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By:Geneva Short
Dates:7/29/2011 - 7/29/2011
Album Info:Here are photographs that to me are more of a "scenic" nature (although the "scenery" might include steel plants or rail yards!)
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GTW 5826 West
Title:  GTW 5826 West
Description:  A tri-fecta of "GP-38" type locomotives from Grand Trunk Western, Detroit, Toledo and Ironton, and Chicago South Shore and South Bend move west on the eastbound track of the GTW's South Bend Subdivision, which at this point skirts the old Kingsbury Munitions Plant (parts of which are now a wildlife refuge and an industrial park). Date approximate; I believe the second locomotive was GTW 6227, formerly DT&I 227. The South Shore unit might have been 2009.
Photo Date:  10/1/1989  Upload Date: 12/9/2011 10:49:21 PM
Location:  Kingsbury, IN
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  GTW 5826(GP38-2) GTW 6227(GP38-2)
Views:  787   Comments: 2
Standing Guard
Title:  Standing Guard
Description:  By Esther Fairchild: "Trailing" view of signbl on Washington Terminal Co. outside south portal of First Street Tunnel
Photo Date:  2/11/2001  Upload Date: 3/3/2012 10:11:00 AM
Location:  Capitol Hill (subdiv, DC
Author:  Esther Fairchild
Categories:  Signal
Locomotives: 
Views:  271   Comments: 0
Out of the Darkness
Title:  Out of the Darkness
Description:  Eastbound train ready to depart the south end of Union Station, Chicago
Photo Date:  9/27/2011  Upload Date: 10/12/2011 12:26:00 PM
Location:  Chicago Union Statio, IL
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Signal
Locomotives: 
Views:  165   Comments: 2
Pushing
Title:  Pushing
Description:  A UP local job pushes caboose 25881 and a covered hopper west by Bonner Springs
Photo Date:  9/28/2011  Upload Date: 10/12/2011 12:17:03 PM
Location:  Bonner Springs, KS
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives: 
Views:  214   Comments: 0
"All Other Traffic Has Right Of Way"
Title:  "All Other Traffic Has Right Of Way"
Description:  Well, at the moment only One type of traffic has the right of way: BNSF 4170 and 734 as they lead an auto train off the old Frisco line toward the former Santa Fe to Kansas City at Olathe, Kansas. Note the red-over-green signal displayed for the 4170.
Photo Date:  9/29/2011  Upload Date: 10/13/2011 12:29:29 AM
Location:  Olathe, KS
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 4170(C44-9W)
Views:  393   Comments: 1
AOK vs UP (1)
Title:  AOK vs UP (1)
Description:  By Esther Fairchild: UP northbound empty coal train on the old Katy crosses the AOK main at McAlester, Oklahoma, while AOK 4093 watches
Photo Date:  10/3/2011  Upload Date: 10/12/2011 12:37:21 PM
Location:  McAlester, OK
Author:  Esther Fairchild
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  AOK 4093(B23-S7) UP 6014(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  479   Comments: 3
AOK vs UP (2)
Title:  AOK vs UP (2)
Description:  By Esther Fairchild: AOK 4093 watches empty coal gons go north on the old Katy line, McAlester, Oklahoma
Photo Date:  10/3/2011  Upload Date: 10/12/2011 12:40:45 PM
Location:  McAlester, OK
Author:  Esther Fairchild
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  AOK 4093(B23-S7)
Views:  339   Comments: 3
AOK vs UP (3)
Title:  AOK vs UP (3)
Description:  By Esther Fairchild: UP pusher engine 5964 on a northbound empty coal train clears the AOK diamond at McAlester, Oklahoma, as AOK 4093, 4098, and 4012 soak up the sun
Photo Date:  10/3/2011  Upload Date: 10/12/2011 12:44:30 PM
Location:  McAlester, OK
Author:  Esther Fairchild
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  AOK 4098(B23-S7) AOK 4093(B23-S7) AOK 4012(B23-7) UP 5964(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  736   Comments: 2
It's A-OK
Title:  It's A-OK
Description:  By Esther Fairchild: AOK 4098 comes west toward the UP (old Katy) diamond at McAlester, Oklahoma
Photo Date:  10/3/2011  Upload Date: 10/12/2011 12:31:32 PM
Location:  McAlester, OK
Author:  Esther Fairchild
Categories:  Scenic,Track,Action
Locomotives:  AOK 4098(B23-S7)
Views:  240   Comments: 0
Green
Title:  Green
Description:  By Esther Fairchild: Clear signal for the AOK (old Rock Island) westbound across the UP (old Katy) main at McAlester, Oklahoma
Photo Date:  10/3/2011  Upload Date: 10/12/2011 12:20:56 PM
Location:  McAlester, OK
Author:  Esther Fairchild
Categories:  Scenic,Signal
Locomotives: 
Views:  151   Comments: 0
Waiting
Title:  Waiting
Description:  By Esther Fairchild: Two UP trains, an auto rack train (left) and a coal load, wait to go south on the old Katy at Monroe Avenue in McAlester, Oklahoma.
