Some photos of my railfanning around the East Bay 2018

[Itsed65]

A couple of SD59MX's tied down right by the Budweiser Brewery in Fairfeild

Weekends Off by lennycarl08, on Flickr

 

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Going through some old stuff. This is from 2010, and this GP40-2 has since been repainted

Scarlet and Gray by lennycarl08, on Flickr

 

[roee]

Another nice set of photos. What type of signals are those next to UP2674?

I always call them style V (which I'm sure is wrong, but that's what someone called them to me). They are color light signals that will fit where a searchlight use to be. There isn't enough clearance to put in a stacked color light when they retrofitted the signals.

 

[CGW101c]

Tri-light or Type G. Rock Island used them alot.

 

[Itsed65]

A different view of the New Year's Day freight

Pulling out of Holt by lennycarl08, on Flickr

Watching the California Northern reminds me of model railroad switching problems, the way they run around sidings and set up cars for opposing meets
The northbound train from the fog picture above dropped its cars on the main, then sped north to pickup this single box car, ran back south around the others cars then connected to the previous cars on the opposite end, all before the southbound arrived at the siding


Monday Morning Pickup by lennycarl08, on Flickr


Heading South by lennycarl08, on Flickr

 

[Bill Anderson]

Thanks for the photos. We are entering another week of winter rain, gloom, and doom in the Seattle area, which does not lend itself for outdoor activities such as photography. I enjoy looking at photos from those who can get out and take them.

 

[Itsed65]

Thanks for the photos. We are entering another week of winter rain, gloom, and doom in the Seattle area, which does not lend itself for outdoor activities such as photography. I enjoy looking at photos from those who can get out and take them.

I do what I can I shoot trains in the rain, I just don't get out of the car!

 

[Itsed65]

8 engines strong running east to Pittsburg (California)

BNSF 7436 East at MP 1175 by lennycarl08, on Flickr

 

[ShePointsIDig]

Rules are made to be broken.

Scarlet and Gray

...is an awesome photograph. You could start a thread something like, "From the Wrong Side of the Tracks."

The railfan who got me started on rail photography--such that it is--was constantly scoffing at photographs taken from the wrong side of the train.

Obviously he was wrong.

Got any more?

Art

 

[Itsed65]

...is an awesome photograph. You could start a thread something like, "From the Wrong Side of the Tracks."

The railfan who got me started on rail photography--such that it is--was constantly scoffing at photographs taken from the wrong side of the train.

Obviously he was wrong.

Got any more?

Art

I have hundreds of shots from the "wrong" side I would love to have all my shots in perfect light, but the silly people who designed the railroads don't understand this! Some of the spots I frequent are just not aligned to ever be in good light with a good field of view, so I wouldn't get anything if applied that criteria. If you click on any of my photos here you will got to my Flickr page, where you can select the "trains" album and peruse shots going back almost 10 years now.

 

[Itsed65]

Same train as the B&W above, but about 20 miles east, leaving the bay area at Port Chicago to cross the delta on the way to Stockton.

Horsepower by lennycarl08, on Flickr

 

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Green hills won't last long. Another dry year.

Passing the Phillips Spur by lennycarl08, on Flickr

 

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BNSF Clean air converter

Working Hard by lennycarl08, on Flickr

 

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I don't take a lot of "Going Away" shots, but I liked how the signal added to the picture

Proceeding With Caution by lennycarl08, on Flickr

 

[ShePointsIDig]

Green hills won't last long. Another dry year.

Soon it will look like old, worn, velvet-covered overstuffed furniture. One of my favorite scenes in the California hills.

 

[Itsed65]

Finally caught the Cabbage Car in the lead!

It DOES Go Forward by lennycarl08, on Flickr

 

[Bill Anderson]

Nice looking cabbage.

 

[ShePointsIDig]

Finally caught the Cabbage Car in the lead!

To the great uninitiated--specifically, me--that thing ghosting along with no engine sound would be a little spooky. Like the "Steam Locomotive" I saw on a tourist RR once. I was standing by the track expecting the warm radiated heat coming off the boiler as it passed. Instead I got the thrum of a 45-tonner disguised as the tender. Messed with my mind.

 

[Itsed65]

These guys got stuck just outside Richmond yard waiting for a mechanical issues to be fixed on an outgoing freight before they could go the final half mile of their trip. They had just dropped off the UPS load at North Bay.

No Room at the Inn by lennycarl08, on Flickr

 

[Itsed65]

Northbound half of the Corning Flyer, heading north toward Corning, near Willows California

Northbound at Willows by lennycarl08, on Flickr