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Viewing Album: Jon's U.S. Rail Photos
By:
Jon Searles
Dates:
1/1/1990 - 12/26/2010
Album Info:
First of all, this album is NOT intended to be an album about Lancaster, PA. I've only put that location down because the system won't allow me to omit location. Also, dates in this album are often wrong or estimated, as this is mostly older stuff that I don't have logs for. Any tips would be welcome. This album actually includes many of my U.S. rail photos, from all over the country, and the dates are included only because they're required. In reality, the album is very broad, and includes (or will include) material from many different states.
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Title:
Harrisburg Station
Description:
Here's the station building in Harrisburg. I don't know the date of construction, but it's obviously from the 1920s or 1930s, and built by the Pennsylvania Railroad. It now hosts primarily Amtrak passenger services.
Photo Date:
12/25/2007
Upload Date:
10/18/2008 2:07:51 PM
Location:
Harrisburg, PA
Author:
Jon Searles
Categories:
Locomotives:
Views:
90
Comments:
1
Title:
AMTK 166 and an unidentified AEM7
Description:
Here's a shot of Amtrak #166 (on the left), which is a G.E. Genesis P42 diesel, and an unidentified AEM7 (on the right), coupled to some Amfleet cars at Harrisburg. The sign in the foreground is, of course, the station sign, sporting the post-1999 Amtrak logo.
Photo Date:
12/25/2007
Upload Date:
10/18/2008 2:08:10 PM
Location:
Harrisburg, PA
Author:
Jon Searles
Categories:
Locomotives:
AMTK 166(P42DC)
Views:
133
Comments:
0
Title:
PATH/NJT Midtown Direct/Morris & Essex Line Coachyard
Description:
I didn't originally know all the specifics of this yard, as I'm not from the area, but was clearly a New Jersey Transit yard since the trains are EMU's, and the yard is on the wrong side of the Hudson to be a Metro North yard. Stevensiegel260 gave me this on Flickr: "Technically, your photo is not of Newark... it's of the Town of Kearny. To the right is the Pulaski Skyway heading toward Jersey City, which is on the other side of the Hackensack River. The train lines are New Jersey Transit's Midtown Direct/Morris & Essex Lines and the Port Authority's PATH rapid transit line." It's not too far from Newark Libery International Airport, where we would be landing on this trip.
Photo Date:
12/11/2009
Upload Date:
1/18/2010 3:20:40 AM
Location:
Kearny, NJ
Author:
Jon Searles
Categories:
RollingStock,Yard,Transit,Passenger
Locomotives:
Views:
205
Comments:
0
Title:
Doublestacks
Description:
Fonda is one of the last towns on the Mohawk River westbound before Lock 17, and the start of the Barge Canal. Fonda is on the north bank of the Mohawk, whereas Fultonville is on the south bank, and slightly to the west, and is the official location, from what I can gather, of Lock 17. Fonda is also the home of Fonda Speedway, a dirt car racing track on the Mohawk River at the small fairgrounds there (although its virtually invisible from the road, being hidden by a high wooden fence). I took this shot as a second best of this double-stack train, however, not thinking of the canal or the speedway. I had meant to get the locomotives, but my camera jammed, leaving me to photograph these very North American double stacks. In most other parts of the world, trains cant carry sea containers two-high, as the loading gauges in most countries outside the U.S., Canada, and Mexico dont allow it.
Photo Date:
12/22/2009
Upload Date:
1/18/2010 3:22:16 AM
Location:
Fonda, NY
Author:
Jon Searles
Categories:
RollingStock,Action
Locomotives:
Views:
77
Comments:
0
Title:
ADIX Cars
Description:
I used to work on the ADIX, or ADCX (or even earlier, ADCR) as it was designated at the time, or the Adirondack Scenic Railroad to the average person. These cars, coach #5320 the "Old Forge" on the right, and #800, a cafe lounge, on the left, are used on services between Utica and Thendara. This was taken as Amtrak train #284 made its station stop in Utica.
