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^^^ Have you all seen the map of all the train tracks around downtown Chicago in the 50's that Mr. Downtown posted a while ago in the general developments thread or somewhere while we were talking about covering the tracks in Grant Park?

^Excellent. What area is that? I am assuming in Canada somewhere (based on your avatar); it is quite beautiful.

That is the Shuswap Lake area in the interior of British Columbia

We vacation there every summer. :)

Dang, lucky you! BC is such a beautiful place.

^Kickin' it old-school. Any idea of the production year of that model?

weird... I love trains, but I have relatively few photos (except I do have lots of the MAX here in Portland.

British Columbia

Vancouver Skytrain (out the window of the car)

New York – LIRR in Forest Hills, Queens

New York – 7 Train in Jackson Hts, Queens

New York… maybe West 4th St, Manhattan

Portland

(not sure if the streetcar counts... probably not, but it's got rails!)

Phoenix

Great shots! I wish we had street-cars here in Chicago. It would be such a cool/bizarre/intimidating site to see a train rolling down the street.

Berlin has the hottest trains by far--great pictures, olga.

Also, that collection of trains in Kiev is serious.

A Metro is a store for pro, they sell everything for small stores, restaurants, offices... from cartridge to food, here's a link to Metro India, the only one I found in English http://www.metro.co.in/, but the Metro cash & carry group is present in 28 countries, mainly in Europ...

Here's my contribution to this thread

France

Our TGV (High Speed Train)

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/i...t/ef861644.jpg

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/i...t/6edb4da2.jpg

Our TER (Commuter rail)

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/i...t/7a14d2a1.jpg

and some from my US trips

Boston commuter rail

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/i...t/d0df715a.jpg

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/i...t/27b9f3b4.jpg

Amtrak

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/i...t/4a652e9b.jpg

http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/i...t/c5a0459e.jpg

Wow - thx Jibba for the thread (and wicked shots), and everyone else.
Here's a few of mine

Canadian National passing Mars ( just outside of Chicago ). Jan 14 2009
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_8TC_VUmf9Fw/SX...0/P1200644.JPG

Ridglenad station - Green line - CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) Jul 21 2008
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_8TC_VUmf9Fw/SO...0/IMG_3687.JPG
We have a nice bright new roof and lights now.

Insulated for sound - on sleepers made of recycled plastic - CTA Spet 26 2008
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_8TC_VUmf9Fw/SO...0/P1070405.JPG

crossing under Marina Towers - Chicago Oct 30 2008.
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8TC_VUmf9Fw/SS...0/P1120505.JPG

Rewiring - not as chaotic as it looks - CTA Oct 10 2007
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_8TC_VUmf9Fw/SA...0/P1060336.JPG

Rail bridge across the Wisconsin River, Wisconsin - Jun 2008
http://inlinethumb52.webshots.com/42...600x600Q85.jpg
http://inlinethumb52.webshots.com/42...900x900Q85.jpg
http://inlinethumb52.webshots.com/42...24x1024Q85.jpg

^I was waiting for you to put up some of the hundreds of awesome train shots I knew you had. That picture of the rail bridge over the Wisco. River is pure beauty.

Jan 20 - Chicago

A bit of our green, red, blue... (And many other colors with graffitis :D )... trains running in Paris

Great shots everyone--I love the variety.

One from tonight:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3129/...5e5ebdb9_b.jpg

Lake & Ridgeland - Oak Park
METRA

CTA

Lake & Jefferson - CTA bldg

METRA tracks - heated switch.

METRA trains passing under Lake st.

Crossing the river

Crossing Wacker

Lake & Wells, one corner of THE Loop

Clark & Lake

State & Lake

Kick-ass shots harry.

I like trains too...

