Midnight train from Georgia: A view of America from the tracks as airports struggle in the shutdown
travel.yahoo.com/guides/artic...
#railways #railroads #trains #GA #TSA
20
4
3
0
Hashtag
#Railroads
Advertisement · 728 × 90
Not one of my usuals but I was working nearby these tracks and this was just so peaceful I had to capture it 😌
#naturephotography #railroads #trains #serenity #spring
0
0
0
0
Northern Pacific steam locomotive 924 up just past Snoqualmie Falls during a training run in 2025. Viewed from the front, right at the end of the Museum's tracks. A light cloud of steam surrounds the front of the locomotive on either side. The trees are still mostly green overhead, but a little bit of yellow is starting to show.
We try not to share photos of 924 too much to avoid giving people the impression we run her more often than we do, but can you blame us? She's so photogenic!
#NRM #TrainMuseum #steam #NP924 #railroads #museums #PNW #Snoqualmie
188
14
3
0
Northern Pacific steam locomotive 924 at the start of the steel span of Bridge 35 over the Snoqualmie River. A stoker sits atop the tender. Late summer maple trees are still green all around.
A photo intended to be of the steam locomotive ends up out of focus as it instead focuses on the cedar tree branches above. The air pressure from the steam and the roof of the cab hitting the branches causes a massive shower of debris to rain down atop the steam locomotive and the photographer.
The immediate aftermath of the previous photo. 924's tender is covered in plant debris. The photographer is as well. The locomotive has come to a stop in front of the historic Snoqualmie Depot.
A photo of the front of 924, stopped in front of the Railway Education Center, which has the Northwest Railway Museum logo as a sign mounted on the front wall.
Maintenance of way means all kinds of maintenance, including trees! If trees aren't trimmed, their branches can scrape the sides of historic equipment... Or really mess up your nicely planned photo compositions.
#NRM #TrainMuseum #steamtrain #NP924 #railroads
8
0
1
0
ideas of comfort and style go far beyond what we’re able to offer today. That’s why we print the picture below. ...’ LIFE, March 27, 1944
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #JamesBingham #railroads #passengerservice #WW2
2
0
0
0
Color slide by George B. Bader. Ca. 1939.
#NYWorldsFair1939 #1939NYWorldsFair #railroads #locomotives #CoronationScott #industrialdesign #streamlining
0
0
1
0
Royal Blue, on March 27, 1939.’
#NYWorldsFair1939 #railroads #locomotives #streamlining #CoronationScott #RoyalBlue
0
0
1
0
An example of a transition rail joint on the Snoqualmie Valley Railroad. This is used on a siding that rarely sees equipment movement. The joint fits perfectly into the profile of the rails in a way that keeps both rails in alignment at the top. This particular joint connects 100 LB rail (100 RE) with what looks like 55 LB rail.
Did you know rail comes in different sizes? Railways use the same size rail everywhere when building new tracks, but when connecting to older track there may be a size difference. That's where a transition rail joint comes in!
#NRM #TrainMuseum #railroads #tracks #history
11
1
1
1
#OTD 1960
Cover of The New Yorker, March 26, 1966
Saul Steinberg
#TheNewYorkerCover #ArthurGetz #railroads #railroadyard #trainyard #garden #flowerbed
🙏 Maria Alves bsky.app/@blue-dreame...
3
0
0
0
#OTD 1960
Cover of The New Yorker, March 26, 1960
Arthur Getz
#TheNewYorkerCover #ArthurGetz #railroads #railroadyard #trainyard #garden #flowerbed
🙏 Maria Alves x.com/@DEOLINDAMA93701
2
0
0
0
#Transit #Systems #Mamdani, #Zohran #Railroads #Parks #and #Other #Recreation #Areas #Subways
Origin | Interest | Match
0
0
0
0
#OTD in 1945
(travelling in style in wartime)
Cover of The New Yorker, 24 March 1945
Constantin Alajálov
#TheNewYorkerCover #ConstantinAlajálov #railroads #traintravel #WW2
0
0
0
0
On the left is a tall, simple, two wire, old style telephone pole attached to other poles leading off into the distance on the right. Also on the right are railroad tracks leading to the distance; they are apparent to run side-by-side. On the near center, but just left to it -on a railroad siding line of tracks is an old era 4-4-0 configuration steam locomotive. It's got a straight cylinder style smokestack emitting slightly visible black smoke into a very large & very blue sky. There are but a few small, low lying clouds present. There's a fairly good sized growth of deciduous trees in a clump off to the side of the main railroad tracks but they're not at all tall enough to reach the two telephone wires. The main railroad line tracks leads of on the very lower left of the composition into an invisible point of infinity. There's a white, tiny, distant railroad crossing sign next to the narrowing tracks, as well. The very, very distant horizon is comprised of barely visible mountains -and the tracks are headed straight towards them. In this entire horizontal composition only the telephone pole on the left and the starkly blue sky are tall. They dominate the scene & landscape.
