Train Photography

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[quote name='CFD Adv207' date='Mar 27 2007, 17:25 ' post='91613']

This last Thursday on spring break, myself and a member of the Illini Railroad Club did some railfanning in the Chicagoland Area (Blue Island, LaGrange, and Lemont).





What no Dolton???? My own favorite spot. Great photos thanks for sharing them



Happy Easter

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Found this old Alco sitting in South Boston just off the Haul Road near the office of the Boston Terminal RR. Judging by the barrel over the stack area I think its OOS

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On the same Sunday 4-1-07 found this Amtrak jet snowblower tied down by the wash house off Frontage Road in South Boston.

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<img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/usa.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> The Dr. doesn't get to travel much, but in August 1994 I took time to shoot this classic RR scene on the way to a family wedding in Indiana.

On a back-street crossing in Morristown,Ind., was these classic RR signals- 2 semaphores for train movements and a wig-wag crossing signal for vehicles. This was on the ex-B&O Indy- to- Cincy line (now CSX), and at the time, only Amtrak and a couple of freights a day used this line. I believe this whole set-up has been replaced since then.

Warren Jenkins photos

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This is an old Alco S series unit. I am not up on my Alco's so I am not sure which model.



David





[quote name='franksansev' post='95514' date='Apr 7 2007, 21:26 ']Found this old Alco sitting in South Boston just off the Haul Road near the office of the Boston Terminal RR. Judging by the barrel over the stack area I think its OOS[/quote]

[Pete(UK)]

License plates.



For those train buff's among you, who also collect license plates, here is a link to a charity org. who is selling these ones at $15 each.



[url="http://www.amchild.org/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=1001&Product_Code=B7005277WS&Category_Code=KS"]http://www.amchild.org/Merchant2/merchant....ategory_Code=KS[/url]

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Haven't posted on this thread in a while so let me go back through some of my rail files and see what I can find.



First up is a semaphore on display at the Whippany Railroad Museum in Whippany, NJ.

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March 3, 2007. It's 6:48 AM, 13 degrees, and me and my buddy are out shooting trains!! Here's NJT Train #1604 on the Pascack Valley Line heading east through Teterboro, NJ. The construction debris is from the PVL double-tracking project. Once the trackwork is done the signal system will be upgraded and my guess is that that classic Erie RR signal mast will disappear.

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The main reason we came out to photograph trains on this frigid March morning was that the Ringling Brothers/Barnum & Bailey Circus train was in town. A little after 9am NS Train H-81 came out of Croxton Yard with the train and proceeded up the Bergen County Line to Pascack Jct, where this shot was taken. At Pascack Jct. the train then proceeded up the Pascack Valley Line to Teterboro. At Teterboro, the first 4 cars behind the locomotives, which are animal coaches, will be backed onto a siding for unloading. The animals will then be walked through local streets to get the Meadowlands Arena for the circus.

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The buddy I was shooting pictures with that morning is a train dispatcher for NJT (as I also was). He is also a former engineer and conductor for both Conrail and NS so he knows a lot of people. As H-81 had stopped waiting for clearance up the PVL he recognized the crew and just had to go over and chat with them.

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It's now 9:55 AM and we've moved up to the siding in Teterboro waiting for the circus train. In the background you can see the track equipment for the double-tracking project. By now it had warmed up to about 15 degrees!

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Here's the 4 animal coaches. Can't mistake what's in them when they roll by.....they do have an aroma all their own!

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Here's the coaches being backed down the siding. Also visible are new concrete ties and new signals that are part of the PVL double-track project. In the background you can just make out the NJT Wood-Ridge station.

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Of course my buddy just had to shoot the breeze with the crew again......

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Wrapping up with my favorite shot of over 70 taken that morning.....

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Does anyone else notice something odd about this plate? Being the Santa Fe modeler than I am, its pretty clear.....



It says Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe and is a Kansas plate, but thats a Rio Grande narrow guage train on the plate.....



David in Az

Santa Fe "All the Way"





[quote name='Pete(UK)' post='95974' date='Apr 9 2007, 07:53 ']License plates.



For those train buff's among you, who also collect license plates, here is a link to a charity org. who is selling these ones at $15 each.



[url="http://www.amchild.org/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=1001&Product_Code=B7005277WS&Category_Code=KS"]http://www.amchild.org/Merchant2/merchant....ategory_Code=KS[/url][/quote]

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Caboose at the old train station in Canaan, CT

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Canaan Train Station - almost restored after a bad fire took out half the complex back on October 16, 2001

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Canaan Station after the fire

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Rear side of the Canaan Station - the Maine Caboose on the right side of the photo has since been moved up the road and turned into a sandwich/lunch shop.