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Right before (circa 2008) the semaphores were to be replaced up and down the Monon.  The replacement is just barely visible. My wife actually snapped this shot by accident as she was backing away from the track.  Best shot of that day.

Brendan

@Brendan posted:

Right before (circa 2008) the semaphores were to be replaced up and down the Monon.  The replacement is just barely visible. My wife actually snapped this shot by accident as she was backing away from the track.  Best shot of that day.

Brendan

That's a great shot!

Whereabouts on the old Monon was it? I'm guessing somewhere in Northern Indiana.

Thanks!

Thurmond, WV   #24 turnout.  Stores fronts on the top left edge of photo,  coaling tower on top right edge of photo.

The layout of track actually fascinates  me as much as trains.  Not the detailing but more the configurations.

The loco was just sitting there idling

Thurmond from a Zip line 800' above New River.  WV is one beautiful state.

Thurmond or what is left of it, is tucked literally against the steep mountain side.  A prototype for  our building  fronts which we glue on our wall.

At the Hinton terminal one of the most fascinating things was the phone number at the "Transportation Center".

Now that is something to model!

Not an area code but rather the entire phone number.  Period correct !

Last night Iowa Interstate rolling through Tinley Park  Illinois  at 7:45 pm with #813 on the point in heritage Rock Island colors. I barely had the chance to get my phone out of my pocket as it passed. Less than a half mile from my house and on my evening walk.

@Up & Down the Monon posted:

That's a great shot!

Whereabouts on the old Monon was it? I'm guessing somewhere in Northern Indiana.

Thanks!

Correct.  Between South Raub and Romney.

Brendan

Craignor - sometime you should drop by the Rockville Bridge at night - you can watch traffic streak by on Rt. 322 in the background and see FRED flash as he rolls across the bridge.

Third Rail, Bill T, it’s great to see you on this thread and I’m sure hoping your feeling lots better, I love the Rock Island paint scheme, today, pictures from a visit to the famous Horseshoe Curve, 2018 before York in October. Happy Railroading Everyone

This consist was put together about 2012.  Placed in an old strip mall parking lot, it was intended to be a restaurant.  The next year it was a Halloween "Escape the Haunted Train."  Following that, it was badly vandalized.  Now it is being cleaned out before removal.  I want the front half of the ALCO.   I want it to appear as if was driving out of my mountain side.

2017 we rode the 765 from Joliet Illinois to Chicago's LaSalle Street Station.  Lucky enough to get seats in the Hickory Creek observation car.

@third rail posted:

2017 we rode the 765 from Joliet Illinois to Chicago's LaSalle Street Station.  Lucky enough to get seats in the Hickory Creek observation car.

Curiosity concerning track detail...

Those rails in the sunlight, no ties?  Mounted directly on a concrete slab/base?  So, do  I see a slight depressed trough between the rails for runoff?   Interesting.

Here are some I took...

From Pittsburgh

From Pittsburgh's West Park.

One more of the prototype for the "Gold Polar Express"

Today (well, yesterday at this hour) along the NEC near the SEPTA Levittown station in Pennsylvania.

David

“Winter in July” - From Southeast Michigan.

Amtrak at Pontiac • CN Yard just north of Detroit • Amtrak Conductor • The Night Train, Ann Arbor • CP Railroad tunnel, Detroit - Windsor.

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

Beautiful pictures Everyone, wow , Trainroomgary  snow/winter in July is amazing, beautiful trains Amtrac, GN, and the tunnel shot, thank you. Now South Korea, Seoul Station, Happy Railroading Everyone

Quanah, Texas

REA building

former Fort Worth & Denver Railroad R-O-W in the foreground

Quanah, Acme & Pacific Railway depot and headquarters. (the tracks passed by on the righthand side of the depot in this photo).

While in Seattle visiting my Grandson, we made a day trip to Portland to see the Oregon Rail Heritage Center.  Here are a few pics from our visit there on Thursday, July 8, 2021.

