January 2019
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Narrow Gauge Gem at the 2019 Amherst Railway Society BIG Railroad Hobby Show.
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This wonderfully restored narrow gauge steam locomotive was under steam in front of the Better Living Center at the Big E in West Springfield, Massachusetts last weekend.
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Illinois Central SD40-2s on Wisconsin’s Byron Hill.
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I made these photos of a pair of sequentially numbered IC SD40-2s working as rear-end helpers on a southward CN freight ascending Wisconsin Central’s Byron Hill.
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Milwaukee Road Depot at Brookfield, Wisconsin in the Snow.
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TRAINS Magazine’s Brian Schmidt and I visited the old Milwaukee Road Depot at Brookfield, Wisconsin to photograph a westward CP Rail freight.
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My ‘culls’ from the 2019 Amherst Railway Society Hobby Show.
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So what do I do with the extra photographs? You know, the images good enough to expose and edit, but not good enough to make my first, second or third presentations?
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Eclectic Array of Modern Diesels at Theresa, Wisconsin.
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Class 1 North American railroading can still offer variety.
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Tracking the Light hits Half Million Mark.
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To celebrate Tracking the Light’s 500,000th click, I’m posting scan 500000.tif made from one of my father’s Kodachrome slides.
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Union Pacific Adams Line on January 20, 2019.
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It was bitterly cold and clear when Chris Guss, Brian Schmidt and I set out to photograph the former Chicago & North Western Adams Line
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Telephoto Views: Amherst Show January 2019.
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This is part 3 in my series on photos of the January 2019 Amherst Railway Society BIG Railroad Hobby Show.
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2019 BIG Railroad Show A Dozen MORE Photos!
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Amherst Railway Society BIG Railroad Hobby Show—2019 Part 2.
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Amherst Railway Society BIG Railroad Hobby Show—2019 Part 1.
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Yesterday, Saturday January 26, 2019, I attended the annual Amherst Railway Society BIG Railroad Hobby Show in West Springfield, Massachusetts.
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Wisconsin Sunset—drop under light.
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Drop under light’ is when the sun illuminates the clouds from below.
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A Rolling Meet, a DPU and Sun at Highway F, Byron, Wisconsin.
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Brian Schmidt and I arrived at the Highway F overpass near the summit of Canadian National’s Wisconsin Central line over Byron Hill in time to record the passage of a northward double stack train meeting a southward freight.
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Byron Hill, Lost Arrow Road—Old location Revisited in January 2019.
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Years ago I’d work vistas along Lost Arrow Road south of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, to picture and record Wisconsin Central’s thunderous SD45s.
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1385 Cylinder—Is this Art?
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The driving cylinder is a crucial component of a reciprocating locomotive, yet the inside of this equipment is rarely pictured. The other day, Richard Gruber organized a tour of locomotive 1385, a former Chicago & Northwestern class R-1 4-6-0—an old…
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And Which Railroad is This? UP on CP: Freight at Duplainville—Part 2.
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Duplainville, Wisconsin is a busy place for rail freight.
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Conrail Pacing View.
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On September 30, 1988, I was pacing westward Conrail freight OIBU-9 between Swain and Dalton, New York.
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Freight at Duplainville—Part 1.
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Duplainville, Wisconsin is where the former Milwaukee Road mainline to the Twin Cities from its namesake crosses the historic Soo Line/Wisconsin Central route between Chicago and Fond du Lac.
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New England Central at Eagleville Dam (Part 2).
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Here’s a view I made last week of New England Central’s southward 608 as it passed the old mill dam at Eagleville, Connecticut.
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Amtrak Veterans Cabbage: Panned at Night.
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The other evening at the modern Amtrak station in Sturtevant, Wisconsin, Trains Magazine’s Brian Schmidt and I set up to photograph Hiawatha Corridor trains during their station stops.
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Monday, January 14, 2019: New England Central at Eagleville Dam (Part 1).
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In the last light of a winter’s evening, I exposed this view of New England Central’s southward 608 as it approached Eagleville, Connecticut.
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Sunday Test Pattern
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Boston & Maine GP7 1575 works the Conn River yard at Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1988. Scan from a Kodachrome 25 color slide.
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Empire Builder, Bloody Nose and a Snow Squall.
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as delighted to see that the Milwaukee Road-vintage searchlight signals that I remember from my days in Wisconsin (now more than two decades ago) are still active.
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Saturday Test Pattern!
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Central Vermont freight at East Northfield, Massachusetts on October 8, 1991. Kodachrome color slide exposed with a Nikon F3T and 200mm telephoto lens.
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Chicago Metra’s Milwaukee Road Heritage Locomotive—North Glenview.
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Yesterday afternoon Trains Magazine’s Brian Schmidt collected me at Chicago’s O’Hare airport and we made our way to the Metra station at North Glenview, Illinois, where we intended to incept outward commuter train 2125. As anticipated, this was led my…
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New England Central 608 Stafford Springs—Part 3.
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As New England Central 608 approached downtown Stafford Springs on January 14, 2019, I set my Nikon F3 to expose a textured image.
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Trains Magazine Podcast: Conversations with Brian Solomon: Episode 13
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Check out my most recent pod cast on the Trains Magazine Website.
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VIA Rail—Sunset and Signals.
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Here’s a hint: extremely cold weather can produce some stunning light effects.
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DART Impressions—1998.
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In my first year photographing in Ireland, I made many photographs of Irish Rail’s electric suburban service branded as ‘Dublin Area Rapid Transit’.
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January 15th—GG1 4876 and the Anniversary of the Federal Express Wreck.
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January 15th is the anniversary of the 1953 Washington Union Terminal crash.
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Oh No, A Conrail Dud!
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Here’s another 1980s Conrail photo. Not one of my good ones. This was also in the ‘seconds’ file, and in my opinion is un-retrievable.
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On the old Erie Railroad 30 years ago Today!
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This morning, January 14, 2019, I scanned a Kodachrome slide that had been hiding for 30 years.
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Burlington E9 at Aurora from the ‘Seconds File’.
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Its been a long time since Burlington Northern E9s worked Chicago-Aurora commuter trains.
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East Deerfield—Twenty Two Years Ago Today.
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On January 13, 1997, I exposed this Fujichrome Provia slide of Guilford’s EDWJ ready to depart Boston & Maine’s East Deerfield Yard (Massachusetts).
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Amtrak—30thStreet Station Philadelphia: Seven Lumix Views.
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Philadelphia’s magnificent former Pennsylvania Railroad Station offers a mix of classical and modern railroading. Wandering with my ‘new’ Lumix LX7, I made this selection of hand-held digital photographs.
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Dublin—Almost 20 Years Ago.
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Looking East on Wellington Quay toward the Loop Line Bridge and Dublin’s Custom House.
