Thursday Proto Photo, Oct 17/13

[Lenny53]

[cv_acr]

This wooden trestle on the former Algoma Central Railway is one of three bridges that were built across several bays on Oba Lake. These bridges are notable in that the wooden pilings don't actually reach bedrock and essentially float in the muddy silt of the bottom of the bay. Trains crossing these "floating" bridges are subjected to a 15 MPH speed restrictions.

[mu26aeh]

Here is Gettysburg #107 and PREX #1001 heading south in Peach Glen, PA. 

[Bob Bufkin]

Second unit is trying to be an Alco.

[central.vermont]

Lenny,

Now that's my kind of bar!!!

Jon

[packers#1]

Was home from college for fall break last weekend, and the local shortline's new locomotive, a GP30u, showed up in September.
http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3661410
http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3661485

Alas, I didn't get a shot of it like I wanted the following day: http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3661488

I guess they don't run to Warrenville and interchange with the Norfolk Southern every day; oh well, a shot to get over Thanksgiving or Winter break

[mu26aeh]

Alas, I didn't get a shot of it like I wanted the following day: http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3661488

That picture must have been where Kato got their idea for their unitrack.  Look at how perfect the ballast is.

[C855B]

Was home from college for fall break last weekend, and the local shortline's new locomotive, a GP30u, showed up in September.
http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3661410
http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=3661485
...

That's a fine-looking 30.

[lock4244]

An oldie, for me at least... CP Roadrailer with the C424 shell leading:

http://www.railpictures.ca/?attachment_id=11698

[packers#1]

That picture must have been where Kato got their idea for their unitrack.  Look at how perfect the ballast is.

Surprisingly, until the Aiken Railway came along, this was part of a Norfolk Southern branch line on what was left of the old Southern Railway's Charleston Mainline. This particular stretch was part of the branch of a huge wye that connected to the mainline between Columbia, SC, and Augusta, GA, and is the leg pointed towards Augusta. The Columbia leg was trimmed to only a branchline serving two kaolin clay loaders, and the mainline towards Charleston ends at a small ethanol storage facility with four tanks but space for maybe six tankers, if I remember correctly. The Aiken Railway is owned by the same gentleman who owns the Greenville and Western Railway, and his focus is on the physical plant and being around what he loves, trains. Service is five days a week, although it would as if there isn't an everyday interchange with the Norfolk Southern. I would have to assume any work on this stretch was just ballast, as many ties are very weather-beaten and split, some nearly completely in two. I doubt this will last very long though; there were also a pair of Greenville and Western ballast hoppers that I didn't bother to get a picture of, although I kind of wish I had.

That's a fine-looking 30.

I concur, although I'm still not 100% sure on my exact feelings at having the random splash of bright green on the battery boxes; it certainly is unique, nonetheless

[w neal]

[Bob Bufkin]

A little graffiti from today.

[GaryHinshaw]

Thanks for sharing that last one Bob.