Re: American River Tuesday, 2021
We have quite a few geese around here.? There were more in the river, but I didn't like the shots of a bunch of them as well as the angles I took of 2 swimming together.??
Canadian geese are NOT an endangered species.
Mike Tisdale
On Tuesday, May 4, 2021, 09:55:31 AM PDT, Alwyn Smith <alwyn.smith@...> wrote:
Thanks Mike
Nice selection.
Until now, I always thought that the total world population of
Canada Geese were on the canal at Littleborough.
Your two must have missed the exodus, although the last shot may
be of them leaving to join ours!
Alwyn
On 04/05/2021 08:45, Mike Tisdale
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1 May 2021 was Amtrak's
50th anniversary and I wanted to get a photo of the
California Zephyr to mark the occasion. Dad and I had seen
the last westbound per-Amtrak City of San Francisco on 2 May
1971 at the Sacramento station, but the following year, when
I started riding my bike to watch trains, I'd often go to
Johnston, where the SP line between Sacramento and Roseville
crosses the American River, which was the closest spot to
watch trains on the main line to my house and easily
accessed by side roads and the bike trail. As I've been
going there for 49 years, it seemed a good spot to for
Amtrak 50. As the dogs and I arrived, an air horn at Elvas,
across the river, announced the arrival of a UP local
eastbound behind SD59MX 9927 and 2 other SD59MXes. These
units are in dedicated local service, so they don't go
through tunnels and stay clean. We had a few minutes to wait
before the Zephyr was due and I found a spot at the end of
the trestle where I;d never shot a train before. If the
train had been on the near track the photos would not have
been as good, but the Zephyr often runs left handed through
here these days. 49 years ago, there was a clear shot from
the levee, but trees have blocked some of that view. The
Zephyr is still tri-weekly due to Covid, but Amtrak has
plans for it to go back to daily operation soon. In the
meantime, the train had 2 P42s, 4 sleepers, diner, lounge
and 3 coaches. After the train passed, the dogs and I walked
to the river, where they splashed around and I shot geese
and flowers. On our walk back to the car, we saw more
flowers, geese and a red wing blackbird.
Mike Tisdale
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American River Tuesday, 2021
1 May 2021 was Amtrak's 50th anniversary and I wanted to get a photo of the California Zephyr to mark the occasion. Dad and I had seen the last westbound per-Amtrak City of San Francisco on 2 May 1971 at the Sacramento station, but the following year, when I started riding my bike to watch trains, I'd often go to Johnston, where the SP line between Sacramento and Roseville crosses the American River, which was the closest spot to watch trains on the main line to my house and easily accessed by side roads and the bike trail. As I've been going there for 49 years, it seemed a good spot to for Amtrak 50. As the dogs and I arrived, an air horn at Elvas, across the river, announced the arrival of a UP local eastbound behind SD59MX 9927 and 2 other SD59MXes. These units are in dedicated local service, so they don't go through tunnels and stay clean. We had a few minutes to wait before the Zephyr was due and I found a spot at the end of the trestle where I;d never shot a train before. If the train had been on the near track the photos would not have been as good, but the Zephyr often runs left handed through here these days. 49 years ago, there was a clear shot from the levee, but trees have blocked some of that view. The Zephyr is still tri-weekly due to Covid, but Amtrak has plans for it to go back to daily operation soon. In the meantime, the train had 2 P42s, 4 sleepers, diner, lounge and 3 coaches. After the train passed, the dogs and I walked to the river, where they splashed around and I shot geese and flowers. On our walk back to the car, we saw more flowers, geese and a red wing blackbird.
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Mike,
Posts on Facebook are on the Pan Am groups pages, typically.? Other FB group pages for New England railroads, as well, such as for the former Boston & Albany (CSX Boston Line now), VRS, CSX ex-NYC Perlman Yard, Selkirk, and similar.
What is interesting to me is to see that some of her work is with a mirrorless.
I am always curious about what everyone who owns a drone attaches to the drone.? I only have one digital body, so I would be reluctant to send it up attached to a flying toy, especially as a novice who has no previous piloting experience of any kind!
Dave Saums
Amesbury MA USA
(Sorry, forgot to follow ObsCar protocol and add my name at the end of the last post!)
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Thanks for the insights, Dave.? I will have to look for more of Jennifer's photos as this one jumped off the monitor at me when I saw it.
Mike Tisdale
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Jennifer is an excellent photographer and I always admire how different some of her locations and images are.? Her drone is new and a nu.ber of really quite interesting images have been posted.?
