CN yard in Green Bay WI
Elsewhere in Tittletown, the old GBW mainline in town heading west, now CN
CN main heading west from the yard behind Duck Creek mini golf
Here is a good photo I got on the way back from the airport:
A UTA train heading to the UTA Light Rail Frontrunner (commuter train) station.
A prototype toy train (supposedly a 1/3 replica, but I doubt it)
A railyard in AZ.
And then a ye olde espee
A train leaving the UPs Roper Yard
A nice panorama of the locomotive facilities at the same place
Another leaving train
And the leaving end of the same train.
Thats all folks!
A good idea for a thread. Prototype photos from a modelers perspective. Here is a few from this amateur modeler/photographer.[:)]
Taken just north of the Canadian/US border at Crescent Beach B.C.
And the pushers.
Brent
Hi M/W
Good shot of CN 4028. I’m in the middle of doing a rebuild on a GTW GP-9R based on a Walther’s HO model. The big difference between the CN geeps and GTW is CN didn’t remove the dynamic brakes. I’m also not sure if they repowered their 9’s as the GTW did. I’m finding that it would have been easier to do the rebuild starting with a GP-15 shell, but, it wouldn’t be nearly as much “fun”[:-^]. Gerry S.
I believe this is an Alco S 6
Bob
OK…I’ll jump in! But it’s too late and I’m too tired to post descriptions of these, so is you have any questions give me a shout here and I’ll answer 'em in the morning! These are all recent pics I took in my town. Many of the pics have to do with making chocolate! [dinner]
Matt
Just for you chpthrls, my short video of 4028 doing yard work. Apparently CN is using this unit now for yard work instead of one of two old WC SW1500’s. When last seen one was still in WC maroon paint, the other was in CN paint. IIRC one of the SW’s road number was either 1600 or 1602. I had more pics but most were lost when somehow my old photobucket account was black flagged due to inappropriate conent and closed. I lost about half my railfanning photo’s so now I’m starting with only a handful. I do have some of a GTW locomotive, still in the beautiful bright orange nosed light blue scheme. I can’t remember the road number but I do believe I tracked it down to a GP9r. I can’t remember because I had some pics of a GTW GP38 AND a GTW GP9r and I can’t recall which one’s I have saved (the other was lost from photobucket). Eventually with in the next week or so I will have all my railfan photos on bucket so I can share them on this thread.
I also have a video of a BNSF Dash 9 idling but the sound didn’t turn out too well. Evidently my camera’s microphone is more sensative than my ear because I had no problems hearing the prime mover idling or the air brakes cycling but the video is mostly the wind howling. I took it because the unit kept making a weird sound, the rpm would seem to dip a tad and
I love some of these pictures. Very nice.
Here is a few from me.
Some good ole Huron and Eastern Action around the Flushing Michigan Area 
Don
A year ago I got to go “hands on” with a few lumber cars. We were closing down the plant and we had a few gazillion board feet of lumber to ship to Wisconsin. We had laid off so many people that the shipping manager and the HR guy (me) had to load the lumber onto railcars and schedule shipping. This is a shot of me after we loaded the first car (of 28).
Granted, the picture isn’t great (it was taken with my phone). This duty got me in the best shape of my life.
Crosoe - something maybe a little more “exotic”:
Ffestiniog Rlwy train leaving Porthmadoc for Boston Lodge and Blaenau Ffestiniog, just entering the causeway called the “Cobh”. The train is headed by a Double-Fairlie loco on 2 ft. gauge, with the name of “Merrdin Emrys”, Welsh for “Merlin”, looking like this:
Speaking about exotic (for Americans): 2-6-2T engine #7 Prydz running around a Sunday morning museum railroad passenger car consist at narrow gauge UHB museum railroad depot at Sørumsand, Norway:
The engine was built in Kassel, Germany in 1950, and was the last new steam engine bought by the Norwegian railroads. It ran in regular traffic on the Urskog-Holand line (UHB) narrow gauge branch line until the 57 kilometer (35 mile) branch line was abandoned in 1960. These days the engine runs trains a few miles up and down the old narrow gauge track as part of a museum railroad run by local volunteers.
Smile,
Stein
Sand service at the P&LE engine facility, McKees Rocks, PA
Shop Goat on transfer table @ Collinwood, Cleveland - Conrail/ex NYC
CSX Taft Yard near Orlando, Fl.
Bob, where is the yard, Im in Florida right now and I would like to visit it.
I like this thread!
Does this look like the Atlas model?
