All About Pocket Knives

A shot from 1987 WB on SF Raton Sub at Timpas Co.
Original Photographer John K. Rus

Waukonda wrote: ↑Fri Jan 24, 2025 7:07 pm.

Very nice. I don't see CNs as much as I used to.

Great photos Ike that WB on the SF looks like it's on 40 mile up hill grade. She's shore puffing.

Santa Fe wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2025 8:01 pm A shot from 1987 WB on SF Raton Sub at Timpas Co.
Original Photographer John K. Rus

That is a really great shot, thanks for posting that one!

I just now happened to catch the tail end of this UP coal train.

Nice Western power, SF and Ike.

As always nice pictures Gentleman
Please keep them coming.
Steve

Lovely shots Ike.

Kool shots Ike

Waukonda wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2025 5:16 pm

Santa Fe wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2025 8:01 pm A shot from 1987 WB on SF Raton Sub at Timpas Co.
Original Photographer John K. Rus

That is a really great shot, thanks for posting that one!

I just now happened to catch the tail end of this UP coal train.

I think I commented on this before said I like to look at the pictures more than once and a little more closely.
Ike, I have a question?
Picture #1
It looks like the car in front of you is either swerving a bit or the person intentionally pulled over a bit and is hesitating to let the train clear the overpass before they drive under?
Just saying
Steve

LKSKNIVES wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2025 2:39 pm

Waukonda wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2025 5:16 pm

Santa Fe wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2025 8:01 pm A shot from 1987 WB on SF Raton Sub at Timpas Co.
Original Photographer John K. Rus

That is a really great shot, thanks for posting that one!

I just now happened to catch the tail end of this UP coal train.

I think I commented on this before said I like to look at the pictures more than once and a little more closely.
Ike, I have a question?
Picture #1
It looks like the car in front of you is either swerving a bit or the person intentionally pulled over a bit and is hesitating to let the train clear the overpass before they drive under?
Just saying
Steve

I noticed that too. The most likely explanation is that the driver looked in his rearview mirror and saw a crazy old man leaning out the window of his truck to take a train picture, all the while trying to steer with his knee, and thought "I better get out of the way of this nut job!".

LOL Ike
Thank you for making me laugh.

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Sorry guys,
It’s only a snapshot from across the Fox River in South Elgin.
It’s a picture of the South Elgin trolley museum they have a piece of track that I think was part of the Elgin Aurora.
I drove by the family farm property. Around circle drive and then north to cross over the river. I looked to my left proceeded to take a left down to a park and snapped these pictures.
You probably won’t enjoy it as much as I did.
I had not been by in a while. I see they are adding barn space. Can’t remember how long ago time goes so fast. Bunch of hoodlums went and vandalized a bunch of the old equipment. They may have caught them can’t remember that either.
Steve

Ike nice shots. Where about is that thar BNSF train?

Howdy, fellas here we are in the Flint Hills of Kansas Grand Summit to be exact. Summit, It’s not the first word that comes to mind when you think about Kansas, but in fact, there is such a place. This former Santa Fe Secondary main line had the steepest grade on the Santa Fe east of the Rocky Mountains at 1.6% . Santa Fe sold off a lot of their secondary and branch lines back around 1990. Here we see SKOL 4156 westbound grinding up the grade in run 8 At 10 miles an hour with about 5000 tons of rock. My friend, “Dan Dan, the train man”is behind the throttle

Nice hopper shots, guys, cylindrical and open.

Santa Fe, The yellow really makes the photo pop. Very nice.

Many Thanks QS

You’ll get good pictures and mine are marginal.
We took the dogs for a walk and I got a better one today. We can’t stay too close the male dog Red doesn’t like the train.
The train was quite long all cars looked empty.
Steve

Santa Fe wrote: ↑Sat Feb 01, 2025 3:22 pm Ike nice shots. Where about is that thar BNSF train?

SW Illinois. I see BNSF and UP coal trains on a daily basis, moving coal from the mines to nearby power plants, or the dock on the Mississippi.

Great SKOL shot!

LKSKNIVES wrote: ↑Sun Feb 02, 2025 8:59 pm You’ll get good pictures and mine are marginal.
We took the dogs for a walk and I got a better one today. We can’t stay too close the male dog Red doesn’t like the train.
The train was quite long all cars looked empty.
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Cool pictures, Steve. I also liked your shots from Elgin a couple of days ago.
I was thinking that UP loco 6315 was a familiar number, and maybe I had seen it in my area. I checked the RR pictures archive, and it was in the Northwest as recently as Nov 2024, so maybe not. Thanks for posting.

Thank you Ike,
Trains going through town are still moving at a pretty decent speed. I would have liked to stay closer but like I said the dog looks at the crossing gate when we go by. Think we were not paying attention one time kind of close and it spooked him and he remembers. I was belly aching at Miss Lori because I heard the train and we were walking slowly up to the crossing. There was someone in front of us with a couple of dogs so she was taking her time to see what they were going to do. Still a good walk and I saw a train go by.

Can’t see the engine #’s from my October post.
I imagine they are the same shuttling from a main up to one of the factories. Only one car in tow unless it’s going for a pickup.

One of the 7 trains that went by on the track behind the shop yesterday. It’s a busy line and a switch point to a double line so one can wait for the other to pass.