@NH Bill posted:

While in Seattle visiting my Grandson, we made a day trip to Portland to see the Oregon Rail Heritage Center.  Here are a few pics from our visit there.

The date of your visit would also be helpful, besides the nice photos.

@Hot Water, all set.  I added it to my post.  Thanks!

Lockport, NY

NH Bill - Having witnessed both #4449 and #700 under steam, it is extremely gratifying to see both of them in absolutely pristine condition, under roof, and not rusting away in some city park.  Thank you for the photos

Being a member of the LCCA, we attended the annual convention when in the Big city of Chicago and visited the huge Train Station downtown. We had a ball and this was either 2017 or 2018, time flies when your having fun. Happy Railroading Everyone

Pair of ex EL engines

August 4, 2012.  Attica, Ohio:

Tom

Leapinlarry,

You photos and comments about Chicago brought to mind my many trips there via Amtrak.  No matter where you live in the US, a trip to Chicago by train and just a day or two in town makes for a great rail excursion. Chicago has so much to see and do and there are all kinds of wonderful restaurants.  Why, just shopping along Michigan Ave. is fun.  For railfans there is always a ride on the South Shore.

Yes Conductor Earl, thanks for chiming in, Chicago is a huge railroad town, the station is really nice. We had fun at the LCCA annual convention, and a great visit with the friendly folks at the Chicagoland Model Railroad Club where they have there really neat layout. It’s a great place to visit. Also, the Museum of Science and Industry is awesome. I would like to see pictures of the trains people are saying they’ve ridden on as pictures tell a great story. This is a fun thread. Happy Railroading Everyone

News that 765 is coming back to the Cuyahoga Valley got me thinking about one of my favorite shots of her 2019 visit.

Since we're discussing Amtrak - here's eastbound Amtrak at Ashtabula - pre-dawn.

@naresar posted:

News that 765 is coming back to the Cuyahoga Valley got me thinking about one of my favorite shots of her 2019 visit.

Went there in my time machine, and took a flash photo:

During a 2010 trip to Australia, took a photo in Melbourne of Flinders Street Station, then later went to a steam railway south of the city:

This is from upstate NY, Small town called Remsen, NY. Forgot this small depot was here. It also has a turn table from years gone by. I wish they would clean around it for better photos. Started raining was told to get out of the rain. I had Pictures of a round house down in Utica, NY and a photo of a turntable that was in use till the early 80 maybe someday I will find and will post. HAGD Mark, God Bless America!

www.remsendepot.com Should have taken a look at the site first, has some nice history and photos.

Thanks Mark

Here's another train encounter from my Seattle vacation.  We went to see the Chittenden Locks in Ballard yesterday and stopped at the Lock Spot Cafe for some fish and chips.  The Ballard Terminal RR provided this appetizer.  (July 18, 2021)

Steam on the Black River & Western, September 2016.

West Virginia steam excursion during its final season. Enjoy!

This portion of the former SP "Sunset Route" is now designated by Uncle Pete as 'San Antonio Area'.  This westbound freight is climbing a 1% ruling grade at Strobel CTC siding.  He is near the end of his run as in 10 miles it will be at the crew change point in Alpine, TX.  Alpine is also a division point with the railroad west of there being designated as the 'Sunset Area'.  Alpine is also where Arthur Stillwell's Kansas City, Mexico & Orient RR (later AT&SF) joined the SP for a trip up Paisano Pass.  At the summit the KCM&O diverged southwest to proceed to Presidio, TX and the US border while the Sunset Route continued west to El Paso, TX.   As the view turns westward you can see evidence of my railroad career-turned-cattle rancher with my stock trailer in view.  The zoomed view westward shows iconic Mitre Peak in the distance.

Here is some from a weekend trip to Ticonderoga NY.  These are from the way back home just crossing the upper Hudson River at Riparius NY.