This particular location is usually almost always quite workable, morning and afternoon, and often even when the sun angle might seem to be harsh.? Drawing in a lot of countryside works to reduce the emphasis on just the locomotive.? Vermont has a modest amount
of countryside -- usually incredibly green, too.? (The red and orange stuff is fairly fleeting and all of the gawkers from away tend to fill up the roads with slow-moving traffic, very frustrating for a chase.? Especially on the former Rutland main, the VRS
moves right along at 40; the small towns and the flood of gawkees makes that especially challenging.? Winter is much better.
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Subject: [ObservationCar] Vermont
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Is this what you think of when you think of Vermont railroading? It summed it up pretty well for me. For one, it is a Vermont Ry train, it is reflected in a lake and the scene features rolling hills and a small town. It was
taken a couple of weeks ago, the trees and green rather than orange and red, but that makes the red unit stand out even more. And catch that far from home Natchez Ry. Geep that Vermont has acquired.
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May 2, 1981 While driving home on J Street from Railfair 1981 in Old Sacramento, I must have seen a headlight when crossing the WP track and pulled over to photograph WP 3545 east. Backdrop is the former WP Sacramento depot, which had already been converted into an Old Spaghetti Factory restaurant in 1981. ¡ª in Sacramento, California.
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Jennifer is an excellent photographer and I always admire how different some of her locations and images are.? Her drone is new and a nu.ber of really quite interesting images have been posted.?
This particular location is usually almost always quite workable, morning and afternoon, and often even when the sun angle might seem to be harsh.? Drawing in a lot of countryside works to reduce the emphasis on just the locomotive.? Vermont has a modest amount
of countryside -- usually incredibly green, too.? (The red and orange stuff is fairly fleeting and all of the gawkers from away tend to fill up the roads with slow-moving traffic, very frustrating for a chase.? Especially on the former Rutland main, the VRS
moves right along at 40; the small towns and the flood of gawkees makes that especially challenging.? Winter is much better.
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Subject: [ObservationCar] Vermont
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Is this what you think of when you think of Vermont railroading? It summed it up pretty well for me. For one, it is a Vermont Ry train, it is reflected in a lake and the scene features rolling hills and a small town. It was
taken a couple of weeks ago, the trees and green rather than orange and red, but that makes the red unit stand out even more. And catch that far from home Natchez Ry. Geep that Vermont has acquired.
Jennifer E Al-Beik put it all together with her drone.
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Fw: Token Exchange Friday, 1980
My friend Grahame, who organized the Sri Lanka trip in 1980, sent this in reply to my photo of the KV line token exchange.
Mike Tisdale
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From: Grahame McDonald <grahame_robert_mcdon@...>
Sent: Saturday, May 1, 2021, 08:56:50 AM PDT Subject: Re: Token Exchange Friday, 1980
Hi all,
Mike's photo of the 2' 6" gauge Kelani Valley line in Sri Lanka prompted me to recall an incident in September, 1998, when I chartered the world's last operable narrow-gauge "Sentinel" steam railcar for a trip conveying a wedding party from Maradana Station in Colombo over the full length of the line to Avisawella. By that date the conversion from narrow to broad (5' 6") gauge had been completed and, whilst the dual-gauge track was still in-situ, virtually all traffic was broad gauge. This led to poor maintenance of the dedicated narrow-gauge rail and part-way through our journey a bolt holding a fish-plate snapped, the track spread underneath us, and we suffered a (fortunately low speed) derailment. The railcar remained upright, but with a noticeable list as shown in the first two pictures, one of each end. The third picture shows the debris around the track failure, with the offending 'snapped' bolt on top of the running rail. It happened in a fairly remote area and it took around 5 hours for a repair gang to arrive, jack up the railcar, reinstate the repaired track and lower the railcar back onto it. Meanwhile, being a single track line, all the regular traffic had to be suspended until we could get out of its way. By this time it was too late to complete the trip all the way to Avisawella so we proceeded as far as Homagama to take on water (fourth picture), then returned to Colombo. With a risk of similar incidents in the future, the railway's management decided that no further narrow-gauge trains were to be run, so my 'charter' was not only the last run on the 'main line' by the "Sentinel" but also anything else, and the trackwork linking the steam shed to the 'main line' was severed. Since then all but a small section within the shed yard of the dedicated narrow-gauge track has been removed, although the "Sentinel" and a couple (I think) of the "Hunslet" tanks still remain there.
