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Whilst everyone else concentrated on their river vessels, I was more interested in 66849 working the engineers train at Golant on 18th July 2021
The "Three Amigos" in engineer class. L to R: Mike Burbidge, Jeff Sessa (me), Jay Daravong. I believe Mike went to MBTA, I went to Amtrak in 2023, and Jay went to the Pan Am before leaving the industry entirely. We certainly had fun down in Atlanta.
An old railroad engineer of a vintage steam locomotive looking out of a cab at the Praha-Smichov station. Original shot out of camera, made with standard +2 picture control.
Prague, Czech Republic
Engineer (Young) Will Lovelace calls for permission through a work authority on the Philly Sub from the cab of Q032. Will's dad was an Erie, and later NJT conductor. Will was the first CSX-era hire on the former RF&P out of Richmond.
When I was occasionally cut back to conductor, I would go to the UPS train pool to work with the top-dog engineers; John Stone, Jim Stevens, and Will Lovelace. All great to work with.
Mr. Lovelace retired in late 2021.
A view northwards taken from between the platforms at Oberoderwitz in July 1993. The original line to Löbau is visible at the extreme right, with the later route towards Ebersbach out of view behind the building to the left. The engineers’ vehicle is traversing the single line connection between the two routes.
BR Class 45/0 45041 "Royal Tank Regiment" at Loughborough Central station with an engineering train during an EMRPS photo charter on the Great Central Railway.
On a cold and damp night, Class 31 31271 "Stratford 1840-2001" makes a short pause with a ballast working heading towards Ruabon
Taken during an EMRPS Photographic Charter
GBRf class 66/7 no. 66729 'Derby County' heads a Civil Engineers' working, 6G40 from Cramlington to Doncaster Belmont, past Copmanthorpe on 30th September 2025.
Not for the first time this year, but still a rare sight these days - a Class 60 on an engineers' train as GB Railfreight's 60076 "Dunbar" pairs up with Class 66, 66771 on a rail drop train for an overnight possession in the Hazel Grove area.
The Brush Traction machine was leading for the return run, powering through Acton Bridge on a crisp and chilly Sunday morning as 6G49 07:38 Stockport Edgeley Junction No 1 to Crewe Basford Hall SSM.
10.7.2022.
The Engineer controlling one of the two huge James Watt Beam Engines at Papplewick Pumping Station.
The view of a rural grade crossing near Mattoon, Illinois, on the former Illinois Central Railroad mainline. The view is from a southbound Illinois Central Gulf intermodal train. (Scanned from Kodak Tri-X negative film)
With an empty rail train in tow, 66426 descends through Sutton Park with 6Q95 Bescot Up Engineers Sidings to Toton North Yard.
37248"Midland Railway Centre" +58020"Doncaster Works" pass Didcot on 23/April/2002 working 6O26 Didcot Yard to Eastleigh yard engineers.
"makin' bacon!"
Ever since I saw those track pieces I wanted to recreate the engineer's rancho relaxo taunt.
Here's another shot from my recent trip in the San Juan Mountains. While I didn't shoot a lot during this trip (it was a vacation with the wife), I spent almost every morning trying to capture this scene of Engineer Mountain reflecting in Boyce Lake. Thank goodness my wife is not a morning person...thus giving me the opportunity to scratch my photographic itch! The conditions were fickle at best and this was the best I could do after four pre-dawn trips to this spot. Too many clouds, no clouds, too much wind, and even some pesky, reflection-killing beavers all contributed to my frustration. In the end, I considered myself fortunate to come away with this image. Patience and persistence are most certainly requisite virtues amongst photographers!
Man & God......
Father watches the son.....
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Homen e Deus....
O Pai assiste o filho.....
South Shore Engineer Paul Barnes has 33's controller on the post as we head to Chicago in April 1975.
Paul had quite a career with the South Shore. He started in 1939 in the B&B dept. then off to WWll in the Navy, came back in 1945 as a collector. He went off to Korea and came back in 1953 and entered Engine Service, and worked freight for 10 years straight. He ran everything the South Shore had, from Steeple Cabs to 700's, 800's Orange cars and made the transition to the new cars and retired in 1988. He passed away a few years ago. A real Railroader!
