Same thing different day.
When your out on a road trip, you whip a U-turn on the highway and your wife asks you…“what the heck are you doing”.
You comfortably say I’m turning around to take a picture of that beautiful locomotive.
I’ll start
I always loved the green Burlington Northerns that ran through my neighborhood in St Louis Park Minnesota when I was a kid[Y]
Picture taken in Osceola Wisconsin June 2019.
TF
I’ve got more loco pics than caboose pics.
Larry’s Truck & Electric vintage GP-30 on the Indiana Northeastern:
LTE_GP30_2185b by Edmund, on Flickr
Former Reading 5517 built in July, 1962.
Cheers, Ed
While we’re in Indiana, here’s one from 1971…
Taken on the Monon’s Maple Hill Branch, which served a number of quarries and mills southwest of Bloomington. It came off the main at Clear Creek, then wandered northwesterward. We lived just west of Rockport Road (which the RS2 is crossing) on Fullerton Pike for a year before we followed dad (after completing his MBA at Indiana U) to West Germany where he was ostensibly assigned to HQ USAFE (but was really assigned to a beyond top secret unit that actually operated under command of the JCS, AFTAC.)
Sorry about the quality, but at least it’s better than the Monon caboose pic from the same era and location.
Thomas Viaduct, Baltimore, late 1980’s
August, 2012, New Brighton, Pa…
This could go on for a while…I have at least a couple thousand locomotive pictures.
Wayne
I took this at Canyon Hot Springs. It’s all downhill to the coast from here.
Amtrak P42DCs fresh out of the paint booth at Altoona, circa Oct. 1998:
Rails_0010 by Edmund, on Flickr
Another one (115) in primer.
Amtrak_115 by Edmund, on Flickr
And 118 in the booth waiting for the decal setting solution to dry.
RR_views_0029 by Edmund, on Flickr
NS F9s at Bucyrus,Oh
I&O at Bucyrus after a thunderstorm.
A slightly different “road picture”.
This is April 1984, on the (then) Conrail Harlem Line just north of Dover Plains, New York (where it becomes Metro-North to Brewster, and eventually G.C.T.).
We’d gone up to Wassaic to do our work, and I believe this was taken on the return in the afternoon, waiting for clearance to back down to Dover, get the train switched out, and then head back to Danbury.
I had brought the camera this trip so I got it out, walked down to the rear steps, climbed down and took the picture.
Great looking locomotives posted here. Ar ar arrr!
Look at that Nose!
Duluth, Summer of 2017. No Road name visible… (Edit) Found it. Erie Mining Company.
TF
It’s Erie Mining.
Thanks Backshop. I had found it and was editing while you were posting[Y]
TF
Here’s so pics from a Montana roadtrip from just over a year ago:
Here’s MRL GP9 (GP9R I guess…) number 118. I caught her while driving around Missula, looking for some railroad action!
And as we headed west I shot BNSF number 7207, which is an ES44DC. Though it may appear that 7207 is leading a train it is really pushing this BNSF freight.
Finally is MRL 4400, an SD70ACe that was paired with a sister and an SDP35 if I recall correctly. The lashup was in Livingston moving into position to help a BNSF freight up Bozeman pass. I did see the same train from I90 later, but couldn’t get a good picture of it to to obstructions.
Well that’s all the locomotive pics I have for now! Hope you enjoyed them!
Just caught this one a couple weeks ago…
This is my favorite historical train, LC&M Alco in Port Henry, NY.
My dad had to take the train last week, so more trains!
We get stopped by this one all the time in Plattsburgh.
I could go on and on…
Here’s the Luddington & Northern’s SW8 switching the Kraft caramel and marshmallow plant in Kendalville, Indiana, back in 1998 or so.
Neat paint job!
Regards, Ed
Long hard climb through the Rockies.
If engines could talk they’d be say’in “almost there boys, let’s get’er done!”
Across the valley from Banff with 50 km to the continental divide where it is all downhill to the coast from there.
