Link to good photos on Flickr, May '16

[wazzou]

I stumbled on to this page, which is new to me and may kill a few hours.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/captain_railroad/page1

[C855B]

Thanks! Drool material, definitely.

[wazzou]

For @Ed Kapuscinski and the prototype for everything crowd.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/captain_railroad/14629497888/

[Missaberoad]

For @Ed Kapuscinski and the prototype for everything crowd.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/captain_railroad/14629497888/

http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/images/longburnelevator2.jpg

Not as uncommon as you would think....
There's somewhere in the States with Dozens of ex BN/ATSF covered hoppers in one place used for elevated storage like that.

[davefoxx]

 

[wazzou]

This dude has been to all corners of the US and Canada to photograph trains in a few eras.  I spent a good portion of my lunch hour on it and I'm only on page 24.

[C855B]

No kidding. Some unbelievable, right-place-right-time shots. But even he notes this picture as amazing, and rare: https://www.flickr.com/photos/captain_railroad/5094943474/

[Missaberoad]

Lots of goodies.... I like how he wasn't afraid to do some hiking, he got to some remote locations...

Here's one for @tom mann
https://www.flickr.com/photos/captain_railroad/5162572540/in/album-72157625350213366/

[C855B]

Sooooooo much of his '60s-'70s Western photography is what I experienced firsthand. What a nostalgia rush!

[Missaberoad]

Sooooooo much of his '60s-'70s Western photography is what I experienced firsthand. What a nostalgia rush!

I don't often get jealous, but this is one of those moments...  I can barely remember a world without Dash9s... 

[C855B]

Well, I will admit that these two, especially, made my heart skip a beat:

  https://www.flickr.com/photos/captain_railroad/5240609277/
  https://www.flickr.com/photos/captain_railroad/5240608887/

The shots are at Summit (Cajon Summit) shortly after the then-new alignment and crossovers, and I know exactly where he was standing. The westbound is a lighter-than-usual VAN, UP's competition to Santa Fe's Super-C. The eastbound is the flip side TOFC train... I forget the symbol. This one of the e/b also induces pangs:

  https://www.flickr.com/photos/captain_railroad/5240608535/

Three Centennials? Pish posh. Just a few months before UP was running four on this train set. A zillion HP per ton, given that the e/b train was usually smaller than the w/b. Also, a few months earlier he could have witnessed solid sets of three or four U50Cs at that spot.

He took some risks in accessing that shot, as he drove off the cul-de-sac access road next to Cajon siding and was in the river bed, or at least had to drive partly on the bed to get there. If you didn't have 4x4, you were asking for it. Also, the Forest Service at that time was getting more serious about no civilian vehicles on the trails, and if they sent SB County out to find you, at minimum you got a ticket for it.

The pictures in the Tehachapis are great, too. He caught the heyday of pre-West Colton running, with SD9s, SD39s and SD35s everywhere, and manned mid-train helper operations. Only major thing he managed to not catch was the RSD-15s that Santa Fe was running over the hill right up to 1971.

[sigh]

[tom mann]

Lots of goodies.... I like how he wasn't afraid to do some hiking, he got to some remote locations...

Here's one for @tom mann
https://www.flickr.com/photos/captain_railroad/5162572540/in/album-72157625350213366/

Oh wow

[seusscaboose]

Indeed