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Portland & Western #2308 heading east on it's return trip from Clatskanie with 4 loads of lumber it picked up from a Weyerhaeuser Lumber industry. It picked up a BNSF centerbeam car with large dimensional lumber (12X12X36 -That is what a wrapper said.)...
It has been a while since I have done any RR photography... gas prices are one of the reasons and time to do it since I no longer live next to the tracks.
In anycase an outing with my son to the Port Huron Amtrak station, at the east end of the old GTW Tunnel Yard, was rewarded with some...
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It has been a while since I have done any RR photography... gas prices are one of the reasons and time to do it since I no longer live next to the tracks.
In anycase an outing with my son to the Port Huron Amtrak station, at the east end of the old GTW Tunnel Yard, was rewarded with some...
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canadian
cn
grand
gtw
huron
national
port
trains
trunk
tunnel
western
yard
The abandoned Great Western sugar mill
poses as a backdrop while the Longmont Turn
pulls a string of cars delivered by the
Great Western Ry.
Canon EOS 5D
Canon EF 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 @ 85mm
1/320 sec @ f/11
ISO 200
Ex-NWP 4327 (actually I'm not sure if 4327
was the original NWP number) is the trailing
unit on a Great Western train switching at
Windsor, CO.
Canon EOS 5D
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L @ 200mm
1/400s @ f/11
Great Western SD-9 914 leads a train across the Cache La Poudre River just a few miles south of Windsor, CO.
Canon EOS 5D
Canon EF 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5 @ 24mm
Here the Portland & Western Railroad Hillsboro Job towards Seghers Mill on the ex-SP trackage to switch out some empty woodchip cars for some loaded ones and a few loaded centerbeams. Seems like they do this job now with just one unit and run long hood forward 1/2 of the time.
D&RGW F9A #5771 & F9B #5762 sit under some partly cloudy skies at the Colorado Rail Museum in Golden.
LOCATION: Golden, Co
RAILROAD: Denver & Rio Grande Western
LOCOMOTIVE/TRAIN: EMD F9A & F9B
DATE: August 2007
1st off, sorry about the glare coming in from the windows. 2nd off, this is a pic. of the boiler & engineer's controls inside the cab of D&RGW #683
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