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Re: Amtrak. We're lucky here in Austin. The Texas Eagle has been running on-time (even a few minutes early on occasion) and it leaves at the perfect time (7:15 pm) to get some good Amtrak/Skyline shots.
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^Beautiful Austin Shots, and speaking of the Texas Eagle, here is a shot on the train just before I departed from it at Lincoln, Illinois...



I just love how it turned out.

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Old Posted Jun 4, 2009, 8:19 AM
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^Excellent shot, Shawn!

Dredging the Archives - First run of Amtrak's version of the Broadway Limited - May 1, 1971

Cleaning out a long-undisturbed cabinet I came up with these that I took in 1971. The original photos are 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 Ektrachrome transparencies. The've never been projected, and the only way I've ever seen them before was to hold them up to the light.

On May 1, 1971, Amtrak's much-watered-down version of the former flagship of the Pennsylvania Railroad made its first stop in Fort Wayne. I was there to document its 45-minute-late arrival with a broken-down locomotive, and the splicing on of a Penn Central freight unit to help it on its way.

While I was waiting at the former PRR depot, I took a photo of the Wabash depot across the tracks and a block east. The Cannonball, last passenger train to stop there, had made its last run the previous day.



Train 40 arrives:






Until I scanned these transparencies this evening, I never realized that the elderly gentleman in the brown suit, walking toward the camera, was the man who became my next-door neighbor a year later when I bought my first house.






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I'm no train buff by any stretch, and I'm not really a train fan, but I took these pictures of the trains at Harpers Ferry, West Viriginia, a couple months ago.






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Oly three lines (3bis, 7bis and 10) don't have automatic driving but only a single is driverless (line 14).



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I'm no train buff by any stretch, and I'm not really a train fan, but I took these pictures of the trains at Harpers Ferry, West Viriginia, a couple months ago.
Great shots. I've ridden the train through Harpers Ferry a couple of times, but have never been on the ground there to look around. Pretty spectacular scenery.
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Weekend layover at the Lansdale MU yard



Storing some extra break shoes at the bottom of a catenary tower



Former PRR Budd Siverliner II...take a close look at the letterboard



Someone at SEPTA was feeling a bit nostalgic and re-lettered 269 with Pennsylvania

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Sweet Kenosha Trolley! I've been so close, but haven't quite made it there.

I love the "Pennsylvania" flashback on the SEPTA MU car!

Harry, is that bike in the photo yours? I'm assuming no one would walk very far from a bike and leave it unlocked?

I was in Chicago on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week and got some decent train photos. My ride back to Indiana was on one of the South Shore's new bi-level gallery cars. I'll have something uploaded to share in a couple of days.
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I found this thread earlier in the week and am totally in awe of the pictures posted here. I started to pick out some of my favourites, but the post would have been half the size of the thread.

Seeing these pictures inspired me to take a camera with me on a trip I made by Eurostar to Brussels on Wednesday/Thursday. Here's what I got - hopefully it'll add a bit to the amazing variety.



Brussels Metro




Eurostar at St Pancras, along with some more humble rolling stock



St Pancras Station, worth every penny of its £800m refit. I like the way they have put really transparent glass on the front of the shops, so you can see the bricks behind them.




Finally, travelling out through London Paddington. Filthy, but magnificent!


1Mb version for people with big screens http://i570.photobucket.com/albums/s...ttdoug/092.jpg

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Calgary's newest LRT Station at Crowfoot. The station is the new terminus of the NW Line and is located at Crowchild Trail and Nose Hill Drive NW 15km from the City Centre. It opened to revenue service this past Monday.



One of the first LRVs to have an air-conditioning unit installed.



The new station itself:



A paper model of the SD160 given away at the station opening:



I love the thread, keep the pics coming!
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