Crossing Elizabeth St. in Alviso, passing the abandoned Laine's Grocery Store bound for Fremont.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Screeching wheels
This is a south bound Iowa Chicago & Eastern manifest train passing the coal fired power plant at Lansing, Iowa.
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Naperville, Illinois
A Metra train pulls into the Naperville station on it's way to Chicago. Taken from the Washington Street bridge looking West.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Cheddleton Morning
The steam heating is on and the sun is shining for the first train of the year 2005 on the Churnet Valley Railway. It was a magical morning and with the sound of the 8F up front it was a great journey too!
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Metra 175 Eastbound into Chicago
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I went to Wheaton today to get my driver's license renewed (with one day left to spare, I might add). After taking care of that, I wandered around shooting Metra and Union Pacific trains.
May 6, 2008
Wheaton, Illinois
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Friday, May 09, 2008
Early Z Train
The southbound ZBRLC passes through Castella on quiet Saturday morning. This train typically departs Dunsmuir midday.
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Tamilnadu Express through Nagpur
A handsome Erode WAP4 22727 does the honors to pull reputed south-bound Tamilnadu Express.
Saturday, April 05, 2008
GLINT!
Came out awesome on the Wabash as the sun broke out from the haze at the best possible second
Tanks
A line of ethanol tanks reflect the last of the late afternoon sun in the arrival tracks at Galesburg yard.
A Good Walkin' Bridge
Across the river and a little upstream is the ghost town of Sewell, WV at the mouth of Mann's Creek Canyon. Up the canyon a few miles Mann's Creek is joined by Glade Creek. If you continue on up Glade Creek canyon you will be at Babcock State Park. It's about 6 miles up to the Park.
Pit stop...
The train slowly comes to a stop as the westbound crews hours are just about to expire. Red Barn, IL.
Gray Ghosts
New (at time of photo) General Electric ES44DC Evolution (GEVO) locomotives, still in primer gray, lead a westbound merchandise train into the CSX hump yard at Cumberland on a crisp Autumn morning (taken from the Mexico Farms Road overpass in October 2005)
