Rail roads and their tracks.

[ArlyA]

My nephew works for bnsf but I've not heard from him concerning his work. I guess a rr strike is on topic...

 

[cqaigy2]

Oh brother.

 

[MossRoad]

My neifew works for bnsf but I've not heard from him concerning his work. I guess a rr strike is on topic...

If you think so. We'll see how it goes, but my guess is we'll want to revert to pics and stories shortly. Hate to see a fun and interesting thread moved to behind closed doors. Maybe start a discussion on that aspect of RRs in the front porch?

 

[JasperFrank]

We've been having a major wild fire just East of Oakridge Oregon. Called the Cedar Creek Fire. I've been hearing many more trains then normal that run the Union Pacific line which goes right through the worst of the active fire zone. Even Amtak still seems to be running.
Thought this odd, till I learned about the fire trains, which not only protect the track, but are being used to maintain a fire line corridor.

 

[ArlyA]

A recent film made about the delivery of the Big boys. Kind of over dramatic but still a neat film.

 

[bdhsfz6]

I frequently ride a bike trail in Western PA. that shares the Brush tunnel with the Western Maryland Scenic railroad. Last week, I almost got caught in the tunnel with the oncoming train!

The engineer is supposed to sound his horn when approaching the tunnel but for some reason, he didn't on this occasion.

Right behind the train came a bunch of these pedal cars:

They were followed by this tender:

From all the laughter, everyone seemed to be having a great time!

 

[BravoXray]

The A/C in the F40 locomotive must not be working, judging by the open door on the front end.

 

[oliver1555]

 

[bdhsfz6]

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It's such a shame the railroads had to resort to using those enclosed auto carrier cars. As a kid, I used to like to watch the old open style railcars loaded with new vehicles and pick out the one I liked best as they rolled by.

Sadly, at some point in time, vandals decided it was great sport to throw rocks off overpasses and the damage to these new vehicles became costly enough to warrant these "armored" railcars.

 

[5030]

Actually the covered cars are to discourage vandals and provide a rolling billboard for the spray painters that like to cover them with graphics. Also why all locomotive windshields are made from bullet proof high impact resistant glass.