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Title: |
A little heritage |
Description: |
Oklahoma City was served by a number of roads through its history. Probably the most prominent was the Santa Fe, whose image is preserved here on this wall in the Stockyard City area of OKC. |
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1/1/1975 Upload Date: 8/7/2024 5:24:51 AM |
Location: |
Oklahoma City, OK |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Scenic,RollingStock |
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Title: |
Union Station |
Description: |
This is the concourse of Union Station, seen from the balcony. Its the only one of the five Chicago stations then in use to retain its original character. La Salle(Rock Island), Northwestern and Randolph St(ICG and South Shore) all have been replaced by office towers. Dearborn was closed once its only remaining train, the "Orland Park Cannonball" on a remnant of the Wabash, was moved to Union Station by Metra. |
Photo Date: |
8/15/1978 Upload Date: 11/19/2016 2:52:59 AM |
Location: |
Chicago Union Station, IL |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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264 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Not all the trains are on the tracks |
Description: |
The weather vane at the White River Jct station is one of the more distinctive such items, and fitting for the structure and its purpose. |
Photo Date: |
8/8/1981 Upload Date: 2/17/2013 4:04:11 AM |
Location: |
White River Junction, VT |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station |
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295 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
No, not the one youre thinking of |
Description: |
The ATSF station at Las Vegas NM was a large building, having not only a station but a Harvey House as well. Quite a building for a town thats not near much. |
Photo Date: |
8/18/1982 Upload Date: 11/17/2012 11:27:44 PM |
Location: |
Las Vegas, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Station,Passenger |
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582 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
ATSF station |
Description: |
The ATSF station at namesake town Santa Fe still stood in 1982, and there was still freight service into town. |
Photo Date: |
8/19/1982 Upload Date: 3/10/2013 4:13:35 AM |
Location: |
Santa Fe, NM |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station |
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464 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
ATSF station |
Description: |
Night falls in Flagstaff as the lights come on. Amtrak #3 will arrive in about an hour. |
Photo Date: |
8/20/1982 Upload Date: 11/17/2012 11:25:21 PM |
Location: |
Flagstaff, AZ |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Night,Station,Passenger |
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516 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Baggage carts |
Description: |
Amtrak was using the ATSF Barstow station in 1982. Heres a look along the columns in front of the building toward the baggage carts. |
Photo Date: |
8/21/1982 Upload Date: 11/17/2012 11:21:00 PM |
Location: |
Barstow, CA |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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318 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
House of the Desert |
Description: |
The ATSF station at Barstow bore this inscription, Spanish for "house of the desert." It was appropriate: the temperature was alread 100 degrees at 9:30 AM, and would top out at 110. |
Photo Date: |
8/21/1982 Upload Date: 11/17/2012 11:23:33 PM |
Location: |
Barstow, CA |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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394 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
ATSF station and Harvey House |
Description: |
The track side view of the ATSF station and Harvey House at Barstow Cal. The station was then in use by Amtrak for not only the Southwest Chief, but also the Desert Wind to and from Salt Lake City via Las Vegas |
Photo Date: |
8/21/1982 Upload Date: 11/17/2012 11:17:30 PM |
Location: |
Barstow, CA |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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488 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Denver Union Station |
Description: |
Denver Union Station seen from down the block. In 1982, it really was a union station, serving both Amtrak and the DRGWs Rio Grande Zephyr. |
Photo Date: |
8/22/1982 Upload Date: 6/27/2014 3:26:41 AM |
Location: |
Denver, CO |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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256 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Yes there really is |
Description: |
The Blue Water arrives at the former Michigan Central station at Kalamazoo. They are hometown proud there, judging by the sign, though apparently they want to convince the doubters. |
Photo Date: |
8/26/1982 Upload Date: 3/24/2013 4:45:37 AM |
Location: |
Kalamazoo, MI |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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452 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
North Western building |
Description: |
The CNW had a large office building in downtown Chicago, with their herald right on top. No question whose building it is!! |
Photo Date: |
10/9/1982 Upload Date: 6/6/2014 3:23:48 AM |
Location: |
Chicago, IL |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station |
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278 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Ex Rutland station |
Description: |
The ex Rutland station at Chester was used as a turn point for Steamtown excursions while they were in Vermont. We see it here during the Railfan Weekend in 1982. |
Photo Date: |
10/23/1982 Upload Date: 7/2/2014 4:08:00 AM |
Location: |
Chester, VT |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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290 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
North Station |
Description: |
The facade of North Station in Boston, note the "Boston & Maine" lettering. |
Photo Date: |
