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Un breve parón de fotos "europeas".
Cercanías Valencia Sant Isidre - Buñol, línea C3 del nucleo de cercanías de Valencia.
Original Caption: Santa Fe Railroad Engine on the Tracks in Johnson County Kansas, near Kansas City. Tallgrass Prairie Is Seen in the Foreground. The Tracks Follow the Kansas River Along the General Route of the Early Explorers Who Made Trails through the Area Much of the State Was Tallgrass Prairie before the Wave of Settlers in the Last Century. Several Sites Are Under Consideration in Kansas for a Tallgrass Prairie National Park 02/1975
U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-14735
Photographer: Duncan, Patricia D., 1932-
Subjects:
Johnson (Kansas, United States) county
Environmental Protection Agency
Project DOCUMERICA
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From the back of the card:
"Bay State
Amtrak train No. 144, the "Bay State", stops at Meriden, CT enroute to Boston, MA. The train, subsidized in part by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, uses Budd RDC cars, Nos. 27 and 28, former New Haven "Roger Williams" equipment. January 1975.
Photo by Robert A. LaMay"
The post card was published by Audio-Visual Designs of Earlton, NY. No date is given for the postcard.
AMTK RDCA 27 (ex-NH 140)
In 1863 John Black set up a pastoral run at Cleveland Bay where Townsville now sits. Just to the south was the Burdekin River. A major investor in this pastoral run was Robert Towns who wanted to set up a boiling down works for cattle for the years when the market prices were low. In 1864 a hotel opened near the run and a government surveyor then laid out a town on Ross Creek which the government named Townsville after Robert Towns. In 1866 blocks were sold, a Customs House was erected, Towns started his boiling down works and the port of Townsville was established. A monthly steamer service from Bowen began and the town grew. But like Cooktown, Cairns and other places it was gold and minerals that made the town boom. QLD did not have the great gold rush of Victoria but numerous small fields were discovered. In Townsville’s case it was gold at Ravenswood in 1868 and at Charters Tower from 1872. Townsville had a double advantage- it was a port for pastoralism- wool and cattle, and for the export of gold. Stores opened, more hotels, schools and churches and a town library all before 1877. Some of these opulent Victorian structures still stand. Significantly one early businessman (1874) was Robert Philp who provided groceries and other supplies for store keepers, especially on the gold fields.
Philp was a canny Scotsman, and in 1876 he became a partner of James Burns a shipping agent. The company of Burns Philp expanded and prospered with a dual business of shipping and wholesale supplies to grocers. They carried goods all around the Pacific Islands as well as north QLD. Burns remained in Sydney and Philp in Townsville. They started out as agents for Queensland Steam Shipping Co but they soon acquired their own ships. They also traded a lot in Red Cedar from the Atherton Tablelands from 1879. In Townsville they moved into real estate and business finance and Burns Philp was incorporated as a limited company in 1883. Next they moved into insurance and helped establish the Bank of North QLD. They invested in the Palmer Creek and the Herberton gold mines and tin mines. By the early 1890s Philp was in financial strife but he survived thanks to real estate development of new areas of Townsville. Philp went into local government and state parliament. He helped fund the establishment of Townsville Grammar School in 1889, he acquired his own pastoral runs, and he helped establish the University of Queensland in 1912. He was Townsville’s preeminent citizen. He died in 1922. Burns Phil still traded for many years with an emphasis on grocery items, but they were delisted on the Stock Exchange in 2006 when they were taken over by the Rank Group Australia Ltd. Spices and Uncle Toby’s were some of their last major business products. Robert Philp was typical of many of the business leaders of early Townsville.
