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I went over to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania today before coming to York. I think I found Lionel's new Vision Line Pilot B6!

Actually though from what I was told by one of the staff today while I was there, this B6 had come out of the paint shop(to the right) two weeks ago. I think he had said that it had been in the shops(not the paint shops but far left out of sight) for over two years. I would imagine that there is still quite a bit to get down before it gets it's final colors and back into the museum.

Also, more information that was given was that the turntable will have a roundhouse built around it in or about the next 5 to 10 years. They also will build a shop(or work with building a shop) on the adjacent property where the railroad tracks crossover for some of the smaller museum pieces. I think the man had said that the property is not owned by the museum, but by friends of the museum. That project may take a while longer to complete, maybe 15 years or more.

The other day, I was at Evaline, WA when a northbound rail train came through:

A few minutes earlier, I caught a 'warbonnet' in a consist heading south...

And a southbound Cascades (without the Talgo set, of which I think they only have one in service right now)

I stopped off at Strasburg on the way home from York, I got 475 waiting to come back out.

And some video

And one really long one.

Wow, this thread is getting a good bit of attention, there’s lots of really nice pictures of railroads from the past, present, and some nice layouts to. The pictures I’m posting are from the Caskey Yards, Oak Grove Kentucky.

@leapinlarry posted:

Wow, this thread is getting a good bit of attention, there’s lots of really nice pictures of railroads from the past, present, and some nice layouts to. The pictures I’m posting are from the Caskey Yards, Oak Grove Kentucky.

Some nice stuff there Larry. A lot of attention, yeah. Thing is I still have a ton of videos and pictures from October 2nd at Strasburg of 611 and 89. I just don't seem to get a lot of time to get things posted half the time, so I try to do what I can when I can.

Southern Rwy 722 leading a steam excursion in March 1979 in Manassas, Virginia.  Built by Baldwin in 1904, her remains now apparently lie dead and decaying in Dillsboro, North Carolina.

Another shot of Southern 722 and two of Canadian Pacific 2839 leased to the Southern Railway and passing through Manassas, Virginia in July 1979.  CP 2839 is now reportedly cosmetically restored and on static display in Sylmar, CA.

Was in Bluefield W Va. still has a coaling tower, and a locomotive shop. Pretty narrow space for Norfolk Southern to have much in this crease through steep hills. Surprised how dirty the equipment was on this coal train. Compared to UP or BNSF out of Wyoming. I was surprised also by only two engines both on front heading down. But maybe 50 to 60 cars or so.

A pic from this morning with two big (but different) NS units leading the BNSF on a mixed freight. The big radiator overhang unit, 2nd in line, never cease to create awe. Growled forward about a block, then returned. Not much of a switching move. I can never recall model numbers. Why BNSF is not leading?

Grand Trunk Western at Durand, Michigan. November 1968.

Michigan's Upper peninsula, Quincy mine, great trip taking in the history of the mines. 

A couple pics from a few days ago in Pittsburgh when the sun was shinning.

Lee, I wonder how many of the Warbonnets are left on the rails?

NYC Caboose in Stoneboro PA.

The Central had a crew terminal in this small town in Mercer County on their Stoneboro branch which went from Ashtabula out to the coal fields around Brookville and Clearfield.  The PRR had a branch that came up from New Castle, but was abandoned in 1937.  Conrail abandoned the Stoneboro branch, renamed the Clarion secondary in 1988.

Stoneboro was also the home of Mr. Fred Houser, a life long railroad enthusiast.

Over 120 Husky Stack cars behind 5 engines South of Las Vegas.

From my visit to Worchester, MA last week.  

Left TCA York at 2:30pm on Friday and went to Strasburg for dinner. Saw some great dessert!

With proper understanding of trespass and the allowed access to 611, you can get some good photos.

This was 3rd visit to 611 at SRR including a ride behind in 2019.