But I didn't at this moment.
http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/8413/p4131259df6.jpg

awesome thread :)

near Pennsburg, PA
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_mF8OApz9VpQ/SY...0/DSCN2991.JPG

Standing above the commuter tunnel portal, looking West towards 30th Street station, Philadelphia, PA
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_mF8OApz9VpQ/SB...0/IMG_0594.jpg

Strasburg, PA
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_mF8OApz9VpQ/SH.../DSCN2275a.jpg

Jim Thorpe, PA
http://lh3.ggpht.com/_mF8OApz9VpQ/SY...0/DSCN0996.JPG

Atlanta, GA
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_mF8OApz9VpQ/SY...rgia%20061.JPG

and of course...

The Obama Train

• Video Link

^That's a wonderful picture. I love the colors! What if there was a red car instead - not so good...

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Originally Posted by olga (Post 4064645)

^That's a wonderful picture. I love the colors! What if there was a red car instead - not so good...

Ha, I know! I totally lucked-out with that taxi. I didn't even realize it until I got home, and I was like "jackpot.":)

edit: These shots are in Vancouver

Oak Park, Illinois

Killer shots Archteype - Seattle ?

Fort Wayne, Indiana
1972:
http://urbanindiana.com/in_fw/in_fw_...72-1102-08.jpg

http://urbanindiana.com/in_fw/in_fw_...72-1102-09.jpg

1973:
http://urbanindiana.com/in_fw/in_fw_...73-0101-17.jpg

http://urbanindiana.com/in_fw/in_fw_...73-0101-31.jpg

1979:
http://urbanindiana.com/in_fw/in_fw_...79-3370-11.jpg

1982:
http://urbanindiana.com/in_fw/in_fw_...82-0501-06.jpg

1984:
http://urbanindiana.com/in_fw/in_fw_...84-2810-17.jpg

http://urbanindiana.com/in_fw/in_fw_...84-2810-19.jpg

http://urbanindiana.com/in_fw/in_fw_...84-2810-21.jpg

Fort Wayne's Amtrak station, formerly Pennsylvania Railroad, built 1912. Photo from 1973:
http://urbanindiana.com/in_fw/in_fw_...73-0101-16.jpg

Fort Wayne (Population 200,000) lost all passenger train service in 1990. Around 2004 or 2005 the passenger platforms were demolished. The station building was bought by an architectural firm and restored and converted to office space, with the main concourse available for public and private events.
http://urbanindiana.com/in_fw/in_fw_...7-0310-043.jpg

Decatur, Indiana, 2005

CFE (Chicago Fort Wayne & Eastern) is a short-line subsidiary of RailAmerica Corporation. When Conrail was split up between Norfolk Southern and CSX, CSX got the former Pennsylvania Railroad lines through Fort Wayne, including a 20-mile branch to Decatur, all that remains of the former Grand Rapids & Indiana that originally ran between Grand Rapids, Michigan and Cincinnati, Ohio. CFE serves a large soybean processing facility at Decatur with one train a week delivering empty cars and taking loads of soy products back to Fort Wayne.
http://urbanindiana.com/in_decatur/140_bunge.jpg

http://urbanindiana.com/in_decatur/125_cfer.jpg

http://urbanindiana.com/in_decatur/134_cfer.jpg

Michigan City, Indiana

The Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad operates electric commuter trains over 90 miles of track between the airport at South Bend, Indiana and downtown Chicago, Illinois. Service is frequent and reliable and trains are clean, if Spartan in accomodations. Normal operating speeds are around 70mph. Michigan City has the only remaining street trackage on the South Shore system.

The photo below is a link. Click on it to see a bunch of South Shore and Chicago Metra Electric photos:
http://urbanindiana.com/in_south_shore/20080330-017.jpg

Amtrak's Michigan Service trains pass through Michigan City. One daily, a train between Chicago and Detroit/Pontiac, stops here:
http://urbanindiana.com/in_michigan-...080618-213.jpg

South Bend, Indiana

South Shore train arriving from Chicago, heading for the airport station:
http://urbanindiana.com/in_south-ben...outh_shore.jpg

http://urbanindiana.com/in_south-ben...outh_shore.jpg

One end of the interior of South Shore car. Seats on each side of the center doors face toward the center. On the current series of cars they're not reversible. The 14 new double-deck gallery cars that I haven't seen yet have reversible seats.
http://urbanindiana.com/in_south-ben...d_10-03-05.jpg

A blast from the past.