5/17/1983 Upload Date: 10/30/2013 2:24:04 AM |
Location: |
Boston North Station, MA |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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411 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
B&M office |
Description: |
B&M took over freight operations on the ex New Haven Waterbury Branch from Conrail, and used the former station in Waterbury as a base of operations. They did a nice job putting their herald on the door. Unfortunately, there were no facilities for Waterbury Branch riders, who were out in the cold. |
Photo Date: |
1/21/1984 Upload Date: 11/30/2013 4:02:21 AM |
Location: |
Waterbury, CT |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station |
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351 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Clock tower |
Description: |
The most notable feature of the Waterbury station is the clock tower, which can be seen from quite a distance, and easily from I 84 which passes just south of the station. |
Photo Date: |
1/21/1984 Upload Date: 11/30/2013 4:07:54 AM |
Location: |
Waterbury, CT |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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277 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
SP station |
Description: |
Somehow the pointless arrow does not do it justice |
Photo Date: |
3/11/1984 Upload Date: 6/25/2014 1:39:32 AM |
Location: |
San Antonio, TX |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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461 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Station window |
Description: |
The ex SP San Antonio station had some attractive windows, such as this. |
Photo Date: |
3/11/1984 Upload Date: 6/25/2014 1:43:02 AM |
Location: |
San Antonio, TX |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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236 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
UP station |
Description: |
Union Pacfic had some substantial stations in places you would not expect. This one is at Green River, a huge building with a yard tower on the upper floor. Seen from the detouring Cal Zephyr |
Photo Date: |
3/17/1984 Upload Date: 5/22/2014 4:56:02 AM |
Location: |
Green River, WY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Signal,Passenger |
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305 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
C&O station |
Description: |
When I rode the Cardinal in March of 1984, it was still using a route that was mostly on the C&O of Indiana, picking it up via a connection at La Crosse after coming from Chicago via the B&O and a segment of C&O from Wellsboro Ind. This was the station in Richmond Ind as it appeared then. |
Photo Date: |
3/23/1984 Upload Date: 6/6/2014 3:20:47 AM |
Location: |
Richmond, IN |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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405 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Utica station |
Description: |
The NY Central station at Utica was a beautiful building that had fallen on hard times. A concerted civic effort turned what had become a dilapidated dinosaur into a showpiece, with restaurants and stores after its restoration. |
Photo Date: |
7/15/1984 Upload Date: 6/27/2014 3:29:49 AM |
Location: |
Utica, NY |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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402 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Of course it is!! |
Description: |
Otherwise, why would we do it?? This was scratched into the paint on the bridge over the Conrail Boston Line at the summit of Washginton Hill |
Photo Date: |
8/13/1985 Upload Date: 10/5/2014 3:18:10 AM |
Location: |
Washington, MA |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Bridge |
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373 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Starrucca House |
Description: |
The Erie Railroad built huge stations at its division points, and Susquehanna was no exception, as it was the division point between the Delaware and Susquehanna Divisions, as well as home to its system passenger car shops. By the 1980s, it was a shadow of its former self, thtough it would return to some small measure of glory as a restaurant in the years to come. Here is is in August of 1985, having ahd some work done, and looking better than it had in recent years. |
Photo Date: |
8/20/1985 Upload Date: 10/8/2014 2:06:30 AM |
Location: |
Susquehanna, PA |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Station,Passenger |
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364 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Union station |
Description: |
This station at Palmer Mass was a union station, serving both the Boston & Albany, and Central Vermont. Were looking across Conrails ex B&A Boston Line. In 1986, passenger trains no longer stopped here, though the Boston section of the Lake Shore passed by. A few years hence, the Montrealer would pass on the CV after it was rerouted off the B&M Conn River line due to Guilfords inability to maintain the track to adequate standards for Amtrak. At the time of this photo, there was a restaurant/bar in the building. |
Photo Date: |
6/17/1986 Upload Date: 11/21/2014 3:18:27 AM |
Location: |
Palmer, MA |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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334 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
New Haven station |
Description: |
The New Haven station in Lee Mass is nicely restored, and an example of the saltbox style building. It was, at this date, the base for the Berkshire Scenic RR, which used part of the ex NH Berkshire line. Freight traffic here was handled by the Housatonic. |
Photo Date: |
12/16/1986 Upload Date: 12/21/2014 4:32:36 AM |
Location: |
Lee, MA |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Station,Passenger |
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292 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Historic station |
Description: |
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Photo Date: |
6/16/1987 Upload Date: 11/17/2012 11:37:45 PM |
Location: |