A man behind the machine. He's not saving lives like our doctors, or teaching the next generation of kids like our teachers. He doesn't provide entertainment for an entire population by acting, singing, dancing, or playing a sport. He simply moves all of the goods our population needs, so everyone else can live their desired lives. He moves the food that sits at your table, he moves medications for you to stay healthy, and he moves all of the various products you use to have fun and enjoy your life. He has given up the option of a 9-5 work day to be on-call 24/7, 365 days a year. One day he will be watching the sunrise during his shift, the next day, he will watch it set. Some of those 12 hour days he will watch both. It is the overlooked people like him who help keep our nation moving forward every single day.
This is something I’ve been wanting to do for a while. Though, sadly I admit that I never took enough of these types of photographs, but those few that I do have deserve to be edited and shared in an album of their own. So, look for more soon in what will be a little series of Alaskan Railroaders.
I had the absolute pleasure to work with the finest and most dedicated group of railroaders in all the land for six wonderful years from 2007 to 2013. It was the greatest honor of my life to lead these men and women as we worked as a team to grow service and become more efficient all while doing it safely in some of the harshest conditions to be found anywhere. And as the smiles in these photos will attest, we strove to have FUN while doing it. As in all jobs, there were bad days and frustrating times and personal conflicts that arise in any organization. But more than anywhere I have ever worked in more than two decades now, there was truly an esprit de corps on the Alaska Railroad and the pride these fine folks felt about their chose career was palpable day in and day out.
I hope these images help show you a tiny glimpse into that wonderful world that was once my family and my home. So raise a glass to the finest railroaders I’ve ever known!
With a big friendly wave is Engineer Bill Bivins at the throttle of GP40-2 3009 on the greatest little gem of a train to be found anywhere, the Hurricane Turn, the last true flag stop wilderness passenger train in the United States.
Hurricane, Alaska
Monday June 19, 2017
1 Yongnuo 575 EX II with shoot through umbrella above and left if subject sett to TTL + 2/3. Triggered with Nikon CLS
Leela made these for birthday presents for a Train Themed B-day party!
Reverse has no message.
Embossed across the bottom - Medway Studios Ld
43 High Str Chatham.
Dates from the late 20s/30s. The cap badge seems to belong to the Royal Engineers.
"makin' bacon!"
Ever since I saw those track pieces I wanted to recreate the engineer's rancho relaxo taunt.
Quick Sunday afternoon portrait in deepest Lincolnshire of Connor Thornton and Matt Riley, engineers at the Lincolnshire Wolds Railway working in the cold engine shed.
"I'd rather be doing this, than playing video games” said Connor
Engine Shed
Lincolnshrie Wolds Railway, Ludborough Station
Ludborough
Lincolnshire , UK.
The Golden Gate Bridge
(Written upon completion of the Bridge in 1937
by Joseph P. Strauss, Chief Engineer, Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District )
I am the thing that men denied,
The right to be, the urge to live;
And I am that which men defied,
Yet I ask naught for what I give.
My arms are flung across the deep,
Into the clouds my towers soar,
And where the waters never sleep,
I guard the California shore.
Above the fogs of scorn and doubt,
Triumphant gleams my web of steel;
Still shall I ride the wild storms out,
And still the thrill of conquest feel.
The passing world may never know
The epic of my grim travail;
It matters not, nor friend or foe –
My place to serve and none to fail.
My being cradled in despair,
Now grown so wondrous fair and strong,
And glorified beyond compare,
Rebukes the error and the wrong.
Vast shafts of steel, wave-battered pier,
And all the splendor meant to be;
Wind-swept and free, these, year on year,
Shall chant my hymm of Victory!
The story goes that NP Chief Engineer Edwin Harrison McHenry paid a visit to the Korean exhibit at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago and was impressed by the red-and-blue "Yin Yang" symbol on the Korean flag. On McHenry's suggestion, the Northern Pacific adopted the symbol as its logo as the railroad left receivership in 1896, and it appeared on railroad structures, buildings, and rolling stock until the formation of Burlington Northern in 1970.
The Northern Pacific "Yin Yang" is adorned on the colonnade of the 1902 Livingston depot, pictured here, and all throughout the main building in the background. One of the most glamorous depots in Montana, Livingston was a passenger stop for the NP's Chicago-Seattle trains and, until after World War II, local trains to Gardiner at the north entrance to Yellowstone, and it was also the headquarters for the NP's Rocky Mountain Division. Passenger service ended in 1979 with the discontinuation of Amtrak's North Coast Hiawatha, and Burlington Northern sold the depot to Livingston in 1985.