Robert Town’s original idea of a boiling down works was later supplanted by a meat works run by the North Queensland Pastoral and Agricultural Society which was founded in 1879. They ran the boiling down works and the annual agricultural show. The boiling down works was replaced with a meat processing works in 1890 once the frozen meat trade to England and Europe was well established. The export of frozen meat, and much later refrigerated meat, became a mainstay of the industrial base of Townsville. The meat works became the Ross River Meatworks with a tall chimney that was landmark in Townsville. In 1995 Smorgon Meat Processing closed down the old meat works built in 1890/91. A property developer demolished the old meat works but the chimney remained. The next developer proposed to demolish the chimney in 2008 but the citizens of Townsville protested; the chimney was placed on the heritage register; and the City of Townsville paid for the chimney to be restored. It still stands today as a memorial of the inland cattle industry and its role in the development of Townsville into a large city. It is surrounded now by a new residential development!
Townsville’s geographic situation helped the town grow further. In 1911 a railway line was built from the sugar growing area of Ayr into the port of Townsville. But before this the western rail line was pushed out to open up the interior to the port of Townsville. This is the line we travel on this Sunday. The railway line from Townsville reached Charters Tower in 1882; next there was a branch line down to Ravenswood in 1884. In 1887 the line reached Hughenden in the centre of the cattle grazing areas of the west. Once copper was discovered at Cloncurry there was a push to have the line extended to that city and that was achieved in 1908. It was extended to Mt Isa in 1929. And as pointed out above, the line from Brisbane linked Townsville with the capital in 1923. From the early days the port of Townsville exported gold, cattle, timber from the Great Dividing Range and rainforest, sugar and tropical produce. So by 1900 Townsville was a large and prosperous city with an air of grandeur and wealth.
The town was declared a city in 1902 when it had around 10,000 people. Into the 20th century it became a major finance and banking centre, education centre and retail and industrial centre. By 1917 it had Townsville Grammar School and a boys and girls Catholic College and a college for Anglican girls. Much later Townsville University College opened in 1960 and it is now James Cook University, the second university established in QLD. Despite more growth in the early 20th century the town was also troubled by industrial strife between the workers and the big sugar plantation, mine and pastoral property interests. Between 1916 and 1918 during World War One the city was troubled with strikes by seamen, garbage collectors, and meatworkers. In 1919 during a strike meeting of unionists and workers in Flinders Street shots were fired. The meat workers in Townsville had been on strike for months and during a demonstration the police opened fire. Behind the strike was not only low wages but stirrings by the local Bolsheviks which stirred the workers up to be anti-German, and hence against the World War One effort and sacrifice. This was also the time of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia so they were against oppression by the ruling classes. Townsville was one of the first cities in Australia to have a local Communist Party group in 1922.
It was World War Two that had a much greater impact on the city. The city felt abandoned when news of the Brisbane Line leaked out. Australia’s war plan was to defend the country to a line just north of Brisbane leaving the rest of QLD to Japanese invaders if this happened. This plan was developed following the February 1942 bombing raids on Darwin and other northern towns. But after the December bombing of Pearl Harbour in 1941 Townsville became the base for around 50,000 American and Australian troops fighting in the Pacific region. In July 1942 the Japanese bombed Townsville three times. During the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942 aircraft from Townsville played a major role as they did in other battles. Therefore it is not surprising that the second worst Australian aircraft disaster ever was in Townville in 1943. 27 people died when an aircraft crashed soon after takeoff at Townsville in August 1943. (The worst Australian air crash was at Mackay in June 1943 when 40 were killed.) 1943 was a bad year for air crashes in Australia with 140 people killed during that year.
After the War the troops disappeared but later in 1966 the Lavarack Army Barracks was established with about 2,500 troops and it now houses the 3rd and other Australian Brigades. Ten years later (1976) the Townsville Air Force base started up with more units being added over time. By this time the city population had grown to 80,000 people. Today defence is still one of the major employers in Townsville. The other major employment sectors in Townsville are tourism (boosted after the airport was opened in 1939), education, transport and port handling and metal processing. Townsville has three different refineries; one for zinc which comes from a mine near Cloncurry; one for nickel which is imported for processing from Vanuatu, the Philippines and Indonesia; and the last for copper from Mt Isa which is further processed in Townsville. Health (hospitals) continues to be major employer in the city.
