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NorfolkSouthern1036 said:
That place where the car is at is National Railway Equipment (NRE) so they might restore it and sell it to another railroad. That would be cool if they did.
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Sadly this NRC facility is being shutdown along with some others in IL because they are consolidating operations elsewhere. If I remember correctly, this will be in Michigan so all the jobs located at these facilities will be lost.
 
 
Cool pics of the largest commuter railroad in the world. At one time, the LIRR was owned by the Pennsylvania. The signs of its previous owner are slowly disappearing, but there's still signs here and there. Unfortunately, we can't zoom in on this one, but in the distance is the old PRR position light signals.

https://goo.gl/maps/FScQ7SrsVakddNJK8

Way cool!

There's another thing worth noting here. If you look at some of the other pics, you'll see some maintenance equipment. The MTA, who runs the LIRR today, uses equipment with buffers and chains on it like is found all over Europe.

https://goo.gl/maps/TZJm6oHAxBMSnbhA7


Here's another MP15 switcher.

https://goo.gl/maps/3FzqvZFnTMVCT57CA

The LIRR ran Alcos as their main diesel power on all non-electrified lines. I remember seeing these out at Riverhead back when I visited my aunt and uncle out there in the 1970s.

Here's another Pennsy PL signal
https://goo.gl/maps/2eYnqmABQaSfy56x5
 
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NorfolkSouthern1036, re: the Subway: I never expected to see Google Streetview in a subway. Must be someone with a backpack?
 
Forester1 said:
NorfolkSouthern1036, re: the Subway: I never expected to see Google Streetview in a subway. Must be someone with a backpack?
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I think he's referring to the Airport Train as they call it. They're small 2-unit sets that run to and from JFK airport and share platforms with the LIRR at Jamaica.

The LIRR has quite an interesting operation that would be quite complex to model properly. The RR runs right into Penn Station and shares a big yard down there at Sunny Side unless that's been removed due to the cross-connecting tunnel being built to connect to Grand Central. The railroad runs two kinds of operations. Their dual-mode diesels will run electrified as far as Babylon then switch to diesel out to Orient Point, Port Jefferson, and Montauk Point. The electric service, may have been expanded since I spent my time as a kid out there in the Hamptons back in the 1970s, but that was the case back then and some of the operations still operate that way today. I remember seeing some of the dual-mode diesels parked in Port Jefferson a few years back.

If you look at more of the pictures, you'll see non-electrified track in the same area there near Jamaica station. That is the New York and Atlantic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_and_Atlantic_Railway . They took over the freight operations of the LI RR when the MTA/MN no longer wanted to run freight.

Reading the Wiki article, I find that their operation alone would be an interesting one to model as well. Their operation is similar to the one I operate on my fictional Gloucester Terminal Electric route based around George Fischer's Gloucester Terminal without even knowing about the NYA.
 
Ahhhhhhh, yes. I turned around a little more and could see the sky after all! Also noticed that there was no way to move around like in a normal street view, so I guess not someone walking around with a backpack, although I have heard they do that for some trails and paths in places. Thanks for the added information John. I also noticed when I went back and looked, that the sides of the cars had a logo that was "MTA Long Island Railroad". Surely not related to Boston?
 
Forester1 said:
Ahhhhhhh, yes. I turned around a little more and could see the sky after all! Also noticed that there was no way to move around like in a normal street view, so I guess not someone walking around with a backpack, although I have heard they do that for some trails and paths in places. Thanks for the added information John. I also noticed when I went back and looked, that the sides of the cars had a logo that was "MTA Long Island Railroad". Surely not related to Boston?
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Not related to Boston - that would be the MBTA, although back in the ancient times Boston's transit authority was called the Metropolitan Transit Authority and they competed with the Boston Elevated Railway - let's get confused! The two companies eventually merged together then the state took over the transit in the mid-1960s when they formed the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority. That consisted initially of a consortium of cities and towns in the Greater Boston area, but the "T" now runs services all over the state now.

Anyway, these pictures were taken by people and uploaded to Google and I have seen those backpack images as well. This area with that track-load of tracks is really amazing, and I can only imagine it was even more amazing in the past. When the LIRR was under full Pennsy control, they ran a version of the PRR MP54 with a pick-up shoe instead of a pantograph for power. K&L Trainz made some awhile ago. They're really nice models.
 
LOL! Thanks again John! I may just be able to sort it out when I visit back there next. We were out there in 2016 staying across the bay from Boston and going into Boston by rail, figuring out the line colors and levels to get to the waterfront and Cambridge. Lots of fun!
 
Forester1 said:
LOL! Thanks again John! I may just be able to sort it out when I visit back there next. We were out there in 2016 staying across the bay from Boston and going into Boston by rail, figuring out the line colors and levels to get to the waterfront and Cambridge. Lots of fun!
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Nice. The next time you're back east here, PM me and I'll show you around. The T system is pretty small overall and it's a great way to avoid the traffic.
 
