Thursday Proto Photo, Aug 11/11

[Lenny53]

[Bob Bufkin]

Empty CSX hoppers headed West on the Cap sub due to trees being down on the Old Main Line.;

[Guilford Guy]

I caught Amtrak's 40th Anniversary train moving from Boston to Freeport ME. Pan Am is also sending a train to meet them with a B&M painted GP9, Pan Am painted SD45 carbodied SD40-2, and their business cars.

[packers#1]

Well, I went by the Roundhouse RR museum in Savannah, GA, with my dad while we were at the beach. Here's the three best pics:
The last surviving Savannah & Atlanta loco, a GP35 if memory serves, and my profile pic

Next up here's my favorite steam loco wheel arrangement, the 2-8-0

Finally, here's a Claremont and Concord 44 tonner, #116 (William F something or another)

[DKS]

[wm3798]

Got this link from a friend of mine with a little Shorpy goodness...

http://www.shorpy.com/node/10986?size=_original

Those were the days!  I wonder when "Union Station" became "Pennsylvania Station"...

Lee

[Mark5]

Got this link from a friend of mine with a little Shorpy goodness...

http://www.shorpy.com/node/10986?size=_original

Those were the days!  I wonder when "Union Station" became "Pennsylvania Station"...

Lee

According to the wicki, the name was changed in 1928:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Station_%28Baltimore%29

[John]

Looks like most of what is now JFX was rail lines

[johnhale]

According to the wicki, the name was changed in 1928:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Station_%28Baltimore%29

True,
  But looking at the photo and the current day, a lot of those buildings are still there. Now the track layout is really different, and as John Pointed out the addition of the JFX in the foreground is newer. But the skyline is not that different.

[Mark5]

Lee's post got to find this cool site:

http://www.kilduffs.com/Trains.html
(Balmer stations)

[GaryHinshaw]

Got this link from a friend of mine with a little Shorpy goodness...

http://www.shorpy.com/node/10986?size=_original

Incredible shot.  There is so much to see at high-res.  I think it would be fun (but difficult) to model that era.

Looks like most of what is now JFX was rail lines

...and a creek.  Is that underground now?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Interstate_83_from_St_Paul_St.jpg

[wm3798]

Up until the early Conrail era, there were still two tracks between the station and the expressway.  These were the "freight" tracks, bypassing the platforms.  I remember in the early 80's, there was a derailment there, and a boxcar ended up in the expressway.  You can still see the patch in the jersey wall where this happened.  Naturally, the entire city shut down for hours due to the resulting gridlock, and this probably accelerated the abandonment of the track in favor of the scenic parking garage and the idiot Man/Woman sculpture that now occupies the space.

I remember one time spotting a PC SD-9 idling on the track, probably around 1979.

And yes, Gary, the Jones Falls is entombed below the macadam from a point just north of Penn Station all the way down to almost the Inner Harbor.  The highway is known as the Jones Falls Expressway, sort of like those town house developments called "Windy Farms" or "Deer Creek"; poetic names for things that used to be there...

Lee

[GaryHinshaw]

And yes, Gary, the Jones Falls is entombed below the macadam from a point just north of Penn Station all the way down to almost the Inner Harbor.  The highway is known as the Jones Falls Expressway, sort of like those town house developments called "Windy Farms" or "Deer Creek"; poetic names for things that used to be there...

Lee

Classic.  I always hated those development names...

That St Paul St bridge was a work of true civic art.