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Port of Tillamook Bay 101 Diesel at the head of a tourist train in Wheeler, Oregon. Sadly, when we went by there recently there was also a Great Northern Empire Builder livery E or F unit coupled to the front. I did not stop and take a photo, as I hoped I could catch it in a Google street view like this. I thought I saw one on my phone, but I am not finding it on the computer. No joy finding different dates or in Earth view either. Nor with Bing maps....

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.691...XIe5pfA0O9zymPU6ObpA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
 
Port of Tillamook Bay 101 Diesel at the head of a tourist train in Wheeler, Oregon. Sadly, when we went by there recently there was also a Great Northern Empire Builder livery E or F unit coupled to the front. I did not stop and take a photo, as I hoped I could catch it in a Google street view like this. I thought I saw one on my phone, but I am not finding it on the computer. No joy finding different dates or in Earth view either. Nor with Bing maps....

https://www.google.com/maps/@45.691...XIe5pfA0O9zymPU6ObpA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

Interesting consist too. It's sad that that railroad got wrecked by idiot management.
 
I sure was curious about that GN unit coupled to it though. Wish I had stopped and taken pictures now. On my phone I was a the end of the pavement on Marine Dr. and looking north and could see it up ahead, but I don't get that on my phone either now, and I am wondering if the Street view changed already or something. Apparently no getting that view back.
 
I sure was curious about that GN unit coupled to it though. Wish I had stopped and taken pictures now. On my phone I was a the end of the pavement on Marine Dr. and looking north and could see it up ahead, but I don't get that on my phone either now, and I am wondering if the Street view changed already or something. Apparently no getting that view back.

That's a good question. I've had that happen as well when Google updated the map images for an area almost as if it was in between frames or something. Does standing on one side or the other help?
 
No, unfortunately the other side is the highway, and I haven't found any street view that shows anything but tracks from there, although that is actually where I saw it from on my trip.
 
No, unfortunately the other side is the highway, and I haven't found any street view that shows anything but tracks from there, although that is actually where I saw it from on my trip.

Oh I see. It could be the image date. The one on GE is data October 2013. You can see the date by looking down on the bottom right side of the image. (I discovered this not too long ago!) When was your trip?
 
Mid-October. We are just getting past 2-week isolation! :)

We're going back into a lockdown again. Masks 100% when out in public and no gatherings. Pubs, bars, restaurants closed again.

Anyway. The image was about 7 years ago exact!
 
https://www.google.com/maps/@-5.072...4!1sXoovbvQAxaSwmYU6h7jVVQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Another shot from Indonesia: an empty coal train from Tarahan station to Tanjung Enim station led by a pair of CC205 series locomotive (lead unit is CC205 35) stops at Bekri station in Lampung province of Sumatra island (the Streetview picture itself was taken on November 2015). However, since there is a grade crossing that passes through station premises the station staff deliberately arranged the train to stop just before the grade crossing, causing the mainline was still occupied by the remaining part of the train.

A consist of coal train that serves Tanjung Enim - Tarahan corridor would at least had 40 cars of RCD-enabled gondolas, either it could be empties or loaded ones. In this case the train would blocked road traffic for a very long time if it was forced to completely entered the siding, since the train had more than 40 coal gondolas in the consist (which is the main reason why the train was hauled by a pair of CC205s). Presumably another freight train or a passenger train was still on its way to Bekri station, which is the main reason why the train went into a temporary stop there.

(FYI: Bekri station is actually served by 3 passenger trains, which are Sriwijaya, Kuala Stabas and Rajabasa)
 
https://www.google.com/maps/@-7.785...4!1sd0zvAL71EiIUZeFAKbZHpg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

This is the September 2015 shot of Maguwo Station in the Special Region of Yogyakarta province taken from the grade crossing #340 located inside the station premises, where a pair of diesel-electric multiple units (DEMUs) serving the Prambanan Ekspres trains (colloquially called as "Prameks") stops at the station for picking up passengers. While the station is located just beside the Adi Sucipto International Airport (hence the grade crossing itself is part of the main access road toward the airport), its status as international airport of Yogyakarta has been stripped off with the relocation to the newly-built Yogyakarta International Airport (located in Kulon Progo regency of the same province) done in the late March 2020.

Actually the DEMUs in that Streetview photograph were firstly commenced its service as 4-car non-AC EMUs of Jakarta manufactured by a consortium of La Brugeoise et Nivelles (BN, currently part of Bombardier Transportation), Holland Electric (Holec) and PT. Industri Kereta Api (PT INKA, the government-owned rolling stock manufacturing company of Indonesia) introduced from 1994 to 2001, locally known among railfans in Indonesia as "KRL BN-Holec" (the word "KRL" is abbreviation of Kereta Rel Listrik, the Indonesian term for EMU). But spare part difficulties and overloads caused those EMUs to be slowly retired from duty (as they were began to be replaced by second-hand EMUs purchased from Japanese railway companies), with some of them received large-scale modifications from PT INKA at their Madiun workshops and returns as DEMUs and deployed on local trains of unelectrified main line; another examples received refurbishment and modification from the same company as 8-car air conditioned EMUs, and the remaining were towed to Purwakarta for scrap.

The two trains in that Streetview photograph were late version of those DEMUs fitted with air conditioning equipments from the beginning of modification work; early examples manufactured before 2010 and operated on the "Prameks" trains (except those who has been stripped off from duty due to accident in the past) were previously operated as non-AC ones, but has been refitted with air conditioning in recent years at Yogyakarta locomotive shops. As the photograph was taken in September 2015, the DEMUs were still in its old colors and one of its driving cars still having gangway doors (they were firstly operated as 10-car trainset with 5+5 configuration, but later separated as independent 5-car trainsets). Currently the driving car formerly having gangway doors had been rebuilt as non-gangwayed ones, though I had to say that the modification was done in a slightly forced way that caused the face to be a bit "ugly" (as the former gangwayed ones had its face completely straight from roof to coupler, while the original non-gangwayed ones were built with slightly protruded face). :hehe:
 
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.511...4!1sqvJghjgMVN5uR_UYnYA1mw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

I can't see the numbers of all them, and even if I could, there would be to many to name, but here's a whole bunch of old locomotives in Silvis, IL.
And if you look to your left you can see IA Interstate 710 and 151.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.511...4!1sqvJghjgMVN5uR_UYnYA1mw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Cool place!

Going to map view, and you can see the foundations of a former roundhouse over near the wye on the NRC property.
 
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