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Swanage Railway

M7 Drummond steam loco, 30053, on the Swanage Railway.

This is a popular heritage railway with several places to view the historical steam and early diesel rail traffic. The restored line is located in a beautiful rural and coastal part of the county of Dorset, in the south of England.

This view is on the road close to the engine shed and turntable public viewing area.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@50.6098...4!1sngROAIz1ADNlI0VVqkjFkg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
 
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EFE V-1110 at Santiago, Chile, at the railroad museum, Museo Ferroviario. Note that other interesting steam locomotives can be seen by walking around the museum virtually in street view!
https://goo.gl/maps/gXRkyQ7acw82
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That's a beautiful locomotive!
Is that a Baldwin? It sure looks like it.
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From what I heard, it's actually an Alco built in the 1940's and it is one of the two largest locomotives that Chile has. I'll share this website that I found more about the other locomotives in this museum. http://www.lcgb.org.uk/html/santiagomuseum.htm

Here is another interesting steamer from the same museum.This one is a narrow gauge steamer that used to transverse across the Andes Mountains.
FCTC V-3349 Kitson Meyer 0-8-6-0 at Santiago, Chile, at the railroad museum, Museo Ferroviario
https://goo.gl/maps/J3JHUuLmXNR2
 
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Metrotren said:
From what I heard, it's actually an Alco built in the 1940's and it is one of the two largest locomotives that Chile has. I'll share this website that I found more about the other locomotives in this museum. http://www.lcgb.org.uk/html/santiagomuseum.htm

Here is another interesting steamer from the same museum.This one is a narrow gauge steamer that used to transverse across the Andes Mountains.
FCTC V-3349 Kitson Meyer 0-8-6-0 at Santiago, Chile, at the railroad museum, Museo Ferroviario
https://goo.gl/maps/J3JHUuLmXNR2
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Thank you for the info. The museum has a beautiful collection of steam locomotives. :)

I really thought that one you showed here was a Baldwin, but I wasn't sure.
 
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What engine is that? I would assume an engine in BR Livery(Early or late) by default, looking at another Google Map shot at Swanage..(On this page)
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I reckon it's the Drummond M7.

Google Earth carries the same image and allows you to zoom in closer than Google Maps.

You can't identify much of the top of the loco, but the shadow cast onto the north side of the track gives away quite a lot. It's too irregular, and too short, to be 34070 Manston, (the Swanage "spamcan"). You can't see the shadow of a tender either, which would rule out the U class 31806, so I reckon it's probably the M7, shown here from the bridge overlooking the engine shed and turntable. https://www.google.ca/maps/@50.6098...4!1sdOpoHcXQkZAGwxBngoJoTg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
 
In the Barstow yard, in 3D view, there appears to be a BNSF H1 C30-7 at the end of a deadline of ATSF units. It doesn't say when the images were taken, but it must've been recently because there's an H3 GEVO on a passing train. I don't have the link because I'm at school, so here's two pictures. I'm pretty sure it's a C30-7, though there's a chance it's a B40-8, I can't tell because of the low detail.


As I said, due to the current situation I am in, I am unable to provide a link or street view image.
 
This engine is in Philadelphia at the end of an industrial branch. It looks to be a GP7 or GP9 and whiel the number is hard to read ti looks like 2162. This engine has no identifying marks, so it probably is/was an industrial switcher. This makes sense since there's a large industry nearby (occupied now by a truck-rental place so I don't think it's rail-served anymore), but when it was, it may have needed its own switcher. Actually, I looked further in street view and there's an old Hostess Brands sign outside of the facility, and the facility seemed to have an inside-plant track with a door, and also had 2 tracks running outside it. I think that this facility was likely a Hostess bakery, and that this switcher served it.

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.083...4!1su91NYm3zp0E2tNp3G3mNeQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
 
It was. Hostess shut down due to a strike in 2012. I remember railfanning that line from Holmesburg Junction all the way to Whitman's Chocolates. Trains would come off the NEC on the ought track, up the Bustleton Branch, up to a tail track outside the airport fence, then back into Hostess, Whitman's, and a paper/container company, passing right in front of the approach end of the main runway. Whitman's had a really bizarre arrangement as the track came in between loading bays, making for interesting moves. I even got to BS with a brakeman during one. Whitman's was there until about 2004 or 2005, when that shopping center was built.
 
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