...and here you thought the warning in the instructions "some assembly required" only applied to kids toys at Christmas.

The Grandchildren at “The Lost Railway Museum” Grass Lake, Michigan.

May 6, 2021 • • The train crew in front of old #47 •• The boys watching a train movie •• Baby checking the view out of a passenger car window •• Baby got home and wants her own mask.

Every model railroader started out rail-fanning!

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This is an eastbound train out of Seagraves, TX headed for nearby Lubbock, TX.  This line was once one of the many branches of AT&SF that diverged out of Lubbock and Slaton, TX.   This photo was taken during the "you-might-see-anything-Iowa-Pacific" era.  The NJ commuter locomotive convinced me to pull over and take this shot.

Today August 4, 2021 • White Castle Lunch at the Amtrak Yard, Pontiac Michigan.

Four sliders and fries from White Castle. Inside my F150.

The Amtrak Crew is inside this coach, doing maintenance.

The rear of Amtrak Charger 4617.

This Siemens Charger and coaches are in for maintenance.

Working on the railroad.

This crewman is walking back to the water tank.

Filling the 1000 gallon fresh water tank.

Every model railroader started out rail-fanning!

Hope to see you out rail-fanning & posting your images on the OGR Forum: Gary 🚂

Took a ride on the Northern Central out of New Freedom PA this past weekend.  Quite a treat for someone who is both an 1800s era railroad and a Civil War buff.  I will try and post pictures later.

I was camping in the Rocky Mountains near Banff and caught this westbound train with my kids when we were walking the dog.  Enjoy!

On the way home from camping we stopped in at a little town called Big Valley, Alberta which used to be an important railway stop with a roundhouse and yard which were abandoned in the late 1930's and moved to a nearby location which better served the railway.  During the war the remains were stripped out of the roundhouse and repurposed.  Really cool the ruins are still there.  Hope you enjoy!

A couple of pictures of 475 from Strasburg. The second picture was taken from the bridge in the corn maze at the Cherry Crest Adventure Farm.

Tuesday at Strasburg

Nice pix from Riparius, MartyE.

Don't think anyone has mentioned this - the photos in the gallery section in the September issue of a monthly magazine about trains are by Erik C Lindgren.

David

Rail-fanning in San Jose and Jamestown back in the 70's and 80's.

RAY

A compilation of railfanning from December 2020 and early July 2021 to answer the question...where are NS's former GP59s?

Two examples of these locomotives, a class only rostered by Norfolk Southern and intended for high-speed intermodal and Road-Railer service, found themselves purchased by Carload Express, an Oakland, Pittsburgh-based holding company for shortlines in eastern Ohio, western PA and the Delmarva Peninsula. Though the GP59s have occasionally seen service on the Southwestern Pennsylvania Railroad in Westmoreland and Fayette Counties, the GP59s (and the ex-NS SD60Ms) have mostly remained on the Allegheny Valley Railroad in Allegheny and Washington counties.

The GP59s spent most of their initial assignments sandwiched between two SD40-3s working the Island Avenue transfer job; occasionally, however, they could be found working the mostly-daily AVR-3 local run to Washington, PA. In December, CLXX 4552 (former NS 4617) led two GP40-3s on an unusually long AVR-3 heading north through Finleyville, PA.

I spent several months away from Pittsburgh, but returned earlier this summer. AVR-3 has been running at night to accommodate almost-daily trackwork on the former B&O "Pike" and I was fortunate to catch one of the ballast extras conducting work at Bruceton (the Wheeling & Lake Erie interchange). Here, CLXX 4551 is pulled off the head end of the southbound train to allow the crew to drop half of the cars on the interchange.

CLXX 4551 used to wear the latest "Horsehead" paint while on NS (as opposed to 4552's older-style Thoroughbred paint with OLS logos), which is wht it has the white 'unibrow.'

An ancient Lake Erie, Franklin & Clarion County hopper brings up the rear of the ballast string coasted onto the interchange track.

