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A big ticket item at The Revelstoke Railway Museum is
CP 5550, a EMD SD40 6-axle diesel-electric locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in London Ontario in 1966.
5500 was CP's first of thirty-two SD4 0's built at GMD's London plant. CP 5500 was rebuilt to SD40-2 specifications during its lifetime.
CP 5500 has is a turbocharged diesel EMD 16-645-E3 engine with 3000 horse power and a maximum speed of 83 mph (134 Km/h).
CP 5500 was retired in 2001 and donated by CP to the museum 17 August, 2007. The museum intends to repaint it to its original paint scheme, maroon and grey with "script" lettering.
The SD40, and later model SD40-2, was the most common diesel locomotive on Canadian Pacific for many years. In the past ten or fifteen years, they have been displaced by more modern powerful units.
Many SD-40 locomotives have been retired or rebuilt into "ECO" units. There are only a few SD40-2 units still operating on CP today.
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IC&E SD40-3 6100 "City of Postville" gets underway at Wall, South Dakota, after making a meet. The engineer seems to be having some difficulty recovering from his nap.
Rebuilt CSX road slug leads a train out of Cayce Yard in South Carolina on December 14, 2021. It was built in 1964 as Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad EMD GP35 #3568. CSX is getting rid of a lot of their slugs, but this one remains in service permanently coupled to GP40-2 #6943.
ATL 1801 sits in CSX's Cayce Yard in South Carolina in late September 2004. The reporting marks belong to the Ausin, Todd & Ladd Railroad, a 49-mile railroad in Oklahoma on ex-Rock Island track. I was planning on getting a broad side shot of this locomotive before we left, and I did, but by then a yard crew had front coupled a few gondolas to it.
I do not have a complete history of this unit. It was built as New Haen (NH) GP9 1219 in 1956 and later rebuilt to Illinois Central GP11 8716.
This Narrow Gauge Engine is a replica and powered by a gasoline engine, it has trips around Pioneer Park which is located near Downtown Fairbanks .
For rail fans there is a narrow gauge steam engine also which is used during holiday festivals and special events. The steam engine is housed in the terminal and open for public viewing.
The pride and joy of The Revelstoke Railway Museum is the 1948 built CPR 5468 Mikado steam Engine (Class P-2k). It is one of 12 P-2ks built for the Canadian Pacific Railway by Montreal Locomotive Works.
The Canadian Pacific (CP) used Mikado locomotives for passenger and freight trains throughout Canada. Most worked in the Rocky Mountains, where the standard 4-6-2 Pacifics and 4-6-4 Hudsons could not provide enough traction to handle the steep mountain grades.
The 5468 oil burner has a wheel configuration of 2-8-2. built specifically for this area. Retired in 1954, the locomotive was displayed in Delson, Quebec until brought to Revelstoke in 1993 as a feature exhibit of the new museum.
The locomotive carried 4,000 gal. of oil and 10,000 gal. of water.
In 1946, 65 out of 199 Canadian Pacific N2 2-8-0’s we’re rebuilt and converted to Class P1n 2-8-2’s . However all were scrapped between 1955 and 1958 . No P1n 2-8-2’s were preserved.
Forty CP 5468 is preserved and on display in Revelstoke.
CP’s 5361 a Class P2e is preserved in Depew New York.
The Mikado type was the workhorse steam locomotive for the railroad industry during the 20th century and prior to the switch to diesel-electric technology.
The 2-8-2 design (a blend of the 2-8-0 and 2-6-2 wheel arrangements) offered just the right amount of power, pull, and speed to be used for about any type of service, from passenger trains to freights moving over steep grades.
Historic photo from railarchive.netnet
Former Southern Railway GP38AC #2866 shoves a cut of cars from AmeriSteel in Lancaster on the new connection track between the original line and the old Southern SB line. It's not as photogenic as the old cnnection beside the old L&C office building, but but the clouds do add something to this frame.
