 August 2012
Mike Tisdale
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San Francisco Sunset Thursday, 2021
On 11 December 2021, I took a trip to San Jose and San Francisco via the Amtrak Capitol Corridor from Sacramento to San Jose, VTA light rail in San Jose, Caltrain to San Francisco, SF Muni to Ocean Beach in SF and back, BART to Richmond and Amtrak back home.
This is the last album of the trip.??
When I arrived in SF, I noticed that there would be a good sunset and decided to ride the N Judah streetcar line to the end of the line at Ocean Beach to watch it.??
Once the color faded from the sky, I took Muni back to Powell St. in downtown SF and transferred to BART for the run to Richmond and the Amtrak connection.? My BART train was composed of the new cars, which have maps that chart the train's progress.??
After a brief wait in Richmond, Amtrak Capitol Corridor train 744 arrived and took me home to Sacramento, the end of a most enjoyable day.
Mike Tisdale
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Springtime Wednesday, 1987
16 Feb 87, Newcastle, California.? ?SP Extra 8510 west. This is the time of year when trees start blooming around here.
Mike Tisdale
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UP 808 waits on the left, a UP manifest, according to Frank the MRVSJ, (Roseville-San Jose) holds on the main as Capitol 733 arrives.
Emeryville, California 15 Feb 2014
Mike Tisdale
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Monday at Secrettown, 2013
2-2-2013, Secrettown, California, eastbound manifest behind UP 7826. Secrettown is between Colfax and Gold Run on the west slope of Donner Pass
2-2-2013, Secrettown, California, eastbound manifest behind UP 7826. Secrettown is between Colfax and Gold Run on the west slope of Donner Pass
Mike Tisdale
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13 Feb 87?
LABRT at Planehaven and my 1971 VW van. Planehaven is the switch for the track to McClellan AFB/McClellan Business Park. The LABRT was SP's hot Los Angeles-Portland intermodal train. SD45T-2 9285 was leading that day, with a "Kodachrome" tunnel motor as the 2nd unit.
¡ª in Sacramento, California.
Mike
Tisdale
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Re: Repainted F units on a snowplow extra today
Thank you, that is great to see, Fs still earning their keep.
Cheers,
Mike Tisdale
On Friday, February 11, 2022, 08:05:48 AM PST, headtailgrep <steve@...> wrote:
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Re: Stockholm Thursday, 1984
That would have been interesting, Richard.? The lines in Stockholm do snake around, so that was quite a feat to put the railroad through there.? In the US, there were a lot of towns where the railroad was built and then the town appeared around the railroad.
Mike
On Thursday, February 10, 2022, 02:34:03 AM PST, <steam.richard@...> wrote:
A very busy picture. There was a programme on Yesterday channel last night (The Landscape the Railways Gave Us) about an architect who had got roads through Stockholm's watery landscape then a few years later had to to find a route for the railway. He did find a route but passed away before it was built and someone else brought his plans to fruition.
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Subject: Stockholm Thursday, 1984
August 24, 1984
Rc class electric peeking through buildings with the clock tower of St. Nicolas Storkyrkan Cathedral in the background.
¡ª in Stockholm, Sweden.
 Mike Tisdale
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11 February 2016, San Francisco, California. SF Bay RR Alco S-2 #23 switching the line's yard.
Mike Tisdale
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Re: Repainted F units on a snowplow extra today
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Re: Repainted F units on a snowplow extra today
Steve,
Very nice to see two F-units doing anything, anywhere! And, really very nice to see two F-units and a plow, to boot.? Great to see. Thanks?very much for posting.
Regards,
Dave.
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Very unexpected: I live fairly local to this, and with no recent weather indicating the need for a plow I certainly could not have predicted one would run. Hearing one was out this morning, while I missed most of the action while working this morning,
you only really need one shot to make it count. Here's a picture as they head for Tillsonburg near Salford around Lunchtime nearing the end of the journey.
This was the first plow train of the season for any railway in the area - sometimes the GEXR north of here runs one too (they did run one January 2021) and to my knowledge have not run one yet. Here's last year's run:
If I may kindly since this may be of interest to ObsCar members:? I have an article in Railfan & Railroad magazine at newsstands now - subject is GEXR's plowing and the premise is how a GEXR plow extra shut down 250 miles of railroad - with plenty of pictures
and the full story to boot.
Cheers and thank you
- Steve
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Repainted F units on a snowplow extra today
Very unexpected: I live fairly local to this, and with no recent weather indicating the need for a plow I certainly could not have predicted one would run. Hearing one was out this morning, while I missed most of the action while working this morning, you only really need one shot to make it count. Here's a picture as they head for Tillsonburg near Salford around Lunchtime nearing the end of the journey.
This was the first plow train of the season for any railway in the area - sometimes the GEXR north of here runs one too (they did run one January 2021) and to my knowledge have not run one yet. Here's last year's run:
If I may kindly since this may be of interest to ObsCar members:? I have an article in Railfan & Railroad magazine at newsstands now - subject is GEXR's plowing and the premise is how a GEXR plow extra shut down 250 miles of railroad - with plenty of pictures and the full story to boot.