Walter M. Matuch

2 Franken engines at a scrap dealer in Council Tucky IA

FEF 1?  also in Council Tucky IA

A sunny weekend in June 1980 sees Southern Railway 2-8-0 Consolidation #722 pulling a passenger excursion through Bristow, Virginia.  Five years later her fires would be dropped forever.

What twenty-five years of weathering looks like...  Halloween 2021, Port of Kalama, Washington

Penn Central switch engine 8651 at the engine house in Cadillac, Michigan in December 1968.

Railroad Days, Durand Michigan  •  May 14, 2021

All images shot with a Canon DSLR - T6i & Processed with Adobe Photoshop.

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

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Just got back from a road trip to Phoenix and back. Drove past a LOT of stuff that I didnt stop for, bit I did manage to stop for quick visits at Ogden and Sacramento...

I just got back from a family vacation to the Southwest. We spent about a day and a half riding in the sleeper section of the California Zephyr. I tried to take pictures of everything that I saw, but there was just so much to see! Here are some of the high points.

We stopped briefly at Galesburg, IL on our way out of Chicago. They have a nice little train station with a collection of vintage rolling stock, including this CB&Q boxcar.

We crossed over the Mississippi River into Iowa while we were chowing down in the dining car. There's quite a bit of BNSF rolling stock around Burlington, IA, including a number of these interesting center-beam flatcars. I saw one that had an entire track switch on it-- I was too slow to get a picture, but it looked just like the ones from the MTH catalog a few years back!

I woke up about 2AM to find we were idling in front of what I presumed was Union Station in Omaha, Nebraska. I did some half-asleep window-watching as we rolled through the state. Strangest thing I saw in Nebraska was how active the agricultural towns were in the middle of the night. Combine harvesters and tractors working in the fields with headlights on, trucks moving around in town, even joggers getting their laps in several hours before sunrise! I guess that a lot of farmers and their families work the third shift during the harvest season.

In Denver the following morning, we passed by what appeared to be a BNSF diesel maintenance shop. Lots of engines scattered around here, including a battered Canadian Pacific and a Ferromex unit (I took a picture but it's too blurry to see anything).

Denver appears to have a lot of light rail service, the commuter trains paralleled the mainline for a good 15-20 miles outside of the city center.

My first trip west of the Mississippi and my first Amtrak rail journey. It was a fun experience overall. I didn't sleep much on the train, but the food was good, the crew were friendly and the views were really spectacular. It's really eye-opening to see what the interior of our great country looks like!

Hello everyone, I took these in the late seventies at a crossing here in Grand Rapids, MI when a freight stopped for a moment. I used a small Kodak with Kodachrome film, those colors really did pop! I thought that these were so cool sitting there waiting to go into the yard in Wyoming, MI.

milwaukee road rib side boxcar # 4982 seen better days the last 2 floods really took a toll

Not a whole lot going on here but some recent stuff this last month during the golden week at East portal

@Erik C Lindgren posted:

Hey, that area looks really familiar. I just remembered that I went through the Moffat Tunnel on the California Zephyr two weekends ago. This Amtrak train must be the Zephyr then, right?

I saw some of those UP diesels with the American flag graphic zip past in the eastbound direction as we left Denver. I tried to photograph them but didn't get much through the windows.

Two weeks ago we had some time to kill before we got our new puppy. We stopped by he wheels o time museum in Peoria IL.  Was a pretty good museum

SOO Line passing through Trout Lake in Michigan's UP in 1975.

@Jerry Williams posted:

SOO Line passing through Trout Lake in Michigan's UP in 1975.

Great photos Jerry. I love the SOO line which I think is now Canadian Pacific. Here is A repeat photo post of my SOO line on a smaller scale than your photos.

Thank you Denny T. You have a great looking layout.

Stumbled across this scene this morning.

@jhz563 posted:

Stumbled across this scene this morning.

Still there this afternoon, catching nice light.

CN leased power in Council Tucky

CWS 20?