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Re: Applegate Wednesday
Mike, Are any UP engines in active duty configured as tunnel motors? Phil Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 11:25 PM To: [email protected]; Observation Car <observationcar@...>
By Phil Burton · #127 ·
Antelope Saturday
4 light units, led by a Kodachrome SD 45, have cut off their train and are now heading back to the Roseville Shops, while SD7 1504 switches at Antelope, California. 1987-image007-7feb-Antelope | | | |
By Mike Tisdale · #126 ·
Re: Washington Friday
There were GG-1s.? I think I got one this day, but I'd have to look through the other shots.? I'd gotten some in Newark and Harrisburg earlier that trip. Mike Tisdale
By Mike Tisdale · #125 ·
Washington Friday
Washington Union Station action in June 1977 image040-Washington-Metroliner-WT-RS1-SR-E8s-77-6-18 | | | | | | | | | | | image040-Washington-Metroliner-WT-RS1-SR-E8s-77-6-18 18 June 1977, Washington
By Mike Tisdale · #124 ·
Thursday at Antonito
The arrival of our Cumbres and Toltec train at Antonito, Colorado, featuring D&RG T-12 168. Antonito, Colorado, 9 October 2019 | | | | | | | | | | | Antonito, Colorado, 9 October 2019 The arrival of
By Mike Tisdale · #123 ·
Re: For Friday, a Circle Trip around the Bay
That was the classic SP "Go One Way, Return Another".? They hoped you'd? take the City or Overland one way and the Golden State or Sunset the other, with a Daylight in between.? I've done that a
By Mike Tisdale · #122 ·
Applegate Wednesday
On the warm summer morning of 8 July 2007, UP 5282 leads an eastbound manifest train with some refers at the front into Tunnel 28 in Applegate, California. We're at around 2000' elevation and the
By Mike Tisdale · #121 ·
Re: For Friday, a Circle Trip around the Bay
Or a circle trip from Chicago to SF, to LA, and back to Chicago. About a week¡¯s worth of travel. Phil Sent: Monday, January 6, 2020 10:30 PM To: observationcar@...;
By Phil Burton · #120 ·
Re: Altamont Springtime Special for Tuesday
Looks like a 25A light red filter was used for the shots at the west end of the canyon. I have spent a fair number of days on Altamont over the last twenty-five years, but it isn't much these days
By Dave Saums · #119 ·
Altamont Springtime Special for Tuesday
In April 1975, a circle excursion was run on the SP lines Oakland-Fremont-Niles Canyon-Pleasanton-Altamont-Tracy-Martinez-Oakland, California.? The train had 5 ex-SP Fs, a dozen or so ex-SP cars that
By Mike Tisdale · #118 ·
Then and Now Monday
Amtrak and a surprise at the American River crossing in Sacramento, 2020 and 1973. Johnston, Sacramento, California, 2020 and 1973 | | | | | | | | | | | Johnston, Sacramento, California, 2020 and 1973
By Mike Tisdale · #117 ·
Colfax Sunday
1974 and 2011 at the same spot just west of Colfax, California https://www.flickr.com/photos/10813293@N08/albums/72157712521015387 Mike Tisdale
By Mike Tisdale · #116 ·
For Saturday, Part 2 of the Bay Area Circle
The second half of my Sacramento-Martinez-Santa Rosa-Larkspur-San Francisco-Oakland-Sacramento trip last Monday Bay Area Circle Trip, part 2, 30 December 2019 | | | | | | | | | | | Bay Area Circle
By Mike Tisdale · #115 ·
For Friday, a Circle Trip around the Bay
SP used to advertise "Go One Way, Return Another", encouraging people in the eastern US use one of their routes to go west to California and return via a different route.? Passengers could go west on
By Mike Tisdale · #114 ·
Over and Under Thursday
An excursion train waits while a Z train passes below. IMG_4123-3832+Feather-River-Express | | | | | | | | | | | IMG_4123-3832+Feather-River-Express UP SD70M 3832 leads a westbound intermodal Z train
By Mike Tisdale · #113 ·
Re: 112 years old and still in service
Forgot to include that thread: http://talk.nycsubway.org/perl/read?subtalk=31768 Phil Burton Sent: Wednesday, January 1, 2020 9:32 PM To: '[email protected]' <[email protected]>;
By Phil Burton · #112 ·
Re: 112 years old and still in service
Mike, Your explanation of self-lapping vs older brake valves reminded me that subway cars built before WW II for the various NYC systems were not self-lapping. They had the designation ME-23. (Don¡¯t
By Phil Burton · #111 ·
Happy New Year from the Railfan Seat
Happy New Year from 40 years ago. We are on a British Railways DMU somewhere between Leeds and York. The 1950s and 1960s BR DMUs were almost as good as a cab ride for seeing the road ahead, with a big
By Mike Tisdale · #110 ·
Re: 112 years old and still in service
For what it's worth: Locomotive 671 of the Graz-K?flacher Bahn, a regional Austrian railroad based in Graz (in south central Austria), is believed to be the worlds oldest continually operable steam
By Ernest H. Robl · #109 ·
Re: For Monday, from Forest to Sagebrush
No, we are just going slowly and the wind is blowing the smoke ahead of the train.? C&TS has engines leading its trains.? We are going downhill in this batch of photos, so the engine is not working
By Mike Tisdale · #108 ·