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The Rio Grande Zephyr train No. 18 zigs and zags through the center siding at Kyune, Utah the morning of April 8, 1983.
The full Pacific Limited Group excursion to Bend, Oregon highballs Oregon’s Memaloose State Park in the Columbia River Gorge. This impressive Union Pacific streamliner had seven domes and 19 cars, including two from the recently acquired Chicago & North Western.
A review of some Official Guides revealed that UP never had a scheduled streamlined train that went east from Portland in the morning. In 1950, for example, the hallowed City of Portland streamliner departed the Rose City at 5:30pm eastbound, with the Portland Rose following later in the evening. If you wanted to see the Columbia River Gorge in the daytime from the Oregon side, UP train 12, the Idahoan, was for you. It had an 8:10am departure, but it was definitely not a streamliner. The train's listing in the Official Guide revealed a mix of standard heavyweights and streamlined cars. Five years later, UP 12 was a nameless mail train with only a rider coach for passengers.
Just before Amtrak, the Portland Rose schedule changed to a morning departure out of Portland. During this same time period, the City of Portland departed eastward at 2:45pm. However, by 1970, the "streamliner" UP called the Portland Rose consisted of two coaches and a cafe-lounge car, pulled by a lone E unit. That model railroad-sized train had nothing on the monster we saw here between Hood River and The Dalles.
If only there were a train across the river on BNSF. Well, the streamliner was making a return trip the following day...
Spoiling me for choice for the second sunny day in a row, GM27 races through Maldon with 1M77 empty ballast to Lynwood, 442s2 again out of sight on the rear.
2020-05-03 SSR GM27 Maldon 1M77 442s2 on rear
B61 rides the turntable at Goulburn during the fantastic fireworks demonstration at the 2016 Streamliners Festival
Sitting around the Goulburn turntable during the Streamliners 22 event are 42105,4201,4204,S311,GM19,GM10,S303 during the Saturday night fireworks spectacular on 1-10-22
A spectacular lineup of EMD streamliners sits on display at the end of Yard 5 at the Illinois Railway Museum during Showcase Weekend in 2015. Whoever lined up these locomotives like this, you are a hero.
5-14-2022 | After Performing an Excursion, the 6758 sits in the Engine Shops. Ignited by the Yellow Lights of the Shops, the crew prepares to shut down the ALCO FPA for the night.
Doug Harrop Photography • July 28, 1979
A Union Pacific E9 pilots Amtrak's San Francisco Zephyr along the Weber River west of Gateway, Utah.
Almost looking like a classic streamliner, the UP OCS rolls through Weimar on its way to Roseville.
The train was running over Donner this day as an excursion for the California Short Line Railroad Association. Once the train would get to Roseville, I got to talk to one of the guys who was riding the train. Being a railfan himself, we got talking about the trip while waiting for the OCS to pull into the yard, and it turns out I had actually seen this guy earlier in the day. While further up the hill at Casa Loma, I had seen a guy taking pictures from one of the cars, and it would be the same guy. Eventually, the train would be cleared into the yard, we got our photos and then we went our separate ways.
In fall 1995, Union Pacific ran a big excursion train to the Northwest with Challenger UP 3985 and the E unit trio. The highlight of the visit was a weekend side trip to Bend down the Oregon Trunk, using the Es as sole power. This was probably the event of the year for the Portland railfan community. Most of us that chased the train spent Saturday night in Bend.
During the trip south on Saturday afternoon, we had covered the iconic shot at the Crooked River Gorge. However, in order to score that image, we had to bypass the massive Willow Creek Trestle at Madras. Since we had the Es at the Crooked River, the other morning photo opportunities between Bend and Madras paled in comparison to that big silver trestle. So, our plan for Sunday morning was to drive straight to Madras and have the train crossing the trestle be our first shot of the excursion.
One of the angles from the vantage we chose had the Three Sisters mountains in the distance. It was a perfect morning, with a practically perfect train, and three iconic Central Oregon landmarks. The excursion held their photo run-by for the day here. It enabled us to get several different images.
CLF6 on the head of a ballast train from Port Augusta to Chandler with CM3406,FQ02 trailing waits at the Manguri yard limit board for trackworkers to clear ar sunrise on 20-8-25
VIA train #74 rips through Appin, Ontario near Glencoe with FPA4 6788 leading a pocket streamliner consist. Seen here passing the old stock pens that had seen service not too long before on September 14, 1986.
Streamliners of the diesel and steam variety rest side-by-side at the B&O Railroad Museum. While steam locomotive C&O 490 was technically built before the diesel, it wasn't streamlined until 1947 when it was also extensively rebuilt. The EMC EA (B&O 51) was built 10 years prior in 1937. The EA sparkles as it was recently restored to its as-delivered appearance.