In 2008 the cities of Townsville and Thuringowa combined to form a new Townsville City Council governing authority. The combined estimated population for the combined cities for 2010 is 190,000 people and growing. In recent years it has had a revitalised city centre and waterfront in an area that had been railyards. The esplanade called the Strand on Cleveland Bay (named by Captain Cook in 1770) has been updated and new residential developments are common with apartment complexes near the water front. Tourism and research has been boosted in the last 20 years with the Museum of North Queensland, the Barrier Reef Headquarters, the Australian Institute of Marine research, etc. Townsville is undoubtedly the capital of North Queensland and should it be?
In 1887 a Separation League was formed in North QLD to form a separate state with Townsville as the capital. This was diluted somewhat when Central QLD (based on Rockhampton) also formed a League a couple of years later. This proposal came to a vote in the QLD parliament in 1897 and nearly passed. It went to the vote the next day but several parliamentarians were absent and the vote failed. The next serious attempt to create a new northern state happened in 1948 when the state Governor mentioned this possibility in a speech. In 1955 a “new state for the north” convention was held in Mareeba but nothing eventuated. But the movement did not die away. The issue received public notice again in the 1960s and 1970s. More recently in 1994 a North QLD Party was established by a leading Townsville politician. This party adopted an “official” north QLD flag in 2003. The group still operates and wants their state to be called Capricornia but their website has recently disappeared.
Talgo "Mare Nostrum" Montpellier - Cartagena.
P.S. Colors haven´t been modified ;)
P.D. Nunca había visto un cielo tan azul por la zona de Valencia, y la verdad es que me gusta el contrate que hace con la luz del sol. Los colores no están tocados con Photoshop o similar.
SP SD45R 7457 (ex-SP SD45 8800) on display as part of the Spencer S. Eccles Rail Center at the Utah State Railroad Museum in Ogden, Utah, on February 26, 2016.
Canon EOS 350D Digital Rebel XT
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A NW2 built in 1949 by Electro-Motive Diesel now tolls away in an industrial area near Prt Wentworth in Georgia.
Ayer subí una foto de un TRD en Cuenca. Comentaba que no son usuales, pero se dejan caer (según tengo entendido) de vez en cuando por la ciudad de las Casas Colgadas. Lo que ya es más anormal es encontrártelos entre esta ciudad y Valencia. Algunas veces han circulado, normalmente cuando estos automotores iban a pasar algún tipo de revisión a Valladolid o Madrid, o como pasó el 17 de octubre de 2005 en sustitución de los automotores de la serie 592. Aquel fin de semana, se necesitaba aumentar la capacidad de los trenes del corredor Valencia - Zaragoza y los TRD se quedaban pequeños...así que se le echó mano a los camellos y los 594 circularon entre Madrid y la capital levantina.
Gracias al aviso de Carlos pude fotografiar a este par de unidades cubriendo el regional Madrid Puerta de Atocha - Valencia Nord a su paso por el puente de El Roquillo, situado en el término municipal de Buñol... fue una pena que la meteorología no acompañase a una circulación tan singular.
DRGW SD40T-2 5371 on display as part of the Spencer S. Eccles Rail Center at the Utah State Railroad Museum in Ogden, Utah, on February 26, 2016.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Hazard, KY in May 1979
On May 10, 1979, Dad shot L&N C420 1318 (ex-MON 501) at Hazard, Kentucky, wearing Family Lines paint.
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From the back of the card:
"Milwaukee Road 18A
In 1946, the Milwaukee Road received five sets of Electro-Motive E7 diesel locomotives, each set consisting of an "A" cab unit and a "B" booster unit for a total of 4000 hp for each set. Quite naturally, the units started work on the road's "Hiawatha". Through the years the paint scheme was simplified and No. 18A is shown in a fresh coat of yellow in 1964 at Milwaukee, Wisc.
Photo by Russ Porter"
The post card was published by Audio-Visual Designs of Earlton, NY. No date is given for the postcard.