Pee Dee River Railway sits at their railyard in Marlboro, South Carolina. Both of these locomtives are rebuilt GP16s from Seaboard Air Line GP7s. PDRR 176 was built in 1952 as SAL 1809. Seaboard Coast Line rebut her to GP16 4718, to Seaboard System (SBD) 4718. CSX got rid of these small locomotives and that is how the Pee Dee River Railway got it. Pee Dee River runs on former Atlantic Coast Line raiils.
During my travels up to Alberta and Banff National Park, I've stopped many a time at Morant's Curve, taking in the amazing views but also secretly hoping to see a train go by. There's other spots where I have seen a train go by but never this one spot. Sooooo to that day...I was enjoying a ride along the Bow Valley Parkway and happened to see a train go by one of the spots I'd seen one go by the years prior. This day it happens to be going west...and then it slowly dawned on me that it's going to Morant's Curve! No speeding, but there's definitely a sense of urgency to get there and set up before the train went by! While it was an overcast day with low clouds, I was able to make the most of this setting by metering and taking a few sample images just to be sure before the train went by. Obviously, I captured many images, but this was a favorite with the train racing by and the setting of the Bow River and mountains all around.
I later used Silver Efex Pro 2 to convert to black & white, adjusting some color filters to bring out the final image with a much richer tonal contrast on that overcast day.
Lancaster and Chesster GP38-2 3821 was on LC 16 back in September 2020 when I made this shot in East Chester, South Carolina. I am not a huge fan of converting Spingmaid Blue locomotives to black and white. I never think the conversion really works. And the conversion through the BeFunky app did add some grain in the sky, but, man, those clouds! The photograph won't win any awards, but I like it.
Oddly, when geotagging this shot, it oes not actually show railroad tracks here. In fact, it's a very busy industrial area that has a train crew dedicated to working it each business day. It also is the connection between the L&C and CSX Railroad.
Locomotora de vapor 230-2059
Construida por Nort British, Gran Bretaña, 1907
Carretilla de Correos (década de 1950)
El Museo del Ferrocarril de Madrid (España), situado en la antigua estación de Delicias, está dedicado a la custodia y estudio del ferrocarril de España desde su origen hasta la actualidad. Está gestionado por la Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles y patrocinado por Adif, Renfe y la Comunidad de Madrid. En las cuatro vías de la nave central se exponen locomotoras de vapor, locomotoras eléctricas, locomotoras diésel y vagones de viajeros y mercancías, y pueden visitarse las salas de relojes, de modelismo ferroviario, de andaluces y de infraestructura. El museo alberga el Archivo Histórico Ferroviario y la Biblioteca Ferroviaria.
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Scanned 35mm Print
Photo from the collection of my Dad, Jay T. Thomson; Max Miller Photo
ALM SW7 11 (to CIRR 11) at Monroe, Louisiana October 9, 1957.
Dried metallic paint drips on an old train engine located at the Musquodoboit Harbour Railway Museum.
CSX #3030 has it's train stopped south of their rail yard in Cayce having just arrived in town from Hamlet, North Carolina. The train is sstopped near the 12th Street bridge which I am standing on for a bird's eye view of the lead locomotive. She is a General Electric ES44AC-H built in March 2012, exactly a year before this photgraph was made.
This is a photo of a suspension coil on a train engine at the railway museum in Musquodoboit Harbour.
BNSF SD70MAC 9478 (ex-BN 9478) at Garrison, Montana May 16, 2015.
Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT
Tamron 75-300mm lens
Helm Leasing locomotive is on the point of this train as the crew puts together a consist in the rail yard in Cayce, South Carolina
A few things can happen to an old locomotive once the railroad that bought it decides they don't need it anymore. They can sell it to another railroad or they can scrap it. The joke among some railfans is that the old train engine you see one week might be razor blades you use the next. In some cases, the railroad will sell it to a leasing company. Helms Leasing (HLCX) is one of those companies.
This vintage EMD SD40-2 was built for Burlington Northern Railroad in 1979 as BN 7181. HLCX later bought it and at the time this photograph was made, the unit was being leased by CSX Railroad.
