Category: railroad
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20 March 2011
I’m a little behind in posting rail photos, but I finally got aroundto posting my photos from the Great Train Expo (better known, albeitinaccurately, as GATS) as well as a couple of shots from Holliday….and who I saw running the gates.
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The adventure continues
Here are more trackside and roadside photos from the past week.
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A very late Amtrak
Bad news for Amtrak travelers on the Southwest Chief means good news for railfans like me. Due to an incident that sidelines the initial locomotive consist, the train had to be towed back to Chicago, where they started it again, 12 hours late. Therefore, instead of going through Kansas overnight, the train would go through…
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2010 and 2002
Two seperate photo batches here. First, the latest photos – The Kennedy Compound had a little accident in the laundry room which caused water to flow down to the basement, I took Depot Caretaker duty on Saturday’s Amtrak 4, and the Midland Railway ran their Labor Day run… oh yeah, some changes involving the new…
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Topeka Sub Weekend
During the weekend, while over at the Shop (better known as Kennedy Glass) the BNSF sent some trains my way.
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Exploring old highway 50
Back on July 9, one of my fellow road enthusiast friends came up to Kansas. While he was there, he wanted to do some “sightseeing.” Since I happened to have the day off from work, I was happy to oblige. 🙂
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Video: Depot Redux Prize Drawing
I’m starting at the end of Saturday’s Depot Redux train day presentation with Hank Booth M.C.’ing the drawings. The prizes were: a massage, 3 bottles of wine, a set of luggage, and two round-trip first class train tickets to Chicago.
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Locomotives are not props
This afternoon, while I was mowing the Kennedy Glass property, I observed what appeared to be a photoshoot by a group of students associated with the adjacent Van Go Mobile Arts. What I found to be a problem with their photoshoot is that they choose to pose for pictures on the BNSF railroad tracks, and…
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A record for litigation
Revealed on the Surface Transportation Board website recently was an appeal of a arbitration decision related to a decades old railroad merger. In the late 60s, a group of Cleveland Union Terminal employees were furloughed and sought compensation under employee protective agreements as a result of the New York Central-Pennsylvania Railroad merger. The merged railroad,…
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Christmas Week 2008
I’ve added a new set of photos from this past week, including trains on christmas eve, my little cousins, and meeting up with friends at a local watering hole. https://www.route56.com/gallery/photo/122708