In 1993 the
UP brought big steam to the NRHS Convention in
Chicago. It powered an excursion down the former
C&EI to central Illinois and return. It wasn't a
good day for photography, but the sun popped out during the
photo runby.
Early
morning and the waters of the Hudson River are mirror smooth
as a Conrail freight traverses the West Shore Line near Bear
Mountain Bridge.
The Knox and
Kane RR ran from nowhere to nowhere in the endless mountains
of Pennsylvania. They had a Chinese built steamer to pull
their excursions.
The
Anthracite Railroad Historical Society had a program to
restore and operate historic equipment formerly owned by the
coal haulers of Pennsylvania. One such unit was the Central
RR of New Jersey F unit, here at Nesquehoning PA in
1991.
The
Wisconsin and Calumet RR ran a dinner train out of Fox Lake,
IL near Chicago. Diners got to sup while enjoying the
rural scenes of northern Illinois and southern
Wisconsin.
View of the
BN's Mississippi River Line, from the bluffs above Savannah,
IL.
NKP 587
speeds on former home rails, the Nickel Plate mainline
across northern Indiana.
The
Kankakee,Beaverville, and Southern RR runs through the farm
country of central Illinois. They were known for having an
all ALCO roster for many years. At St. Anne, the 318
waits to cross the UP (former CE&I) main on a
sultry, mosquito infested summer night.
In the early
part of the last century the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western RR invested huge sums of money to improve their
line through Pennsylvania. Several huge concrete viaducts,
such as the one at KingsleyPA came out of that project.
The bridge
over the Potomac River at Shepardstown, WV. This was the
northern extension of the N&W's Shenandoah Line between
Hagerstown, Maryland and Roanoke, Virginia.