Here's a few I took this past weekend while visiting my parents in Morristown, TN







Enjoy,
Brian Briggs

Nice shots Brian..looks like a good spot to take a few shots this fall when the leaves color a little.

On a somewhat sad note, here we have the daily Q317 slipping under the old signal bridge at the west end of the CSX Keyser yard.



You can see the new derail on the eastbound storage spur in the foreground. The old signal bridge will be gone this August, replaced by a set of the new type signals. The pad for the new signal tower is already in place near the left side of the tower. What history flowed under that old bridge..all the EM-1's, when new, every one, passed under here, they were built for service on this "West End" of the B&O Railroad. (They broke 'em in as helpers..for one day! You'd be hard pressed to find them on the end of any train until the end of steam) The Cincinnatian's first revenue run passed under this signal!
All of the new B&O freight diesels slipped under the bridge when tested on the West End. Think of it..new FT's, Centipedes, Sharks, F7's..awesome.
Hidden behind the foliage on the right in the photo, down where the Burro crane is working, is the old Z tower, now in it's 106th year, and will be nowhere to be seen by the time September rolls around..gone!
The track gang is installing a new switch on the east bound main down where the
crane is working.
The new dispatching center at Huntington WVA will handle the West End, were it begins at the Viaduct at Cumberland, and the Cumberland Area will be dispatched from Baltimore.

Ed

I managed to get out in the past week or two and set up a couple of big lights. I did find a parked grain train on the Sioux Falls trestle, which was cool. Now that daytime temperatures are beginning to hit 80 degrees, there's a very good chance I will eventually catch a moving train going over this. BNSF has a real phobia about moving trains on jointed rail when the temp is over 80.


Kent in SD

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Originally posted by Two23:

Wow, that almost doesn't look real! Great Pic!

Hey Kent, whose kids? Didya get them to pose for you?

Good one.

Ed

CZ at Pinecliffe, CO

Hi there,

Here's Mondays Denali Star getting ready to leave Anchorage for Fairbanks.

Trains and Troops 2007


"Clifton Day" 2007


B&O Roundhouse, December 26th, 2007

Hey Ed,
That is bad news....is this the tower you speak of?



Margaret took this picture in March of this year.....that's me next to our PT Cruiser. We went there because of the pictures you've posted here on the forum.
Sorry to hear they're going to remove the tower....not many are left...especially operating.

Brian Briggs

I like this 4th of July photo by forum member John Ryan:
http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=241628&nseq=6

Ed, I'm surprised they are doing any dispatching locally. Thought everything was being moved to Jacksonville?

Every thing has been at Jacksonville for quite a while. CSX is leaving central dispatching, I do believe. I think that there will be 80 jobs at Huntington, and they are spending 4.5 million there.
I knew but don't remember how large of an area Huntington will cover, but it's quite a bit, not small enough to be called local. Also a move to Baltimore with a large area of closer dispatching. I suppose they think they can move trains a little better by spreading out dispatching.

Brian, yep..at's it!


Ed

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Great shots Ben. Great steamer shot.

How'd you like to ride these rails.





As seen at the Denver International Airport. The train between terminals runs below.

Yup, goodbye CSX AU dispatcher Jacksonville, hello CSX dispatcher Baltimore!

Having the dispatching center in JAX dose no good when the entire system gets knocked out by the occasional HURRICAINE.



Ed, you going to be there when 25 makes her debut?-Jeffrey

Jeffry, I'll be down at Canal/Railfest all day on the 12th, I'll have to get the guys to give me a heads up as to when 25's roll out will be. Darn gas prices have got us Mullans planning every trip we make!

Ben, nice smooth look to your photos..what are ya usin'?

Sub..neat 'port shots.

Ed

Thank you Chris and Ed.

Ed: I use a Canon DS6041 EOS 6.3MP Digital Rebel Camera.

Ed, 25 is heading out the shop on August 7th and will be running the 7th through the 10th...or during that weekend, at least be visable and out.

They're double heading it with 501 on the 7th and the tickets are availible by sending a check to the Georges' Creek Central po box. Gerald is even having shirts made for the event. So I'll be up for that.-Jeffrey