For all of You Train Lovers

[Bold & Old]

I took this picture this morning on my way to work....


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I remember working 12 hours all night and seeing the sun come up like this almost blinding me.

I remember!

 

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Something I took 11 years ago, sunset in one of the yards, with the Fraser river alongside. That bridge in the background (Port Mann Bridge) has since been torn down and replaced with a 10 lane bridge.

 

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That same bridge from below, with the new bridge tower support sprouting from the river on the left.

 

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Driving out to inspect a track. When securing a track, the switches are lined away and locked. A metal blue flag is affixed at each end of the track, stenciled "car department" to indicate to yard switching crews that the track was off limits to car movement. At night, a flashing blue light was (magnetically) stuck onto the flag to ensure it was seen, those are the blue lights riding the hood of this truck.

 

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England of the 1938 steam locomotive world speed-record of 126.4 mph

 

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Mountain monsters! Gotta love those big boys! They will be passing thru Mo. In the near future ! I’m gonna go drool over it!

 

[Dipstick]

Big Boy Tour schedule:

https://www.up.com/media/releases/210614-big-boy-tour.htm

I imagine they have to stop pretty often for fuel/water since there is no longer the infrastructure for steamers.

 

[Photon440]

With a 25,000 gallon capacity, it probably lasts long enough. Just like the fuel, originally coal but now burning oil, 6450 gallons of it. With just an excursion run instead of hauling heavy freight loads up grades, the fuel probably lasts longer than it used to.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Submit & I did this today.....

https://hoborr.com/rail-bike-adventures/

 

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where is that

 

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where is that

Laconia station.

 

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THATS AWESOME I WILL TRY TO GET UP THERE

 

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The Lithgow Zig Zag is one of the major engineering achievements of the railway era, its construction opened up the western area of New South Wales beyond the Blue Mountains for development with access by rail. It was the major achievement of NSW Railways Chief Engineer John Whitton. At the time of its construction, it was the greatest civil engineering work in Australia and was considered worldwide as an engineering marvel.Zig Zag Railway was built between 1866 and 1869

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  Derailment on the Zig Zag Railway