Pressbaum, Austria. 1040-01 and another electric on an eastbound tank train.
I hung out at Pressbaum for an hour or so in the late afternoon photographing whatever trains came by. Pressbaum is about 30 km west of Vienna. 31 March 1980
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SP 8973, an SD45, leads an eastbound train at Applegate, California. Part of Tunnel 27 collapsed when it was being raised, so its old portal was left intact and a new one built behind the collapsed area.
11 May 1981
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Snowy Colfax Friday, 2011
26 Feb 2011, eastbound California Zephyr at Colfax, California
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20 Mar 2014, Arcade Creek, Sacramento, California.
Z train stopped for inspection, light rail train and sunset
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2007 July 8, UP 5282 eastbound at Colfax, California
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October 8, 2019??
Chama, NM??
C&TS K36 2-8-2 489 leading the Antonito to Chama train below Lobato.
¡ª at Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad.
Mike Tisdale
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20 March 2022 is the 73rd anniversary of the first trip of the California Zephyr. In 2009, I photographed it passing some California poppies in Rocklin, California on the 60th anniversary.
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Spring Color Saturday, 2012
26 Feb 2012, Antelope, California, a westbound manifest leaving town past spring flowers. UP 5964 is in the lead out of Roseville yard
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March 17, 2017??
Albany and Eastern excursion, couplers. This was taken on an excursion that ran out of Lebanon, Oregon the day before Winterail 2017
The caboose is an ex-SP car.
Mike Tisdale
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American River Thursday, 2013
March 16, 2013? ? Clean SD59MX UP 9918 leads an eastbound toward Roseville. This is at Johnston where the ex-SP Martinez Sub crosses the American River.
¡ª in Sacramento, California.
Mike Tisdale
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Fort Worth Wednesday 2010
Southbound BNSF autorack train approaches Tower 55 in Ft. Worth, Texas. BNSF 7494 is the lead unit.
I was in Ft. Worth on Amtrak's Texas Eagle en route from Chicago to Los Angeles.
28 April 2010
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11 Mar 2012, Capitol Corridor train 742 at Antelope. 742 was the weekend Capitol train that ran from the Bay Area to Roseville and Auburn, California.
Eastbound Capitols run in push mode.
Since Covid, 742 no longer runs to Auburn. An earlier train now makes the Auburn run on weekends.
Mike Tisdale
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As seen from IC Drachenfels, a freight train is on the east bank, across the Rhein. We are in the Rhein Gorge north of Bingen, Germany. I was riding from Frankfurt to Koln, where I'd connect to a train to Brussels.
I'd been in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for 3 months and stopped off in Europe for a month to visit friends on the way home to the US. I'd flown into Rhein-Main AFB the day before, spent the night in the base hotel, then taken a bus to Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof and gotten an Interrail card for a month's travel. I stayed with friends in Belgium, Denmark, and several friends in the UK before flying home just before Christmas. 20 Nov 1981
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Amtrak and BNSF Sunday, 2007
Shakespeare often wrote about things going wrong, when the normal power structure was turned upside down. Most of his history plays, from Richard II through Henry IV, V and VI to Richard III deal with a civil war period in England known today as the Wars of the Roses. Even his flights of fancy often have a theme of the rightful order being disrupted. In the Tempest, Prospero has been usurped as by his brother, but all is made right in the end.
Im not the first person to notice this or observe that he started writing late in the reign of Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen who would leave no heir. His concerns about what would happen who Good Queen Bess died came out in his many plays about disputed successions. Even after Elizabeth was dead and James VI of Scotland had become James I of England, plays such as Macbeth continued the theme of wars of succession after the rightful king is deposed.
Julius Caesar is not about Veni. Vidi. Vici or crossing the Rubicon. It is about the assassination of Caesar, who is not really a major character in the play, and the civil war that followed between the forces of Brutus and Marc Anthony. The theme continues in Anthony and Cleopatra, until at the end of that play, having first allied with Anthony to defeat Brutus, Octavius defeats him and becomes emperor as Augustus. Anthony always seemed too interested in skirt chasing to be a successful leader; perhaps his motto was Vidi. Vici. Veni. (Bet thats the first dirty Latin pun youve seen today!)
On 15 March 2007 Union Pacific should have taken the advice of Shakespeares Soothsayer in Julius Caesar
Sooth. Beware the ides of March.
(later)
Caesar. [To the Soothsayer.] The ides of March are come.
Sooth. Ay, Caesar; but not gone.
As it was most of the day passed normally in Sacramento, California. I had another dental appointment and got out of it just before the eastbound Zephyr was due to leave town. I considered trying to get to Johnston to shoot it coming off the American River bridge, but instead decided to shoot it at Haggin, where the ex-SP main passes over the ex-WP main and trains coming south on the former WP can turn east or west onto the SP. When I arrived a BNSF freight was waiting to follow the Zephyr to Elvas so it could continue south. #6 passed a couple minutes after I showed up.
This would be the last #6 to run on its regular route west of Roseville for some weeks until UP got the trestle rebuilt.
The BNSF train would normally have stayed on the Sacramento Sub (ex-WP) for the rest of its run to Stockton, but UP might have been doing trackwork. Note that the third unit is Norfolk Southern.
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7 Mar 2014, Portland Union Station, Coast Starlight and Cascades Talgo train.
We were taking the Starlight from Sacramento to Seattle for a family gathering.
The Cascades train has a "cabbage car" on the north end, an F40 that has been converted to a cab control and baggage car with no engine or traction motors.
In Portland, Oregon
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Railway Post Office and Travelling Post Office cars had a mail slot where people on the platform could post a letter. The last RPO in the US ran in 1977, so that tradition is gone here, but in 1980, the mail car on the Darjeeling train in India had a mail slot, where I dropped a couple of post cards. I might still have them somewhere with the car's postmark, but even if I don't I do have this shot of the car and its mail slot.
Taken during the downhill train's stop in Tindharia, India
30 January 1980
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UP 3136 SD40-2 18 March 1978
At the time UP SD40-2s were very common and "boring", compared to some of UP's other power, but this was a different angle on a couple of them.
I was in Denver en route from Wichtia Falls, Texas to Sacramento. I'd just gotten out of Air Force tech school at Sheppard AFB in Wichita Falls and got permission from my unit to take the bus from Wichita Falls to Denver and then the Rio Grande Zephyr and San Francisco Zephyr home from there, rather than flying back.
I had to spend a day in Denver watching trains as the RGZ was tri-weekly and didn't run west the day after I arrived in Denver on the bus. Oh, well, I somehow managed to survive the day! ??
¡ª in Denver, Colorado.
Mike Tisdale
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Washington Wednesday, 2014
8 Mar 2014, Seattle, Washington. South Lake Union Streetcar
We were in Seattle for a family event, but I got out and did a bit of train watching. We rode the Coast Starlight to and from.
It is called "Streetcar", not "Trolley" or "Tram" for obvious reasons!
Mike Tisdale
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March 23, 1982??
SP 8340 east meets ATSF 5062 west at Bena, California.
¡ª in Tehachapi Pass.
Mike Tisdale
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Interior of Muni PCC 1028, 19 Sept 1982. This was nearly the end of the "regular" PCC era in San Francisco., California.
That little girl is in her 40s now.
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