Photo Date:  10/3/2011  Upload Date: 10/12/2011 12:11:34 PM
Location:  McAlester, OK
Author:  Esther Fairchild
Categories:  Scenic,Yard
Locomotives: 
Views:  163   Comments: 3
Three CSX trains wait to go east at the New Castle yard.  Note all the B&O dwarf signals still in use.
Title:  Three CSX trains wait to go east at the New Castle yard. Note all the B&O dwarf signals still in use.
Description: 
Photo Date:  11/12/2011  Upload Date: 11/21/2011 2:51:26 PM
Location:  New Castle, PA
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  262   Comments: 0
Three's Company
Title:  Three's Company
Description:  Three Norfolk and Western trainmen smile for a short girl with a camera as they push two empty box cars out of the Purdue University spur track back toward the ex-Nickel Plate Frankfort-Peoria main near the Purdue Airport, West Lafayette, Ind. Spring 1980 (photo date approximate)
Photo Date:  4/1/1980  Upload Date: 8/30/2011 1:22:05 AM
Location:  West Lafayette, IN
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  NW 2483(GP9)
Views:  1032   Comments: 3
Formula 409
Title:  Formula 409
Description:  CNW 409 in the gloom of the CNW Madison Street station in Chicago, Fall 1980 (date approximate). Kind of a dark, fuzzy shot, but it did capture the mood.
Photo Date:  10/1/1980  Upload Date: 8/30/2011 1:46:42 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  Scenic,Station
Locomotives:  CNW 409(F7A)
Views:  348   Comments: 1
Santa Fe In The Way
Title:  Santa Fe In The Way
Description:  AT&SF 5543 creeps down the street-running section of the main line through Fresno, California in December 1980 (date approx)
Photo Date:  12/15/1980  Upload Date: 9/22/2011 5:16:12 PM
Location:  Fresno, CA
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  Scenic,Track,Action
Locomotives:  ATSF 5543(SD45)
Views:  458   Comments: 1
San Luis Obispo, California June 1981
Title:  San Luis Obispo, California June 1981
Description:  Number Fourteen (Amtrak "Coast Starlight") southbound meets SP northbound at "SLO" in this horribly overexposed scene, June 1981
Photo Date:  6/1/1981  Upload Date: 8/11/2011 9:49:17 AM
Location:  San Luis Obispo, CA
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  AMTK 232(F40PHR) SP 8900(SD45) SP 7627(GP40-2)
Views:  920   Comments: 4
The End Of The Rock
Title:  The End Of The Rock
Description:  Rock Island car shop, Armourdale (Kansas City), Kansas June 1981 (date approx.) I crept up close that day and saw that the "sprayed-out" words on the door windows were "die ing".
Photo Date:  6/1/1981  Upload Date: 9/22/2011 5:52:28 PM
Location:  Armourdale yard, Ka
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Station
Locomotives: 
Views:  327   Comments: 3
The Middle Man
Title:  The Middle Man
Description:  Peoria and Pekin Union number 500 has cars on both ends as it switches in Pekin, Illinois in September of 1981 (date approx.). Note that the headlights are ON in both directions - quite the multi-tasking little engine!
Photo Date:  9/6/1981  Upload Date: 11/6/2011 11:14:48 PM
Location:  Pekin, IL
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  PPU 500(SW1200)
Views:  437   Comments: 1
Almost Twilight
Title:  Almost Twilight
Description:  B&O 4223 crosses the Conrail (PRR) Fort Wayne line and passes the old-school station sign at Hanna, Indiana southbound on the old Pere Marquette line from New Buffalo, Michigan to LaCrosse, Indiana (date approx.)
