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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 Æ’/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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From the back of the card:
"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.
CP ES44AC 8757 leads a BNSF SD70MAC and GEVO with a northbound coal train at Great Falls, Montana on August 24, 2013.
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"...Number 1617 and its companion unit were still brand-new when this photograph was taken in October 1947...
...This scene shows the NYC's famous 4-track main line near Churchville, New York, about 55 miles east of Buffalo, where the route climbed from Rochester to a summit seperating the watersheds of Lakes Ontario and Erie...
New York Central System"
The post card was published by Vanishing Vistas of Sacramento, CA in 1974. The photo is by Ed Nowak and courtesy Penn Central; the text is by Rober A. Le Massena.
NYC F3A 1617
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Conasauga, TN in Feb. 1984
On February 28, 1984, Dad shot SBD U30C 1498 (ex-L&N 1498, to SBD 7228, to CSX 7228) leading SD40-2s 8055 (ex-SCL 8055, to CSX 8055) and 3562 (ex-L&N 3562, to SBD 8190, to CSX 8190, to CSX 2424) with a northbound freight at Conasauga, Tennessee.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Bulls Gap, TN in June 1980
On June 21, 1980, Dad shot SOU SD40-2 3297 (to NS 3297), SD35 222 (ex-CG 222, to SOU 2997), SD35 3025, & SD40-2 3220 (to NS 3220) with a northbound unit coal train at Bulls Gap, Tennessee.
BNSF ES44AC 6246 at Helena, Montana on October 20, 2015.
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The second locomotive of the vast Southern Pacific system to wear patriotic BiCentennial [sic] colors was GP40P-2 3197, repainted by the railroad when it went into commute service after a lengthy freight-hauling assignement that folowed delivery from builder Electro-Motive in 1975. Seen at Los Angeles in company with subsidiary Cottom Belt SD45T-2 9389 in January, 1976 the 3197 is normally at home on the front of San Francisco commuter trains.
Henry W. Brueckman photograph"
The post card was published by Chatham Publishing Co., Burlingame, CA. No date is given for the postcard.
SP GP40P-2 3197 (to SP 7600, to IHB 4010)
Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in Nov. 2014
On November 26, 2014, Dad shot CSX AC44CWs 292 & 404 with a southbound ballast train at Etowah, Tennessee.
Olympus SP-565UZ
Part 110 in an ongoing study of diesel locomotive cabs.
The cab of BNSF SD75I 8300 at Great Falls, Montana on August 6, 2014.
Canon PowerShot A570IS
Lancaster and Chester Train 16 works the sidings in East Chester before shoving to the CSX interchange
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"Heading up the "Modoc" is Southern Pacific Second Class time freight No. 554, with simple four-cylinder "mallet" No. 4267. She's near Crest, summit of the line, about thirty-four miles out of Wendel - in Lassen County, California. Mt. Lassen, semi-active volcanic peak, is way off west over in Shasta County, - while Modoc County, for which this branchline is named, lies still to the north. A bag of paradoxes is all this: for Anatole Mallet, the great French locomotive man of yesteryear, designed compound machines, using steam twice. 4267 has equal-size cylcinders, using the hot vaporous stuff but once in each. And "Up on the Modoc" she may be (this was back in the fall of 1955) - but No. 554 isn't there as yet!...
Southern Pacific"
The post card was published by Vanishing Vistas of Sacramento, CA in 1974. The photo is by John B. Hungerford, the text is by Howard W. Bull.
Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in Aug. 2014
On August 24, 2014, Dad shot FURX GP38-2 5571 (ex-NS 5571, xx-NS GP38 2750, nee-SOU 2750) and CSX B40-8 5943 at Etowah, Tennessee.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in Aug 1983
On August 5, 1983, Dad shot SBD U30C 1494 (ex-L&N 1494, to SBD 7224, to CSX 7224), L&N SD40-2 1261 (to SBD 1261, to SBD 8165, to CSX 8165), SBD SD40 8296 (ex-CRR 3021, to CSX SD40-2 8355), and 2 more units at the refueling racks at Etowah, Tennessee.