New York Central steam locomotive in Chesterton, Indiana
Chesterton, Indiana
Date: 1954
Source Type: Photograph
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Harry Zillmer
Postmark: Not applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Copyright 2012. Some rights reserved. The associated text may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of Steven R. Shook.
DYRX F40PHR 231 (ex-DLMX 231, nee-AMTK 231) on display as part of the Spencer S. Eccles Rail Center at the Utah State Railroad Museum in Ogden, Utah, on February 26, 2016. This unit and the 644 are not on the museum website roster yet, but I've run across a couple rumors that both may be repainted in their "as deliverd" Amtrak paint.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in Nov. 1984
On November 23, 1984, Dad shot SBD SD40-2 3603 (ex-L&N 3603, to SBD 8231, to CSX 8231) at Etowah, Tennessee.
Around 1245 a train carrying bentonite was hit by a boulder in Wind River Canyon derailing it. 9000 gallons of diesel fuel and some engineers went into the river. No serious injuries and the town water supply remained safe thanks to the water plant.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, west of Browning, MT in May 1984
On May 27, 1984 Dad shot AMTK F40PHs 333 & 317 leading the westbound Empire Builder just west of Browning, Montana, as the mountains of Glacier National Park rise in the background.
DME SD40-3 6073 (ex-CP SD40 5545) at Minot, North Dakota on January 29, 2016.
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Locomotora de maniobras diésel 10.601
Fabricada por Yorkshire Engina Company, Gran Bretaña, 1962.
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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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in Sept. 1980
Sometime in September 1980 Dad found both sets of O&W SD40-2s on the ready track at Etowah, Tennessee. On the right are 9950 (to BCOL 743, to ASDX 743), 9953 (to BCOL 746) & 2 more, and on the left are 9956 (to BCOL 749, to ICE 6450), 9954 (to BCOL 747) and 2 more.
The power, cars and caboose were all owned by Shamrock Coal Company and used to haul coal to power plants in South Carolina and south Georgia. The SD40-2s were built to L&N specs, and crewed by L&N or Clinchfield crews (later SBD crews). The power would eventually be sold to British Columbia Railroad.
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From the back of the card:
"Kansas City Southern Railroad
One hundred twenty-eight miles and 130 minutes from Kansas City, train No. 1, the southbound "Southern Belle," the pride of the Kansas City Southern's passenger fleet, pauses briefly in Pittsburg, Kansas, before continuing on to New Orleans. E-8 [sic] diesel unit #25 was originall built, before modification, by EMD in 1942, and again rebuilt to E-9 rating (2250 H.P.) in June 1959."
The post card was published by Lyman E. Cox of Sacramento, CA. No date is given for the postcard.
KCS E9AM 25 (ex-KCS E6A 25, to CNW 5032A)
BNSF ES44ACs 6002 & 6366 and Dash 9-44CW 725 lead a westbound unit coal into Helena, Montana in a snowstorm on October 2, 2014.
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"...This picture, photographed on January 6, 1952, shows the combined consist from Montrose and Craig passing through Rocky, near the end of its journey to Denver...
The locomotive on this occasion is a cab-booster combination of ALCO PA-model diesel-electric units numbered 6003, 6002. They had been delivered in 1947 (construction numbers 74685, 74702) as part of a 3-unit locomotive number 600 which had been ordered for service on the California Zephyr, together with its companion the 601. In 1950 the individual units of the all multiple-unit diesel-electric locomotives on the Rio Grande were given 4-digit numbers by adding a suffic digit to the set number. The units of the 600, thus, became 6001, 6002, 6003, and the untis were seperated for use on other trains...
The Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad"
The post card was published by Vanishing Vistas of Sacramento, CA in 1974. The photo is by Richard H. Kindig, the text is by Robert A. Le Massena.
