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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CTA (Chicago) bought four articulated passenger car sets in the late forties. I think they were in service into the sixties, possibly early seventies, and last ran on the Skokie Swift (now Yellow Line).
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.
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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.
The Amtrak train that served Austin then was known as the Inter-American. Here, it's arriving from San Antonio.
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Last edited by Robert Pence; May 26, 2009 at 3:44 AM.
^ 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 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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