All About Pocket Knives

Santa Fe wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2025 5:28 pm Another shot from Emporia, Kansas with Alco PAs on the point of a Eastbound passenger train Sometimes in the 1960s, most likely. unknown photographer

Santa Fe wrote: ↑Mon Jan 20, 2025 11:58 pm Redrider. Alco FA locomotive’s were 4 axle road switchers
Santa Fe never owned any. They did own Alco PA locomotive’s and they were 6 axles for pulling passenger trains. I think Alco PA’s in the Santa Fe War Bonnet paint were some of the best looking locomotives ever built!! Yes it was a sad day when Emporia Depot burned the fire gutted the inside. What was left, the brick and stone was torn down

1967redrider wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 1:40 pm I can relate. I come from a family of 4 generations of railroad workers and grew up in a railroad town. So I'm partial to B&O, WM RR and C&O, then Chessie and now CSX.

Santa Fe wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2025 2:41 am Yur welcome Redrider. Santa Fe has always been my favorite Rail Road. Growing up right next to the Santa Fe track l’ve always had a fascination with trains

1967redrider wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2025 8:27 pm Is that some old IC action, Ike?

Waukonda wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2025 8:41 pm

1967redrider wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2025 8:27 pm Is that some old IC action, Ike?

Yeah, CN has a couple of old IC locos locally that are still in the old paint. Pretty much on a daily basis, I will see them, or a GT, or CN locos hauling fly ash from a couple of coal fired power plants near here, and then the return trip.

LKSKNIVES wrote: ↑Thu Jan 23, 2025 11:24 pm All the pictures are so cool.
I hear the UP go buy up the block just about once a day. A lot of the time it’s running cars out of the Belvedere Chrysler plant. I’m sure we subsidized the reopening but it hasn’t reopened.
There once was a Dean’s milk plant down the street. They closed in 2017-2018. Before it closed one of my favorite things was watching them swap hopper cars. Use too be on Sunday morning usually I would be on my way home from Sunday morning hockey. Didn’t matter if I had to sit for ten minutes one minute from home.
Steve

Santa Fe wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2025 1:23 am OutStanding Shot’s Ike

Waukonda wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2025 1:46 am

Santa Fe wrote: ↑Sat Jan 25, 2025 1:23 am OutStanding Shot’s Ike

Thank you, I was in the right place at the right time, the sun was out, the loco colors were bright and clean......I couldn't really screw it up!