Rail roads and their tracks.

[bcp]

ALCo PA in the Columbia River Gorge

NKP 190 On The Move

East-Bound on the Fall Bridge sub, past Cliffs (MP-118.6) at about 09:20 this morning. Lead loco BNSF 6781. Here a couple of snaps.

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Bruce

 

[California]

ALCo PA in the Columbia River Gorge

NKP 190 On The Move

East-Bound on the Fall Bridge sub, past Cliffs (MP-118.6) at about 09:20 this morning. Lead loco BNSF 6781. Here a couple of snaps.

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Bruce

What's that third locomotive? Nickel Plate Road? I thought that was just history.

 

[bcp]

From:

Nickel Plate Road No. 190

"On March 2, 2023, it was announced that NKP 190 has been sold to Genesee Valley Transportation Company, Inc. (GVT Rail System) for final restoration and excursion train operations on their Delaware-Lackawanna Railroad Company, Inc. The locomotive was projected to make the cross-country journey from Portland, OR to Scranton, PA in the spring of 2023. The move returns the former Delaware & Hudson PA type No. 18 to home rails for the first time in more than four decades."

Bruce

 

[California]

Some railroad stories that are family legends: About 1930 Mom was a starving college student. She worked summers as a helper to wealthy families at their summer homes, where they hosted endless social events.

At Lake Tahoe one summer. Then one summer at Keddie, high in the Sierra Nevada range, where she assisted the wife of the chief railroad engineer who was building the Keddie Wye. This added a route north to Oregon and Seattle, to Western Pacific's West to East route over the Sierras. She had expected that the remote location would mean just helping with the family. But no, that family hosted railroad celebrities all summer long who came to see this marvelous engineering project.

She told us Dad's father, too, her future father in law, had worked as a surveyor on the original west/east route over the Sierras that had opened in 1909.

I grew up a mile from Western Pacific's Sacramento roundhouse, active back then. Warm nights with windows open we could hear the crashing of railcars shunted in the switchyard south of there, as east/west trains were broken up to make north/south runs. Today the WP roundhouse site is a new subdivision.

Thousands once worked at railroad shops on the site of Crocker Village - Sierra 2

Manufacture, repair of steam locomotives for Western Pacific went on for decades What now is Crocker Village was once a large industrial complex for the manufacture and repair of the […]

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[ArlyA]

While it is a short jaunt from Duluth, MN to Superior, WI today, it was quite the process prior to April 23, 1987. Before the original Interstate Bridge connected the two cities travel required a ferry - something that was impossible to operate in the winter. The bridge connected Connor's Point in Wisconsin and Rice's Point in Minnesota. Rice's Point today is a popular spot to watch trains.

 

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Lindal railway incident - Wikipedia

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[caver]

What a balancing act!
A large construction crane sits on a partially constructed railroad trestle; can you spot the tunnel visible in the background?
This was the Pacific Coast Extension of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad through Montana and Idaho. It shows the erection of the Clear Creek bridge or viaduct along Loop Creek in Shoshone County, Idaho, close to the Montana border. It probably was photographed by Harry English, sometime between 1908 and 1911.View attachment 797253

That's now a bike trail. I'm not much of a cyclist but rented a bike and rode that about 7-10 years ago.

 

[ArlyA]

That's now a bike trail. I'm not much of a cyclist but rented a bike and rode that about 7-10 years ago.

Nearest to what town?

 

[the old grind]

Slash, I just had to add this:

 

[caver]

Nearest to what town?

Looks like Taft MT is nearest to the portal but you rent a few miles up I90 at Lookout Pass Ski Resort and they shuttle to the portal. They pick you up over in Idaho. You can also use your own bike. The Route of the Hiawatha Scenic Bike Trail (Official Website)