Thursday Proto Photo, Apr 14/11

[Lenny53]

Barn on the Expressway (with apologies to Jethro Tull)

[Bob Bufkin]

[lock4244]

CN train largely of Herzog ballast loads with an SD60F leading. With the retirement of so many older road units on CN, the zebra stripes are no comparatively rare. Sad:

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=360283

CP container train crossing the big trestle in Port Hope, Ontario. SD40-2's on the point of a big train, who'd have thought that'd be a decent catch?

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=360292

[Philip H]

Jeez Bob, why do you always have a good day at St. Denis when I am not there?  Were the riders already on the boxcar when it came past, or did they hope on at speed in front of you?

[Bob Bufkin]

They were CSX employees switching 15 cars from one train to another.  CSX sent the cars on the wrong train so they switched them over at St Denis.  Proves that the C in CSX doesn't just mean Crash but Confused also.

[SirTainly]

Keeping with the Canadian theme..shots from the Fraser Canyon this sunday gone.

[Philip H]

What in the world are those really flat cars in the next to last photo?

[cv_acr]

What in the world are those really flat cars in the next to last photo?

Side-dumping ballast cars. Pretty common.

http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=cn53086&o=cn
http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=cn56067&o=cn

[SirTainly]

and as made by Walthers IIRC

[Ntrainz1]

Bob.

[John]

Keeping with the Canadian theme..shots from the Fraser Canyon this sunday gone.

Were they drunk when they built that bridge?

[Lenny53]

Were they drunk when they built that bridge?

Ummmm, it's in British Columbia. What were they smoking when they built that bridge would be the better question.
 :

[cv_acr]

and as made by Walthers IIRC

Same idea, different prototype builder, so details and appearance are different.