The 4551 guides the train as RJ Corman contractors drop ballast on the main at Bruceton.

@Ray of sunshine posted:

Rail-fanning in San Jose and Jamestown back in the 70's and 80's.

RAY

How about some locations and dates, please? Especially that first photo of 4449, in 1977, enroute to Oakland, on the Amtrak Transcontinental Steam Excursion.

Hot Water,

4449 was taken at Agnew Station heading north out of San Jose, 1977 as I remember. Canadian Pacific taken 1977 at the San Jose Yards cutting over from San Jose on its way to Oakland. Sierra Railroad engine 34 taken at the Jamestown Ca depot. SP 2472 was taken at the San Jose Round house and yards in 1992 as best I remember.

RAY

Hot Water, it must have been your day off.    Or is there a story about the soot on the locomotives?

@Number 90 posted:

Hot Water, it must have been your day off.    Or is there a story about the soot on the locomotives?

Tom,

The reason behind all the soot on 4449 in that is; after our layover in San Louis Obispo, on the SP Coast Route, an Amtrak SDP40F diesel was added for assistance climbing Cuesta Grade. Upon departure, we ascended the grade, and then stopped on the big horseshoe curve for a photo-runby. Since I was "off duty" that morning, I got off to take photos of the photo run. The train then backed up, made the photo run, then backed up to re-board all the passengers. As I headed for the crew car, I saw McCormack franticly waving for me to come forward. It seemed that the Amtrak SDP40F had tripped an alarm (as indicated by the red light on the Diesel MU Control Box in the cab of 4449).

I went back to check on the Amtrak diesel, but could not clear the problem (it would no longer load in either direction). I informed the Boss, that he was going to have to start the whole train, including the dead SDP40F, on the steepest part of Cuesta. So much for Amtrak "diesel assist"!

Now, the bad part is, there is a tunnel at the top of Cuesta, and without any diesel assist, McCormack was forced to operate 4449 at FULL THROTTLE thru the entire tunnel,,,,,,,,,,,thus steam cleaning more than 20 years of diesel oily exhaust snot from the tunnel interior. That is why 4449 looks to bad in subsequent photos  on the remainder of the trip to Oakland. We had a multi-day layover in Oakland, and it took two days to clean 4449, with diesel fuel and large quantities of Dawn Detergent!  

Yesterday August 13, 2021 • Back to the Amtrak Yard, Pontiac Michigan.

Ordered lunch at White Castle. They are celebrating 100 Years.

Rail-fanning & having lunch inside my F150.

This is called “The Poop Truck”. It is used to pump the black water out of the holding tanks.

Working on the air lines.

Crew chief returning to his office.

The Siemens Charger returning from the Y-Turn.

Loco #4629 is returning to the front of the consist. For it’s return trip to Chicago.

Every model railroader started out rail-fanning!

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The Monongahela heritage unit on one of its rare visits to its representative region. The locomotive led an eastbound 20E piggyback (and three cars worth of double-stacks) from Chicago to New Jersey one day in January, and I caught it on both sides on Conway Yard as the sun went down. Also featured is the GP38 pair I posted about two weeks ago on NS 170.

Sunset August 17, 2021 • Waterford, Michigan

This E J & E #659 is used by the CN Railway as a switcher.

Every model railroader started out rail-fanning!

Hope to see you out rail-fanning & posting your images here: Gary 🚂

@trainroomgary suggestion:

Place your photo captions BEFORE the photo, not AFTER.  Doing so allows the reader to scroll down to read the caption and be prepared for and better understand the photo.  When the caption follows the photo, I look at the photo and I'm not sure what it is I'm seeing; i.e., I have no info about the photo to understand its context when it precedes the caption.

