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harsh grade - Coal Creek1087 viewsThis photo illustrates the effects of heavy WB trains clawing their way up the steep grade, just outside of Denver. By the time the power for a westbound coal train reaches this crossing, the engines are at full throttle and the pressure on the railhead is making it look like the top of a heavily hammered chisel.signalman
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BNSF's passing1080 viewsThese 2 trains were identical. 4 DC engines on each the lead on both being a H3 Gevo and the 3 trailing units were all H2-9's followed by double stack carsACe
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Van on the run1056 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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Amtrak F40PH #345 Niagara Falls NY1018 viewsAmtrak #345, leading the Niagara Rainbow, awaits departure at Niagara Falls NY after a typical Western NY lake effect snowstorm.
Photo Copyright 2008 Tim BaldwinBLW 1946
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Amtrak's Capitol Limited Fairhope PA1017 viewsThe eastbound Capitol Limited, led by Amtrak F40PH #377, winds its way around the 'S' curve at Fairhope PA as it eases its way down Sandpatch Grade on a hazy summer morning.
Photo Copyright 2008 Tim BaldwinBLW 1946
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Cruel Fate997 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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Rattlesnake Curve Adrian NY934 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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CP Run Thru #1907 viewsTaken in Durand, Mi in the 90's, a CP train heads east towards Port Huron MIgtw5812
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A hill to climb902 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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CR Ashtabula OH coal dock yard875 viewsA trio of P&LE U28Bs and a lone SW1500 are seen leaving Ashtabula with a southbound empty coal movement. The yard is awash with color, as freshly painted Conrail hoppers mingle with those of various predecessor roads alongside P&LE hoppers in two different schemes.
Photo Copyright 2008 Tim BaldwinBLW 1946
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The view from Hunts Hollow Road866 viewsA quartet of NYS&W yellowjackets race west with Sea-Land doublestacks in tow through rural Hunt NY on a clear fall day.
A few miles west lies the landmark bridge over the Genesee River Gorge at Portage NY.
©Photo Copyright 2008 Tim BaldwinBLW 1946
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Waitin for the help859 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 5842 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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Hughson Sunday Nights768 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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Chessie coal empties - Springville NY766 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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Climbing Trinidad EB764 viewsHere's the E-RBESXM climbing out of the Columbia River valley towards TrinidadBCR4601
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