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Originally Posted by rob_1412 (Post 4089013)

http://urbanindiana.com/in_fw/in_fw_...79-3370-11.jpg

Quote:

Originally Posted by harryc (Post 4089028)

A blast from the past.

For those who are unfamiliar with American passenger railroading of the early-Amtrak era, an explanation of that photo.

The last passenger-coach builder in America went out of business in 1958, and steam locomotives hadn't been out of service very long at that time. All passenger equipment was still designed for steam heat, and diesel and electric passenger locomotives were equipped with oil-fired steam generators (boilers) to provide heat to the train.

Amtrak was formed in 1971 to relieve participating railroads of the burden of operating passenger service at a loss. Many of those railroads had been allowing equipment to deteriorate in order to discourage ridership so that they could get permission to discontinue trains. Of the 4,800 cars and locomotives that Amtrak inherited, only about one fourth were deemed fit for service or worthy of repairing.

Leaky steam lines resulted in cars being cold, or when the steam leaked into the ventilation system, like a steam bath. In severely cold weather, trapped condensate froze in the lines, blocking them entirely. Steam failure meant no hot water in the washrooms or in the dining car, as well as no heat.

Many younger locomotive firemen didn't understand the idiosyncracies of the worn-out steam boilers, and that contributed to the problem. In addition, steam failure meant failure of summer air conditioning in some types of coaches; they used gas-absorbtion refrigeration driven by steam heat, instead of mechanical compressors.

With the arrival of the FP40 locomotives with head-end power, older coaches were retrofitted with electric heat. By the early 1980's the billowing clouds of steam at station stops were a thing of the past.

Indiana Northeastern Railroad is a spiffy short line that operates about 100 miles of track serving industrial customers in Northeast Indiana, southern Michigan, and eastern Ohio, connecting with Norfolk Southern at Montpelier, Ohio.

The first photo is a link:
http://urbanindiana.com/in_indiana_n...040117-021.jpg

http://urbanindiana.com/in_indiana_n...040117-009.jpg

Restored 1970s Central Vermont caboose owned by the late Dave DeVries:
http://urbanindiana.com/in_indiana_n...040117-015.jpg

Little River Railroad, a tourist train now operating in Michigan, originally ran between Pleasant Lake, Indiana and Angola, Indiana:
http://urbanindiana.com/in_indiana_n...810570-005.jpg

More steam, you say? Check this out. It gives me chills, in a very good way:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7865518.stm

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MKmillenium, that is an amazing sight. In fact, I'd be totally intimidated at the thought of trying to get a ride. :eek:

Hesston Steam Museum, in Northwest Indiana, features operating steam trains in four different sizes; 1 1/2-inch-to-the-foot, 3-inch-to-the-foot, and 2-foot and 3-foot narrow-gauge. In addition, there are various industrial steam engines and an operating steam sawmill. The second photo below is a link to more Hesston photos on my web site:

http://urbanindiana.com/in_hesston_s...27_hesston.jpg

Note the dual-gauge 2-foot/3-foot track. This photo is a link
http://urbanindiana.com/in_hesston_s...33_hesston.jpg

^Great contributions on this page, rob. I appreciate the annotations, too--very interesting. Keep 'em coming!

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Originally Posted by MKmillenium (Post 4091319)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_XThuu9w7-P.../s800/trem.jpg

Ahhh, the Turd World, indeed!!! :yuck:

Croydon; Acela (#2009) and inbound Septa local

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/c...g?t=1234982633

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