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Things sure have changed in Austin since 1981. Then, the Amtrak station was in what seemed to be the middle of nowhere, so isolated that I halfway expected to see tumbleweeds blowing across the tracks.
The station was so freshly rebuilt that it still smelled of new concrete ...  ... or maybe that was the cement plant beside the bridge, just a stone's throw away:  The train from San Antonio, then named the Inter-American, approaches the station:  |
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Old engine used for hauling timber
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Photos I took while in Eureka Springs, AR last year
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Some real quality stuff guys.
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I don't have anything to add today, but I just wanted to comment that there's some wonderful photography added, lately.
Harryc, the shot of the CTA train with the snow and ice and the frost-coated chain-link fence makes me want to run upstairs and get my parka out of the closet. Photolitherland, the once-fully-tricked-out, if somewhat bedraggled '51 or '52 Chevy wagon is a great find. Those conversions with flanged wheels are pretty much a thing of the past, replaced by pickups or SUVs with Hi-Rail conversions, flanged wheels that can be lowered to engage the rails, and retaining the standard rubber tires and drive train for highway use. The earlier railmobile conversions used solid steel wheels, and were almost always done with cars with really slippy automatic transmissions because the steel-to-steel propulsion didn't absorb driveline shocks the way pneumatic tires do, and manual transmissions didn't stand up to the rough service. Disgustingly mushy transmissions like Buick's Dynaflow and Chevy's Powerglide were well-suited. Starting in the late forties, conversions sometimes used skinny pneumatic tires on flanged wheels. |
I don't have anything that compares to the quality in this thread, but here's what I've got:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...s/PICT0058.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...s/PICT0059.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...s/PICT0060.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...s/PICT0064.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...s/PICT0068.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...s/PICT0069.jpg These are of South St. Louis - immediately south of the Downtown area, and were taken from the Top of the Riverfront - a revolving restaurant at the top of the Millenium Hotel in downtown STL. -RBB |
Oak Park, Illinois
Rob thank you for the discourse on auto/rail conversions, something else I can explain to the kids next opportunity.
RBB those are great. Rolling parts   |
More fun stuff; East Broad Top RR (narrow gauge), Orbisonia, PA
 This is a Fairmont, aka motor car, aka track speeder. It's named for the company that built them. This is an early version, with a two-stroke gasoline engine. Later ones had more refinements with Kohler engines and optional enclosed cabs, but none have any sort of suspension. Ten or fifteen mph on typical short line or shoestring-budget tourist railroad track makes you think you're gonna' die. The two-cycle engine will run in either direction, so they don't need any kind of reverse gearing to change directions.   Ummmm ...     |
Great adds, all.
RBB, those are great shots. The perspective is great; I love infrastructure shots from above that show all the components of a collective trasportation system all working together. |
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Oak Park, Illinois
Does anyone know the technical name for these ?
There are several 3 and 4 car sets, where the cars share a truck (set of wheels) - so instead of 4 cars having 8 trucks (32 wheels) 4 cars have 5 trucks (20 wheels). Used for containers.   |
^multiple unit well car
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Each set consisted of three carbodies on four trucks, with a control cab in each end unit. When they operated on the Skokie, they had both third-rail pickup and pantographs. |
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Nice Strasbug shot! I love the perspective in that.
For both families and steam geeks Strasburg is among the best in the East and possibly all of North America; there's so much activity, stuff going on all the time, the restorations are authentic, and just across the road is the Pennsylvania Railroad Museum, worth a whole day by itself. |
^ yeah we used to go there every Summer when I was a kid. The old switch tower was open that day, so I got a chance to view the locomotive switching ends from above. Very neat.
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The Reading FP7-A units seen in the background in the above photo lead an excursion train on the former RDG Perkiomen Branch in October of 07
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:previous: So that line is still active? I thought they had turned that branch into a multi-use trail...
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The Perki trail runs from Oaks to Green Lane,the ROW is abandoned from Green Lane to Pennsburg, and East Penn Rail Lines operates the line from Pennsburg to Emmaus Junction
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NMOphoto, those are some gorgeous images!
Watusi, here's your tower at Strasburg; one of the most beautiful railroad structures surviving:  |
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Chicago Loop elevated CTA transit near Wells and Lake streets
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Former Reading Main, now NS Harrisburg Line at Valley Forge Park. I'm standing on the Westbound track looking east where the middle track leading out of Abrams yard ends.
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Amtrak's Texas Eagle at Austin crossing Lady Bird Lake on the way to San Antonio
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:previous: Great shots!
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Austin, Texas - 1981
I'm not sure if I've posted any of these before; if so, my apologies. Shot near the depot: MKT stood for Missouri-Kansas-Texas, affectionately known as Katy. The 200-plus miles of abandoned Katy route across Missouri were bought by Edward Jones and donated for construction of the Katy Trail. http://www.robertpence.com/tx_austin/810602-13.jpg http://www.robertpence.com/tx_austin/810602-14.jpg http://www.robertpence.com/tx_austin/810602-16.jpg http://www.robertpence.com/tx_austin/810602-17.jpg http://www.robertpence.com/tx_austin/810602-18.jpg http://www.robertpence.com/tx_austin/810601-13.jpg The Amtrak train that served Austin then was known as the Inter-American. Here, it's arriving from San Antonio. http://www.robertpence.com/tx_austin/810602-15.jpg |
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 Former Nickel Plate Road locomotive 765 passes Fort Wayne's former Pennsylvania Railroad Depot en route to North Judson, Indiana, to run weekend excursions. Shot May 20 from the observation deck at the top of 312-foot Art Deco 1930 Lincoln Tower. |
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Salt Lake City - March 2008
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^Beautiful Austin Shots, and speaking of the Texas Eagle, here is a shot on the train just before I departed from it at Lincoln, Illinois...
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^Excellent shot, Shawn!
Dredging the Archives - First run of Amtrak's version of the Broadway Limited - May 1, 1971 Cleaning out a long-undisturbed cabinet I came up with these that I took in 1971. The original photos are 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 Ektrachrome transparencies. The've never been projected, and the only way I've ever seen them before was to hold them up to the light. On May 1, 1971, Amtrak's much-watered-down version of the former flagship of the Pennsylvania Railroad made its first stop in Fort Wayne. I was there to document its 45-minute-late arrival with a broken-down locomotive, and the splicing on of a Penn Central freight unit to help it on its way. While I was waiting at the former PRR depot, I took a photo of the Wabash depot across the tracks and a block east. The Cannonball, last passenger train to stop there, had made its last run the previous day.  Train 40 arrives:    Until I scanned these transparencies this evening, I never realized that the elderly gentleman in the brown suit, walking toward the camera, was the man who became my next-door neighbor a year later when I bought my first house.     |
I love those classic shots.
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I'm no train buff by any stretch, and I'm not really a train fan, but I took these pictures of the trains at Harpers Ferry, West Viriginia, a couple months ago.
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^ Wow - fantastic shots!
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Saint Ouen Ateliers.
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