Another shot from Indonesia:

https://www.google.com/maps/@-6.262...4!1sf7WUcBICOSgf2pTmkTcR1g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

This is the April 2013 shot taken from a small road beside Serpong Line track near Pondok Betung area, where former Tokyo Metro (Eidan Subway) Chiyoda Line 6000 series trainset 6115F (F = formation) served as commuter train service heading to Tanahabang station. Unfortunately the location where that Street View photograph was taken is not far from the site of two tragic accidents occured in the past: the first one was happened on October 19th, 1987, when two passenger trains packed with lots of passengers slams into each other due to operational mistakes, with more than 100 deaths and 200 injuries recorded. On the other hand, the second accident was occurred on December 9th, 2013, when Tanahabang-bound commuter train #1131 served by former Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line 7000 series trainset 7121F slams into a fully loaded tank truck that went stuck at a grade crossing just a few hundred meters to the north of the site of first accident (the accident itself was caused by both traffic jam and mistake done by crossing guardman), triggering explosions and large fire that eventually forced the railway company to scrap the whole trainset* and repaired overhead line equipments damaged by the fire.

*although the fire only harmed the driving car #7121 that directly slammed into the tank truck when collision occurred, but structural damage within the body due to collision and fire was rendered by the company as "beyond repairment cost", as the body was manufactured using lightweight aluminium. Even today the workshops of Indonesian Railways does not have capability to handle repairment of aluminium bodied-trains damaged by collision or fire.
 
speedracer72 said:
A foreign sight in Texas, Canadian Pacific #8867 is seen passing T&P station in Forth Worth about to cross tower 55 with Union Pacific #9466 trailing behind the Canadian locomotive.
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.744...n5bEX6lw!2e0!5s20140401T000000!7i13312!8i6656
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Nice!

If you go up the road a bit, the date changes to April 2015 and you see this:

https://goo.gl/maps/QNSJB4TVq4hWeHm2A

TRE 126 (an F40 Ph?) and a work train of some kind. I don't recognize the loco, but we could do a reskin of a foreign unit and have something similar.

Also in Nov 2019:
https://goo.gl/maps/dxg3cLPURH6vkdf89

We can't read the road numbers, but this is a way cool selection of rail traffic!
 
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aryadwi_ef641030 said:
Another shot from Indonesia:

https://www.google.com/maps/@-6.262...4!1sf7WUcBICOSgf2pTmkTcR1g!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

This is the April 2013 shot taken from a small road beside Serpong Line track near Pondok Betung area, where former Tokyo Metro (Eidan Subway) Chiyoda Line 6000 series trainset 6115F (F = formation) served as commuter train service heading to Tanahabang station. Unfortunately the location where that Street View photograph was taken is not far from the site of two tragic accidents occured in the past: the first one was happened on October 19th, 1987, when two passenger trains packed with lots of passengers slams into each other due to operational mistakes, with more than 100 deaths and 200 injuries recorded. On the other hand, the second accident was occurred on December 9th, 2013, when Tanahabang-bound commuter train #1131 served by former Tokyo Metro Yurakucho Line 7000 series trainset 7121F slams into a fully loaded tank truck that went stuck at a grade crossing just a few hundred meters to the north of the site of first accident (the accident itself was caused by both traffic jam and mistake done by crossing guardman), triggering explosions and large fire that eventually forced the railway company to scrap the whole trainset* and repaired overhead line equipments damaged by the fire.

*although the fire only harmed the driving car #7121 that directly slammed into the tank truck when collision occurred, but structural damage within the body due to collision and fire was rendered by the company as "beyond repairment cost", as the body was manufactured using lightweight aluminium. Even today the workshops of Indonesian Railways does not have capability to handle repairment of aluminium bodied-trains damaged by collision or fire.
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A trip on the street north shows a grade-crossing removal that was done in 2018, or sometime in 2017 after the pictures were taken. Given the amount of traffic, I can see why the track was separated from the level crossing in that location!
 
JCitron said:
A trip on the street north shows a grade-crossing removal that was done in 2018, or sometime in 2017 after the pictures were taken. Given the amount of traffic, I can see why the track was separated from the level crossing in that location!
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You're right, and it was the grade crossing accident on December 9th, 2013 that eventually triggered the grade crossing separation project. The first stage of this project saw partial stripping off of the grade crossing by making it as a one-way road to prevent traffic congestion, as the accident was happened when the road was still bidirectional. Construction work for the overpass itself was later started in mid-2017, and it was completed in early 2018. While the grade crossing itself was completely abolished in 2018, the disused crossing lights left there were completely removed as late as early 2020...
 
One last post for the DFW area for now.

Canadian Pacific 8856, BNSF 7078 are seen pulling a road railer train out of the former Triple Crown yard in Saginaw Texas.
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.827...7xBRAQMQ!2e0!5s20141101T000000!7i13312!8i6656

A bunch of BNSF SD70MACs are seen in a line in the same former road railer yard in Saginaw Texas, BNSF 9568, 8838, 9921 along with countless other SD70MACs are seen parked in the yard.( any info as to why they are here would be helpful, my guess would be a deadline maybe going to Galveston)
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.830...HTGItdBg!2e0!5s20160701T000000!7i13312!8i6656
 
Curious about CP Rail. I see there locomotives with BNSF, and with UP, in Texas and in the Northwest. Has CP hooked up with multiple US rail lines across all of North America?
 
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