Photo Date:  6/30/1982  Upload Date: 8/30/2011 12:01:38 AM
Location:  Hanna, IN
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Action
Locomotives:  BO 4223(GP40-2)
Views:  583   Comments: 4
Detroit Edison 002 and friends, westbound on Conrail
Title:  Detroit Edison 002 and friends, westbound on Conrail
Description:  early 1985 (photo date approximate); another picture in this album shows the mid-train pushers 003 and 013 of this same train
Photo Date:  3/1/1985  Upload Date: 8/11/2011 11:57:23 PM
Location:  Leetsdale, PA
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  DEEX 002(SD40)
Views:  385   Comments: 1
Detroit Edison 003 and 013 mid-train pushers westbound on Conrail
Title:  Detroit Edison 003 and 013 mid-train pushers westbound on Conrail
Description:  Pusher engines on the train led by DE 002 and friends in another picture (photo date approximate)
Photo Date:  3/1/1985  Upload Date: 8/12/2011 12:12:08 AM
Location:  Leetsdale, PA
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  DEEX 13(SD40) DEEX 3(SD40)
Views:  965   Comments: 1
Burr Road
Title:  Burr Road
Description:  Metro-North Commuter Railroad RDC number 56 passes through Burr Rd. interlocking westbound in the summer of 1985 (date approximate)
Photo Date:  6/10/1985  Upload Date: 9/12/2011 2:03:27 AM
Location:  Bridgeport, CT
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  MNCR 56(RDC1)
Views:  665   Comments: 0
Conrail (Pennsylvania Railroad) catenary in twilight
Title:  Conrail (Pennsylvania Railroad) catenary in twilight
Description:  Washington approach to Potomac River bridge; beyond the wires, an aircraft has just departed from National Airport "DCA" (photo date approximate)
Photo Date:  3/1/1986  Upload Date: 8/7/2011 5:57:40 PM
Location:  Washington, DC
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives: 
Views:  206   Comments: 2
Point of Rocks Tunnel
Title:  Point of Rocks Tunnel
Description:  By Esther Fairchild: Maryland Department of Transportation "F" unit 7182 emerges westbound from the tunnel just west of Point of Rocks, Maryland, in the Spring of 1987 (date approx.)
Photo Date:  4/1/1987  Upload Date: 11/9/2011 10:51:13 PM
Location:  Point of Rocks, MD
Author:  Esther Fairchild
Categories:  Scenic,Tunnel,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MARC 7182(F9PHA)
Views:  527   Comments: 1
30 Rocks
Title:  30 Rocks
Description:  By Esther Fairchild: Westbound evening Maryland DOT (B&O) commuter train unloads at Point of Rocks, Maryland in the Summer of 1987. Round "30" sign indicates speed restriction.
Photo Date:  6/1/1987  Upload Date: 9/18/2011 11:34:51 PM
Location:  Point of Rocks, MD
Author:  Esther Fairchild
Categories:  Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  171   Comments: 0
Grade Crossing On Wheels
Title:  Grade Crossing On Wheels
Description:  Conrail C&S (Communication and Signal) department highway grade crossing signal equipment mounted on a trailer for use as a mobile training center to train signal maintenance forces. Date approx.
Photo Date:  6/30/1987  Upload Date: 9/21/2011 7:03:49 PM
Location:  Rochester, NY
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  Station,Signal
Locomotives: 
Views:  205   Comments: 0
MDOT in the mist
Title:  MDOT in the mist
Description:  By Esther Fairchild: MDOT 7182 carries afternoon commuters home toward Brunswick, Maryland in the Summer of 1987 (date approx). About this picture, Esther says "Looking at this scene I can still feel the mist hanging in the air and the smell of the Potomac valley in the summer time."
Photo Date:  7/30/1987  Upload Date: 11/9/2011 11:28:38 PM
Location:  Point of Rocks, MD
Author:  Esther Fairchild
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  MARC 7182(F9PHA)
Views:  457   Comments: 1
Triple the Fun
Title:  Triple the Fun
Description:  Three Budd RDC cars make their afternoon station stop at Point of Rocks, Maryland on the B&O "Metropolitan Sub" in the Summer of 1987 (date approx.).
Photo Date:  8/4/1987  Upload Date: 9/18/2011 2:50:32 AM
Location:  Point of Rocks, MD
Author:  Esther Fairchild
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives: 
Views:  175   Comments: 1
Let There Be (Switch) Light!
Title:  Let There Be (Switch) Light!
Description:  A genuine, if electric, switch light still in service on the Norfolk and Western end of the interchange tracks at Shenandoah Junction, W.Va., November 1987 (date approx). Rail Car Trivia note: the "W&K" on the frame of the auto rack in the picture stood for "Whitehead and Kales", a builder of such cars in (of course) Detroit.
