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U.P. main - west of Denver180 viewsThis picture is looking south(Denver is to the left). This is one of the many challenging grades for loaded coal trains to climb, as they grind their way up through Coal Creek Canyonsignalman
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B&O freight Ashford Junction NY177 viewsB&O GP40 #3776 leads a long northbound freight past the classic B&O tower at Ashford Junction NY. In a few years' time, this would become the junction of the Rochester & Southern and the Buffalo and Pittsburgh lines from their respective home cities.
Photo Copyright 2008 Tim BaldwinBLW 1946
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CR TV-501 Seneca St Buffalo NY177 viewsConrail's APL doublestack TV-501, behind a pair of GP40-2s sandwiching a B36-7, swings off the Bison runner onto the westbound main at the former site of FW tower, as viewed from the Seneca St overpass in Buffalo NY.
Photo Copyright 2008 Tim BaldwinBLW 1946
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Rattlesnake Curve Adrian NY176 viewsA favorite railfan destination, the sweeping curve on Conrail's ex-EL Southern Tier Line along the Canisteo River offered many excellent vistas.
Photo Copyright 2008 Tim BaldwinBLW 1946
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CSX CG-41 Seneca St Buffalo NY168 viewsA pair of GP40-2s lead CSX CG-41 as it heads west on Conrail tracks, passing the former site of FW Tower, as seen from the Seneca St bridge in Buffalo NY. The late afternoon sun intensifies the colorful consist.
Photo Copyright 2008 Tim BaldwinBLW 1946
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A hill to climb166 viewsEastbound D&H Sea-Land doublestack train SLN-8 struggles up Attica Hill with two B&M bluebird GP38-2s bracketing an ex-D&H (nee-RDG) GP39-2 in fresh Guilford paint. SLN-8's circuitous CSX-B&P-D&H-NYS&W routing and varied motive power assignments were a joy to Western NY railfans. The train carried the symbol DTV8 while utilizing trackage rights over Conrail's Southern tier Line between Buffalo and Binghamton.
Photo Copyright 2008 Tim BaldwinBLW 1946
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The end165 viewsThats all folks! time to get back in the cozy cabACe
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CP Run Thru #2163 viewsTaken in Durand, Mi in the 90's, a CP train heads east towards Port Huron MIgtw5812
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Van on the run162 viewsOne of numerous eastbound Conrail TV trains approaches the US Route 20 highway overpass at milepost 104, near West Springfield PA, just east of the OH state line. GP40-2 #3325 has the lead.
Photo Copyright 2008 Tim BaldwinBLW 1946
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Norfolk Southern 'Streetrunning' in Morehead City, NC162 viewsNorfolk Southern freight in Morehead City, NClittlemax
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Chessie coal empties - Springville NY161 viewsA southbound empty Chessie coal train passes a still pond on now-abandoned B&O trackage through Springville NY.
In a time-honored tradition, the engineer exchanges waves with a young fisherman.
Photo Copyright 2008 Tim BaldwinBLW 1946
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B&M 315 at West Susquehanna PA160 viewsAn eastbound D&H train led by Boston & Maine #315 passes under the Erie coal tower at West Susquehanna PA, a relic of a much earlier era. The train will proceed east to a connecting track at Lanesboro PA where it will return to home rails via a complicate switchback maneuver at Jefferson Junction, necessitated by the construction work being done at the Belden Hill tunnel site to accommodate double-stack container traffic. This would be the last hurrah for the old D&H line across Ararat Summit.
Photo Copyright 2008 Tim BaldwinBLW 1946
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LSRC 1169 on the Z127159 viewsI took this on my day off, during a heavy snow this past spring, coming through Clio, MI, on the southbound Z127gtw5812
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Cruel Fate158 viewsAfter spending an afternoon in Napa with my family we began to head back, and found this off SR-12. The story of the NWP is one of conflict, irony and despair. In its modern times the NWP has been treated a stepchild in the communities that it once proudly served. The unit I'm standing on was one of many SD9s that are permanently stuck on this railroad. The NWP last run in the late 1990s at its full capacity and trailed off til 2000 when it was killed permanently. It's said to been reopened for a project called SMART, which has plans similar to NCTD's SPRINTER in southern California - that has yet to bear any fruit - http://nwprrhs.org/history.htm PNWTransitFreak
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UP Snoots155 viewsTaken at the Dalles, in Oregon, around 2003, this units were sitting at rest...with a caboose no less!gtw5812
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Amtrak #351 The Maple Leaf153 viewsThe eastbound Maple Leaf, led by Amtrak #351,F40PH, paints an imposing picture as it passes through North Tonawanda NY.
Photo Copyright 2008 Tim BaldwinBLW 1946
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