Photo Date:
12/28/2009
Upload Date:
1/18/2010 3:55:10 AM
Location:
Utica, NY
Author:
Jon Searles
Categories:
RollingStock,Winter,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:
Views:
441
Comments:
0
Title:
ADIX Cars, Picture 2
Description:
Heres a second shot of ADIX 800.
Photo Date:
12/28/2009
Upload Date:
1/18/2010 3:59:54 AM
Location:
Utica, NY
Author:
Jon Searles
Categories:
RollingStock,Winter,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:
Views:
212
Comments:
0
Title:
Amtrak Train #284 Arrival
Description:
Amtrak saved the day for me when I had to get my flight to Greece. The whole of the Northeastern U.S., with the exception of New York City and the Tri-State area, was inundated by blizzards, and the blizzards continued for days, so it was clear that my flight to Newark was going to be cancelled before I even got there. Amtrak, while late as usual, was also running as usual...in the blizzard, making the choice clear. Here Amtrak #707 works train #284, the "Mohawk," to NY Penn at Syracuse.
Photo Date:
12/28/2009
Upload Date:
1/18/2010 3:54:26 AM
Location:
Syracuse, NY
Author:
Jon Searles
Categories:
Winter,Station,Passenger,Action
Locomotives:
AMTK 707(P32AC-DM)
Views:
106
Comments:
0
Title:
CSX 2479
Description:
This was my first train photo in the U.S. in a long time. I took this in Fonda, NY, because I noticed that the gates at the Broadway crossing were activated and walked over to see if I could get something. I took video initially, and this is a still capture that my Panasonic can do. This was a work train, sitting in the siding, and the crossing gates kept going on a off, which Im hoping CSX dealt with eventually. The locomotive is an EMD SD50-2, which is a rebuilt SD50 downgraded to 3,000 horsepower (from the stock 3,500). CSX primarily uses these on MOW (work) trains at the moment.
Photo Date:
8/29/2010
Upload Date:
12/4/2010 10:07:33 AM
Location:
Fonda, NY
Author:
Jon Searles
Categories:
Yard
Locomotives:
CSX 2479(SD50-2)
Views:
173
Comments:
0
Title:
Conrail GP38
Description:
This is my latest, and maybe last, photo of a locomotive still in Conrail colors pulling a regular freight train. This is in PRR (in the sense of Norfolk Southern, I dont know historically speaking) territory near (or in) Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Because I took this from a car its slightly blurred and so I cant get the number, but I think that this locomotive is a GP38, as it has two radiator fans, and Conrail had few GP38-2s, and no SD38s (which would have longer frames anyway).
Photo Date:
12/26/2010
Upload Date:
3/11/2011 7:37:03 AM
Location:
Harrisburg, PA
Author:
Jon Searles
Categories:
Action
Locomotives:
Views:
72
Comments:
0
Title:
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Bridge, Edited Version,
Description:
This concrete viaduct is in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and carries a railroad line over the Susquehanna River. Incidentally, this isnt the famous Rockville Bridge where an accident occurred (containers blown off a freight train in a blizzard) the day after I took this. That bridge is considerably north of this one, and stone, in addition to having three fewer arches. It probably isnt visible in this photo. Therefore, this would be the Philadelphia & Reading bridge, built in 1924 named for the railroad that built it, which became the Reading Company later that year, being merged into Conrail in 1976, passing to Norfolk Southern in the Conrail breakup of 1997, meaning that Norfolk Southern are the current operators. Visible behind this bridge in the water are the ruins of some piers from the South Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge, started, but never completed, in 1884.
Photo Date:
12/26/2010
Upload Date:
3/11/2011 7:36:24 AM
Location:
Harrisburg, PA
Author:
Jon Searles
Categories:
Bridge
Locomotives:
Views:
71
Comments:
0
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