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Great Western Hall class No. 6990 Witherslack Hall makes an appearance at the Great Central railways diesel gala. The steam hauled dining train is still steam operated even on diesel gala weekends. The GWR machine was seen at Kinchley lane.
The fast-paced action continues as Green Frog’s cameras take you deeper into Norfolk Southern’s throbbing Rathole line from Oakdale, Tennessee, to Somerset, Kentucky.
Watch trains highball over the busy track, through spectacular deep cuts dug in the early 1960’s. some now being widened for doubletracking. Most tunnels have been daylighted or bypassed, but trains still roll through Tunnels 22 and 24 and across the long high bridge between them at Nemo, Tennessee. Highlighting this video is a few minutes of train action on the connecting Kentucky & Tennessee Railway, an old time short line, and the affiliated Big South Fork Scenic Railway at Stearns, Kentucky. Enjoy vintage steam scenes on the K&T! Take a cab ride in the Big South Fork train, pulled by an Alco S-1 equipped with a steam Whistle! We also visit a now defunct partially reconstructed coal mine.
Running time- 55 minutes
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Bike ride in Black Diamond Mines Regional Park, formerly a very busy coal mine and town, now ghost town with interpretive center and just plain nice place to hang around and stare up at the big California sky and down at frogs, snakes, grasses, and broken trails
Mountain biking the Teocalli Ridge Trail southeast of Crested Butte, Colorado. This 10 mile loop has a stout climb on doubletrack and singletrack through meadows and pine forests below the namesake peak. The final climb along the ridgeline is followed by a fast steep descent.
For more information, please visit: www.trailsource.com/scripts/four.asp?ID=5923&TYPE=BIKE
CrossCountry class 220 Voyager travelling north on the East Coast Main Line near Burnmouth, Borders, Scotland, 2015
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I evidently don't get down here often enough as I managed to backlight an eastbound train. When standing in the shadow of the bluff it slipped my mind that I came here in the past for afternoon westbounds since the tracks bend southwest.
With the IC&E busy switching at Marquette we crossed over to Wisconsin for a few BNSFs around Lynxville. October 9, 2011.
In Jamestown, New York, on June 5th, 2021, the valley of the Chadakoin River as viewed from the south side of West 3rd Street.
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Not a cornfield meet although it did happen in a cornfield, double track and both trains are headed east, DPU and another train catching up. This was almost a really nice sunset shot with the sun between two trains. Unfortunately the trailing speedster closed the gap just before both moving trains lined up with the sunset just off to the right of this view. August 10, 2023.