Cheers and thank you
- Steve
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August 24, 1984
Rc class electric peeking through buildings with the clock tower of St. Nicolas Storkyrkan Cathedral in the background.
¡ª in Stockholm, Sweden.
 Mike Tisdale
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August 24, 1984
Rc class electric peeking through buildings with the clock tower of St. Nicolas Storkyrkan Cathedral in the background.
¡ª in Stockholm, Sweden.
 Mike Tisdale
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October 8, 2019??
Durango & Silverton RR K-36 2-8-2 481 leaving Durango, Colorado with the engineer watching the track ahead. 481 was leading the first of two trains to Silverton that morning.
Mike Tisdale
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The KMNOA, a westbound stack train from Marion, Arkansas to Oakland, California, had suffered an engine failure in Tunnel 41, the Donner Summit tunnel. It drifted back until its lead units were out of Tunnel 41 and the crew and the mechanical department futzed around for a while trying to get the 8523 running again.
Several of us, who were camped at Eder at the east end of the tunnel, headed to Shed 47 to watch the show if the K train had to back further. Here is its DPU above Donner lake with the patch of snow on Mt. Judah in the background.
The DPU is SD70ACe UP 8534.
13 Aug 2011.
¡ª at Donner Summit, CA.
Mike Tisdale
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August 23, 2018 ? Just west of Lovelock, Nevada, we met UP 8560 leading a short westbound manifest. I was en route to a camp out at Palisade, Nevada.
The power was SD70ACe 8560, GE Tier 4 ET44AC 2595, SD70ACe 8630 and SD40-2 1636. I'm guessing the SD40 was a switcher somewhere that was being taken to Roseville for maintenance.
Mike Tisdale
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Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine Sunday, 12 Nov 2021
My wife and I had a long weekend away in the Fresno, California area in November and on 12 November, I drove to Fish Camp, on SR 41, the southern route into Yosemite National Park, to ride the Yosemite Valley Sugar Pine RR.?
I'd known about the line for many years, but had never gotten around to riding it. The website said there was one train at 11 am and I arrived around 1030, to find the train sold out. however a 1 pm train had been added for the extra business and I wound up riding that. Here are a few photos of Shay #10 on the 11am train, as well as a couple of old Ford railcars.?
The line goes from the station near SR 41 down the hill on track laid on the right of way of the Madera Sugar Pine Lumber company, which logged this area in the first decades of the 20th century. The far end of the line is a loop, so trains alternate between tender first and smokebox first operation. Shays run equally well in both directions. <a href="https://ymsprr.com/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">ymsprr.com/</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosemite_Mountain_Sugar_Pine_Railroad" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosemite_Mountain_Sugar_Pine_Railroad</a>
Mike Tisdale
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Surrounded by Kids Saturday, 1980
We attracted a crowd of kids with our cameras and just being Europeans in an area that did not get many tourists. Grahame is filming YP 2578 on a commuter train, and Phil, on the left is getting ready to snap a photo.
Lalaguda, near Secunderabad, India.
The YPs were the post independence meter gauge standard 4-6-2s
This was on our 1980 trip to India to see steam trains. 3 Feb 1980
Mike Tisdale
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Great History story ?
If you were in the market for a watch in 1880, would you know where to get one? You would go to a store, right? Well, of course you could do that, but if you wanted one that was cheaper and a bit better than most of the store watches, you went to the train station!?
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Sound a bit funny? Well, for about 500 towns across the northern?United States, that's where the best watches were found.
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Most of the station agents were also skilled telegraph operators and it was the primary way they communicated with the railroad. They would know when trains left the previous station and when they were due at their next station. And it was the telegraph operator who had the watches. As a matter of fact, they sold more of them than almost all the stores combined for a period of about 9 years.
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This was all arranged by "Richard", who was a telegraph operator himself. He was on duty in the North?Redwood,?Minnesota?train station one day when a load of watches arrived from the East. It was a huge crate of pocket watches. No one ever came to claim them. So Richard sent a telegram to the manufacturer and asked them what they wanted to do with the watches. The manufacturer didn't want to pay the freight back, so they wired Richard to see if he could sell them. So Richard did. He sent a wire to every agent in the system asking them if they wanted a cheap, but good, pocket watch. He sold the entire lcase in less than two days and at a handsome profit. That started it all. ?
He ordered more watches from the watch company and encouraged the telegraph operators to set up a display case in the station offering high quality watches for a cheap price to all the travelers. It worked!?It didn't take long for the word to spread and, before long, people other than travelers came to the train station to buy watches.?Richard became so busy that he had to hire a professional watchmaker to help him with the orders. That was Alvah. And the rest is history as they say.?The business took off and soon expanded to many other lines of dry goods. Richard and Alvah left the train station and moved their company to?Chicago.
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YES, IT'S A LITTLE KNOWN FACT that for a while in the 1880's, the biggest watch retailer in the country was at the train station. It all started with a telegraph operator: Richard Sears and partner Alvah Roebuck!?
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