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Royal Mail Train passing garstang Shieldmuir Mail Terminal to Warrington Royal Mail(Dbs)

Flagstaff AZ.

Near Congress AZ

White mountains NH

Rail Operations Group Class 377 No. 37884 Cepheus Mossend Down Yard to Leicester L.I.P.

DRS 68025 'Superb' & 68031 Southport to Penrith Isu (Ce) hauling empty coaching stock

so far my ONLY train pic...

goalerjones wrote in post #18653459
so far my ONLY train pic...

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Must be your best then... or your worst! ; D

This is a southbound CP train through the concrete canyons of downtown Milwaukee.

Coal trains in Lincoln, NE. Coal from Wyoming. There's a few other types of goods cars mixed in there.

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wizzells wrote in post #18653882
This is a southbound CP train through the concrete canyons of downtown Milwaukee.

Hot taconite loads steam on a -10F morning.

Big steam from the Pere Marquette 1225.

where're ya located?

PM 1225, is just up the road from me (well more "over" the road about 75 miles)...

Ltdave wrote in post #18654229
where're ya located?

PM 1225, is just up the road from me (well more "over" the road about 75 miles)...

I'm in Milwaukee, but I've got family in Michigan so I managed to catch one of their North Pole Express runs up to Ashley a few years ago when I was visiting.

Sportzpicz1 wrote in post #18652623
Flagstaff AZ.

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Heading east out of Flagstaff passing the Purina chow plant. BNSF crews say that when the smell of that plant begins to smell "good" it's time to retire! LOL!! This is a VERY good photograph of this particular location. Why? Because it essentially captures the optical illusion presented by the landscape. That train is in dynamic braking, because it is gaining speed and must be held back against the steep down grade!

It does not appear as that though, it appears as though the train is going UPhill, it is NOT. Not really sure, but there were stories of cars being set out of trains at Purina the were cut off and left frestanding on the mainline while the crew put the rest of the cars back on their train. When they cut their engines off to go get the car - it was gone. I heard of this happening at least twice over the years. The cars rolled away EAST and went downhill at terrific speeds! The crews were fooled by the optical illusion thinking that a car would not roll uphill - east. But it isn't uphill and a car WILL roll east from there. Newly hired brakemen are hard to convince until they actually SEE it happen. LOL! The grade is steep enough that when the hand brake is released on a car it will slowly begin to roll east - the direction this train is going, and if not caught quickly enough it will become very hard to stop!

Nice photo!

Had to move my post to "quote" this photo, otherwise my comment would not make much sense, especially following a post from the UK! LOL!

Commuter trains as seen approaching Chicago

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