In 2003, Lancaster and Chester leave Richburg, South Carolina for the interchange in downtown Chester with Norfolk Southern. They appear to have a cut of cars from Circle S Feed Mill. This was a great time to shoot the L&C with all of the end cab switchers they had. I did not have a lot of luck shooting the LC 95 as it did not seem to run much. it's sister, LC 96, was one locomotive I shot a lot. It looks like 95 was a late addition to the consist as more times than not, the switchers lead long hood first.
I used a Canon Elan 7 for this photograph using slide film. I don't remember which kind. I often switched between Kodachrome and Ektachrome. It was scanned in by Scan Cafe and then I edited it from there. I do not know what this NORITSU KOKI EZ Controller that Flickr lists as my camera. (Flickr also routinely gets the lens wrong that I use on my digital photos, too.)
Rolling stock of the National Railway Museum (Museo Nacional de los Ferrocarriles Mexicanos) in Puebla de Zaragoza.
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The National Museum of Mexican Railroads (MNFM) is dedicated to the study, preservation, and dissemination of the railway legacy.
The museum provides historical reviews of the Railroad in Mexico.
Founded in 1988, it exhibits a wide variety of locomotives, wagons, and other railway artifacts.
The museum is located where the Mexican Puebla Railroad station was located, inaugurated on September 15, 1869 by President Benito Juárez.
A few things can happen to an old locomotive once the railroad that bought it decides they don't need it anymore. They can sell it to another railroad or they can scrap it. The joke among some railfans is that the old train engine you see one week might be razor blades you use the next. In some cases, the railroad will sell it to a leasing company. Helms Leasing (HLCX) is one of those companies.
This vintage EMD SD40-2 was built for Burlington Northern Railroad in 1979 as BN 7181. HLCX later bought it and at the time this photograph was made, the unit was being leased by CSX Railroad.
Hampton and Branchville power lays over in Hampton, South Carolina on July 7, 2007 waiting for their next assignment. The owners of the H&B weren't known for spending money on paint as is evident from this photograph. The lead motor was built in September 1955 as Chesapeake & Ohio (CO) GP9 5943, to Baltimore & Ohio (BO) 5943. When service on the H&B ended, she was sent to RailRhodes in Monroe, Georgia as GOMX 5943.
The Hampton and Branchville Railroad is a successor of the Hampton and Branchville Railroad and Lumber Company, which was chartered by the South Carolina General Assembly in 1891. In 1924, the name was changed to the Hampton and Branchville Railroad. The line was fully diesel by 1958.
In 1986, the Company purchased the CSX line serving the South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. (SCE&G) electric generating plant at Canadys, SC, forty miles away.. They took delivery of unit coal trains from CSX and took them to the power plant. That service ended in December 2012. The railroad was later bought by Palmetto Railways in lieu of abandoning the line to keep it in place should new industry need rail service.
Former Southern Railway GP38AC #2866 brings a short train down the Southern SB LineLancaster, South Carolina with the high short hood leading long hood forward.
BNSF SD70ACe 8476 at Helena, Montana on December 9, 2016.
Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT
Tamron 75-300mm lens
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Lancaster and Chester Railroad came to Lancaster with GP38AC #2866 pulling a trainfrom AmeriSteel. They left the train near the old office building on Main Street and got on board L&C #6002. Originally SP 8257 (built 5/1980) i then became Union Pacfic #8802 before being bought by Gulf & Ohio Railways and assigned to the Yadkin Valley Railroad as YVRR #6002. The crew eventually left with 2866 and 6002 in tandem on the head of the train.
In Floyd, South Carolina in February 2006, HATX GP40-2 516 leads two ex-Great Trunk Western units on one of their infamous loaded trash trains which is headed to a landfill near Bishopville on I-20. The railroad was still owned by RailAmerica at the time and it survived for years without any RA-painted locomotives plying the rails.
New to the L&C SD60M #8784 is sitting just short of Lancaster Street in Chester, South Carolina. Th locomotive was built as Conrail #5567 in 1993, to CSXT # 8784 in 1999 and then to LC 8784. That is a sad little L&C logo on the front of the cab