#railfan

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2018.10.20 Kotoden-Kotohira Station 高松琴平電気鉄道 琴平線 琴電琴平駅(1)

[welldigger62]

These are a couple pics from my trip to Durand Michigan yesterday. That is the old train station there on the left.

Still looking west I can see that all those red lights mean there are no trains coming from behind me. I then went inside the station to look around.

That’s when this one snuck in eastbound. I missed the two engines. I did not hear it coming because Durand is a “no-train-horn” zone. A local ordinance keeps things quiet because so many trains go through here because of the rail yard.

Saw some cool looking graffiti on some of the cars. These rail cars are headed east to Flint Michigan to get loaded up with pickup trucks and cars again. It was the only train I saw.

[femboy-expert]

My apologies for the delay in posting schedule

I was too busy touching grass(sy trams)

[eltristan]

Just appreciating how different railfans all captured this neat old flatcar bridge over the crik at different times of year.

[storyrd]

Shooting Film

Leica M6 / Kodak Portra 400 Film

Winfield, Pennsylvania

[tatmanblue]

Eastbound BNSF Intermodal Train at Floyd, MO by Zach Pumphery Via Flickr: Another snow squall moves through as BNSF Train Z SBDWSP4 13U blasts by the elevators at Floyd on the BNSF Marceline Sub. down Main Track 1 with engineer Scott Krause at the helm once again. I don't remember the last time we had such constant snow around here, but today another inch fell in the KC area, so I took advantage of the conditions. Locomotives: BNSF 5753, BNSF 4165, BNSF 5081, BNSF 7214, BNSF 7294 1-15-24 Floyd, MO

[westboundblues]

Steve, the best dog and trespassing buddy

[eltristanexplicitcontent]

How to replace a test cock tube on 645 EMD engine locomotive.

That sound!    Hmmmmm

Every once in a while, I see something neat and also go, “I know what that is!” -- and I don’t merely mean about the massive EMD645E3 2-stroke diesel engine!

I mean, I see Southern Pacific heritage!

I see snowsheds and summit tunnels, the Sierra, Cascades, and the Tehachapi Loop -- I. see. a. living. breathing.  tunnel motor.

For kicks and giggles, here’s my suppositional identification, which might be wrong, but there’s not a lot of surviving SD40T-2s left, sadly -- I am counting on someone to correct me if I get it wrong lol @eltristan​  @identifying-trains-in-posts-too​ @identifying-trains-in-posts​ @identifying-trains-inposts​

Southern Pacific 8515, grimey and glorious -- Speed Lettering and at some point sold to the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis, TRRA 3001  and still going as ILSX 1310 on the leasing company, Independent Locomotive Service

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/serialThumbs.aspx?id=786174-17&mfg=EMD

[autisticflapper]

Okay, but where are the autistic people who do like trains? Because I think trains are pretty awesome! Choo-choo!

[gamer-pigeon]

Station master emp because I’m a railfan 🚄💛

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2018.9.15 Iidabashi Station 東京都交通局 大江戸線 飯田橋駅(1)

[welldigger62]

Some Friday morning train action for you railfans out there. Above is a Lake State Railway headed toward Kawkawlin Michigan.

This is a Huron & Eastern train headed to Bay City, then on to Saginaw Michigan for deliveries. Was out there with my friend early this morning.

[femboy-expert]

How is my photography so goated it baffles me

[guerrerense]

Eastbound Amtrak "Missouri River Runner" Passenger Train at Lee's Summit, MO por Zach Pumphery Por Flickr: A Siemens Charger SC-44 leads Amtrak Train 314 into Lee's Summit on the UP Sedalia Sub. on time with several older passenger cars in the consist. The Ex-NP diner is followed by a trio of rebuilt baggage cars and both of Patrick Henry Creative Promotions' cars, "Evelyn A. Henry" and "Warren R. Henry". With the private car announcement made by Amtrak the day prior, who knows how often this will be seen in the future? Locomotive: IDTX 4623 Rolling Stock: PPCX 800149, PPCX 800148 3-29-18 Lee's Summit, MO

[eltristan]

TUNNEL #29

Looking at some random downloads, realized a common theme was that Tunnel #29 is The. Cutest. Tunnel.

The 2% grade from Denver up to the Moffat Tunnel crawls through South Bend Canyon (along South Bend Creek) with superfluous tunnels and a surfeit of sharp curves, thanks to the mandate of then-Chief Engineer H.A. Sumneso who surveyed the Moffat Route's well-nicknamed "tunnel district" at bountiful π/1 ratio of rail to "as the crow flies" distance as he tried every trick not to make it steeper than 2%

A blasted rock bore barely 78 feet in length, tight-clearance Tunnel 29 on the Moffat Route is at milepost 36.38 and sandwiched between one of Sumneso's super-tight 12° cruves and the "curved bridge with no name" over South Bend Creek (which is officially named "Bridge 36.45" after it's milepost location) The feature on the creek's right bank seems to be locally nicknamed the Gibraltar Cliffs, from whence railfans look down on the tiny trains below.

The cutest tunnel? Yep. Did I mention the Ski Train?

[christopheroshea]

All the above are photos from my time in Switzerland this week, and wow what a first for travelling beyond the UK (the Channel isles I won't be counting).

Not only is it admirable how impeccably cleaned the streets are, but the mountains around Grindelwald are stunning from all angles, the typical architecture of the houses of all sizes, as well as the church in the last picture is so charming, and I respect how they really do love their flowers.

And of course, the engines that took me and my family to Laterbrunnen, Kleine Scheidegg, Wengen and Schynige Platte have such lovely liveries.