Photo Date:  11/1/1987  Upload Date: 9/4/2011 10:27:01 PM
Location:  Shenandoah Junction, WV
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  289   Comments: 1
Now That's Something You Don't See Anymore
Title:  Now That's Something You Don't See Anymore
Description:  By Esther Fairchild. Esther didn't think of it as a photographic success, but there's too much good "old" stuff here to pass up. The scene is near "Ivy City" in North East Washington, D.C. in November of 1987. Among the things no longer seen: a Conrail "SW" type switcher with a Rio Grande box car and Conrail caboose on an industry track just the other side of the Amtrak "Northeast Corridor" main line. Then there's a pre-MARC evening commuter train on the B&O "Capital" subdivision featuring a Maryland Department of Transportation RDC (with the vestibule door open, no less). In the background, the Hecht & Co. (department store) warehouse. A true collection of antiques. Thanks, Esther, for letting me put this one up.
Photo Date:  11/5/1987  Upload Date: 9/4/2011 10:00:17 PM
Location:  Ivy City, DC
Author:  Esther Fairchild
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Passenger,Track,Action
Locomotives:  CR 9089(SW7)
Views:  656   Comments: 2
Far From Home
Title:  Far From Home
Description:  By Esther Fairchild: Just out of Potomac Yards on Conrail trackage rights, Guilford-era Boston and Maine engine 356 leads a Delaware and Hudson train off the Potomac River bridge and into Washington, D.C. on its long journey north back to home rails in early Spring, 1988 (date approximate).
Photo Date:  4/5/1988  Upload Date: 9/25/2011 10:54:41 PM
Location:  east potomac park, DC
Author:  Esther Fairchild
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  BM 356(GP39-2)
Views:  470   Comments: 2
Two Thirteen
Title:  Two Thirteen
Description:  Metra 213 rests beside Joliet Union Depot after a run from Chicago's LaSalle Street Station (date approx)
Photo Date:  11/15/1988  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 12:01:28 AM
Location:  Joliet, IL
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  Scenic,RollingStock,Station
Locomotives:  METX 213(F40PHM-2)
Views:  410   Comments: 1
C&NW's Finest
Title:  C&NW's Finest
Description:  CNW 401 leads the North Western's business car wrain by Kedzie Tower in Chicago as "scoots" pass in both directions on the three main tracks of the Geneva Subdivision (date approximate)
Photo Date:  6/2/1994  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 11:18:40 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  CNW 401(F7A)
Views:  975   Comments: 1
Sunset on the C&NW Geneva Subdivision
Title:  Sunset on the C&NW Geneva Subdivision
Description:  One Geneva To Another: The sun has almost set on my favorite Chicago and North Western subdivision just west of downtown Chicago (date apvrox.)
Photo Date:  6/2/1994  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 10:56:47 PM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  Scenic
Locomotives: 
Views:  170   Comments: 2
New BNSF 712 and BNSF 711 westbound on Conrail, Burns Harbor, IN Summer 1997
Title:  New BNSF 712 and BNSF 711 westbound on Conrail, Burns Harbor, IN Summer 1997
Description:  Two new BNSF GE C44-9W locomotives work west toward their new home on what must have been their first assignment after leaving the GE plant at Erie, Pennsylvania (photo date approximate)
Photo Date:  7/31/1997  Upload Date: 7/29/2011 10:08:57 PM
Location:  Burns Harbor, IN
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 712(C44-9W) BNSF 711(C44-9W)
Views:  1461   Comments: 2
BNSF 712 - BNSF 711 with a BN car and an ATSF car - an accidential reflection of the BNSF merger
Title:  BNSF 712 - BNSF 711 with a BN car and an ATSF car - an accidential reflection of the BNSF merger
Description:  While on their way west to home rails (possibly for the first time since leaving the GE plant in Erie, PA) BNSF 712 and 711 go back toward their train after having set off a car at the Conrail yard in Burns Harbor, Indiana. (photo date approximate)
Photo Date:  7/31/1997  Upload Date: 7/29/2011 10:28:55 PM
Location:  Burns Harbor, IN
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 712(C44-9W) BNSF 711(C44-9W)
Views:  1087   Comments: 2
Standing Tall
Title:  Standing Tall
Description:  by Esther Fairchild. The tall nose of NS 5035 with the even taller N&W position light signal at Front Royal, Va.
