Train Photography

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[quote name='yelrowekim' post='288072' date='Mar 8 2009, 21:11 ']Rob...

He seams to be back on track....[/quote]

Oh Yelrow made a funny!! <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hysterical.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

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[quote name='yelrowekim' post='288072' date='Mar 8 2009, 21:11 ']Rob...

He seams to be back on track....[/quote]

Nice one! I'll be watching to make sure he doesn't derail.

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Went up to Iona Island this morning hoping to catch a few trains. My usual photography location was cut off by high water over the road so I went to my other favorite spot just up the river. Here is southbound CSX stack train Q-118, with the CSX #5292 leading, passing under the Bear Mountain Bridge.

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Just a quick picture I took earlier today while we were out for lunch.

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location?!?



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[quote name='1949ALF' post='288590' date='Mar 10 2009, 20:52 ']Just a quick picture I took earlier today while we were out for lunch.



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[quote name='DAvid' post='288764' date='Mar 11 2009, 18:29 ']location?!?[/quote]



That crossing is just down the street from the Texas Fire Museum on Chalk Hill Road in Dallas, Texas.

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Ok thanks. Not that I could have judged the location purely from the image, but didn't look like Indiana either. Did you get to the RR museum and the fire museum nearby?



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[quote name='1949ALF' post='288863' date='Mar 11 2009, 20:17 ']That crossing is just down the street from the Texas Fire Museum on Chalk Hill Road in Dallas, Texas.[/quote]

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Here are a few that I took in Port Jervis NY

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Also in Port Jervis on display

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Also in Port Jervis are Metro North and New Jersey Transit.

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NJ Transit at PJ

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[quote name='DAvid' post='288987' date='Mar 12 2009, 18:16 ']Ok thanks. Not that I could have judged the location purely from the image, but didn't look like Indiana either. Did you get to the RR museum and the fire museum nearby?[/quote]



No, it's far from Indiana! I haven't been to the railroad museum, but if the weather shapes up, I may try to visit it this weekend. I've spent the majority of this last week at the Texas Fire Museum working on the truck I have there for restoration work (1948 ALF).

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Nice pics Cpage! I gotta get my butt up to Port Jervis. It's my backyard and I used to be a rail dispatcher for NJT dispatching that line. I love the line between Port Jervis and Suffern.



Anyway I haven't been trackside lately until today....but it was worth it. Conrail was split up between CSX and NS back in 1999. You'd have thought by now that all the Conrail locomotives would have been through their heavy maintenance cycles, which includes repainting. But this Sunday morning (3/22) I was at Iona Island, NY and found the Q-433 general merchandise train being led by 3 units. The lead unit, CSX #7334, was not only still in full Conrail dress blue but also had its red markers on, though they don't show as obviously in the photo.

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And as the train went by I turned around to get this shot approaching the automatic signal at MP41.

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Metro North Cabcar #6107 in Patterson,NY after leading locomotive was struck by a pickup truck.

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The locomtive sustained little damage, just some scratches to the plow, and a few small dents. The train was struck by a pick up truck at an ungated private crossing on March21, 2009. The three occupants of the truck fled the scene. All were apprehended by the next morning

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[quote name='matchot' post='277919' date='Jan 30 2009, 23:22 ']Very interesting looking pics of rail equipment. Anybody know what it actually does when it's out working on the rails?[/quote]





Here's a picture I took of the NICTD (Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District) Catenary Maintenance vehicle MTW-100 a year and a half ago. They were replacing the catenary wires on the South Shore Line at the East Chicago station.

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Haven't posted in a while but I've been trackside again the past few days. Here's some of my favorites:



First train of this morning was the CSX Q-169. It came through Iona Island, NY northbound at 0712 hrs.

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The Q-169 getting closer. Not bad for shooting with the light against me.