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  1. As rare as the Eagle comes

    As rare as the Eagle comes

    For the first time in years a matching set of engines and cars were placed on the front of the Texas Eagle, even more rare then the heritage Genesis was the Dash 8 led unit.
    • LansingJct
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    • 8 dash eagle genesis longview texas
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Amtrak and other US Passenger Trains
  2. Matching Phase IV Texas Eagle

    Matching Phase IV Texas Eagle

    For the first time in years a matching set of engines and cars were placed on the front of the Texas Eagle, even more rare then the heritage Genesis was the Dash 8 led unit.
    • LansingJct
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    • 8 dash eagle genesis longview texas
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Amtrak and other US Passenger Trains
  3. Canadian National 2415

    Canadian National 2415

    Canadian National 2415, GE Dash 8-40CM heading east through Kingston, Ontario.
    • VIA6407
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    • 8 cn dash ge
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Canada
  4. Driver 8

    Driver 8

    ...The Power Lines have Floaters so the Airplanes won't get snagged... CN 302 gets underway, as I attempt to leave the park.
    • zartok-35
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    • 2571 302 4612 8 bcol cn driver lines power
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Canada
  5. CSX Single Digit

    CSX Single Digit

    CSX AC4400CW #8 brings a train from the west into the Hamlet yard.
    • rico27513
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    • 8 ac4400cw carolina csx hamlet north
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Eastern United States
  6. Loading up the 8 spot 4

    Loading up the 8 spot 4

    Today we loaded up the 8 spot onto a flatcar for forwarding to a new location. Was a nice day in 101 degree heat to do this. Here it is on the flat ready to be lashed down.
    • cnw8717
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    • 8 shelton spot steam
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    • Category: Tourist Railways - Steam Locomotives
  7. Loading up the 8 spot 3

    Loading up the 8 spot 3

    Today we loaded up the 8 spot onto a flatcar for forwarding to a new location. Was a nice day in 101 degree heat to do this. Looking down the flat car at the steamer.
    • cnw8717
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    • 8 shelton spot steam
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Tourist Railways - Steam Locomotives
  8. Loading up the 8 spot 2

    Loading up the 8 spot 2

    Today we loaded up the 8 spot onto a flatcar for forwarding to a new location. Was a nice day in 101 degree heat to do this. Heres the loco nearing the top of the ramp.
    • cnw8717
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    • 8 shelton spot steam
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Tourist Railways - Steam Locomotives
  9. Loading up the 8 spot 1

    Loading up the 8 spot 1

    Today we loaded up the 8 spot onto a flatcar for forwarding to a new location. Was a nice day in 101 degree heat to do this. Heres the loco at the base of the ramp.
    • cnw8717
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    • 8 shelton spot steam
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Tourist Railways - Steam Locomotives
  10. Midnight Lightning

    Midnight Lightning

    A massive bolt of lightning hits the new Tacoma Narrows Bridge for the first time as a late manifest local from Centralia snakes its way under it. I bet the crew got an excellent view.
    • Railgeek
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    • 8 bnsf dash exposure lightning time
    • Comments: 8
    • Category: Night Photos
  11. Eastbound at the East Portal

    Eastbound at the East Portal

    CSXT 7622 (a standard cab Dash 8) leads an eastbound BNSF stack train out of the Cascade Tunnel at West Berne,WA
    • Joe O
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    • 8 cab cascade dash standard tunnel
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Tunnels
  12. GE's at the head of a stack train

    GE's at the head of a stack train

    A BNSF Dash 9-44CW & an ex-Conrail Dash 8-40CW race towards Big Timber with a long stack train behind them.
    • Empire Builder
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    • 8 8-40cw 9 9-44cw big c40-8w c44-9w dash montana timber
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Western United States
  13. Long row

    Long row

    8 EMD units 1 GP38-2s and 6 SD40-2s and 1 Sd40-2F and then 20 feet a head 1 ES44AC and 1 AC4400CW so that was a busy fuel track
    • CalMurray
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    • 2 8 emd ge
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Canadian Pacific
  14. Head end view of BNSF Dash 8-40CW #877

    Head end view of BNSF Dash 8-40CW #877

    Head end view of a Dash 8-40CW followed by BNSF SD60M #9297 (the one that bears the expirimental paint that was later modified into what we know as H1 & H2), a dash 9 in H2, & an ES44DC in H2 pulling an intermodel freight into Whitefish for a crew change. -Eric Drissell
    • Empire Builder
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    • #877 2 8 bnsf c40-8w change crew dash front heritage whitefish
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Burlington Northern Santa Fe
  15. one-dollar PBR pitchers at the Anchor

    one-dollar PBR pitchers at the Anchor

    #8 passing over what used to be Hewitt Avenue, viewed from what is no longer a depot platform. Around the corner is a tunnel that leads to the new depot.
    • mixolydian
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    • 8 amtrak builder empire everett
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Amtrak and other US Passenger Trains
  16. UP 9046

    UP 9046

    Train MITPR- same train as the TFM 1404 picture later in this album
    • CNW4404
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    • 8 c40-8 dash kenosha wisconsin
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Central and Midwestern United States
  17. CSXT 179851 , former 8 door 86 foot box

    CSXT 179851 , former 8 door 86 foot box

    CSXT 179851 started life as a 8 door 86 foot autoparts box, but with the increasing age of these cars many are being retired (some are nearing or over 40 years old)
    • Chessie SD50 8563
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    • 8 86 autoparts box door foot
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Freight Cars
  18. Light at the End of the Tunnel - Super 8 Extraction

    Light at the End of the Tunnel - Super 8 Extraction

    Number 200, Extra 189 East, 22 June 1978, from my movie DVD "Milwaukee Road Coast Division 1976 - 1978"
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    • "super 8 easton extraction"
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Tunnels
  19. Easton Tunnel - Super 8 Extraction

    Easton Tunnel - Super 8 Extraction

    Number 200, Extra 189 East, 22 June 1978, from my movie DVD "Milwaukee Road Coast Division 1976 - 1978"
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    • "super 8 easton extraction"
    • Comments: 0
    • Category: Tunnels
  20. Tunnel 8 (re-opened!) north side - Carrizo Gorge

    Tunnel 8 (re-opened!) north side - Carrizo Gorge

    Tunnel 8 is the first of several obstacles to re-opening the Carrizo Gorge, and San Diego's line to the east. This tunnel has been closed since the '80's and has been until recently when CZRY has finally re-opened it! You can now walk / drive a jeep through this previously closed tunnel. Once...
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    • 8 carrizo gorge tunnel
    • Comments: 2
    • Category: Tunnels


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