Photo Date:  8/7/2010  Upload Date: 9/3/2011 9:11:33 AM
Location:  Front Royal, VA
Author:  Esther Fairchild
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Signal
Locomotives:  NS 5035(GP38-2)
Views:  323   Comments: 0
Made in U.S.A.
Title:  Made in U.S.A.
Description:  Norfolk Southern Piedmont main line, rail rolled at Bethlehem rail mill Steelton, Pennsylvania May 1997, 132 pounds per yard
Photo Date:  10/21/2010  Upload Date: 8/20/2011 6:46:18 AM
Location:  Charlottesville, VA
Author:  Esther Fairchild
Categories:  Scenic,Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  198   Comments: 1
CSXT 610 on Buckingham Branch RR
Title:  CSXT 610 on Buckingham Branch RR
Description:  CSX coal empty train westbound on BB RR crosses NS (Southern) at Charlottesville
Photo Date:  10/21/2010  Upload Date: 8/20/2011 6:56:12 AM
Location:  Charlottesville, VA
Author:  Esther Fairchild
Categories:  Scenic,Signal
Locomotives:  CSX 610(AC60CW)
Views:  208   Comments: 0
Amtrak "Cardinal" No. 51
Title:  Amtrak "Cardinal" No. 51
Description:  Engine 171 waits for passengers at Charlottesville on the Buckingham Branch RR (old C&O)
Photo Date:  10/22/2010  Upload Date: 8/20/2011 7:08:15 AM
Location:  Charlottesville, VA
Author:  Esther Fairchild
Categories:  Scenic,Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 171(P42DC)
Views:  361   Comments: 1
Amtrak "Cardinal" no. 51 departs
Title:  Amtrak "Cardinal" no. 51 departs
Description:  engine 171 pulls the Cardinal westbound across the NS diamonds at Charlottesville, Va. on the old C&O main (now Buckingham Branch RR)
Photo Date:  10/22/2010  Upload Date: 8/20/2011 7:17:46 AM
Location:  Charlottesville, VA
Author:  Esther Fairchild
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Passenger
Locomotives:  AMTK 171(P42DC)
Views:  188   Comments: 0
NS 5415 southbound
Title:  NS 5415 southbound
Description:  southbound Orange, Va.
Photo Date:  10/23/2010  Upload Date: 8/20/2011 6:35:39 AM
Location:  Orange, VA
Author:  Esther Fairchild
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  NS 5415(SD50)
Views:  230   Comments: 1
Empties west
Title:  Empties west
Description:  By Esther Fairchild. Empty rapid-discharge coal hoppers creep west through Charlottesville, Virginia on a CSX train using Buckingham Branch (former C&O) rails
Photo Date:  10/24/2010  Upload Date: 9/3/2011 8:17:18 AM
Location:  Charlottesville, VA
Author:  Esther Fairchild
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  138   Comments: 0
C&O style
Title:  C&O style
Description:  by Esther Fairchild. Eastward signals cast a late afternoon shadow on the Jackson River bridge at the west end of Clifton Forge, Va., on the old C&O main line
Photo Date:  10/25/2010  Upload Date: 9/3/2011 8:41:09 AM
Location:  Clifton Forge, VA
Author:  Esther Fairchild
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Signal,Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  159   Comments: 0
All Stop
Title:  All Stop
Description:  Stop signal displayed - with good reason - on recently removed plant spur track at CSX (B&O) Laughlin Junction (Pittsburgh) Pennsylvania
Photo Date:  6/8/2011  Upload Date: 8/22/2011 3:58:35 PM
Location:  Pittsburgh, PA
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Track
Locomotives: 
Views:  240   Comments: 1
Clear Signal
Title:  Clear Signal
Description: 
Photo Date:  6/8/2011  Upload Date: 8/20/2011 7:41:12 AM
Location:  McKeesport, PA
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  Scenic,Signal
Locomotives: 
Views:  174   Comments: 2
NIPSCO SE-1
Title:  NIPSCO SE-1
Description:  by Esther Fairchild: Northern Indiana Public Service Company engine SE-1 leans against a cut of coal loads during rotary-dumping operation at Michigan City Generating Station (which is a coal-fired power plant; don't let that nuke-like cooling tower fool you). Close-up photos of this baby-blue beauty are in my "Industry Locomotives" album on my site here.
Photo Date:  7/29/2011  Upload Date: 9/22/2011 3:16:19 PM
Location:  Michigan City, IN
Author:  Esther Fairchild
Categories:  Scenic,Yard,Action
Locomotives:  NORX se-1(RL1500)
Views:  417   Comments: 0


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