(well, dey gots 2 go somewheres...)
Scrap yard, west of El Paso Texas, 1983
Tender, D&RGW #464; Durango, Co., 1967
New 4-30-2024: Durango was still a relatively small, hardscrabble town in June 1967, when an unknown photogarpher took this stunning shot just a few days before Wx4 Staff's first visit. We have repeatedly commented (here and here) about Durango of old's transformation into today's crowded town, but we have no great compaint about this, given that much of it is due to the success of Durango & Silverton. Silverton still has its 1967 feel, on the other hand, causing us to wonder how many businesses extant in 1967 survived for another five years, let alone nearly 60. - Kodachrome slide, photographer unknown - Wx4 Collection
Rio Grande Zephyr, 1977; Greg Welker Photo
Hayes Derail; UP at Victor, Idaho, 1965
Yakima Valley Transportation Co., WA, 1970
McCloud River SD-39-2 at Pasco, WA roundhouse in 1970, on its way to delivery at Lookout, CA
Engineer at work near Oswego, New York, 9-26-74.
A GE 44 Ton and two Alco RS-3's idle away at the Maine Central engine house in Calais, Maine, just a few feet from the Canadian Border. Wx4 staff noted the facility from a Greyhound bus, and the kindly driver waited at the bus stop a couple of blocks away while staff ran down to the yard to grab this shot. Guilford Transportation abandoned the 133 mile branch that served the town in 1985.
A soon-to-be UP switcher shuttles past some still-active UP stock cars at Kansas City in May, 1980.
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Above left, EMD GP15's on SCL north of Miami in the Fall, 1982; and above right, on CNW at East St. Louis in May 1980.
Below left, SCL U33B's and U36B's in storage at Tampa, Fall, 1982 - On the shady (north) side, they were colored green, from mold. Below right, Kansas City Terminal 1964-built SW1200's at their namesake city.
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Conrail F's 1783; 1648 and another spliced by a GP9B; Geep 5993 in E-L colors, at Cleveland, June 24, 1978. Nicely composed photo by Robert Todten
As atmospheric as it gets: Zanesville, OH Pennsylvania Railroad engine terminal, July 1939; click on the image for a 2000 pixel HumongOfoto®
Photographer unknown / from negative in Wx4 collection.
Having spent many years running commuter engines, Wx4 Staff naturally has a soft spot for them. What in particular attracted us to B&A #312 certainly was not its debatable good looks, but rather what its appearance unequivocally imparts to the viewer: "I am a jackrabbit!" And a hand-bomber jackrabbit at that - Look at all of those scoop shovels on the rack.
Boston 1932 - photographer unknown, Wx4 collection
On a lovely day in the spring of 1981, Eric Hiramaki caught CNW RS-32 hand-me-down #4249, an ex NYC/PC/Conrail unit, at New Ulm, Minnesota. Staff's extensive collection of RS-32 photos will appear on Wx4 in the future, but we don't know when. - Wx4 Collection
NEW 4-30-2024: Back in the late 1950's Alco sold 130 RSD-16's to Argentinian railroads. Essentially, they were an RSD-12 built to conform to the country's 5'6" gauge. By 2013, about half of the fleet had been scrapped, as were the unfortunates here near Retiro station, Buenos Aires. Contray to how it looked then, several RSD-16's are STILL active in 2024, mostly EMD powered, but a few with their original 251 engines. You can find some nice, smokey contemporary videos on YouTube.
