Thursday Proto Photo, Dec 14/17

[Lenny53]

[CNR5529]

Last week I was in Florida for dynamic testing of the new Brightline trains which will run on the FEC corridor. While out on the line, we met a freight train which was hauled by an FEC ES44C4 and LNG fuel tender. Please excuse the poor quality photos and awkward angle.

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As for the train I was actually on, people along the RoW caught us as we ran the first train at higher speed on the corridor:

This video does not belong to me, but I was on-board!

[Caleb Austin]

Virginia had its first snowfall this past weekend and I manage to catch a few trains around Richmond as it fell.







Caleb

[eja]

Where was that taken ???

[Lenny53]

Where was that taken ???

Pointe-Claire, Quebec

[wes_sutton]

Western New York & Pennsylvania ALCo C430 #432 photographed at Olean, NY using available yard lighting, on 11 October 2017.

Centuries of darkeness and light (1) by Bingley Hall, on Flickr

[Doug G.]

Winter and railroading - they belong together.

Doug

[Philip H]

@CNR5529 - not sure if this is the same trainset, but here's a video I shot of the first Brightline being towed east on the Mississippi Gulf Coast:

[RockGp40]

Winter and railroading - they belong together.

Doug

Unless you are the one digging out switches, or knuckles, or fixed derailers, or running boards, or industries....

[R L Smith]

Continuing with the winter theme, here's a Pacific Electric car with snow on the roof...





And the rest of the story - this is pure "foobie".  This is an ex-SEPTA PCC built around 1949 or so that Muni painted in a Pacific Electric scheme.  It has been stripped prior to refurbishment and should be back in service in San Francisco next autumn.

Ron