Point of Rocks, MD |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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337 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Inertia |
Description: |
This PC herald still adorned an overpass in Elkhart Indiana when I went through in 1987, 11 years after Conrail took over. Now 28 more years have gone by; I wonder if the bridge ever got repainted. |
Photo Date: |
6/20/1987 Upload Date: 5/6/2015 1:27:54 AM |
Location: |
Elkhart, IN |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Bridge |
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344 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
No trains |
Description: |
When I got to Dubuque the afternoon of June 21, I set up at the west end of the Mississippi River bridge, in hopes of seeing something come across. It was not to be The bridge was opened for this barge, and I knew there would be nothing for a while. I did see two trains across the river on the BN though. Chicago Central would have to wait for tomorrow. |
Photo Date: |
6/21/1987 Upload Date: 5/6/2015 1:23:39 AM |
Location: |
Dubuque, IA |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge |
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352 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Q station at sunset |
Description: |
A couple of young girls wait for dad at the La Grange station as the last rays of sun light up the stone work. |
Photo Date: |
6/25/1987 Upload Date: 5/13/2015 4:23:16 AM |
Location: |
La Grange, IL |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Station,Passenger |
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253 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Step back in time |
Description: |
The C&O station at Balcony Falls VA is a classic that appears to have been forgotten by the passing of time. You can just picture not a CSX wide cab, but a C&O Kanawha blasting by here any minute. |
Photo Date: |
4/23/1988 Upload Date: 7/12/2015 2:53:57 AM |
Location: |
Balcony Falls, VA |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station |
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296 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Southern station |
Description: |
The Southern Raiway station at Manassas as train 355 approaches behind a set of ex Southern GP 50s now painted for the new owners. |
Photo Date: |
4/30/1988 Upload Date: 7/5/2015 3:11:09 AM |
Location: |
Manassas, VA |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Action |
Locomotives: |
NS 7021(GP50) NS 7020(GP50) NS 7079(GP50) |
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868 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
BAR station |
Description: |
The Bangor & Arookstook station at Madawaska looks good for not having seen a revenue passenger train in decades. This is how it looked in May of 1988 |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/8/2015 3:52:32 AM |
Location: |
Madawaska, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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274 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
CP station |
Description: |
The VIA, former CP station at Brownville Jct. VIAs Atlantic will stop here both directions in the middle of the night. |
Photo Date: |
5/29/1988 Upload Date: 3/6/2015 3:11:53 AM |
Location: |
Brownville Junction, ME |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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398 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
CP station |
Description: |
I rode VIAs Atlantic from Montreal to Moncton NB, wanting to get the miles before the train came off. The last stop before going into Maine is Mc Adam NB, a large stone station that befit its importance in the region. The stop there was late at night, but I was able to get a shot braced against the car side. |
Photo Date: |
10/1/1989 Upload Date: 12/1/2015 4:30:54 AM |
Location: |
McAdam, NB |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Night,Station,Passenger |
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223 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Carnival ride from hell |
Description: |
Before self unloading ore boats became common, minerals were unloaded at lake ports with these Hulett unloaders, seen from the passing Lake Shore Limited. They look like something out of a Star Wars movie, and operating one was described as being on a "carnival ride from hell" due to the operator riding in a bucket mounted cab. Several of these relics are still on the Cleveland waterfront in 1990, not long for the world. The ore jennies in the foreground, however, will stay at it a few more years. |
Photo Date: |
3/10/1990 Upload Date: 12/26/2015 3:15:37 AM |
Location: |
Cleveland, OH |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Roster,RollingStock,Yard,Station |
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527 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
NYC station |
Description: |
Several friends and I rode the Lake Shore to Toledo, changed there to the Lake Cities, a Toledo-Detroit-Chicago connection, to get the mileage through Michigan. The train ran push-pull to eliminate the need to run around at Detroit. The cab car trailed on the Detroit-Chicago segment, allowing us to look out the rear. This is the old NYC station at Dexter Mich, seen from the cab car. |
Photo Date: |
3/10/1990 Upload Date: 12/26/2015 3:11:47 AM |
Location: |
Dexter, MI |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger,Action |
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249 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Overhead view |
Description: |
There is a stone quarry up on the hill above Starrucca Viaduct, from which we get this stunning view. It takes a long time to climb up. I only did it a few times, and never saw a train once I was up there. So it goes. |
Photo Date: |
10/15/1994 Upload Date: 8/28/2014 1:30:33 AM |
Location: |
Lanesboro, PA |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge |
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341 Comments: 3 |
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Title: |
Relic of the past |
Description: |
This water tower still stood in Morgan Utah in 1996. |
Photo Date: |