D&RGW PA1 6003 (ex-D&RGW 600C)
D&RGW PB1 6002 (ex-D&RGW 600B, to D&RGW steam generator car 253)
BNSF GP38-2s 2296 (ex-BN 2296, nee-SLSF 441) and 2100 (ex-BN 2100) lead two full wood chip cars away from Silver Bow, Montana on September 17, 2014, heading for Butte. The rails visible in the bottom of the shop belong to BAP.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Dossett, TN in March 1977
On March 25, 1977 Dad shot CR SDP45 6689 (ex-EL 3658) leading two L&N GEs with a southbound freight at Dossett, Tennessee.
BNSF SD70ACes 9169 & 9366 and AC44CW 5734 arriving in Helena, Montana with a westbound unit coal train on February 18, 2016.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Hazard, KY in April 1979
On April 5, 1979, Dad shot L&N C420 1360 (ex-SCL 1221, nee-SAL 119) at Hazard, Kentucky.
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"Southern Pacific R.R. CO.
Southern Pacific No. 98, the southbound "Coast Daylight", behind Alco PA and EMD E-7 diesel units, leaves San Francisco in the early morning bound for Los Angeles.
Photo courtesy Southern Pacific R.R. Co."
The post card was published by Lyman E. Cox, Sacremento, CA. No date is given for the postcard.
Milwaukee Road EF-4 "Little Joe" #E70 on display at Deer Lodge, MT. Classic electric locomotives built by GE between 1946 and 1950 (E70 was built in 1950) and originally intended for the railroads of the Soviet Union. However, Cold War tensions at the end of World War II precluded the sale from actually going through, and the Milwaukee Road, Chicago South Shore and a Brazilian railroad ended up buying what had been built.
Because they had originally been built for the Soviet Union, the Milwaukee crews nicknamed "Little Joe Stalin's engines", which was quickly shortened to just "Little Joe".
E70 is the only Milwaukee Road unit that did not get scrapped.
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Old Union Pacific steam locomotive number 618 now in limited service with the Heber Valley Railroad.
BNSF GP38-2 2091 (ex-BN 2091) at Garrison, Montana on September 4, 2014.
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"Southern Pacific's brand new streamlined "Shasta Daylight," the "million dollar train with the million dollar view," poses at Odell Lake, Oregon, near the summet of the Cascade Mountains, for a publicity photo just prior to its July 10, 1949, inauguration on the 718-mile San Francisco to Portland "Shasta Route."
Southern Pacific"
The post card was published by Vanishing Vistas of Sacramento, CA. The photo is courtesy Southern Pacific.
SP E7A 6003A, SP E7B 6003B, SP E7B 6003C
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Jackson, TN in May 1979
On May 30, 1979, Dad shot ICG GP30 2272 (ex-GM&O 522, to PAL 2272) at ICG's Jackson, Tennessee shops.
Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Englewood, TN in Feb. 2015
On February 17, 2015, Dad shot UP ES44AH 8238 & 1 more with an ethanol train, soon to proceed again after the MoW crew finished clearing a fallen tree brought down by ice at Englewood, Tennessee.
Olympus SP-565UZ
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Coniston, GA in June 1986
On June 13, 1986, Dad shot SBD GP38-2 4103 (ex-L&N 4103, to CSX 2611, to MMID GP38-3 306) & GP38 6274 (ex-CRR 2003, to CSX 2183, to CORP 5183, to CORP 3828) leading a work train at Coniston, Georgia.
BAP GP15 1402 (ex-LTEX 1402, xx-NPBL 1402, xxx-NS 1402, nee-CR 1610) & RARW GP38-2 2011 (ex-MW 2011, xx-UP 2095, xxx-MP 2095, nee-MP 944) running light at Anaconda, Montana on December 27, 2013. The power is on its way east to Silver Bow, MT to pick up a string of empty gondolas dropped off by BNSF.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in the summer of 1988
Sometime in the summer of 1988 Dad shot CSX FP7A 118 (ex-SBD 118, xx-SBD 200, nee-CRR 200, to CSX 418, to WVC 67) and F7B 119 (ex-SBD 119, xx-SBD 250, xxx-CRR 250, xxxx-L&N 723, xxxxx-L&N 1919, nee-NC&StL 919) sitting in the East Yard at Etowah, Tennessee with a northbound RoadRailer train.
