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Amtrak #351 The Maple Leaf5760 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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The 'J' at Eola5742 viewsConductor Mike Claudillo hops up on the steps of EJ&E 665 as the head west around there coal train to retrieve the FRED from a merchandise train the just delivered and install it on the last car of their new trainset.
Note the westbound BNSF to the right of the SD38'smilepost56
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Poughkeepsie Trip 20135667 viewsPoughkeepsie, NY - Mid Hudson bridge over the Hudson riverlittlemax
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U.P. main - west of Denver5521 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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A new lease on life for the D&H5440 viewsAfter being wed and then divorced by Guilford Transportation Inustries, D&H was operated successfully by NYS&W before being purchased by Canadian rail giant CP Rail. Six axle SD40s and SD40-2s became the norm on rails that had hosted second generation U-Boats, Geeps, and Alcos a decade earlier. Here, leased PLM SD40 #3004 leads leased GATX SD40 #2002 and a CP Rail SD40-2 under the highway overpass at Canaseraga NY, as BUEB makes its way down the 10 MPH jointed rail of track #2 between Portage and Hornell.
Photo Copyright © 2008 Tim BaldwinBLW 1946
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Metra meet up at Grayslake5435 viewsJust a cabcar and Metra MPI 414 'Metra'metrarailboy1
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CR TV-501 Seneca St Buffalo NY5236 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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Waitin for the help4954 viewsUP manifest led by UP 4345(AC4400CW) awaits the helpers seen on the track farthest to the left to fire up and help him over the hillACe
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Rio Grande Southern Galloping Goose 54923 viewsThe Goose emerging from Rock Tunnel in Toltec Gorge and out of frame to my right a 600 foot drop!', 'Galloping Goose Rio Grande Southern Cumbres ToltecSamurai
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The last set of Alco's headed by C424 #42104916 viewsThis was taken June 1998 AT 02.00 St. Luc Yard. It was the last all ALCO set train#923 CP 4210,1838,1837,4216,4230Tim
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N&W C30-7 #8021 entering Buffalo Junction Yard4880 viewsFollowing the closing of Bison Yard, N&W moved their operations to the smaller Buffalo Junction Yard, located west of D&H's SK Yard and east of Conrail's CP Draw. The Seneca Street bridge was an excellent spot to view the action as C30-7 8021 leads the way into the yard with cars picked up from the D&H. Buffalo's Central Terminal can be seen in the upper right corner.
Photo Copyright 2008 Tim BaldwinBLW 1946
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D&H Sea-Land stack train at Dale NY4666 viewsAn ex-D&H GP39-2 in fresh Guilford paint is sandwiched by a pair of blue B&M GP40-2s on a sunny October day as they hustle east through bucolic Dale NY after climbing the torturous hill at Attica. The arrival of double-stack container trains to both D&H and host Conrail's operating scheme more than doubled the number of daily trains on the ex-EL Southern Tier Line for a period of several years while Conrail tackled clearance problems on the Water Level Route.
Photo Copyright 2008 Tim BaldwinBLW 1946
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Mixed Bag4611 viewsAn Eastbound, carrying coal loads that originated on the P&LE, winds its way through the scenic Canisteo River valley behind a mixed consist of locomotives in five different paint schemes. Leading the pack is ex-RDG GP39-2 #7410 in D&H patched Reading green, followed by a leased BAR GP38-2, a leased ex-Chessie GP40-2, another ex-RDG GP39-2 in a modified blue D&H scheme, and an ex-BN SD45 now owned by designated operator NYS&W. The train is bound for a generating plant in Bow NH.
Copyright © 2008 Tim BaldwinBLW 1946
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Chessie coal empties - Springville NY4575 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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Hughson Sunday Nights4556 viewsThe peacefulness of Hughson, California is shattered for less than 40 second while a northbound Amtrak California San Joaquin train 718. CDTX 2051, whose earned the nickname 'Sluggo', on account of its slow loading times, is pulling this trainset at a brisk 79mph rushing northward to Oakland at the other end of this corridor.
Present here are two ghosts from the past. Two old Santa Fe Searchlight signals guard this train and grants it safe passage from one signal block to another. These signals are becoming few and far in between as the BNSF Railway is replacing them with modern 'Tri-Lights'.
Santa Fe Avenue parallels its namesake railroad from Escalon to Madera and is one of the many routPNWTransitFreak
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CSX Power4552 viewsThis was power that I had this past spring, on a loaded coal train, which we had just spotted in the Blackmar Siding. If you look close, you can see my conductor removing the EOTgtw5812
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