On the broad gauge and pre-Covid, Sri Lanka Railways ran an occasional steam-hauled tourist train "The Viceroy". One of the regular locos was an unusual 4-6-0 'tender-tank' (fifth picture). The final picture shows an internal view of the 'vintage' Buffet Car used in the train formation of "The Viceroy" - well worth the trip for anyone visiting Sri Lanka when it happens to be running.
Stay safe,
Grahame.
On 30 April 2021 at 01:58 Mike Tisdale <tisdalem2001@...> wrote:
Photo of the Day: The driver of a Kawasaki N2 diesel of Sri Lanka's 2' 6" gauge Kelani Valley line exchanges the single line token with the station master of Base Line Road station on the outskirts of Colombo. Feb 1980. The line is now broad gauge.
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Thank you, Grahame.? You were standing near me when I shot the token exchange photo, but I don't know if you "wasted" any film on the diesel.? ?I also shot the token exchange with the 4-6-4T on the following train that we rode and got cab rides on, but I've shared that shot a few times and one of the Sri Lanka rail groups I'm on had a question about the Kawasaki diesels for the Kelani Valley Line, so I posted the token exchange with the diesel this time.??
4-6-0 251, which we saw running that same day, has also been used on the Viceroy Express.? That bar car looks very elegant.??
Cheers, Mike Tisdale
On Saturday, May 1, 2021, 08:56:50 AM PDT, Grahame McDonald <grahame_robert_mcdon@...> wrote:
Hi all,
Mike's photo of the 2' 6" gauge Kelani Valley line in Sri Lanka prompted me to recall an incident in September, 1998, when I chartered the world's last operable narrow-gauge "Sentinel" steam railcar for a trip conveying a wedding party from Maradana Station in Colombo over the full length of the line to Avisawella. By that date the conversion from narrow to broad (5' 6") gauge had been completed and, whilst the dual-gauge track was still in-situ, virtually all traffic was broad gauge. This led to poor maintenance of the dedicated narrow-gauge rail and part-way through our journey a bolt holding a fish-plate snapped, the track spread underneath us, and we suffered a (fortunately low speed) derailment. The railcar remained upright, but with a noticeable list as shown in the first two pictures, one of each end. The third picture shows the debris around the track failure, with the offending 'snapped' bolt on top of the running rail. It happened in a fairly remote area and it took around 5 hours for a repair gang to arrive, jack up the railcar, reinstate the repaired track and lower the railcar back onto it. Meanwhile, being a single track line, all the regular traffic had to be suspended until we could get out of its way. By this time it was too late to complete the trip all the way to Avisawella so we proceeded as far as Homagama to take on water (fourth picture), then returned to Colombo. With a risk of similar incidents in the future, the railway's management decided that no further narrow-gauge trains were to be run, so my 'charter' was not only the last run on the 'main line' by the "Sentinel" but also anything else, and the trackwork linking the steam shed to the 'main line' was severed. Since then all but a small section within the shed yard of the dedicated narrow-gauge track has been removed, although the "Sentinel" and a couple (I think) of the "Hunslet" tanks still remain there.
On the broad gauge and pre-Covid, Sri Lanka Railways ran an occasional steam-hauled tourist train "The Viceroy". One of the regular locos was an unusual 4-6-0 'tender-tank' (fifth picture). The final picture shows an internal view of the 'vintage' Buffet Car used in the train formation of "The Viceroy" - well worth the trip for anyone visiting Sri Lanka when it happens to be running.
Stay safe,
Grahame.
On 30 April 2021 at 01:58 Mike Tisdale <tisdalem2001@...> wrote:
Photo of the Day: The driver of a Kawasaki N2 diesel of Sri Lanka's 2' 6" gauge Kelani Valley line exchanges the single line token with the station master of Base Line Road station on the outskirts of Colombo. Feb 1980. The line is now broad gauge.
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Thank you,? Bill.? The fact that it wasn't blocked off and that the platforms were intact made me believe that it had been fairly recent.
I'd seen an article in Railfan about shooting rush hour at Hunter Tower and had planned to do that.? I came in on the Broadway and it was several hours late, so as I was walking south toward Hunter, I kept hearing trains going by that I couldn't see to shoot.? When I stumbled upon South Street, I took the stairs up to the track and camped out there until I needed to leave to catch my next train.? I could see Hunter Tower in the distance to the south and it would? have been a better location for scenery, but so many trains were going by that I stayed put.
