General Electric
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Four Motor GEs at East Deerfield.
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I made this view of a pair of Pan Am Railway’s recently acquired four-motor GE diesels at East Deerfield Yard. When they were new in the 1980s, these locomotives were intended for moving intermodal trains at top speed. Conrail’s B40-8s…
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DASH-9 on the PRR.
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Mifflin, Pennsylvania is a classic location on the old Pennsylvania Railroad. I’ve visited here intermittently since Conrail days. A couple of weeks ago, Pat Yough and I made these photos of Norfolk Southern trains passing Mifflin. I exposed these…
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Brian’s Field-Finder Cab-View of a Soviet Electric.
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To see the full image click on Tracking the Light. In July 2002, I spent a week in Estonia photographing railway operations. It was organized for me take a cab-ride on an empty oil-train in a recently imported former Union…
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General Electric Tier 4 works east on the old Boston & Maine.
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These modern locomotives have been on the move in New England for a few months now, but they managed to elude me. Or my camera anyway. (I saw one in Worcester some weeks ago.). The Tier 4 are the most…
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On the Old Nickel Plate Road, April 1988.
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New General Electric DASH-8s Nose to Nose. In April 1988, I was exploring locations along Conrail’s former New York Central ‘Water Level Route’ west of Dunkirk, New York. Parallel to this line was the old Nickel Plate Road. Where the…
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Conrail at Gang Mills, New York
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May 9, 1987. I’d been out along the former Erie Railroad since before dawn that day. The tracks had been alive with freight. By early afternoon, I was down at Gang Mills Yard, near Corning, which served as a local…
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Little Falls, New York—Conrail Local
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January 3, 1989. The old New York Central Mohawk Division is an enigmatic stretch of railroad. It’s very old. It has lots of history. It passes through some stunning scenery. It carries lots of traffic. And it can be really…
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Daily Post: Westward Freight in Wink of Sun
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CSX Q427 Claws Upgrade at Chester, Massachusetts. For me the old Boston & Albany West end is hallowed ground. This was the first true mountain mainline in the modern sense. The line was surveyed in the mid 1830s and by…
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DAILY POST: Springfield Station, March 31, 1984
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From Brian’s Lost Archive. I made this photo when I was a senior in high school. Paul Goewey and I’d planned to meet some friends at Springfield Station, and then drive north to photograph Boston & Maine at Deerfield. While…
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DAILY POST: Maine Central’s East Wind
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Short and Sweet, That’s It? In July 1983, on one of my first solo-trips by automobile, I visited Bangor & Aroostook’s yards at Northern Maine Junction. My friend Bob Buck had recommended this location because at the time the railroad…
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Daily Post: Brand New Canadian National General Electric Locomotives
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CN’s Latest Alternating Current Traction Diesels ply the old Wisconsin Central. There’s nothing like a shiny new locomotive; It will never look any better. Best of all, it’s really something new, not just the ‘same-old, same-old.’ Last week, Chris Guss…
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Daily Post: Canadian National at Waukesha, Wisconsin.
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Southbound CN Stacks work the old Soo Line, November 8, 2013. Between July 1994 and October 1996, I lived within walking distance of the former Soo Line station at Waukesha, Wisconsin. At that time the railroad was owned and operated…
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Special Veteran’s Day Post: Amtrak Locomotive 42 Honors American Veterans.
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Commemorative Locomotive. I was fortunate to have had the opportunity to photograph this locomotive in Chicago last week and exposed images with a variety of cameras. Please forward to anyone who will appreciate these photographs. Thank you! Click here to…
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Thursday’s Post: Boston & Albany Milepost 67, Brookfield, Massachusetts.
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Rusty Autumnal Foliage on October 26, 2013. Over the last few posts, I’ve alluded to this location at milepost 67. On the morning of October 26, 2013, I was up early. Before 8 am, I photographed at New England Central local…
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DAILY POST: East Brookfield, Massachusetts Moments Before Sunrise.
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A Broadside Pan of Modern Locomotives with Autumn Foliage. Early in the morning of October 22, 2013, I noticed that CSX’s Q422-22 was working the east end of Palmer yard. It was too dark to make a conventional image, and…
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DAILY POST: MBTA Boston October 27, 2013—Part 2
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Sunday Afternoon and Evening. Boston gets some great light and evening can be one of the best times to make photographs. Sunday October 27th was clear in the morning, but clouded up a bit during midday. Towards evening the clouds…
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Amtrak 207 at New Haven, Connecticut, June 26, 2012
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Fortuitous Encounter with the Highest Numbered P42. On June 26, 2012, I was changing trains at New Haven, Connecticut while on my way to Philadelphia. I’d come in on the Springfield-New Haven shuttle. This was a push-pull set consisting of…
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State Line Tunnel, Canaan, New York July 9, 2013
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Brand New General Electric Locomotives at a Classic Location. On the morning of July 9, 2013, I visited State Line Tunnel on CSX’s former Boston & Albany mainline. This is a favorite place to catch trains in action on…
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Conrail at School Road, Batavia, New York; 24 Years Ago
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This day, twenty four years ago, April 12, 1989, I sat in the morning sun at School Road in Batavia, New York, 399 miles from Grand Central Terminal. This was a favorite location to watch the Water Level Route…
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Conrail: End of Days, May 29 1999.
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Morning at Fonda, New York. On the eve of assumption of operations by Conrail in Spring 1976, my father and I had explored railway operations in the New York City area. Twenty-three years later, we spent a long weekend in…
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Amtrak P42 Number 1 Panned at Speed
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This image was part of a sequence aimed to fulfill a commission by Mark Hemphill when he was Editor of TRAINS Magazine. While one of the other images in the sequence eventually appeared in the magazine, a tightly cropped version…