Railway pictures (12)

alanfrombangor wrote: Are those Mosel grapes on the astonishingly steep hillside?

Thanks Alan, and indeed what you see there are Mosel grapes. As expected we took a few bottles of what is produced from these grapes home, delicious!

She's a beauty, Alan! Also a beautiful setting/landscape. I would definitely bookmark this location for future photo opps. Is the photo cropped on the left and right sides? Maybe a wider view would have been nice? Excellent photo nevertheless and great work as usual!

Mallard's only riding cousin

Yes, it's the North Wales Coast line, which terminates at Holyhead to connect with the ferry to Dublin, but not especially busy, one or two trains per hour in each direction. Not far from home, my son lives in the village, the group who beat me to the best spot had driven over a hundred miles. To the left of the line is the expressway road so it's quite a noisy spot, the bridge we were standing on is a footbridge over this road. I think this is the only steam charter along here this year, should have been another next Saturday but it's going elsewhere now.

Some pretty rare engine and rolling stock of Grand Canyon Rail Road
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2. The Mary Colter Dome Car, She was the creative genius and driving force behind todays Grand Canyon National Park





3. The Fred Harvey Dome Car. He and the Santa Fe RR opened the Southwest to the rest of America. With the Fred Harvey hotel and train stations along the routes, and the Harvey Girl train attendants played, by Judy Garland in the Harvey Girls movie





4. A 2020 photo of a Grand Canyon RR rare ALco engine





5. I've never seen an operating Alco (American Locomotive Company) diesel until this one last week





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7. I believe this caboose is privately owned by an individual






8. In the High Southwest mountains and KiaBab Forest






9. Hands on Railroading. The trainman has to get down and manually switch the switch to the right track






10. Good by

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Doc; thank you. That was just being in the right place at the right time, then fumbling around for my camera then the right lens and then trying to get into the right positions, its amazing I got these shots, ha ha.

I recall seeing a few of these green diesels in their yard and they were all numbered 6793 🤷‍♂️
They might not be in running condition. This one got my attention because it smoked so much I honestly thought it was on fire. So I don't really know their story, but I should check into it.

Thats amazing you still have your great Santa Fe train set from the 1950's. My 1050's Lionel New Haven electrified has long disappeared
Joe

Thanks, Alan!
Indeed, not a steam locomotive, but still cool! And it has a fascinating history! It is certainly a long way from home! I think it's great that the railroad and kept those original semaphore signals. That's a nice touch and adds to your photos! Locally, here, most of those were scrapped long ago.
Regards,
Kelly