Midweek Photos 10/29/2014

Just some nice Fall colors on a nice Fall day with trains passing by in Berea, Ohio.

Hello Everyone. Hear are some shots I took the other day. Enjoy

Submitted for your consideration:

Hearst, Ontario.  September 1984. 

The end of a gloomy day at this northern terminus of the Algoma Central Railroad finds train #1 preparing to lay over for the evening.

The brief appearance of the setting sun in an unsettled sky does little to brighten the end of day.

As evening falls, the railroad and its environs take on an almost unearthly atmosphere.

Indeed, the dark of night promotes a palitable air of uneasy calm.

For tomorrow, as train #2, the southward voyage will begin anew into the...

...Algoma Zone.

Boo...

Rusty

Well well Rusty!  Glad to see you understanding that foamer photography doesn't end when the sun goes down!   I guess I have a few.  Will limit it so I can get back to watching the World Series.   I went back out to Huron SD again, partly because I'm stubborn and partly because maybe I'm a little nuts.  This time I had an ace up my sleeve--I had an RCPE engineer along with a line up of tonight's trains!  We headed back out to the abandoned elevator at Ree Heights, SD at dusk.  I set up a couple of big lights for him to catch the e/b and then began setting up a few for me.  About then he noticed there was a w/b bearing down on us from behind!  It was the BNSF grain train that was supposed to show up two hours later.  He got a shot; I did not.  I finished setting up my flash and we waited.  And waited.  Around 12:30am he called the dispatcher and found out the e/b didn't even have a crew yet!  There was another w/b preparing to leave Huron though.  It would take it over an hour to get to us though.  I made the call to bag it and head east to intercept somewhere closer.  Ree Heights is three hours from home for me!  I set up a pair of big monolights at another elevator, this one in Wessington SD.

It was getting cold, down into the 30s.  My buddy sat in my RAV4 and dozed while I played look out.  About 1am I heard the throbbing diesels laboring out in the darkness, slowly getting louder.  I woke up my buddy and said, "Listen!"  His eyes lit up.  I said, "Sounds like an SD-40--it's deep and low."  He nodded.  Train came, I popped the shot.  (One monolight at quarter power lit all this!)  I got home around 3:30am.

Also have a couple of shots from one of the two steamer operations in South Dakota, this one at Prairie Village, near Madison SD.  They've been working on their 0-6-0 for quite a few years and finally have it running.  I shot these through windows at the old train station they moved to their grounds.  These through the window shots proved a little trickier than I thought, but I finally figured it out.  I have a few more from there, but this is probably enough.

1.  Elevator at Wessington, astronomical twilight.

2. Above, at 1am with the w/b RCPE manifest.

3. Through the dispatcher's office.

4. Through the station master's living quarters.

Kent in SD

Good morning all,  Just a few pic's from my Oktoberfest Germany trip this month. Please enjoy, Bruce

A couple from the last few days.

 A southbound intermodal waits for a northbound manifest to clear the cossovers at Nile so it can get around some track gang down the road. Nile is just north of the small hamlet of Gale, IL, a one time crew change point on the then Missouri Pacific's Chester Sub way back when. Oct 25, 2014  

A southbound UP train, MPRPB, passes beneath the unusual paired bridge signals on the UP's,(Mopac) Chester Sub. Like all double track on the Missouri Pacific back in the day, double track bridge signals were abundant, today they are slowly disappearing for trackside signals. A nearly new CitiRail unit leads this day. South of Gorham,IL, Oct 28, 2014.

Another UP train, auto rack train 2AEGAS, northbound at Nile, IL on the Chester Sub, Oct 29, 2014. This time a Ferromex unit leads the way. The UP's Chester Sub always has a good variety of pool power on it trains between, St. Louis/Chicago and Louisiana/Texas.

Dan

Scot - Nice catch on the old green BN engine.  I haven't seen one of those in quite awhile.

Art

The German trains are on my "list".  I've hear they're very clean and well run!  In Bavaria they still run a lot of narrow gauge steam, mostly as a sort of tourist thing.  That's on my list too!  

Kent in SD

I've found two pieces of pre-PC rolling stock in the Chicago area. First a New York Central boxcar that had most of it's lettering fade, but the cigar band herald is still intact. Second is a former PRR baggage car that was painted silver, but the keystone and PRR lettering are showing through.

How about one from Reading and Northern's Fall Foliage trips:

Dan, thanks for posting the photo of the paired cantilever-mounted signals, something I cannot remember ever seeing.