4/18/1996 Upload Date: 5/9/2014 1:57:55 AM |
Location: |
Morgan, UT |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic |
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223 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Heritage overpass |
Description: |
This C&O overpass was still looking good near Grand Rapids |
Photo Date: |
6/24/1997 Upload Date: 3/30/2014 2:53:56 AM |
Location: |
Grand Rapids, MI |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Bridge |
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307 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Ex MKT station |
Description: |
A UP coal train passes the ex MKT station in Big Cabin OK, as seen from US 69. The station gradually deteriorated until it finally was torn down in 2012 |
Photo Date: |
1/17/1999 Upload Date: 3/8/2014 2:33:55 AM |
Location: |
Big Cabin, OK |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Action |
Locomotives: |
UP 6846(AC44CW) |
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423 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
PC on a bridge |
Description: |
Who would have guessed?? |
Photo Date: |
6/18/1999 Upload Date: 5/13/2014 1:41:10 AM |
Location: |
Bunker Hill, IN |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
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Bridge |
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548 Comments: 2 |
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Title: |
Tower on the cutoff |
Description: |
The DL&W built the cut off between 1911 and 1915, using what was at the time an innovative material, steel reinforced concrete. It had durability. This tower at Kingsley PA, unused for many years, still stands, built to last for the ages. |
Photo Date: |
4/28/2002 Upload Date: 10/6/2013 3:14:12 AM |
Location: |
Kingsley, PA |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station |
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311 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Beautiful building |
Description: |
The Grand Trunk Western station at Durand Mich. It houses a museum, as well as hosting a place to watch trains outside on the old station platforms. This view is along the line heading to Detroit. Amtrak trains 364/365, at one time the Blue Water Limited, stop here on the line from Chicago to Port Huron, which runs in front of the building, and behind me out of the photo. |
Photo Date: |
10/13/2003 Upload Date: 4/10/2017 3:40:21 AM |
Location: |
Durand, MI |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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199 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Straight on view |
Description: |
A straight on view of the Grand Trunk station, showing the turrets on either end. Its a good place to watch trains, and you can get here on Amtrak, too. |
Photo Date: |
10/13/2003 Upload Date: 4/10/2017 3:43:09 AM |
Location: |
Durand, MI |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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164 Comments: 0 |
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Title: |
Erie freight station |
Description: |
The freight station on the Erie at Corry PA. The paint is faded, as is the Erie, but you can still see the lettering for the REA. |
Photo Date: |
11/9/2003 Upload Date: 6/18/2016 1:54:58 AM |
Location: |
Corry, PA |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station |
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268 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Erie station |
Description: |
The Erie station at Corry. This was once a busy place, as the PRR Erie Line crossed the Erie main here. The station looks good, having not seen a scheduled passenger train since the Lake Cities last ran on Jan 6 1970.Were 61 miles west of Salamanca here. I'm picturing a pair of C 424's, and F7B and a U25 rolling past with BM 9. |
Photo Date: |
11/9/2003 Upload Date: 6/18/2016 2:05:27 AM |
Location: |
Corry, PA |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Station,Passenger |
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261 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Bridge to the sky |
Description: |
Among the other places we visited that weekend was Kinzua Bridge, which had been demolished by a tornado earlier in the year. There had been a rehab project going on at the time, but it had completed only a portion of the piers, which had serious corrosion from over 100 years in the harsh climate of western PA. That part of the bridge stayed up, which we see silhouetted against the cold November sky. |
Photo Date: |
11/9/2003 Upload Date: 6/18/2016 2:08:45 AM |
Location: |
Mount Jewett, PA |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge |
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244 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Valley view |
Description: |
Its hard to see, now that the late afternoon shadows have fallen, but the downed bridge piers are strewn in the valley, left where they fell following the tornado damage. |
Photo Date: |
11/9/2003 Upload Date: 6/18/2016 2:10:59 AM |
Location: |
Mount Jewett, PA |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge |
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225 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
Both ends |
Description: |
Both ends of the remaining bridge superstructure are seen in this view from the park viewing area at Kinzua. Note the section of deck still attached to the pier that is fallen in the valley. |
Photo Date: |
11/9/2003 Upload Date: 6/18/2016 2:23:34 AM |
Location: |
Mount Jewett, PA |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge |
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179 Comments: 1 |
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Title: |
All fall down |
Description: |
The collapsed supports of Kinzua Bridge are down in the valley, awaiting their fate. This tragic collapse will spell the end of the Kinzua restoration, through the park will remain open. |
Photo Date: |
11/9/2003 Upload Date: 6/18/2016 2:25:38 AM |
Location: |
Mount Jewett, PA |
Author: |
Tom Beckett |
Categories: |
Scenic,Bridge |
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168 Comments: 1 |
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