Mike Tisdale
On Sunday, May 2, 2021, 07:44:12 AM PDT, Bill Hough via groups.io <psa188@...> wrote:
This post got me to wondering "when did South Street close? Someone checked this. I did a web search and found this thread? "South St is in the 5/74 public timetable; it's not in the 4/76." BH On Saturday, May 1, 2021, 10:01:12 PM PDT, Mike Tisdale via groups.io <tisdalem2001= [email protected]> wrote: June 7, 1977, Metroliner, New York to to Washington. Newark, New Jersey, South Street. South Street was no longer in service in 1977, at least nothing stopped there while I was there for afternoon rush hour, but the steps leading up to the platforms from the street were open and I spent an hour or so shooting everything that came by. I was on a USA Rail Pass trip around the country and got off the Broadway Limited at Newark after riding it and the San Francisco Zephyr from Sacramento. Happy 50th birthday Amtrak Mike Tisdale
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Is this what you think of when you think of Vermont railroading? It summed it up pretty well for me. For one, it is a Vermont Ry train, it is reflected in a lake and the scene features rolling hills and a small town. It was taken a couple of weeks ago, the trees and green rather than orange and red, but that makes the red unit stand out even more. And catch that far from home Natchez Ry. Geep that Vermont has acquired. Jennifer E Al-Beik put it all together with her drone.
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This post got me to wondering "when did South Street close?
Someone checked this. I did a web search and found this thread?
"South St is in the 5/74 public timetable; it's not in the 4/76."
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On Saturday, May 1, 2021, 10:01:12 PM PDT, Mike Tisdale via groups.io <tisdalem2001@...> wrote:
June 7, 1977, Metroliner, New York to to Washington. Newark, New Jersey, South Street. South Street was no longer in service in 1977, at least nothing stopped there while I was there for afternoon rush hour, but the steps leading up to the platforms from the street were open and I spent an hour or so shooting everything that came by. I was on a USA Rail Pass trip around the country and got off the Broadway Limited at Newark after riding it and the San Francisco Zephyr from Sacramento.
Happy 50th birthday Amtrak
Mike Tisdale
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Nick DAmato framed the UP's Moab, Utah train in Corona Arch, catching it in exceptional light. There are not many places outside of Utah, where a train can be framed in a natural arch.
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June 7, 1977, Metroliner, New York to to Washington. Newark, New Jersey, South Street. South Street was no longer in service in 1977, at least nothing stopped there while I was there for afternoon rush hour, but the steps leading up to the platforms from the street were open and I spent an hour or so shooting everything that came by. I was on a USA Rail Pass trip around the country and got off the Broadway Limited at Newark after riding it and the San Francisco Zephyr from Sacramento.
Happy 50th birthday Amtrak
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Stack Train Saturday 2008
February 23, 2008 Heading north to Sunset-Whitney, SD70M 5169 leads a stack train toward the Feather River Canyon. The tunnels on Donner Pass had not yet been notched, requiring double stack trains to operate via the Feather River Canyon. ¡ª in Roseville, California.
Mike Tisdale
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All Aboard Amtrak! The 50th Anniversary of America's Railroad
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Token Exchange Friday, 1980
Photo of the Day: The driver of a Kawasaki N2 diesel of Sri Lanka's 2' 6" gauge Kelani Valley line exchanges the single line token with the station master of Base Line Road station on the outskirts of Colombo. Feb 1980. The line is now broad gauge.
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I spent 9 months in the Air Force in Texas, first at San Antonio for basic training and then at Wichita Falls for tech school, in 1977-78. This was before the Powder River coal traffic exploded and the Fort Worth and Denver line through Wichita Falls was definitely a secondary main line. The Katy's operation in town was a short branch line that had once extended into the Oklahoma panhandle, but by 1977 was cut back to a few miles north of the BN interchange in Wichita Falls. I didn't watch trains very often during my time at Sheppard AFB, and, of course, I reget it today, but in those days, I hadn't figured out to take a book with me while watching trains by myself and there just wasn't a lot happening on the FW&D and even less on the Katy, although we'd hear the Katy blowing for crossing at Sheppard on weekdays. I found chop nose GP7 #119 on 8 Oct 1977 in the engine house at North Yard, the only Katy engine I ever photographed. Our Texas photo is personal for me.
Mike Tisdale
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Yolo Bypass Wednesday, 2014
Eastbound Capitol Corrider train at the Yolo Bypass between Davis and Sacramento, California. The F59 is pushing the train. The controlled point near here is called West Causeway. 27 April 2014
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Coming off the former Chicago & Eastern Illinois, a CSX train turns east onto the B&O Chicago Terminal. 26 April 2010 ¡ª in Dolton, Illinois.
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FW: ¡°Celestials,¡± film premiere and discussion, hosted by the Chinese Historical Society of America (CHSA)
Of possible interest. ? Phil Burton ? ?
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