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Mississippi
This is not the first thing that comes to my mind when I think "Mississippi", but Isaac Fulford knew of this spot along the Gulf of Mexico with the CSX ex-L&N line running over an inlet and was there at the right moment to catch the sunset and an eastbound CSX freight for what I think is a knock out photo. Mike Tisdale |
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Maryland
This view of NS taking John Deere tractors to the port of Baltimore, Maryland really struck me when I saw it on Railpictures. Maybe green era Katy might have made it even better, but the NS units at least don't get lost with the tractors. Andrew Ordun gets today's "f/8 and be there" award. Mike Tisdale |
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Re: BART Sunday, 2015
Interesting,thanks for that, Richard.? ? I don't know that the BLE (Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers) represents operators at any transit agencies in the US that were not originally "steam railroads", but BART might have been one. Mike
On Monday, March 29, 2021, 01:20:41 PM PDT, RICHARD GREENWOOD <steam.richard@...> wrote:
According to the UK Open University programmes, the gauge was chosen to avoid legislation that the BLE had sole membership/negotiating rights for lines of a gauge less than 5 feet.
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Cable Car Monday, 2015
March 28, 2015, Cable cars, California and Drumm St., San Francisoco. SP building dead ahead. This is the eastern terminal of the California Street cable car line. It runs a couple miles west, up and down Nob Hill, to California and Van Ness ¡ª in San Francisco, California. Mike Tisdale |
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Re: BART Sunday, 2015
The gauge is 5' 6"? maybe India could pull them with a WP
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Re: BART Sunday, 2015
Bill,
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Thank you for these corrections. I wasn't aware of this book but it sounds interesting. Phil Burton -----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Hough via groups.io Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2021 3:59 PM To: [email protected]; Richard Greenwood <steam.richard@...>; Grahame McDonald <grahame_robert_mcdon@...>; Calrailfans <[email protected]>; Dieter Hochhaus <lehgudi.zwei@...>; Graham Bentley <graham.bentley@...>; Alwyn Smith <alwyn.smith@...>; Barry <fossilbarry@...>; Assen Stoyanov <assenstoyanov@...>; Michael Nestler <munda-nestler@...>; KennethRoberts <kenbobby1234@...>; [email protected] Subject: Re: [ObservationCar] BART Sunday, 2015 Since obs car is ostensibly about railroad art & literature, I will point out that former BART spokesman Mike Healy wrote his history of BART based on his career there. it's called BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System and is worth checking out. I did notice a few minor mistakes in the text, none of which is BART-related: Early on, there is a reference to the SP commute at 4th and Townsend although at the time in question the SP station was still at 3rd and Townsend. At the top of page 42, Palo Alto is mislocated in San Mateo County. Palo Alto is in Santa Clara County. East Palo Alto, a separate city incorporated in 1983, is in San Mateo County. In the second paragraph on page 72, it should be noted that although Sacramento Northern¡¯s passenger trains to the Bay Area ended in 1941, (SN trains used the Bay Bridge railway to access San Francisco from January 1939 to June 1941.) freight service to Oakland continued until 1957, which is why the ROW was still there when BART was ready to build the test track. And while Western Pacific owned Sacramento Northern since 1922, Union Pacific did not take over WP until 1982 and had nothing to do with selling the SN ROW to BART. At the bottom of page 76, there is a passing reference to ¡°bulldozers and steam shovels.¡± I¡¯m pretty sure steam shovels had fallen out of use in North America by the 1960s, being replaced by diesel-powered excavating shovels. On page 145, there is a discussion of Chronicle reporter Michael Harris criticizing BART for not using rubber tire technology like ¡°Toronto and Paris.¡± That should read ¡°Montreal and Paris;¡± Toronto¡¯s subways use steel on steel technology. Despite this, it is an interesting history. BH On Sunday, March 28, 2021, 03:33:27 PM PDT, Mike Tisdale via groups.io <tisdalem2001@...> wrote: I had 2 trips in March 2015. I was in the Bay Area with my wife and daughter. They dropped me off at the Sausalito ferry and went off for a few days of mom and daughter time and I used a combination of the ferry, BART, a Capitol and Sacramento light rail to get home. Here is my BART train in Richmond, California, where BART and Amtrak interchange. I think of BART as being a 1960s version of what the 21st Century was supposed to look like. 28 March 2015 Mike Tisdale |
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Re: BART Sunday, 2015
Since obs car is ostensibly about railroad art & literature, I will point out that former BART? spokesman Mike Healy wrote his history of BART based on his career there. it's called?BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System and is worth checking out.?
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I did notice a few minor mistakes in the text, none of which is BART-related: Early on, there is a reference to the SP commute at 4th and Townsend although at the time in question the SP station was still at 3rd and Townsend. At the top of page 42, Palo Alto is mislocated in San Mateo County. Palo Alto is in Santa Clara County. East Palo Alto, a separate city incorporated in 1983, is in San Mateo County. ? In the second paragraph on page 72, it should be noted that although Sacramento Northern¡¯s passenger trains to the Bay Area ended in 1941, (SN trains used the Bay Bridge railway to access San Francisco from January 1939 to June 1941.) freight service to Oakland continued until 1957, which is why the ROW was still there when BART was ready to build the test track. And while Western Pacific owned Sacramento Northern since 1922, Union Pacific did not take over WP until 1982 and had nothing to do with selling the SN ROW to BART. ? At the bottom of page 76, there is a passing reference to ¡°bulldozers and steam shovels.¡± I¡¯m pretty sure steam shovels had fallen out of use in North America by the 1960s, being replaced by diesel-powered excavating shovels. ? On page 145, there is a discussion of Chronicle reporter Michael Harris criticizing BART for not using rubber tire technology like ¡°Toronto and Paris.¡± That should read ¡°Montreal and Paris;¡± Toronto¡¯s subways use steel on steel technology. Despite this, it is an interesting history. BH On Sunday, March 28, 2021, 03:33:27 PM PDT, Mike Tisdale via groups.io <tisdalem2001@...> wrote:
I had 2 trips in March 2015. I was in the Bay Area with my wife and daughter. They dropped me off at the Sausalito ferry and went off for a few days of mom and daughter time and I used a combination of the ferry, BART, a Capitol and Sacramento light rail to get home. Here is my BART train in Richmond, California, where BART and Amtrak interchange. I think of BART as being a 1960s version of what the 21st Century was supposed to look like. 28 March 2015 Mike Tisdale |
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BART Sunday, 2015
I had 2 trips in March 2015. I was in the Bay Area with my wife and daughter. They dropped me off at the Sausalito ferry and went off for a few days of mom and daughter time and I used a combination of the ferry, BART, a Capitol and Sacramento light rail to get home. Here is my BART train in Richmond, California, where BART and Amtrak interchange. I think of BART as being a 1960s version of what the 21st Century was supposed to look like. 28 March 2015 Mike Tisdale |
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Maine
What is more Maine railroading than the 2 foot gauge railroads that used to link remote areas of the state to main line routes andd waterways? Happily, part of the Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington line has been restored to operation along with several 2 foot gauge locomotives and cars. Kevin Madore's photo shows Monson RR's #3 on the WW&F turntable at Alna, Maine |
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Louisiana
Railpictures' first Louisiana photo is today's photo of the state's railroading. Amtrak's Sunset has a couple of private cars on the end as it crosses a drawbridge shortly after the beginning of its trip from New Orleans to Los Angeles. Marc Glucksman/River Rail Photo was there with his camera. |
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