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    Please help Identify this locomotive and possible location

    Another clue on this site: USAF Locomotives Probably built in 1942 right before 8014 (fifth line up from the bottom of the table), but the picture is obviously after the Army Air Corps became the USAF. So after 1947 as Terry said. That's quite a story about going to Iran. Checkout Bruce's ALCO...
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    Comment by 'ShePointsIDig' in media 'Ethanol for the Northwest'

    What's with the kink in the passing track? Something to do with the signal bridge? Drafting error? (I used to do Pen & Ink drafting at a county-engineering department so I can speak freely.)
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    Help With Tool Found

    All I can really say is, if you need this tool and don't have one, you're stuck.
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    Help With Tool Found

    Well you certainly picked a good subject for your first post. Really interesting tool. I don't know anything about reversers, but that looks like a specialty crow-foot adapter wrench, of which millions have (and continue) to be made. EXCEPT for that spring-loaded thing on the open-end wrench...
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    Am I the only GG1 fan?

    Handsome no-frills design. Well engineered. Held a respectable segment of the history of electric traction motors that evolved through several AC frequencies, plus DC in the case of diesel-electric. Powerful, reliable (remember the Metroliners that didn't do well in snow?) and plenty fast for...
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    LS&MS Pumping Station Location?

    Well that took all the fun out of a good mystery.
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    Baltic states - videos

    Did the Kaliningrad-Saint Petersburg train continue to Kaliningrad after Lithuanian Independence? Does that line carry freight also? Interesting geopolitics. Thanks for all the great videos--good to see the world in action. Art.
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    10 Years Of NYS&W's Fleet Of EMD SD60 Yellow Jackets

    Nice job!
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    Chase Notch, Alabama--just up and disappeared?

    That is absolutely it. Thank you. I was looking in the wrong weeds.
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    Chase Notch, Alabama--just up and disappeared?

    I was putting locations into the metadata of some old photos today and came across a series I made at a place locally known as Chase Notch near Huntsville, Alabama. I know about where the photos were taken, but can find no reference to a place called "Chase Notch," in order to insert the...
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    Australia's West Coast Wilderness Railway

    Great armchair journey to an interesting place! The British Rail Class 04 shunting locomotive that shows up if you poke around the WCWR "Meet our heritage diesel locomotives" webpage, here https://www.wcwr.com.au/news/meet-our-heritage-diesel-locomotives caught my eye. The diesel locomotive...
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    Railfanning in Central Florida in the time of Covid

    Since SunRail arrived, the only trains passing through my neck of the woods (during daylight) are SunRail & Amtrak. Seen one, seen 'em all. We're pretty-well sealed up here at home gardening and photographing birds, but we live right near the Outer Marker for Orlando International Airport's...
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    Tehachapi Loop

    First of all, thanks to exploreworld for reminding me about some good times. Can't speak for now, but back then it was an amazing place. One Saturday afternoon a big motorhome pulled up on that rise with grandfather, mom & dad, and a couple of kids. I walked over. Mom was cooking supper, the...
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    Some photos of my railfanning around the East Bay 2020

    Looks like my great-grandmother's overstuffed velvet furniture.
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    Tehachapi Loop

    Great shot. You captured the essence of the place for sure. It was my favorite train-watching spot back 1995-2001. I used to spend the weekends camped by the tracks. Met railfans and looky-loos from all over the world. This photo was taken Memorial Day 2001. The group on the rise on the...
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