Rail-fanning on The OGR Forum 🚂 Welcome: Pictures YOU have taken! • Hope to see you out rail-fanning.

some recent 4014 captures

Verde Canyon, March 2012

Erik, some great shots of 4014, especially the one in the snow.

Took these videos last night:

CN Yard Work

August 30, 2021 • Waterford, Michigan

I was at the CN Yard watching the train crews building northbound trains. They are using an E J & E #659 as a yard switcher. Notice the train crew members in all three photos.

Every model railroader started out rail-fanning!

Hope to see you out rail-fanning and posting your images on “Rail-fanning on The OGR Forum”. Any day and time. 😎

Gary

A trip to Cass and Horseshoe Curve in 2004:

CN power at the DMIR ore dock in Duluth

Yesterday's Northeast Regional 65 to Newport News accelerates out of Williamsburg, Virginia's Amtrak station, passing within a few hundred feet of the Historic Area. At one point this was the C&O's double-track principle main line to the tidewater from the coal fields, and hosted many of the road's name trains.

line of New York Central passenger cars in Lockport, NY. 

This is my favorite picture that I took.  2009 on a very rainy day in Owasso, MI.   Dennis

HOT HOT HOT. A common sight, when holding back a coal train, coming down the mountain from the Horseshoe curve into Altoona.

The following photo of Metra locomotive #214 on "flip train" #1268 was taken on 09-08-21. A group of us railfans were gathered in Naperville, IL to watch trains. On a flip train the train comes in on the "wrong" main, facing east. The engineer then descends from the locomotive and walks forward to take over in the cab car. We greeted the engineer as he headed forward.

Sadly, train 1268 struck and killed a man in Berwyn one half hour later- - - our engineer.  One never knows what the twists and turns of life have in store.    Quite disturbing. Feel sorry for the engineer.

Rail-fanning with Grandpa - September 4, 2021 • Southeastern Michigan

Our day started running model trains in grandpa’s train room. We all got into Train Room Pam’s car because she has the car seats for children. We began at the Troy Transit Center watching the Amtrak’s Siemens Charger from the pedestrian bridge. Next stop was the CN’s Pontiac Freight Terminal to check out the turn table and locomotives. Last stop was about two miles south at the Amtrak Service Center.

We were trackside rail-fanning for just over four hours. We all had a great time and we stopped for ice cream on our way back to the Train Room.

Every model railroader started out rail-fanning!

Hope to see you out rail-fanning and posting your images on “Rail-fanning on The OGR Forum”. Any day and time. 😎  Gary

Took these yesterday...

SEVEN trains in less than an hour and a half!

heading west toward Rapid and  Belle Fourche SD just leaving Wall SD

This guy is on the morning switch job in Belle Fourche SD. The train from Wall  is broken up.

@p51 posted:

Took these yesterday...

SEVEN trains in less than an hour and a half!

Lee, great shots, I love the action photo of BNSF #6416 and the conductor waving at you! You caught the motion perfectly, that takes some talent moving the camera and selecting the correct shutter speed. Nicely done!

Scott

Thanks, Scott!

Saw this heritage unit today, pretty rare for the Pacific Northwest!

Took these during the storm we had Friday night:
https://youtu.be/rGpQYlDMwZ8
And
https://youtu.be/eBzgAUqVYfs

Fostoria Ohio • June 5, 2021 at “The Fostoria Triangle”

20th Annual Fostoria Rail Festival • Saturday, September 25, 2021

Every model railroader started out rail-fanning!

Hope to see you out rail-fanning and posting your images on “Rail-fanning on The OGR Forum”. Any day and time. 😎

Caught a glimpse of one of LIRR's MP-15 AC's recently. I heard the rumble of the diesel too late to get a better shot.

This is a rare sight on most LIRR branches. They are doing a lot of MOW work in the area at the present time. They were heading east light, and returned shortly after with out any cars in tow. They store equipment further east of this spot so maybe the crew was just shifting some cars around.

A few years old, but what a catch on the last day of rail fanning at Fostoria Ohio!

Train ON!

Morning line up

Department of Homeland Security Police • September 25, 2021 at “Amtrak Station, Pontiac Michigan”

Also testing a Baofeng Profung Uv6R • Duel Band Transceiver & Scanner • $30.00

Today I was at the Amtrak Station at Pontiac Michigan testing a scanner for rail-fanning. The DHSP were on a law enforcement training event. Detroit has an international border with Canada and I often see DHSP and the US Border Patrol.

The jury is still out on this scanner.

Every model railroader started out rail-fanning!

Hope to see you out rail-fanning and posting your images on “Rail-fanning on The OGR Forum”. Any day and time. 😎

Gary,  be careful with that radio.  It is capable of being operated illegally.  The penalty for one illegal transmission is $10,000 and 10 years in prison.  You can listen anywhere any you want.

N4GUV,

Bill

@Odenville Bill posted:

Gary,  be careful with that radio.  It is capable of being operated illegally.  The penalty for one illegal transmission is $10,000 and 10 years in prison.  You can listen anywhere any you want.

