Happy Easter!

Frohe Ostern!

:-)

UP Mail & Express #5 overtaking a freight at North Platte, November 1966.

C&EI's Georgian/Hummingbird arrives Chicago, February 1968.

Wood River NE, November 1966.

Don Edward Refuge

Eastbound N&W 611 rolls over the Roanoke River near Stewartsville, Va. on 04-23-2017, on it's way back to Spencer.

Heavy hoar frost brought me out in the cold this day to capture some of the beauty.

Santa Fe's "Grand Canyon Limited", having recently been stripped of its name and now simply train #23, departs Dearborn Station in February 1968. The PA units that had been running off their last miles on this train were now gone.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canyon_Limited

UP's unique coal turbine sits abandoned at Council Bluffs in November 1966, deemed a failed experiment after running less than 10,000 miles.

More info here: utahrails.net/up/up-diesel-story-1934-1982.php#heading_to...

Railroad Motorcar, sometimes called a “Speeder”. Smaller models, like this one, were used routinely to inspect the many miles of track for defects. Larger versions would carry half a dozen workers and pull a few trailers loaded with spikes and tools, to handle track maintenance. Although these “speeders” have a top speed of only about 30 m.p.h., they were so nicknamed because compared to the manually powered pump cars they replaced, they were much faster.

Thanks to Brian Plant for a last minute tip off, I was able to get the following series of photos.

48 years ago today, November 20, 1966: Grand Trunk Chicago - South Bend excursion with 4-8-4 CN 6218.

Utah

Mishap in the yard at Richmond CA, March 1967.

A big thanks to Kevin Cavanaugh for helping me identify this location - I never took notes and was clueless after 45+ years.

Here's what Richmond yard looked like at that time:

www.kansasmemory.org/item/218106/page/1

Santa Fe freight heads across the diamonds at Joliet, Illinois. December 1967

Mystery location. (Now solved - Yards Virginia)

One of the obvious downsides of never taking notes is, years later, forgetting where the hell I was, especially as the brain cells die off. This was taken on a trip east in September/October 1998; I think it's in West Virginia on the NS somewhere. The signal plate reads 3707 - anyone know, or want to take a guess?

48 years ago today, November 20, 1966: Grand Trunk Chicago - South Bend excursion with 4-8-4 CN 6218.

Freightliner Class 70 no. 70008 heads through Tamworth on 4O49 09.23 Basford Hall - Southampton liner.

29th March 2012

Westbound UP manifest, Aledo Texas.

CSX 6929 leads intermodal train number Q109 across the Scioto River in La Rue, Ohio.

GBRf Class 66 no. 66714 "Cromer Lifeboat" heads through Tamworth on 6L28 04.42 Carlisle Kingmoor - Whitemoor departmental.

28th July 2011

railroad

Freightliner Bo-Bo electric 90016 passes with 4L75 Basford Hall to Felixstowe intermodal as Virgin's 10.30 Euston - Lancaster Pendolino speeds towards Tamworth LL.

20th November 2009

But still have a long way to go.

Sudan, Texas

Engines & Things

Grand Canyon, Streator IL, February 1968

Transporting coal all day long through Bowie MD

Hope your weekend last longer than these tracks.

It's cold outside... close the door!

English Electric Deltic Type 5 Co-Co D9021 Argyll and Sutherland Highlander runs non-stop through York on 1A16 the down Flying Scotsman 10.00 Kings Cross - Edinburgh express.

30th April 1968

A high resolution rescan of a Kodachrome II transparency.