Thursday Proto Photo, Jun 1/17

[Lenny53]

[tom mann]

I got to hang out with the goon squad last night. Here's @Ed Kapuscinski :

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[Blazeman]

Photos within story
http://www.demingheadlight.com/story/news/2017/05/30/union-pacific-train-derails-west-deming/102329332/

[tom mann]

Oh and I should mention that we ran into Baltimore's preeminent coin collector!

[chicken45]

Oh and I should mention that we ran into Baltimore's preeminent coin collector!

Don't do drugs, kids.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Oh and I should mention that we ran into Baltimore's preeminent coin collector!

You meet the most interesting people while out railfanning.

I wish one of us had been able to get a pic.

So, these aren't from last night, because I'm slow in processing my stuff, but here are a few from last week.
http://railfanning.kapuscinski.net/2017/06/csx-in-locust-point-at-night-may-2017/

[Scottl]

I had a great trip to BC, including a perfect day to drive the Thompson and Fraser canyons.  I only saw one train but the blue sky and scenery were magnificent.

A CP coal train entering White Canyon with the Thompson River at full flood stage.



This was the precise scene I have been trying to model on my layout  .  Too bad that the forest behind Cisco burnt in a fire last year.  The river was impossibly high- really impressive.  If it had not been 35 degrees Celsius I would have waited for the next train.

[basementcalling]

Spent several days in downtown Roanoke at a convention. On a lunch break one day, I drove over to the NS shop and yard area.
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Hard at work on a local switching cars.

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Track cleared and a COFC train came through. One hogger waiting for the others to clear the crossing.

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Lots of double stacks. Some even modelable in N scale.

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Look what was hiding behind those tall cars. Fresh from the shops. No idea what car class this is.

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Another new car. And then I was gon.

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But not forgotten. Was disappointed this was the only angle available to shoot the heritage PRR unit. Looked far more impressive in person than in this shot.

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Always more work to do.

[Mark5]

I got to hang out with Robbman on Memorial day (he says hello!) on the Bristol line.

I had planned to be around Roanoke to document some of the remaining N&W CPLs, but I learned the day before that 611 was in town and running excursions:


I also got some video of 611, will upload it in due course.

But the real reason was to document many of the remaining N&W CPLs on the Bristol line:



For the bulk of the weekend I was visiting my oldest son who lives in NC near the old Virginia Creeper right of way.

Mark

[Mark W]

Got to chase a plane train briefly over the weekend. Front end power had a special guest from Canada.





Can't wait for MTL's N Scale release of these next month!!





Was able to get some video too:

[Mark5]

That plane train is pretty wild!

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Here are a few more evening shots. From my normal Martin State haunt.





And the video:

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[Caleb Austin]

Lots of great shots this week!

Here's one from last month. Westbound Amtrak Cardinal approaches Crozet VA.

[eja]

A visitor in San Diego California while on my Friday bike ride.

[mu26aeh]

How I spent my Saturday.

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Nothing like getting a bunch of friends together to wash and wax your locomotives.