@Pingman posted:

@trainroomgary suggestion:

Place your photo captions BEFORE the photo, not AFTER.  Doing so allows the reader to scroll down to read the caption and be prepared for and better understand the photo.  When the caption follows the photo, I look at the photo and I'm not sure what it is I'm seeing; i.e., I have no info about the photo to understand its context when it precedes the caption.

Hi Carl: Thanks for the suggestion but I will have to take a pass. The caption or what we call a cut line always goes below the photo. I was able to make money in photojournalism for over 40 years and still involved.

I subscribe to the Detroit Free Press and this is what they’re front page looks like. There are five photos on the front page and all the captions are below the photo. Every page follows this layout design.(View from my iPhone using the FP App)

This is from Associated Press. The caption goes below the photo. Sometimes it may be in a photo block to the left or right of the photos. Showing several photos for one story.

Hope this helps and look forward to seeing your rail-fanning photos. Gary 🚂

@Hot Water posted:

Now, the bad part is, there is a tunnel at the top of Cuesta, and without any diesel assist, McCormack was forced to operate 4449 at FULL THROTTLE thru the entire tunnel,,,,,,,,,,,thus steam cleaning more than 20 years of diesel oily exhaust snot from the tunnel interior. That is why 4449 looks to bad in subsequent photos  on the remainder of the trip to Oakland. We had a multi-day layover in Oakland, and it took two days to clean 4449, with diesel fuel and large quantities of Dawn Detergent!  

I hope the crew had some masks to protect their lungs! Too bad the 4449 couldn't have been turned around, and run through the tunnel cab-forward style.

@trainroomgary, I almost included the following in my original replay since I expected that reference to traditional print media technique would be offered as a justification/explanation, so I'll include it now given your informative reply:

In legacy/traditional print media formatting, the reader can almost instantaneously view the image and read the explanatory text.  Not so with replies on OGR since one scrolls through image then text using your formatting.  Hence, my suggestion to place text before image.

That the traditional print media/photo journalism approach works elsewhere doesn't work for me here.  Just my opinion of course.

A Metra "flip" train, in Naperville, IL. The train comes in WB, runs down to the switch "plant" west of Naperville, crosses the 3 track main, and returns to Naperville EB. The engineer alights from the cab, walks back to check that his marker lights are on, then walks forward to the cab car.

@mark s, thanks for the description ahead of the photos--very interesting.

Thomas at the Illinois Railway Museum July 17, 2021. The IRM did an excellent job with "Day out with Thomas"

Eastbound UP line Metra in Glen Ellyn, Il with March snow still hanging around.

Eastbound BNSF freight, River Rd. Naperville, Il under a blue sky

January 2020, Glyndon, MD.

Some shots I've taken locally this summer in the area south of the Puget Sound...

Napavine Hill-

Cab of Chehalis tourist RR # 6, note the kink in the track from the area slowly sliding down hill-

Napavine Hill-

Chehalis, south end of the former NP depot (just a few feet away from the Chehalis Rail Cam)-

Napavine Hill-

Seattle, near Boeing Field-

Ballard-

Winlock-

Between Centralia and Bucoda-

Napavine Hill-

Napavine Hill-

Tenino-

Near East Olympia, at the bridge at Waldrick Road-

Chehalis, where the Milwaukee Road used to interchange-

Tenino-

Tacoma-

Winlock-

Tenino-

Tenino-

Tenino, on a running meet (which I've seen more than a few in the last year or so)-

October 1986, 4985 at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania before going to Harrisburg,

Should read 4859, got a little dyslexic with the number.

Winlock, WA:

Tenino:

The following photos were taken today of these handsome Metra/BNSF/Burlington Budd Co. built gallery cars, in Naperville, IL.  I will turn 76 this September; I rode in these same cars when I was 10.......TEN........years old !  Believe these are the oldest pieces of revenue producing railroad equipment presently in service in the United States.  In those mid-nineteen-fifties trips to downtown Chicago, always made it a point to sit on the north side of the train, of course in the upper-deck, so as to catch a glimpse of the Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal 0-8-0's working the Robey Street yard and passenger car wash.

