Front End Friday

[RhB Michael]

 

[Rico]

Atlas cab on a Bachmann hi-rail waiting for mirrors, detailing and weathering seen in the BNSF East Bennett shop.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Westbound "Floridian" coming out of Carothers tunnel few weeks ago:

 

[TLOC]

Great pictures everyone!

 

[santafewillie]

Great pictures everyone!

I agree and I can't decide whether I like the real thing or the modeling ones better. Mac's pictures (KriegslokBR52) are always excellent.

 

[kjd]

I haven’t been in the train room much this summer so here’s a proto photo from last March. It’s the former Camas Prairie but I’m not sure what it’s called now.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

I haven’t been in the train room much this summer so here’s a proto photo from last March. It’s the former Camas Prairie but I’m not sure what it’s called now.
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Fantastic shot.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Sunday, June 28, 2026, and it's been a while since i visited the East Broad Top narrow gauge railroad. The day was rainy for the most part, but not overly stormy. Perfect weather for some steam action;

 

[Rico]

The sun was setting when I caught this F45 crawling up the grade in notch eight, the rail still looked pretty wet from last nights snowfall.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

It's Sunday, July 5, 2026 and the same westbound Amtrak Floridian is west of Cumberland approaching "Falls Cut" tunnel on former B&O mainline:

I figured I'll complete the rest of the consist while we're on the subject:

I kind of like those "Viewliners", definitely better looking than the newest "Venture" type equipment.

 

[DeaconKC]

Thanks for those great photos!

 

[Rico]

Caught a couple of dash eights leading a stack train across the forty creek bridge this morning.

 

[KriegslokBR52]

Greetings from Poland. I'm on a vacation, but it's coming to an end. I did go to Jaworzyna Śląska to a railroad museum there.

The machine on the left with the smoke detectors, is the famous "Kriegslokomotive", German class BR52 in Polish look as class Ty2. Close to 7 thousand of these were produced from about 1942-1946 for the war effort by the German government. Why up to 1946?, because after the retreating German army was driven out of Poland by the Red army, parts for a number of "Kriegsloks" were left over in captured factories in southern Poland. About 150 more "Kriegsloks" were then built from those parts to add to over a thousand BR52s as war reparations. So the BR52 (Polish Ty2/Ty42) would serve my country until about 1992, when steam traction was officially shut down in normal service. On the right is a Polish built prewar Ty23.