Trains

[02Pilot]

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[lewis44]

Crossing @ Nipton, California

 

[Honus]

Port of Oakland, 2011
Plaubel Makina 67 : Tri-X

 

[biomed]

BTRR #98

 

[biomed]

WP&Y Rotary 1

 

[biomed]

WP&Y

 

[biomed]

Skagway

 

[biomed]

Several years ago (2008 I think ) I was drving by the train station in Banff Alberta Canada with my Super Ikonta C.

This was sitting at the station hissing away like a huge kettle. So I took the pic.

Now, this morning I see in the news that they are making an Imax movie of this engine:

http://www.calgarysun.com/2013/02/0...ky-mountain-express?google_editors_picks=true

The Royal Hudson. That is one beautiful locomotive. I saw it in Spokane, Washington many years ago. At that time it had a multi-tone air horn array that played the first four notes of Oh Canada. Nice vintage looking photo!

 

[biomed]

BNSF, Everett, Washington - from my RFF gallery

 

[Sunti]

 

[wallace]

found at the local junkyard: Krupp Diesel locomotive, built 1939

my flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47154683@N00/

 

[MV72]

In Dombås station, Norway.

 

[julianphotoart]

All TTC

 

[Pfreddee]

Has anyone been busted by the police, rent-a-cops or railway security for trying to photograph trains? I'd like to get some snaps of local railways but I really don't want to be bothered by the local police for 'terrorist activities'. (I'm old, bearded and fat, which probably fits someone's terrorist profile to a "T".)

Just wondering.


With best regards.

Pfreddee(Stephen)

 

[biomed]

Has anyone been busted by the police, rent-a-cops or railway security for trying to photograph trains? I'd like to get some snaps of local railways but I really don't want to be bothered by the local police for 'terrorist activities'. (I'm old, bearded and fat, which probably fits someone's terrorist profile to a "T".)

Just wondering.


With best regards.

Pfreddee(Stephen)

In 1980 I was stopped by a private policeman when photographing railway equipment in the CMStP&P (Milwaukee Road) yard in Spokane, Washington. The gentleman was armed and was going to confiscate my F2 and camera bag. He explained that I should have seen the no trespassing sign posted on the Milwaukee Road sign at the entrance to the yard. I told him that there was not a no trespassing sign; there was not a Milwaukee Road sign at the entrance. He escorted me to the entrance where he noticed the large Milwaukee Road and no trespassing signs had been removed since he started his shift. Without further comment he released me, my camera, bag and rolls of film. Soon after, the Milwaukee Road was gone from Spokane too.
When I was doing a lot of railroad photography I always checked in at the local headquarters to sign a liability release and get a temporary pass to photograph on railroad property. If I couldn't get permission I photographed the trains from public property. I have not been questioned recently or told that photography was prohibited, though I am not sure photographing from public property is unversally allowed.

 

[literiter]

Narrow guage engine Field B.C.

Narrow guage engine Field B.C.

During the construction of the spiral CPR tunnels in Field British Columbia Canada this old narrow gauge engine was used. When something broke, the construction company just tipped the thing off the tracks and there it sits.

A Plaque at the site reads:

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"Baldwin #7717 Steam Locomotive​

This Baldwin 2-6-2 mogul steam locomotive, builder's #7717 - road #6, 36" gauge locomotive - was built for the North Western Coal & Navigation Co. in 1885. It was originally used to carry bituminous coal on a narrow gauge railway, which connected the C.P.R. mainline with the coal mines near Lethbridge. In 1893, this railway track was converted to standard gauge, causing a surplus of these narrow gauge engines. This engine was purchased in 1907 for the construction of the C.P.R. Spiral Tunnels in the Kicking Horse Valley. When the construction was complete in 1908, this engine was abandoned here. - Banff National Park"​

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[FrankS]

My towns heritage train station:

 

[Bob Michaels]

This Cuban electric train connects the town of Hershey (once the chocolate company's sugar mill) to Matanzas in the east and Casablanca, a Havana suburb, in the west. When there was a problem with the rails, the eastbound and westbound trains met at the break and tried to fix the tracks. Repair was unsuccessful so all the passengers walked around the break to the other train which then reversed course back to where it started.

This is the newest equipment on this route, built by General Electric in 1947.

 

[gb hill]

 

[Ken Ford]