NS lite engines eastbound from former LV main (now NS Lehigh Line) now on former CNJ main at Bloomsbury, NJ (now NS Bloomsbury Industrial track but owned by NJT) to pick up a stored empty tank train. In my CR/CNJ days I ran on this trackage as conductor when it was still the former CNJ mainline to Allentown, PA.

Thanks for looking.

Walter

A view from work…NJT Port Morris yard…

A few from the past:

Took these over the past couple days:

Winlock, WA-

Evaline-

Chehalis-

Pics taken a few years ago while visiting family near Palmer Lake/Greenland, Colorado.

Nov, 2016  Pere Marquette 1225 does the  72 mile passenger run from Owosso to Clare Michigan.  What a great day.

I took this tonight, almost watched a deer turn itself into hamburger...

The deer gets onto the tracks the first time at 1:35

More videos I shot from yesterday:

Reading & Northern/Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway, Jim Thorpe, PA

Here are a couple videos I’ve captured over the last month or so.  Pretty nice sound considering both were shot with an iPhone.  Turn up the speakers and enjoy!!

July 22nd.  Grafton & Upton (Massachusetts short line RR) shifting cars around in their Upton, MA yard.  Power this day includes Precision Leasing #9619 GP40-2LW that arrived on the G&U earlier this year…and two G&U MP15AC’s (originally CSX)…

August 12th.  CSX local freight departs the Grafton & Upton’s North Grafton, MA yard after dropping off loads and picking up empties.  The conductor has just lined the switch for the train to re-enter the MBTA (CSX) eastbound main.  The pair GP40-2’s (#6241 & #6216) wait for the gates to go down at Westboro Road, then accelerate through the crossing…

And here are a few still photos, all taken by me in my travels over the last month or so…

August 4th.  PNLX #9619 shoves a cut of cars into the south end of the G&U North Grafton, MA yard...

August 12th.  CSX local freight led by a pair of GP 40-2’s getting ready to depart the G&U North Grafton Yard.  The engineer in the lead unit (barely visible behind the two tank cars in the first photo) is waiting for the conductor to radio confirmation that the switch has been lined for the train to re-enter the eastbound main…

August 17th.  Pan Am Railways B40-8 #5972 idles in the South Fitchburg, MA yard.  This is one of many locomotives that Pan Am has acquired from CSX and has obviously not made it through the paint shop yet to receive its blue and white Pan Am livery.  It's stenciled "MEC" (for Maine Central) in white on the cab just below the road #...with black lines painted through the CSX markings on the nose and sides...

July 26th.  A center cab switcher sits on a flatcar inside the Port of Davisville automobile unloading facility in North Kingstown, RI.  Unfortunately I don’t know this little switcher’s origin…or whether it’s coming or going!  There’s a short line RR named Seaview that serves the Port facility and the nearby Quonset Business Park.  Maybe it belongs to them?

East Broad Top - February 1976

Last Thursday, August 19th, I was on day 4 of 9 riding across the country in coach on an Amtrak Railpass. I took many pictures on my trip, but figured I would start with some shots that won't find their way into a YouTube video at some point.

For this segment of the trip, I was traveling on Amtrak's Sunset Limited from Houston to Los Angeles. Coming into El Paso, we passed several lines of stored locomotives in the yard, including this standard cab SD60 stored with several of its comfort cab brethren and a few SD70Ms.

We had to make a long backup move (almost three miles) into the station because of a westbound freight that would have passed between the platform and the station. Like several other cities I visited Houston follows a turquoise and sandstone red  color palette for many buildings and highway overpasses, a novelty for a northeasterner accustomed to gray and yellow or blue highway bridges.

The Sunset climbing out of the city westbound toward Los Angeles. Our second unit was Amtrak's Phase II heritage unit 130 (the original Amfleet and F40PH delivery scheme), now about three years into its role as a replacement for the wrecked Genesis 66 (the original Phase II HU).

