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I want to remind everyone that this thread could potentially get some folks in trouble....copyright trouble. So...please review the copyright thread within our featured topics. Since the OP is asking for YOUR best real train pictures, make sure that you are the one that has taken the picture. Googled pictures don't count...or any other picture that may belong to someone else...this should be your photograph that you took.
Thanks!
Here are a couple of my favorites...
#4014 waking up in Yermo, CA and being made ready to head down Cajon Pass. - Oct. 13, 2019
UP #4014 at Canyon on the Palmdale Cutoff in Cajon Pass. - Oct. 13, 2019
San Bernardino Railroad Historical Society's crown jewel... AT&SF #3751 on the ex-Santa Fe turntable in Redondo Junction (Amtrak's 8th Street Yard) on the final event before her "1472." This was taken on July 15, 2017.
They've almost got her ready for a hydro test, so she's moving in the right direction.
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This one best only for it's poignancy. The last train on the old PRR Pittsburgh-Buffalo Mainline c. 1982:
Then they tore it up. It's a rail-trail now. My Sis one Friday evening rode the Buffalo passenger train up from Pittsburgh to Rimer ( half-mile to the left) and we rowed across the river and picked her up. It was dusk so we carried a kerosene lantern in case anyone was out late with one of those new-fangled motorboats. That was c. '58-'59 when she was in training as an Xray technician at Presby in Pittsburgh.
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I like this one:
Black Hills Central June 7, 2014.
That is their 2-6-2T doing the honors that morning.
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Christmas Eve 1964 at the P&LE station in Pittsburgh, waiting for the Eastbound Capitol:
Mom&I sitting, bottom right.
Christmas Dinner on the Westbound Capitol after Christmas Day in DC:
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Western Maryland Scenic RR.
I took these shots passing thru Blissfield, Mi. one night, around Christmas time...