The Rail Enthusiast thread

[Smurfy]

This is my 5000th CycleChat post!

And where better than the Rail Enthusiast Thread?

 

[Gravity Aided]

Where better, indeed!

 

[User16390]

Taken at Olomouc station after working a train from Prostejov.

 

[User16390]

Thrash Master giving it large through Olomouc Station

 

[Hover Fly]

Not as much as the eejits in high bloody viz, and there aren't even wearing helmets either!!

An interesting fact about high-viz in museums, passed on to me by a curator. Stand about in hi-viz and public will treat you as if you are not there, no high-viz but a name-badge and people will ask you every damned question going.

 

[vernon]

Friday night/ Saturday morning at Ribblehead

The former quarry sidings at Ribblehead station is now a log loading yard

Haven't a clue which class it is, General Electric? heading out onto Ribblehead Viaduct towards Carlisle.

Double headed light locomotives heading towards Carlisle.

 

[classic33]

50,009

Where oh where is @Mad Doug Biker ?

Has he retired like Alex Salmond? Is he AlexSalmond?

William

 

[classic33]

50,009

Where oh where is @[B]Mad Doug Biker[/B] ?

Has he retired like Alex Salmond? Is he AlexSalmond?

Both disappeared last Thursday!

 

[slowmotion]

View attachment 57149 A year ago, we stayed in a hostel in Nelson,BC, Canada. The town is on The Canadian Pacific line. Freight trains stay for a while in the yard, and then blow their "long, lonesome whistles" before setting off to the north east. Canadian trains can be quite long. Maybe 120 freight cars, two and a half kilometres long with three locomotives. We dashed to the road crossing to see a freight train leave, ringing it's bell over the road crossings as it went. It was just 40 wagons long. Only a couple of yards from the side of the freight, you could smell the contents as they passed. Chemicals sometimes, but mainly the wonderful smell of freshly milled timber.

Sorry about the locomotive image. It falls over on it's side when I post it!

 

[classic33]

Any better?

 

[slowmotion]

Thanks! I rotated it many times and it always ended up sleeping on its left hand side. Odd that.

 

[vernon]

Today's visit to the remains of the Derwent Valley Light Railway at Murton. The line was once 16 miles long and now only a half mile of track remains with hopes of a short extension along the trackbed towards York to the point where Sustrans has commandeered the remainder.

Ruston Hornsby 88DS 0-4-0 shunter

Fowler 0-4-0 shunter with a Planet diesel shunter hiding behind it.

 

[vernon]

Ribblehead last Friday. The sidings at the station seems to have regular traffic. This week it was a class 66.

 

[the_mikey]

Two from the Avon Valley Railway today:

 

[Gravity Aided]

Northbound Texas Eagle, at Normal, taken from the Constitution Trail.