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Of all the cities in the world, only San Francisco offers the opportunity to see such a variety of stunning vistas, historic sights, diverse neighborhoods and popular attractions from two different types of vintage rail transit vehicles. San Francisco’s historic streetcars (sometimes called trolleys or trams) and the world-famous cable cars form a “steel triangle” of rails that bring riders to such destinations as Fisherman’s Wharf, Union Square, the Castro district, Chinatown, Nob Hill, Jackson Square, North Beach, Telegraph Hill, and Coit Tower. These “museums in motion” are the real deal: not replicas or rubber-tired imitations, but vintage vehicles that operate every day as part of San Francisco’s public transportation system, the Municipal Railway (Muni).
Coming off the south end of the Humber Bridge, I knew getting the Neville Hill tanks at Brocklesby was going to be tight, so instead of turning east onto the A18, I made a right turn onto the westbound M18 and headed for Althorpe, quite a nice change as it happened.
GBRf 66787 heads 6D75 Scunthorpe Trent to Doncaster Down Decoy rail laying train.
Althorpe 18 Aug 2021
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Train rails @ Berlin Wedding
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A Loram Rail Grinder does its work on Track No. 1 of the Fort Wayne Line of Norfolk Southern in Enon Valley, Pennsylvania.
I found these rails last spring while trout fishing and searching for the location at which the Lehigh Valley bridge crossed Cowaselon Creek north of Canastota, NY. I think these may in fact be rails from the Elmira, Cortland, & Northern branch of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. There are/were 6 rails total, 5 on the south bank, and one was resting on the north side. At the time it looked as though this area of the creek had been dredged and the rails excavated from the water. The right-of-way is a few hundred feet from where I found them. I hypothesize that after the line from Canastota to Camden, NY was abandoned and scrapped in 1938, the bridge and rails may have remained for some time after. When the bridge was finally scrapped, the rails were tossed in the creek for whatever reason. There are 6 rails total, which seems about what it would take to span the creek. I cannot think of any other explanation as to why 6 rails would be this far away from the highway, on both sides of the creek, and coincidentally in such close proximity to a defunct railroad bed? It would be nice these rails could somehow be verified as belonging to the Lehigh, and preserved by some type of historical group. If I make it back this spring, I will update if I find any identifying marks.
Another batch uncovered, just to the south of the ones in the intersection.
Winnipeg had light rail!
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