BNSF GP50 3149 (ex-BN 3149) at Butte, Montana on April 3, 2015.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Appalachia, VA in May 1979
On May 9, 1979, Dad shot SOU SD40-2 3308 (to NS 3308), SD40-2 3233 (to NS 3233), SD45 3135 (to EMDX 3135, to WC 6575, to WC 6554, to WC 7554), SD35 3037, SD40-2 3243 (to NS 3243) & SD45 3123 (to VMVX 3123) with a unit coal train at Appalachia, Virginia.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in May 1987
On May 7, 1987, Dad shot B&O GP40-2 4106 (to CSX 6006) at Etowah, Tennessee.
Great Western Sugar 0-6-0ST #3 at the World Museum of Mining in Butte, Montana on 10 April 2014.
The engine was built in March 1928 by H.K. Porter, builder's number 7059.
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SOO GP38-2 4402 (ex-SOO 792) at Max, North Dakota on January 29, 2016.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Chattanooga, TN in October 1978
On October 22, 1978 Dad shot Southern SD35 3077 at the shops in Chattanooga, Tennessee's Debutts Yard after suffering severe damage in a derailment and fire.
BNSF ES44C4 6846 leads another BNSF GE and an MRL SD70ACe with an eastbound empty rail train exiting the tunnel at West Garrison, Montana on May 7, 2014.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in Oct. 1986
Sometime in October 1986 Dad shot C&O SD50 8637 (to CSX 8637, to CSX SD50-2 8637) at Etowah, Tennessee.
I shot this old four axle high hood locomotive back in 2005 in Lavonia, Georgia. The heritage of the unit seemed pretty evident to me, former Chicago & Northwestern #4556, an EMD GP9. An online source I trust says it was actually biult in in 1957 as CRIP #1315, the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, better known as the Rock Island. (The Rock later renumbered it to #4485)
It then went to the Chicago & Northwestern and became CNW 4556 before moving on to the Hartwell Railroad in Georgia as HRT #4556. The last that I heaard was that the 4556 is stored out of service now in Airline, Georgia.
On a personal note, I do not believe I have ever shared this photograph publicly, some fourteen years after I took it.
Tras mucho esperar por fin he fotografiado algo de nieve este año tras el fiasco de finales de enero . No me lo pensé dos veces cuando vi el parte meteorológico el viernes por la mañana, y con tiempo justo llegué a fotografiar el MD Huesca - Zaragoza - Valencia en las proximidades de Torás (única zona donde habÃa algo de nieve).
A la izquierda (no se ve) se sitúa el extinto tren minero de Ojos Negros, hoy VÃa Verde...lo que me hace sospechar que la construcción prácticamente destruida, servÃa quizá a modo de paso a nivel o control de algún tipo de ambas lÃneas ferroviarias...si alguien tiene más información al respecto será bienvenida :)
CMR GP9s 1810 (ex-BN 1810, nee-GN 658) and 1809 (ex-BN 1809, nee-GN 657) tied down at Moccasin Junction, Montana with a single tank car on September 7, 2013.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Johnson City, TN in July 1980
ET&WNC RS3 210 (ex-Central of Georgia 109) at Johnson City, TN in July of 1980. The engine still mostly wears the CofG paint, with the white stripe being painted red as the only difference.
The East Tennessee & Western North Carolina began operation in the mountains of its namesake area in 1866. Originally a narrow gauge line, it hauled iron ore, passengers and other things. In 1950 the narrow gauge was abandoned and the line converted fully to standard gauge.
The railroad gained the nickname "Tweetsie" for the sound of the shrill steam whistles in the early days of operation. Today, a short 3-mile tourist line operates in North Carolina over an abandoned portion of the route with ET&WNC steam engine #12 as primary power.
