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You mean Baltimore MD not MA. ;)

Cool pics.

Turned around at Duluth, GA

https://www.google.com/maps/@33.987...pjVG9hNw!2e0!5s20170701T000000!7i13312!8i6656

I can't read the engine numbers, but this happened to be coming along!

Quite a bit north in Gainesville...

Conx 101 switching hoppers back in May 2017
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.287...4!1sttL_YF1j0B7MaLYt9n3jhw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Right up at Gainesville, GA station

NS 3256 is waiting... To the right are some other locos, but can't tell the numbers.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.288...4!1sD4RvFq7e_m6pznDlHjTnVA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Up Moreno St. across from the station.

NS OLS 6167 & NS 3531.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.288...4!1s31uH9STVdPb9WNqallYaLg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Move up the street to the left a bit, and there is NS 9169.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.288...4!1suK5YRXRbceGpsaBm82F5aA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Gainesville, GA

Gainesville Midland 208 2-10-0 with uncoupled caboose behind.

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.296...4!1s3s-kq_EiZ34onMzIkAqy2A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
 
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Here is an old loco in Tamaqua, PA. I actually saw this exact train today in person while on vacation. If you change the time range, you can see it used to be #44 and painted blue. There are also some plymouth switchers nearby too.
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.798...4!1saOcQs7MVw4CNrpUTQKQuRA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

I've been through there myself and saw the locomotive in both colors at different times. I saw the early colors ages ago when I visited my aunt and uncle down near Reading. We came in the back way rather than take the highway all the way. In 2014 I took a trip with another Trainzer down that way. We stayed in Jim Thorpe and explored all around and saw the local as you have it here in the pic. There's an old Plymouth switcher, a corpse actually located up off 309 heading towards Hazelton just outside of McAdoo Heights. I have pics of it somewhere, but I need to dig for them.

There's probably a lot of them all rotting away in the woods and other former collieries.

While traveling out in the Midwest, I saw a lot of old Plymouths, Baldwins, and 44-tonners used for switching grain hoppers during the harvest. Some were kept up quite nice and sported fresh paint while others appeared to be ready for the scrap heap.
 
I've been through there myself and saw the locomotive in both colors at different times. I saw the early colors ages ago when I visited my aunt and uncle down near Reading. We came in the back way rather than take the highway all the way. In 2014 I took a trip with another Trainzer down that way. We stayed in Jim Thorpe and explored all around and saw the local as you have it here in the pic. There's an old Plymouth switcher, a corpse actually located up off 309 heading towards Hazelton just outside of McAdoo Heights. I have pics of it somewhere, but I need to dig for them.

There's probably a lot of them all rotting away in the woods and other former collieries.

While traveling out in the Midwest, I saw a lot of old Plymouths, Baldwins, and 44-tonners used for switching grain hoppers during the harvest. Some were kept up quite nice and sported fresh paint while others appeared to be ready for the scrap heap.



That's awesome! It's such a cool locomotive, isn't it? It's an electric steam locomotive aka a "fireless cooker". It's sad to see it just sitting there getting wasted and not in a museum.
 
That's awesome! It's such a cool locomotive, isn't it? It's an electric steam locomotive aka a "fireless cooker". It's sad to see it just sitting there getting wasted and not in a museum.

I agree. I hate seeing stuffed locomotives like that. When traveling across the Midwest on those trips, we stopped for lunch in Dodge City. Yes that famous place. Located outside the train station there was a stuff ATSF steam locomotive. We saw the same thing in La Junta Colorado, and a Denver and Rio Grande narrow gauge loco and passenger car in Alamosa, CO.

In all cases, the locos were stuffed, in operational and behind fences without any connecting track to them. Sad!
 
I agree. I hate seeing stuffed locomotives like that. When traveling across the Midwest on those trips, we stopped for lunch in Dodge City. Yes that famous place. Located outside the train station there was a stuff ATSF steam locomotive. We saw the same thing in La Junta Colorado, and a Denver and Rio Grande narrow gauge loco and passenger car in Alamosa, CO.

In all cases, the locos were stuffed, in operational and behind fences without any connecting track to them. Sad!


Sad indeed
 
Indonesian Railways CC206 series numbered CC206 15 07 (old-style numbering: CC206 107) with additional trip of "Ciremai" express train from Semarang Tawang station to Bandung station stops at Terisi station in Indramayu Regency, West Java, Indonesia. Since the current photo was taken in June 2019, presumably the train had an unscheduled extra stop at the station due to some unclear reasons (the station itself resumes its operation as a regular stop for some passenger trains from August 1st, 2019).

https://www.google.com/maps/@-6.469...4!1s0zsEpvCJdUsAKU2evR4Zng!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
 
Nice!

Down the road a piece past the grain elevator:

Port Harbor 1602.
https://www.google.com/maps/@38.6250487,-90.1757395,3a,48.3y,250.09h,86.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s8YCCM3-brtfQ9TrKfxMWkg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192


I think this is a GP38, or GP40, but I'm not sure because there's weird pumps on the roof and the front looks a bit like an old Alco. The number boards too are different like the unit was kit-bashed.

Check this out at the Continental Grain Corp.

https://www.google.com/maps/@38.624...4!1ssSXRc-btvZacljrY1IqQxA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Alco S4 9335 w/o a road name.
 
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Idaho Northern & Pacific in Horseshoe Bend, Idaho. Sadly, no longer in Operation. The site used to be a Sawmill for Boise Cascade, and I had an Office here when I worked as a forester. Can't even find pictures of it online any more. Anyway, caught this Street View of some Rolling stock. he Maroon colored stock ran a dinner tour for a while. The industrial locos were colored the same as the cabooses in this shot. I believe there are two in DLS< but even I have a hard time finding them. Nest time I do I am going to write the KUIDs somewhere! They don't seem to have INPR or anything I can find. Anyway, FWIW:

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.912...228&pitch=0&thumbfov=100!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en
 
Idaho Northern & Pacific in Horseshoe Bend, Idaho. Sadly, no longer in Operation. The site used to be a Sawmill for Boise Cascade, and I had an Office here when I worked as a forester. Can't even find pictures of it online any more. Anyway, caught this Street View of some Rolling stock. he Maroon colored stock ran a dinner tour for a while. The industrial locos were colored the same as the cabooses in this shot. I believe there are two in DLS< but even I have a hard time finding them. Nest time I do I am going to write the KUIDs somewhere! They don't seem to have INPR or anything I can find. Anyway, FWIW:

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.912...228&pitch=0&thumbfov=100!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

I feel sad when I read stuff like this. The old classic E units are beautiful and remind me of the old assets textured using Paint Shed.

Check the old White Pages DLS, and check all the version check boxes to ensure you can find them. Content Manager doesn't always find older content.

You might want to check this out:

https://rgpc.com/railroads/idaho-northern-pacific-railroad/

They still exist and according to their maps it appears that line you show here maybe run by WATCO now.
 
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