UP 4-4-0 119 arriving for the day at Golden Spike National Historic Site in northern Utah. 119 arrives at 10:30 AM, 30 minutes after her CP counterpart "Jupiter".
This is not the original locomotive. The original UP 119 was renumbered 343 in 1882 and sold for scrap sometime in the early 1900s.
In 1975, a team of experts in California were tasked with recreating - without any blueprints - UP 119 and the "Jupiter". The locomotives at GS NHS are the result, and are as authentic as they can get based solely off of photos.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Dillsboro, NC Autumn 1993
In the Autumn of 1993 Dad found and shot the two engines that were wrecked on purpose for the movie The Fugitive starring Harrison Ford. The scene was supposed to be in southern Illinois but was shot in western North Carolina. The two units were painted specially for the movie and lettered for the ficitional "Illinois Southern" line. U18B 1901 is ex-CSX 1901, xx-Seaboard System 301, nee-Seaboard Coast Line 301.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Corbin, KY in Sept. 1978
On September 5, 1978, Dad shot L&N C420 1368 (ex-SCL 1229, nee-SAL 128) at Corbin, Kentucky.
TECO camino de Valencia.
Freight train Azuqueca (Madrid) - Valencia operated by the first Spanish private train company, Continental Rail.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Central City, KY in Sept. 1976
On September 25, 1976, Dad shot IC GP9 9057, ICG GP10 8447 (ex-IC GP9 9021) & GP10 8117 (ex-IC GP9 9249) waiting on another string of units to clear the switch.
Light painting along the railroad tracks in Glasgow Missouri by Notley Hawkins Photography. Taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark III camera with a Canon EF16-35mm f/4L IS USM lens at ƒ/4.0 with a 100 second exposure at ISO 200 along with three Quantum Qflash Trios with red, green and blue gels. Processed with Adobe Lightroom 6.4.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in July 2014
BNSF Dash 9-44CW 4710 at Etowah, Tennessee on July 9, 2014.
Olympus SP-565UZ
My best shot yet of Port of Montana GP38AC 3641 (ex-NREX 3641, xx-UP 1999, xxx-MKT 343, xxxx-ICG 9519, nee-IC 9519) at Silver Bow, Montana on April 4, 2014.
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MRL helpers SD70ACe 4313, SD40-2XR 265 (ex-CNW SD40 873), & SD45-2 328 (ex-SP SD45 8833) in the middle of a westbound unit coal train crossing Skyline Trestle at Skyline, Montana on May 17, 2014.
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BNSF SD70ACe 8557 at Helena, Montana on January 14, 2015.
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"Tromping right past 16th St. Passenger Station, Oakland, California, "Cal-P" westbound freight, Extra 4178 by run-number, trundles her train through what we called the "Desert" Yard. Not far ahead of her the "freight main" will swerve to the right, then curve back left again, to cross the double-tracked passenger mainline coming out of the Oakland Mole (the pier terminal where the ferry slips played such a big part in transporting both transcontinental and commuter passengers across San Francisco Bay to the City by the Golden Gate).
It was September 23, 1955, and many steam-powered brutes were still around. Two days following this date a new Fall Employees' Timetable was issued. Only First-, Second-, and Third-Class trains appeared as usual, btetween San Francisco-Oakland and Sacremento, but the Second-Class consisted of only two Eastward runs on a pre-determined schedule, none Westward. One a day, each way, Nos. 475 and 476, made-up Third-Class. So the bulk of the freight ran "Extra", assuming the engine number, on Southern Pacific...
Southern Pacific"
The post card was published by Vanishing Vistas of Sacramento, CA in 1975. The photo is by Harold F. Stewart, the text by Howard W. Bull.