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| Weather | Album Views: 5,936 |
| Rain, fog, snow. it's always happening, somewhere.
As long as it's still in the air.
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| Prototypes | Album Views: 12,873 |
| Possible RR modeling sites.
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| Chicago & Northwestern | Album Views: 5,354 |
| CNW painted locomotives (one of my favorite railroad(RIP)'s paint schemes) |
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| Concrete Ties | Album Views: 5,326 |
| Railroad ties are traditionally made of wood, but pre-stressed concrete is now also widely used, especially in Europe and Asia. |
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| Commuters | Album Views: 7,919 |
| Time to go to work.
Or home. |
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| Street Running | Album Views: 3,781 |
| One of those circumstances where train and auto traffic must "share the road". |
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| Most Excellent! | Album Views: 14,072 |
| The photos in this album are simply excellent, at least in my mind. |
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| Sand Patch | Album Views: 3,903 |
| Sand Patch Grade is an approximately 100-mile-long (160 km) section of railroad track known for its steep grades and curves through the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania and Maryland, and is currently part of CSX. |
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| Vacation | Album Views: 9,075 |
| Now here's where I'd like to go on vacation...if I could afford it. |
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| Intermodals | Album Views: 12,760 |
| Containers or trailers on either flat cars or in well cars. |
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| Auto Racks | Album Views: 6,729 |
| And you've been wondering how ho
those dealer's lots get filled, haven't you. |
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| Meets and Passes | Album Views: 6,450 |
| Pictures of trains heading the opposite directions on separate rails (a meet) or travelling the same direction (a pass). |
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| Coast Rails | Album Views: 3,795 |
| Pictures of trains traveling along a coast. (Such as the Pacific Coast).
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| Fall Colours | Album Views: 3,457 |
| Pictures which show off the fall colouration of the surrounding leaves. |
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| General Electric Safety Cab Locomotives | Album Views: 52,964 |
| GE manufactured safety cab locomotives, refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GE_locomotives for a complete list.
NOTE: This album includes photos of modern GE passenger locos. |
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| Snow | Album Views: 8,086 |
| Either coming down or a
still in the air.
Pictures of snow removal equipment will be kept here. |
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| Turntables | Album Views: 15,076 |
| In rail terminology, a railway turntable or wheelhouse is a device for turning railway rolling stock, usually locomotives, so that they can be moved back in the direction from which they came.
If I run into a transfer table, that might get included. |
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| Tunnels | Album Views: 6,583 |
| For those times when you would rather take the direct route, even if it does get dark. |
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| High Speed Rails | Album Views: 12,757 |
| Acela (US), TGV (FR), Velaro (Ger, although there are British, Chinese and Russian versions as well)
There are other systems, such as the Japanese Shinkansen. |
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| Love it! | Album Views: 11,678 |
| Hard to define why, but these are some of my favorite photos. |
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| British Rails | Album Views: 8,620 |
| Trains around the British Isles, (including Ireland) |
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| Rail Yards | Album Views: 7,167 |
| A classification yard is a railway yard found at some freight train stations, used to separate railway cars on to one of several tracks. From there the cars are sent through a series of switches called a ladder onto the classification tracks. |
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| Crossings | Album Views: 4,657 |
| A cross-over structure is sometimes called a diamond junction or diamond crossing in reference to the diamond-shaped center. A diamond crossing is also used as a component of a double junction. |
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| the 'Burgh | Album Views: 7,521 |
| Pittsburgh and its environs. |
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| Mixed Consists | Album Views: 8,972 |
| The horsepower-hour is still used in the railroad industry when sharing motive power (locomotives.) |
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| Horseshoe Curve | Album Views: 5,033 |
| Horseshoe Curve, the Gallitzin Tunnels, Altoona, and the surrounding environs. |
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| Nordic Rails | Album Views: 6,327 |
| Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish & Danish rails go here |
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| Signals | Album Views: 12,134 |
| Searchlights, semaphores and cab signals. |
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| RR Workers | Album Views: 19,330 |
| Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah, someone's in the kitchen I know-ow-ow.
This album includes pictures of individual traincrew members as well as MOW equipment. |
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| Swiss Trains | Album Views: 10,904 |
| Nestled deep in the Alps you'll find some of the most fantastic scenery around. |
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| North American Passenger Trains | Album Views: 20,685 |
| Amtrak & Via Rail, along with commuter trains go here. Also their predecessors.
PS. I only like diesels or electric. |
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| Urban Sites | Album Views: 7,712 |
| North American big city trains |
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| Bridges | Album Views: 14,264 |
| Bridges over rivers or other crossings. Does not include drawbridges or other brides capable of opening to let river traffic thru. |
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| Chicago | Album Views: 7,034 |
| Rails in and around Chicago, Illinois, too. |
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| Desert SW | Album Views: 6,629 |
| Trains from UT, AZ & NM go here. |
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| Left Coast Rails | Album Views: 13,917 |
| Trains from California, Oregon, Washington & British Columbia go here |
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