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Road Pictures of Locomotives

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Posted by gmpullman on Tuesday, October 1, 2019 12:12 AM

OldEngineman
This is April 1984, on the (then) Conrail Harlem Line just north of Dover Plains, New York

I sure miss Conrail Tongue Tied

 Altoona_6725 by Edmund, on Flickr

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Posted by OldEngineman on Monday, September 30, 2019 10:59 PM

A slightly different "road picture".

This is April 1984, on the (then) Conrail Harlem Line just north of Dover Plains, New York (where it becomes Metro-North to Brewster, and eventually G.C.T.).

We'd gone up to Wassaic to do our work, and I believe this was taken on the return in the afternoon, waiting for clearance to back down to Dover, get the train switched out, and then head back to Danbury.

I had brought the camera this trip so I got it out, walked down to the rear steps, climbed down and took the picture.

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Posted by BRAKIE on Monday, September 30, 2019 9:18 PM

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Posted by gmpullman on Monday, September 30, 2019 9:01 PM

Amtrak P42DCs fresh out of the paint booth at Altoona, circa Oct. 1998:

 Rails_0010 by Edmund, on Flickr

Another one (115) in primer.

 Amtrak_115 by Edmund, on Flickr

And 118 in the booth waiting for the decal setting solution to dry.

 RR_views_0029 by Edmund, on Flickr

 

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Posted by BATMAN on Monday, September 30, 2019 7:47 PM

I took this at Canyon Hot Springs. It's all downhill to the coast from here.

 

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Posted by doctorwayne on Monday, September 30, 2019 7:35 PM

August, 2012, New Brighton, Pa.....

This could go on for a while...I have at least a couple thousand locomotive pictures.

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Posted by BigDaddy on Monday, September 30, 2019 6:03 PM

Thomas Viaduct, Baltimore, late 1980's

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Posted by mlehman on Monday, September 30, 2019 5:41 PM

While we're in Indiana, here's one from 1971...

Taken on the Monon's Maple Hill Branch, which served a number of quarries and mills southwest of Bloomington. It came off the main at Clear Creek, then wandered northwesterward. We lived just west of Rockport Road (which the RS2 is crossing) on Fullerton Pike for a year before we followed dad (after completing his MBA at Indiana U) to West Germany where he was ostensibly assigned to HQ USAFE (but was really assigned to a beyond top secret unit that actually operated under command of the JCS, AFTAC.)

Sorry about the quality, but at least it's better than the Monon caboose pic from the same era and location.

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Posted by gmpullman on Monday, September 30, 2019 1:55 PM

Larry's Truck & Electric vintage GP-30 on the Indiana Northeastern:

 LTE_GP30_2185b by Edmund, on Flickr

Former Reading 5517 built in July, 1962.

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Posted by Medina1128 on Monday, September 30, 2019 1:44 PM

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Posted by BATMAN on Friday, September 27, 2019 8:19 PM

I've got more loco pics than caboose pics.

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Posted by gmpullman on Friday, September 27, 2019 8:17 PM

B&M F7 in Concord, New Hampshire, circa 1986.

 BM_4266_EMD by Edmund, on Flickr

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Road Pictures of Locomotives
Posted by Track fiddler on Friday, September 27, 2019 8:13 PM

Same thing different day.

When your out on a road trip,  you whip a U-turn on the highway and your wife asks you....."what the heck are you doing". 

You comfortably say I'm turning around to take a picture of that beautiful locomotive.

 

I'll start

I always loved the green Burlington Northerns that ran through my neighborhood in St Louis Park Minnesota when I was a kidYes

Picture taken in Osceola Wisconsin  June 2019.

 

 

TF

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