The line ceased operations in 1985 but was acquired by another company and renamed the East Tennessee Railway. The ET still operates in the Johnson City area today primarily as a switching service for CSX and Norfolk Southern
Norfolk Southern Rock Hill to Catawba, South Carolina turn is just a hakf mile from the old Bowater plant in Catawba with two high short hood GP38-2s on lead.
BNSF SD70ACe 4355, C44-9W 4355, NS SD70 2555 & C40-9W 9780 slowly rolls to a stop at Livingston, Montana on February 1, 2016.
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Former Southern Railway GP38AC #2866 brings a short train over the former Southern Cane Creek bridge in Lancaster, South Carolina with the high short hood leading long hood forward.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in Sept. 1984
On September 20, 1984, Dad shot SBD SD50 8602 (to CSX 8602, to CSX SD50-2 8602) at Etowah, Tennessee
BNSF Dash 9-44CW 4696 is a DPU pushing on the end of a westbound unit grain train at Garrison, Montana on January 15, 2015.
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BNSF ES44AC 6342 rolls onto MRL's Skyline Trestle at Skyline, Montana on May 17, 2014, leading a long, heavy unit coal train.
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UP ES44AC 8004 at Silver Bow, Montana on October 19, 2015.
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"Erie Lackawanna 3628
Erie Lackawanna and Delaware & Hudson power team up to take symbol freight TC-99 out of Mohawk yard on the D&H near Schenectady, N. Y. TC-99 is operated between Boston and Chicago with power supplied by the EL, D&H and Boston & Maine. August 27, 1969.
Photo by Carl H. Sturner"
The post card was published by Audio-Visual Designs of Earlton, NY. No date is given for the postcard.
EL SD45 3628 (to CR 6093)
EL SD45 3605 (to CR 6070)
D&H C420
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Corbin, KY in August 1978
On August 28, 1978 Dad shot hi-nosed L&N C420 1318 (ex-Monon 501) at Corbin, Kentucky in Family Lines paint.
Connersville, Indiana. This locomotive is currently owned by the Whitewater Valley Railroad. In February 1954, it was built as a SD9 with a high short hood. In October 1975 it was rebuilt as a SD10 with the low short hood you see in this shot. After Milwaukee's bankruptcy, it saw service on the Canadian Pacific's subsidiary SOO line. On December 11, 2001 it was donated to the Whitewater Valley Railroad.
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BNSF ES44DC 7550 was a DPU on a westbound unit grain train departing Minot, North Dakota on January 29, 2016.
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"An hour and a quarter out of Los Angeles and yet another hour from its first mainline stop at Santa Barbara, Southern Pacific train No. 99, the famed "Coast Daylight," accelerates past a giant pepper tree after passing through Camarillo on the first leg of its all day run to San Francisco in the late 1950's. On the head end, Alco PA-3 [sic] #6040, built in 1953, leads a pair of units from rival E.M.D., E-7B # 5902, built in 1947 and one of hte first postwar passenger units delivered to Southern Pacific, and an unidentified E-9 A, one of the last group of passenger cab units built in 1954-1955.
Southern Pacific."
The post card was published by Vanishing Vistas of Sacramento, CA. The photo is courtesy Southern Pacific.
SP PA2 6040
SP E7B 5902
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Birmingham, AL in May 1979
On May 28, 1979 Dad found L&N SW9 2292 in the Birmingham, Alabama yard. This unit looks like an ALCo, but is really an EMD SW9. The SW9's hood was damaged at some point and replaced with a hood from an ALCo RS3.
Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in January 2014
On January 23, 2014, Dad shot HLCX GP38-2 3816 (ex-SP 4871, xx-HLLX 2607, xxx-CSX 2607, xxxx-SBD 4098, nee-L&N 4098) back on home rails in Etowah, Tennessee.
31 years earlier, Dad shot this same unit in L&N grey at the roundhouse in Etowah.
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