In May 1995, Union Pacific sent the E units to the Northwest for a series of Operation Lifesaver specials. Once the trips concluded, the Es were going to return to Cheyenne. The word on Friday in Portland was that it was going to be an early call Saturday eastbound - 3 to 4 am - so the train would probably greet the rising sun somewhere east of the Columbia River Gorge. Knowing that the big excursion to Bend with the Es was coming in the fall, I decided to let it go.
I woke up that morning a little before 6 am. For fun, I dialed the UP's phone equipment trace to see how much progress the train had made. To my great surprise, UP 951's status was "ready to depart" at Portland's Albina Yard. I leaped out of bed, jumped in the car, and zoomed to Troutdale. After a short wait, the Es and their train filled my viewfinder.
The chase was on...
Atlantic Coast Line 501 EMD E3 sits underneath the stars during the night shoot at the Streamliners Event in Spencer, NC.
All built by Clyde Engineering between 1952 and 1960, and all EMD-powered, seen at the Streamliners 22 event in Goulburn, NSW, on 1 October 2022
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SSR freight 1877 to Kelso rolls though Mascot with GM27 leading VL353 and C508. GM27 was later taken off the train en route at Lithgow.
The Rio Grande Zephyr train No. 18 meets Rio Grande 5329 West at the crest of 7440 ft. Soldier Summit on May 7, 1976.
i could have photo-shopped it....but this is unedited...hand held....this spot under the lights is my favourite part of GNRS.
Doug Harrop Photography • Sept. 17, 1989
Wyoming & Colorado Railroad FP7s 1512 and 1510 throttle up about three miles west of Laramie, Wyoming on UP's Coalmont Branch. When this excursion train reaches the small town of Walden, Colorado, it will reverse direction and return to Laramie.
The ducks were coming up onto the shore for food handouts. A man with seeds and food was close by on the bridge.
Notice the beaver chomped tree on the shore…
Inspired by the Streamliners event held in Spencer, NC back in 2014, four years ago a similar event, Streamliners 2016, was held in Goulburn, New South Wales on the 2/3 October.
Just a small part of the line up included ex NSWGR DL500Bs 4477/4490 and two former Victorian Railway EMD products.
4490 remains in heritage use, 4477 and B65 are in long term storage, and S302 is in regular use hauling broad gauge grain trains in Victoria.
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A great blue heron in Everglades National park, Florida.
It's always fascinating to observe these large slender but powerful birds flying.
Autumn Streamliner
4498 ‘Sir Nigel Gresley’ heads through the Calder Valley this afternoon on its way to Crewe, chiming over Gauxholme Viaduct just after Todmorden…
In 2014 the North Carolina Transportation Museum held their biggest party ever and in my humble opinion the single greatest railfan event I've ever attended before or since. Following up on their wildly successful heritage unit family portrait event for Norfolk Southern's 30th anniversary they planned something even bigger.
Gathering 26 surviving freight and passenger diesels from the classic first generation era, they all came together for three days of festivities centered around the old Southern Railway turntable in exceptionally well executed ballet of railroading.
Bringing classic EMD and Alcos from as far away Waterville, Cheyenne, and Seattle to North Carolina through the cooperation of Amtrak and multiple Class 1s was a feat unlikely to be repeated anytime soon. And though the event took place on the museum grounds located at the former Southern Railway Spencer Shop complex there was a particularly cool offline event. Two special excursions were run, one each on Friday and Saturday, from Charlotte to the museum and the trips included a three hour stay at the event. One of Bennett Levin's two attending Pennsylvania Railroad E units powered a three car train of his private cars unassisted by NS or Amtrak units. This was in the pre-PTC era making such a trip impossible today.
Here is the Saturday edition seen having just departed the museum as it starts on its 50 mile sprint down the old Southern Railway mainline back to Charlotte. Leading the train operated as Amtrak 010 is EMD E8A JTCX 5809 (blt. Jan. 1951 for the PRR and later serving the PC, Amtrak and CR where at the latter it was numbered 4020 as part of their Pullman green OCS fleet). The little streamliner is on Main 2 of modern day NS' Danville District at about MP 333 approaching the 11th street crossing as it passes some local power tied down at the south end of the old Spencer Yard.
Salisbury, North Carolina
Saturday May 31, 2014
A five pack of F-units lead the coach train east past Spaulding Tower. Only at IRM during Diesel Days will you ever see a consist like this! Union, IL
In 1975, the Denver & Rio Grande Western installed Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) in Utah between Springville and Soldier Summit. Train No. 18 is pictured passing through control point Thistle on May 1, 1977. Sadly, the eight year old installation drowned beneath Thistle Lake thanks to a mudslide the dammed off the Spanish Fork River in April 1983.