Train Photography

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[quote name='unMARKedCARR' post='186973' date='Feb 5 2008, 21:20 ']Georgia Northeastern RR heading south between Talking Rock and Jasper, GA in December 2007.



Photos by Mark Carr[/quote]



Interesting track maintenance program, I guess they travel vvvvvery slowly in that area.



Nice photo BTW

[Russell]

Canadian Pacific switcher working around the Quaker plant in Peterborough Ontario, Canada. I took this while waiting at a crossing.

[Mark V. Carr]

The US Sugar Corporation in south central Florida has several locomotives. Don't know anything about them or the railroad other than that they haul raw sugar cane from the fields to the sugar mills that dot the areas of Pahokee, Belle Glade and South Bay.



Photo by Mark Carr

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[quote name='unMARKedCARR' post='188497' date='Feb 12 2008, 07:39 ']The US Sugar Corporation in south central Florida has several locomotives. Don't know anything about them or the railroad other than that they haul raw sugar cane from the fields to the sugar mills that dot the areas of Pahokee, Belle Glade and South Bay.



Photo by Mark Carr[/quote]





I think that is a GP38, according to some of the other websites they also have a GP9 and a GP11 on their roster. Very nice.

[photog999]

I was in KC last Saturday and as it was to chilly to ask anyone to pull rigs out, I was finally able to get some shot's of KCS new paint scheme as well as some other assorted train pictures. This first was was taken at KCS yards located in the East Bottoms area of KC. It is definitely a big change from their battleship gray paint scheme. This is one of the new SD-70ACe's

[photog999]

Here's a little tighter shot of one of the pair just posted.

[photog999]

This one caught me by surprise, according to another railfan who was there tis is going to be BNSF's new color scheme. No more green in the paintjob. I don't think I quite like it yet. This one was fresh out of the paint shop that morning. BNSF 6301 SD40-2

[Guest]

How about something different? Long overdue, in my opinion.



This is one of several models of the Odakyu Railway's Romance Car. This one is old hat now since it was introduced in 2004. There are already one or two newer versions.









This is one of the old ones, my favorite.

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[quote name='NJMedic' post='187358' date='Feb 7 2008, 14:06 ']Interesting track maintenance program, I guess they travel vvvvvery slowly in that area.[/quote]



I don't know about there, but they sure travel very slowly on these tracks. - LOL

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[quote name='Dick H' post='189144' date='Feb 14 2008, 23:47 ']I don't know about there, but they sure travel very slowly on these tracks. - LOL



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Looks like someone has mantaintance of way problems. <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

[Shoe]

[quote name='DAvid' post='63302' date='Dec 31 2006, 12:21 ']This is probably the speeder club that travels around the US operating their speeders on private or no longer used trackage.



David[/quote]



When I was a kid, we called them "patty cars". Any idea where that term might have come from? Maybe Irish influence like the "Patty Wagon"?

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[quote name='Shoe' post='189193' date='Feb 15 2008, 12:00 ']When I was a kid, we called them "patty cars". Any idea where that term might have come from? Maybe Irish influence like the "Patty Wagon"?[/quote]



And all these years I thought the Irish had to walk. <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

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How about something different? Long overdue, in my opinion.

And here are a few more. From left to right:



First 4 tracks, Yamanote loop line & Keihin Tohoku commuter line (no train in this photo).

Green & Orange train, Tokaido line, a long distance commuter line.

Series 500 Shinkansen (bullet train).

Yurikamome line, rubber tired guideway.

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How fast does the rubber tired guideway go?

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[quote name='WAGONMAN' post='189856' date='Feb 17 2008, 15:53 ']How fast does the rubber tired guideway go?[/quote]



My guess is 60-70 kph. Since there is no driver, there are no instruments. Now that I think about it, I don't know. In the 5 or 6 times I've ridden I've been filming and looking at the crazy architecture, so I never really looked for a speedometer. It loops through Odaiba, a man-made island in Tokyo Bay.



Here is the train and an example.







Tokyo BIG SIGHT, a convention center. Entrance is via an 8-story escalator (left side).







This "art" is about 10 stories tall.

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These are referred to as "Retro Bell's" because they are painted in a newer version of the Southern Belle scheme that once adorned the KCS passenger train the "Southern Bell" back in the passenger days.



David



[quote name='photog999' post='189040' date='Feb 14 2008, 14:31 ']Here's a little tighter shot of one of the pair just posted.[/quote]

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Thanks, Dick. That must be a real treat sitting all the way forward in one of those hummers. <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':o' />

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Metro North's F10s #411 and 413 at Brewster, NY after the snow storm on Friday 02/22/08

[Guest]

And on Saturday 02/23/08 at Southeast, ConnecticutDOT FL9m 2014 leading #2026 enter the station from the yard at Brewtser

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1/08 - Westbound CSX at Hobbs, WV between Shenandoah Jct. and Kearneysville. This location was formerly the site of double crossovers as it is the summit of "9-mile grade" coming east from Martinsburg,WV. Several years ago, the crossovers were moved about 1.5 miles east to the Shen. Jct. signal. This location was previously inaccessible without a 1/2 mile walk from nearest grade xing. In 2007, a new highway project resulted in a county road overpass being built to access a commercial orchard operation. Unfortunately, Hobbs is just a signal point now, but a new vista is now available.

Warren Jenkins photo