Tag: Douglas County KS
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Back to when it all began…
I’ve been doing this picture-taking thing for 20 years now. To close out this 20th year, I pulled out my old negative folder and scanned several negatives from that first year.
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Recent Railfan Photography
Okay, it’s been a while, but I have taken a few trips railfanning lately.
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Standing on the Edge of Time
Today’s archive re-scanning goes back to November 3, 2001…
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Not the usual station
On a normal day, Amtrak’s Southwest Chief stops at the station in Lawrence. However, it is not the station seen in the featured image above.
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Amtrak Heritage Sweep
In 2011, Amtrak painted a group of locomotives in special 40th Anniversary paint schemes resembling the different paint schemes on its locomotives. As a Depot Redux volunteer, I usually greet the Amtrak train on Saturday mornings. I’ve kept a lookout for the heritage units as well. Within a year’s time, I had seen every one…
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Officers’ special
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in railroadToday, Amtrak had an officers’ special to bring awareness of the Southwest Chief (and the possibility of it being forced to re-route if funding to upgrade and maintain the line between Newton and Albuquerque cannot be found)
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Snow Trains
‘Twas the Monday before Christmas and activity on the Union Pacific was blowing through the snow-covered landscape. There’s also a late Amtrak 4.
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Meeting my second family
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in PersonalFor those that don’t know, I was adopted at birth. Recently, I decided to look into my biological family. For me, it didn’t take that long. Armed with my biological mother’s name, I did a facebook search. It came back with results indicating that I had a “friend in common.”
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Website updates: 11/12/12
I’ve added some photos from a little train-watching trip near Quenemo.