Front End Friday

[ctclibby]

Couple of oldies, both circa 1990.

East Scenic heading into the Cascade Tunnel. Overpass is US2 with Skykomish to the West ( right ). The higher cut is 'Surprise Creek Trail' of which you can not see now days.

Almost to West Scenic. Don't know why power is running heavy as it is down grade from East Cascade Tunnel ( Berne ) to Monroe.

These are scans from chemical - into DarkTable, adjusted and saved as jpg.

L8r

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Couple of oldies, both circa 1990.

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East Scenic heading into the Cascade Tunnel. Overpass is US2 with Skykomish to the West ( right ). The higher cut is 'Surprise Creek Trail' of which you can not see now days.

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Almost to West Scenic. Don't know why power is running heavy as it is down grade from East Cascade Tunnel ( Berne ) to Monroe.

These are scans from chemical - into DarkTable, adjusted and saved as jpg.

L8r

Keep these coming. For me it was a treat to see a few cascade green units on this trip.

 

[ctclibby]

Mac: Ok, so I have a little time before work starts. Couple mo.

Eastbound heading into Wishram

Another shot heading toward West Scenic in/on the siding. Geesh, how I like being up close and personal! Those days, usually a wave with a honk gets returned.

Will look for some more for next Friday!

L8r

 

[ctclibby]

This is from 2022, heading into West Troy. US2 is the overpass.

Interesting part is that the camera is pretty flat, so you can see the super elevation here. Coming out of Yakt it is a speedway into Troy if not taking the siding.

Done for this Friday!

L8r

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Since i was sleeping there two nights in the row, i had the luxury of getting creative. Late in the evening after sun went down a westbound just came out of the tunnel:

Not really a front end, but there is a diesel on the back.

 

[TLOC]

Front end Friday
7/25/2025

A couple corporate visitors from Greg McComas’s Michigan Interstate are gracing the rails of my fictional Wisconsin River Valley and Terminal RR (WRVT) in Central Wisconsin.

2 Michigan Interstate motors a F7 A unit # 701 and B unit #702 that normally pull the MCIS business train is visiting corporate family member rails in Wisconsin. Having already visited Robert Welke’s Wisconsin and Upper Michigan (W&UM) via Alan Schroeder’s BN Marias Pass (not part of the MCIS Borg) it is now on the rails of the WRVT for a few more days. Since the WRVT does not currently have a business train the F7 units will be put to work hauling freight between Rothschild, Wisconsin and CN’s Steven Point yard. The corporate visitors will tour the property via hi-rail vans

The Wisconsin Interstate (WCIS) is still waiting to finalize the sale of the WRVT RR to the WCIS. Meanwhile the Wisconsin Interstate units 4021 and 4024 both Gp40-2L’s are working the properties

Next week the MCIS units will be heading to Denver

 

[michaeljoe]

I like these, found them on the Web.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Mac: Ok, so I have a little time before work starts. Couple mo.


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Eastbound heading into Wishram

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Another shot heading toward West Scenic in/on the siding. Geesh, how I like being up close and personal! Those days, usually a wave with a honk gets returned.

Will look for some more for next Friday!

L8r

I just noticed that in the first shot, there is a rare beast in the form of GP39-2 rebuilt out of GP30 and having a standard GP cab. First time i saw one was two years ago when driving across the prairies in Montana. I wish i've made more effort to photograph that one even though it was running alongside in a lashup. Having failed to hunt one down last year, i finally caught one in southeast part of Washington in the city of Pasco:

 

[ctclibby]

Geesh, forgot about Friday.

Eastbound going up the hill on the main at Fisher River

Nother EB going up the hill on the main at East Ripley.

Westbound doing the crossover near Cocolalla, ID

And one for Mac, Eastbound under that cantilever just before going downhill to Browning.

L8r

 

[KriegslokBR52]

A day late, oops:

The first two shots are of the train way out in Montana prairies:

Unbeknownst to me, late in the evening the next day i would run into the same train waiting just east of Spokane:

 

[ctclibby]

Still looking for another, found it last Fri, but not yet today. Anyway, this deserves two...

Eastbound on the main @ Skykomish.

See ya next Fri ... maybe.

L8r

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Geesh, forgot about Friday.

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Eastbound going up the hill on the main at Fisher River

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Nother EB going up the hill on the main at East Ripley.

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Westbound doing the crossover near Cocolalla, ID

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And one for Mac, Eastbound under that cantilever just before going downhill to Browning.

L8r

Nice shot that last one. I was thinking about the same setup, but decided to climb up the mountain instead for my pictures.

 

[ctclibby]

Ya, so why do things show up when you are NOT searching? Another one that deserves two:

Pretty sure this is Skykomish.

L8r

 

[RhB Michael]

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Wabash and a trolley somewhere in Wisconsin on a tourist railroad.

I'm not sure about the history of this unit, but to my knowledge only Pennsylvania Railroad and Milwaukee Road ordered the EMD streamlined diesels with those lift rings on the nose on either side of the front door. Pictures taken in the middle of July on my western trip.

 

[RhB Michael]

 

[NorthBrit]

Belmond Royal Scotsman at Corrour, Scotland.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Belmond Royal Scotsman at Corrour, Scotland.

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Class 66?

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Another one, this time ALCo Century series from the same place in Wisconsin.

 

[logandsawman]

Pulling out from the Freight Station, NP 321.

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