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There's really nothing worth shooting in Yosemite National Park.
This is from that incredible day of shooting I had back in June, as a storm blew through Yosemite. This was the view from up on Glacier Point, looking down into the valley. The waterfall is Upper Yosemite Falls.
I stood in this spot for about three hours with zero visibility, just waiting for a view to emerge. I knew that eventually the solid wall of clouds would break and the valley would come into view, so I waited it out. As I sat there waiting, I watched hundreds of tourists arrive and then leave, all bitching about what a shitty day it was. I live for days like this!
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No idea what this used to be, but it appears abandoned as most of Belvidere, SD is - 2020 census recorded 46 residents.
GO MP40 611 provides rear end power for train #1725 as it passes Bayview, bound for West Harbour (Hamilton).
N&W 611 has just emerged from under the South Shore at Hegewisch and heads east on a trip to Fort Wayne in 1994. Hopefully this can be repeated with the new bridge!
Norfolk & Western No. 611 heads eastbound over Possum Creek trestle shortly after departing Lynchburg, VA on her way to Petersburg, VA pulling The Cavalier excursion.
Norfolk and Western class J number 611 leads the eastbound "Pelican" excursion train downgrade at Shawsville, Virginia, returning to Roanoke with a full train of passengers on July 4, 2015.
One from the archives from a great chase a couple years ago that is in the Tops of 2018 file but wasn't on Flickr.
This is the story I wrote on FB at the time:
Remember those two post from a few days ago of NECR train 611 that I had a great day with last Friday?
Well here are another couple handfuls of images from that day. It was great to get back along the rails where I first started my career.
It's funny how I've worked so many places and with so many amazing people over the last two decades, but most of the names and faces have faded from my time in the yards and along the rails in Cincinnatte, and Lousville, and in Oliver Yard, Roper, North Salt Lake and to a lesser extent Anchorage...but an inordinate amount of names remain in my head from my summer on the old CV.
I drove a hyrail over the Millers River bridge with roadmaster Phil Grady. I learned to change service and emergency portions in Palmer yard with carman Tracy Kopeck. I road trains with Bob Richardson, Jimmy Rivers, Willey Settles, and Steve Carlson. I learned the business of railroading from Lou Szabo and how to always present the right image to current and prospective customers from Eric Moffett.
There are others that have faded, but those names remain from a time when I wasn't even old enough to enjoy a craft beer....those seminal moments of your life and the people that were there with you stick I suppose.
Here's to another twenty along the rails.
Anyway, enjoy some contemporary photos of the New England Central Railroad....that even in Gennesse and Wyoming orange will always be Bahama blue and gold in my heart! Here's to the 1995 Shortline Railroad of the year!
Train 611 (Brattleboro to Palmer turn) that shuttles the connecting 323/324 road freight traffic rolls south across the Millers River at about MP 99.8 on modern day NECR,s Palmer Sub.
Millers Falls, Massachusetts
Friday October 19, 2018
N&W no. 611 passes a small farm in the city of Jamestown, NC on her inaugural run from Spencer, NC to Roanoke, VA following restoration.
Norfolk & Western 611 heads toward Strasburg station on the second day of 611's limited November trips on the Strasburg Railroad. The class J 4-8-4 streamlined locomotive was built in 1950 by N&W Roanoke shops.
New England Central Railroad train 611 (Brattleboro to Palmer turn that forwards the connecting 323/324 road freight traffic) has four six motor units leading a big train as they slow to make their set out here at Barretts, about MP 69 on NECR's Palmer Sub, the former Central Vermont Railway mainline. The track curving off to the right crosses the Swift River and heads to the former Quabog Transfer site, now a very busy industrial park in Bondsville, MA that generates much business for the NECR. While this spur and bridge are relatively new dating from the early 1980s, in days of old the Boston and Albany Railroad's Athol Branch once crossed the CV about a quarter mile to the north. Abandone in 1935 north of Bondsville when much of the line was inundated by the new Quabbin Reaervoir and then cut back further to Ludlow in 1939, the CV took over a short portion from the crossing into Bondsville and ran it for many more years about as far as the old freight house which still stands on Main Street.
Rebuilt SD40M-2 3476 on the point still has her classic SD45 lines dating from her Mar. 1969 construction for the Cotton Belt as SSW 9058. The old CV never rostered anything like this and the woods of central Mass sure is a long way from this old girl's days of whipping thru Texarkana on the head of the Memphis Blue Streak...but at least she's still earning her keep.
Belchertown, Massachusetts
Friday October 14, 2022
611 is at Tower Road near Roanoke on the return trip from Lynchburg. Couldn't hide the domes at this location!
Norfolk and Western class J number 611 takes its very first spin on the turntable at Spencer's North Carolina Transportation Museum, while the museum's excursion train passes in the background with (appropriately) NW GP-9 #620.
I've only shot this angle once before, but it was one of my favorites and I've long wanted to give it another go. If you missed that one from back then check out this link: flic.kr/p/2jWMfhm
While the low hanging wires are annoying, when you step back to capture the 'whole scene' they kind of dissolve and the bucolic farmland with a ramshackle home and barn make for a quintessential rural New England scene that just works.
The sky is dramatic on this winter afternoon as a trio of rebuilt SD40M-2s lead New England Central Railroad train 611 (Brattleboro to Palmer turn that forwards the connecting 323/324 road freight traffic) north
beside Upper Farms Road at MP 106 on the Palmer Sub, the former Central Vermont Railroad mainline.
In the lead is NECR 3476 a rebuilt SD40M-2 that began life as an SD45 (and still wears the classic flared car body) blt. Mar. 1969 as SSW 9058. She has a reflective sheen thanks to getting doused with oil on her trip south while she was trailing middle unit 3478 (EMD SD40 blt. Jun. 1966 as LN 1227) which blew its turbo and is now dead in tow. Bringing up the rear is NECR 3477 (originally a straight SD40 blt. Apr. 1966 as UP 3028).
Northfield, Massachusetts
Thursday January 26, 2023
Wonder if 611 ever gets tired of running back and forth at the North Carolina Transportation Museum and plots an escape to get back on the high iron?
Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611 visiting the Strasburg Rail Road, "The Return of an American Icon," May 2021.
Ciudad Rodrigo Salamanca Castilla y León / Spain
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Norfolk & Western Class J #611, Roanoke, May 1950. Pennsylvania Railroad E8 #5711, EMD LaGrange, October 1952
...Eras sí pero ahora
suenas un poco a mí.
Era sí pero ahora
tengo un poco de ti.
No demasiado, solamente un toque,
acaso un leve rasgo familiar,
pero que fuerce a todos a abarcarnos
a ti y a mí cuando nos piensen solos.
Mario BENEDETTI
The Norfolk & Western Class J 611, a National Historic Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, is known as an engineering powerhouse of steam, technology, and near mechanical perfection.
The N&W Class J 611 is the sole survivor of 14 Class J steam locomotives designed and built by the Norfolk & Western Railway. The locomotive rolled out of Roanoke’s East End Shops in 1950. Its mission was to pull the Powhatan Arrow, a 15-car passenger train, from Norfolk, Virginia, to Cincinnati, Ohio.
Norfolk and Western class J number 611 leads train 957 through Jamestown, North Carolina on a deadhead move from Spencer to Roanoke. 611 was pulling 13 cars: the auxiliary water tender, two tool cars, a load of coal, and nine revenue freight cars.