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hammersklavier Apr 8, 2010 2:41 AM

Lol @ the random tank car in the auto unit train.

Bedhead Apr 11, 2010 2:56 PM

So many fantastic photos on that last page - especially the snow ones.

Here's a detail from the train shed at Liverpool street station.

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_FyC5sF136g4/S8...o/s912/106.JPG

David1gray Apr 11, 2010 4:04 PM

a few shots of "The Ocean" that runs between Halifax Nova Scotia and Montreal Quebec.
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._2875785_n.jpg
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._6624516_n.jpg
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._5069206_n.jpg
Stop in Moncton
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-...5_805125_n.jpg
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._3473408_n.jpg
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._2563044_n.jpg

bulliver Apr 11, 2010 9:20 PM

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/...ced5175e_b.jpg

bulliver Apr 13, 2010 7:14 PM

The Siska Bridges are in the Fraser Canyon in British Columbia, a narrow gorge that carries the CN and CP mainlines, the Trans Canada Highway, and the Fraser River. Canadian Pacific came through in 1887 and the surveyor decided they should cross the river here. Canadian National (then Canadian Northern) came through in 1910 and were forced to do likewise because the canyon is too narrow to have both rail lines on the same side.


RBB Apr 13, 2010 7:35 PM

OK, so these aren't actually train pics, but they're at least tangentially train-related. These photos are from my ride home on the MetroLink (St. Louis' light rail system) after the Cardinals' home opener yesterday:

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...0/IMG_3754.jpg

At the 8th and Pine Subway entrance:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...0/IMG_3762.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...0/IMG_3763.jpg

The Elevator and Stairway from the street leading down to the Forest Park/Debaliviere stop, where I switched trains:

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...0/IMG_3766.jpg

Looking back from whence I came:

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...0/IMG_3767.jpg

I call this one Abstrack Art:

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...0/IMG_3765.jpg

The train arrives:

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...0/IMG_3768.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y26...0/IMG_3769.jpg

-RBB

hammersklavier Apr 19, 2010 5:25 PM

In the Fog:
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_lx0hh_qeHX0/S7...ures%20003.JPG

Freight Cutoff around 30th St. Sta.
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_lx0hh_qeHX0/S7...ures%20032.JPG

harryc Apr 19, 2010 6:08 PM




Renez May 6, 2010 1:03 PM

MRT in Singapore.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2777/...55a45052_b.jpg

Bedhead May 7, 2010 6:08 AM

Nice - I like the reflections.

theWatusi May 7, 2010 4:28 PM

Before & After collage I did of the former RDG station at Port Kenndey in Valley Forge Park

Old photo can be found at www.thebluecomet.com

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_mF8OApz9VpQ/S-...800/Trains.jpg

djurob May 8, 2010 12:57 PM

1. Skopje, Macedonia
http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q...0e75e2ba_o.jpg
2. Skopje again
http://www.build.mk/docs/users/clove...isice%2001.jpg
3. Near Veles, Macedonia
http://www.build.mk/docs/users/clove...near_Veles.jpg

hammersklavier May 8, 2010 6:35 PM

They look pretty awesome. All three of them.

P.S. Watusi, I believe they renovated Port Kennedy in 1976 for the Bicentennial, so that should be the right date for it.

harryc May 10, 2010 5:49 PM

djurob - are those freight cars in the first picture ? They don't look like the passenger cars in the other 2 shots (very nice shots b.t.w.)

djurob May 11, 2010 7:53 AM

^^

Yeah, it's freight looks like some kind of pipes are being transported

Bedhead Jun 8, 2010 10:39 AM

A couple more from London

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_FyC5sF136g4/Sy...A/s912/005.JPG

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_FyC5sF136g4/Sy...Q/s640/008.JPG

Chef Jun 9, 2010 1:29 AM

Some train photos from the Twin Cities.

Minneapolis:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4038/...07b2d94f_b.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1272/...869b9924_b.jpg

St Paul:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3261/...43f3f510_b.jpg

Robert Pence Jun 10, 2010 10:38 PM

Wonderful photos, everyone. Bedhead, the first London photo with the smokestacks and the tracks curving around the structures is a stunning composition.

Here's my contribution from Memorial Day Weekend. Hesston Steam Museum is located straight north of La Porte, Indiana and east of Indiana 39, barely south of the Michigan state line.

The 3-foot Shay Locomotive was built in Lima, Ohio in 1929. Shay locomotives use a side-mounted driveshaft, universal joints, and gears to deliver power from a 3-cylinder vertical side-mounted engine to trucks that swivel like those under a freight car. This enables them to deliver great pulling power and move heavy loads on hastily-laid uneven track with steep grades and tight curves often encountered in logging, quarrying, and mining operations. This locomotive was heavily damaged in an engine house fire in 1985 and was restored by volunteers at Hesston.


On the left, eighteen tons of sophisticated design and remarkable power, this two-footer was built in Germany in 1938 by Orenstein & Koppel, survived World War II, and continued to work in East Germany into the 1960s. Founded in 1875, Orenstein and Koppel today manufactures mining and excavating machinery. On the right, one of many pieces of donated 1/4 scale equipment from publisher Elliott Donnelly's Stet & Query Central railroad. "Stet" and "Query" are proofreaders marks, so they were appropriate to a railroad built and operated for many years by someone in the printing business.




I don't know anything about the provenance of this 2-foot gasoline-powered locomotive, but I did learn that it came to Hesston with a four-cylinder Jeep engine and was overhauled and equipped with a 6-cylinder, 300 cubic inch Ford truck engine for more power. It's very smooth and sweet souding.


These 1/4, or Grand, Scale locomotives once operated at Kiddieland amusement park in Melrose Park, Illinois, just west of Chicago. They have been acquired on loan by Hesston and restored to operating condition. The lead locomotive is a Northern type built in 1950 and the second one is patterned after the New York Central's famed Hudson type. It was built in 1941.


Many of the 1/8 scale locomotives are operated by the people who built them and it takes skill just like running a full-sized machine. The steamers burn coal to boil water to generate high-pressure steam in their boilers, and have a startling amount of power for their size. Typically they can accelerate a heavy train of large adults up the hill just outside the station at a pace that would make you hustle to keep up.


The internal combustion locomotives typically use Briggs & Stratton V-twin engines and have comparable pulling power.

Robert Pence Jun 14, 2010 1:21 PM

Added two photos and descriptive info to the preceding set.

Zapatan Jun 29, 2010 6:11 AM

Carrying military tanks

http://image53.webshots.com/553/9/78...2hYhkIs_ph.jpg

rides.webshots.com

http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/8462/dsc05951.jpg

www.imageshack.com

http://tietokannat.mil.fi/paiste07/static_images/34.jpg

militaryphotos.net


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