Rock Creek Friday, 2012
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
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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
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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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Mike Tisdale
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Emeryville Tuesday, 2014
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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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
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Mike Tisdale
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Sacramento Sunday, 1987
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.
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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
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Mike Tisdale
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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
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Mike Tisdale
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Friday Alco, 2016
11 February 2016, San Francisco, California. SF Bay RR Alco S-2 #23 switching the line's yard. Mike Tisdale
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Mike Tisdale
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Re: Repainted F units on a snowplow extra today
Welcome!
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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. Dave Saums
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Dave Saums
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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
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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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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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Engineer Wednesday, 2019
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
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Mike Tisdale
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Eder DPU Tuesday, 2011
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
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Mike Tisdale
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Lovelock Monday, 2018
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,
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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
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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
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Mike Tisdale
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THE POCKET WATCH . . . .
From a non-railfan friend. . _____ 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
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Phil Burton
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