At Deming, NM, we passed Union Pacific's interchange with the Arizona Eastern, a Genessee and Wyoming shortline noteworthy for its use of ex-BNSF B39-8 four-axle GEs. Parked in the yard was the ex-Southern Pacific Hydra-cushion boxcar, now owned by the AZER.

At Tuscon, we stopped for a crew change and smoke break, and I attempted a long exposure shot of our heritage unit. Unfortunately, the platform near the fuel bowser was blocked by cones which I was hesitate to reposition for tripod use; local railfans who were attempting the same shot said that this was in response to railfans being on the platform when a senior executive passed through.

Here is a shot from the yard today..

Steamtown National Historic Site (Scranton, PA) with my daughter, September, 2018.  Sometime later, an unexpected view of a siding and bumper being reclaimed by nature in Ardmore, PA and, finally, a pair of cabeeese put out to pasture (also in Jim Thorpe, PA).

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Street running in Fort Collins, CO July 2011.

The king of steam rolling in to St. Louis. Came in on one track then had to reverse to come over to the station tracks.

Legendary steam locomotive no. 611 on the Strasburg Rail Road!

Digital at CN Yard & Home darkroom tour

August 16, 2021 • Waterford, Michigan

This E J & E #659 is used by the CN Railway as a switcher. Notice the engineer in the window and the yardman on the front of the locomotive.

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Notice the yardman on the back of this covered hopper. This covered hopper is loaded with plastic pellets on it’s way to an automotive plant in Flint, Michigan.

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We are now in my home darkroom. The is a Beseler 23CII enlarger used to enlarge negatives. I share this room with the furnace and peg boards for hand tools.

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The enlarger under red safe lights.

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The developing trays. Kodak Dektal, Stop Bath, Fixer & Wash Sink. Processing the prints are done under red safe lights and the negatives are done in total dark.

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The developing trays under red.

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This upcoming rail-fanning season I have plans go back to film. I will be doing a few show-and-tells on how this is done.

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

Visiting the Cumbres and Toltec with my son.

@Ross posted:

Visiting the Cumbres and Toltec with my son.

Very nice. A date would be helpful.

My go at visiting the horseshoe curve and all the surrounding spots. Hard to believe this was in 2018.... Filmed this when I was a junior in HighSchool.... now posting this as a junior in college

Hot Water, the date would be today 29 Aug!

@trainroomgary posted:

We are now in my home darkroom. The is a Beseler 23CII enlarger used to enlarge negatives. I share this room with the furnace and peg boards for hand tools."

Really cool, thanks for sharing the pictures of your darkroom.  That took me straight back to my high school and college days when photography was a principal hobby and part time job for me.  I loved working in the darkroom and would probably love it still!

-Jim

Hi Jim Tuscan: Thanks for taking a look at the “Darkroom Tour”. Eastman Kodak Company last filed for bankruptcy in 2012. Several companies have the rights to manufacture their chemicals, but there has been some quality control issues along with financial issues.

ILFORD Photo has been in business for over a hundred years. I have used their film and photo paper. I am thinking about changing the chemicals in my home darkroom to Ilford Chemicals.

ILFORD Film has a Youtube channel that you should find helpful. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/c/Ilfordphoto/videos

Gary

Here are some pics of my trip to Colorado.

Visited our son near Seattle and found this overpass while looking for breweries.  Looks like loads of re-bar in the gondolas.  Would have stayed longer but for the rather fragrant trash train parked there.

@mikey posted:

Great shot, where was this?

A few more Cumbres and Toltec from Aug 29-30.

Chama NM

Near Antonio CO

Antonito engine facility

@p51 posted:

Great shot, where was this?

Elko,NV

Great stuff guys!

I have been working on a new series on the BNSF Brush Subdivision between Denver and Wiggins.

Great thread