Working rail roads and their tracks.

BravoXray · Dec 7, 2023

bcp said:
New colors adorn local locomotives - The Alamosa News

The Colorado Pacific Rio Grande Railroad has recently repainted 10 locomotives that now adorn the engines with a motif that includes the company logo which includes a graphic comprised of mountains, water, and farmland that includes grains.

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Bruce

Those are some spiffy looking SD70-MACs!

ArlyA · Dec 12, 2023

Pellets heading away from the Cloquet River on there way to Duluth MN, three orange tunnel rats trundle along.

BravoXray · Dec 12, 2023

Those cars look so tiny!

ArlyA · Dec 18, 2023

BravoXray said:
Those cars look so tiny!

Ore or pellet cars are small. Seems its to fit over dock pockets or some mechanical reason for that.

ArlyA · Dec 18, 2023

CNs night job R923 spots cars at Dock 6 as the James R. Barker loads for Toledo. Duluth, MN. December 18, 2023 Gee that is quite a photo.

dodge man · Dec 18, 2023

In your pellet car pic Arly are they warm and the air is cold? They look to be steaming.

ArlyA · Dec 18, 2023

dodge man said:
In your pellet car pic Arly are they warm and the air is cold? They look to be steaming.

They come off the conveyor red hot and loaded to cars asap. In many of the pellet car photos they are steaming.

nisaacs · Dec 19, 2023

We have a local short line railroad here that is still in operation, started in 1917 I think. You can't tell by the picture but there is some high ground they are climbing is why the switchbacks. The Apache Railway. I can't remember, maybe I already posted this,

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nisaacs · Dec 19, 2023

This is a cool little guy. The owner is building a mini Disney Land western theme park. He has a mile of rail for it, 24 gauge I think he said. It will be for tourists to ride and also to harvest his grapes and Lavender. There will be wine and Lavander made goodies for sale.

ArlyA · Dec 19, 2023

Someone asked about pellet plants so here is a few photos of them. My father-in-law refurbished the roller mills as seen below. Like everything in the world of steel, these plants are huge. The mills he work in were over 30ft long.