N4GUV,

Bill

HI Bill:

Yes your are correct about the transmitter on this radio. The FCC has rules that restrict this radio in the transmitter mode. I will only be using this radio as a scanner. Below is a photo of the specification sticker on the back of the radio. Does this information mean anything to you in the operation of this radio? Also, do you own this radio?

The main advantage of this radio is the $30.00 price tag. I am not a big fan of scanners but this price got me into scanning. When I am out rail-fanning I like to watch and a scanner makes to much noise.

Need help!

Thanks: Gary 🚂

@Odenville Bill posted:

Gary,  be careful with that radio.  It is capable of being operated illegally.  The penalty for one illegal transmission is $10,000 and 10 years in prison.  You can listen anywhere any you want.

N4GUV,

Bill

Hi Bill, I'm KB9SDS. Can you imagine explaining why you're in jail?

Good morning Y'all.  Gary, the "Frequencies" is two bands of operation.  The first is VHF, Very High Frequencies.  The second is UHF, Ultra High Frequencies.  Please contact me via email for additional information.

Denny,  I was caught operating illegally in the early 70's.  Lucky for me, I was still a minor so I didn't go to jail.

Bill

I saw this 2-8-2 Mikado while driving down the Oregon coast last week.

Rockaway Beach, Oregon

Here are a few scans from 1976.

May 1973 in Bayern, Deutschland. I think this was the train on tracks that paralleled the road for several kilometers. I'd photograph it, jump back in the Volvo station wagon, speed ahead, stop, take more photos, repeat. The first time, the engine crew took little notice, the second time I noticed that the engineer was looking out his window at me, the third time both engineer and fireman were gawking at this train nut who kept waylaying them! This view was scanned from a color slide, but it looks more impressive in black and white.

More to follow…

A beautiful old decapod (2-10-0 wheel arrangement) still at work somewhere in Bavaria in the autumn of 1972.

It has been a great month to rail-fan.  Just returned from ten days in Colorado and before that, time on the north shore of Lake Superior, my happy place!   Life is good in spite of Covid!   Cheers, Dave

North Shore Scenic RR on the move:

Duluth RR Museum:

Durango, Co:

@MartyE posted:

More to follow…

Great stuff!  Had hoped to go, but was unable to, so instead a few weeks ago, I came up with a compromise.

Rode 765 in the morning and then went out to Mad River to hear Doyle McCormack speak. The next day I  rail fanned at Berea for 9 hours before calling it a weekend.

I had a birthday blast today at Strasburg seeing N&W 611 and Strasburg 89. These are my meager phone pictures I took which is not a lot. 12 pictures here from the phone and 5 videos from it as well. For my Canon camera I shot 72 videos including the cab tour conversation which I broke up into a few videos. As for pictures from the Canon, I took 199. I think there was a few here and there that are scenery shots like the farms, cows, crops and even a drone shooting 611 near the Carpenter's Cemetery. These are just a taste, I have to sort through what goes where but will try and post most of them. The videos are really going to be hard. Yes they are under 100 MB, but I may be posting one to two per post, not sure how long that will take. Enjoy these for now.

Bought a book they were selling on 611 which was autographed by the authors, magazine, hat, and shirt. Almost thought I didn't pick up the hat when I walked away from the table. When I popped them in the car I hid them under something and when I got home I didn't see the hat. Well, went back out and pulled up the cover and there it was hiding. Gotta love fooling yourself like that.

@MartyE posted:

More to follow…

I see today was a little wet for you.  The Friday night shoot however was completely dry and a beautiful night.

A Shay locomotive on the Heber Creeper tourist line in Utah in June 1976. She was pulling a dinner train but had problems keeping up her boiler pressure, and we got back to the terminal rather late, actually in the wee hours of the following morning as I recall.  I believe she subsequently went from Heber City to the Sierra Nevada Logging Museum in California.

Consolation Prize

   I was standing trackside doing some railfanning in Kansas City, Missouri a couple of years ago when another fan happened to mention there was a military consist on a siding on the other side of town that could move at any time.  I drove over to the designated spot and, sure enough, there he was, all set to go.  I joined a couple of other photographers (the one with a red shirt is just barely visible in the middle left hand side) and waited for him to move....and waited and waited.  Finally, I decided, movement or not, a better angle might be across the bridge on the other side of the track so I strolled over there to see what I could see.  The answer was not much. 

  As I stood there a train with aircraft fuselages on flat cars rolled through so I took a picture of that action.  After waiting some more I gave up and headed back to my hotel.  My travels were to the west so before getting on the interstate the next morning I made a detour to this location just to take a last quick look around.  The same loaded train, with a headlight still lit - was sitting in exactly the same spot as he had been the day before...I have to wonder how long red shirt waited before he gave up.

Pulling into Bellevue on the tail of CB-12, the brakeman shifts his gaze to the right, and through his window he catches a glimpse of two of the Nickel Plate Road's mighty Berkshire locomotive steaming together. Time marches on, and as the internal combustion engine becomes widely adopted across the country, it becomes clear that the steadfast Berks will not last forever. How much longer until he sees this sight no more? Only the scrapper's torch knows.