#BlueskyMonday #skyblue with #UP119 #steamlocomotive #GoldenSpike #EastCoastKin #ECK #USNPS #GreatBasin #blue #sky #railroad #railway #trains #train #UShistory #WestCoastKin #steamengine #steam #history #Promontory #PromontoryPoint #photography #railroads #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky
35
2
2
0
Game view of User Interface for editing the railroad layout, in a PC game.
A view of the Campign2 rail building mode in-game.
#Railroads #Trains #IndieDev
5
1
0
0
Rail Safety Poster issued by the Association of American Railroads in 1939 from the Museum’s Library & Archive collection. 2010.031.582 Features a steam train zooming forwards a crossing while a blue Volkswagen beetle is zooming towards the same crossing. A ghostly, almost comical depiction of the panicked locomotive engineer floats in the steam above the locomotive, hands raised and looking some degree of horrified and annoyed about the impending collision. In all caps the poster reads "WAIT! CROSS CROSSINGS CAUTIOUSLY"
This slightly goofy looking poster still has an important message. Always remember to Cross Crossings Cautiously! (NRM Library & Archive Collection 2010.031.582)
#NRM #TrainMuseum #safety #NRMarchives #railroads #trains #steam
35
10
2
0
PC game screenshot - Artillery rockets ready to launch from railroad flat cars.
Screenshot today of the rocket launcher units ready to fire. #Railroads #Trains #IndieDev
2
0
0
0
Oh. My. Lord. @unionpacific.bsky.social has gone 100% pure MAGA and gotten on its knees to make a locomotive celebrating War Criminal Donald J. Trump:
www.up.com/about-us/his...
#Trump #UnionPacific #MAGA #train #trains #railroad #railroads #locomotive #BigBoy
0
0
1
0
#train #journeys TRAIN JOURNEYS #traintravel #UStrains #Amtrak #traintrips #railways #railroads #sleepertrain
tom-gillispie.blogspot.com/2025/04/trai...
1
0
0
0
My model of Union Pacific (UP) 4714 led a train on the California Central Model Railroad Club (CCMRC) in the historic Agnew depot in Santa Clara, CA, on Saturday, January 30, 2016. This is an Athearn Genesis model The real UP 4714 is an EMD SD70M. Reportedly: It was built in 2002, builders number 20006271-5.
My HO train, led by UP 4714, was at the California Central Model Railroad Club, Santa Clara, CA Jan 30, 2016.
(Please see alt field for more detail)
#trains #railroads #railroading #modelrailroading #HOscale #ccmrc #santaclara #santaclaraca
96
8
3
0
Today through Sunday you can download this cool little new book for free Cool dogs, cool history.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0GT183WYN/
If you don't know Paul's work already, do check him out. And if you miss this free window, definitely worth $2.
#books #railroads #dogs
www.facebook.com/Mumbly.Jumbl...
1
0
0
0
Burlington Northern (BN) 5651 led a train on the California Central Model Railroad Club (CCMRC) in the historic Agnew depot in Santa Clara, CA, on Saturday, January 30, 2016. This is a Rivarossi model. The real BN 5651 was a GE U28C. Reportedly it was built in 1966 as CBQ 563 builders number 35752. It was retired in 1981.
BN U28C 5651 led a train on the California Central Model Railroad Club (CCMRC) in the historic Agnew depot in Santa Clara, CA, on Saturday, January 30, 2016.
(Please see alt field for more detail)
#trains #railroads #railroading #modelrailroading #HOscale #ccmrc #santaclara #santaclaraca
14
3
1
0
#THISWEEK in 1952
👇🧵
‘”Maybe it’s a wreck,” Burton said. Everything was quiet and motionless. We sat up. The train began to move again. Then the whistle sounded’
#Illustration by #DavidBerger (1920-1966) for ➡️
#illustrationart #illustrationartists #AmericanArt #railroads
5
0
1
0
Detail
#illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #AlDorne #AlbertDorne #PullmanStandard #railroads #railroadcars #passengertrains #diningcar
4
0
0
0
‘Tables for two, when three is a crowd are featured along one side of the car. ...’ LIFE, March 17, 1947.
#PullmanStandard #railroads #railroadcars #passengertrains #diningcar
3
0
1
0
PIC OF THE DAY!
Rail workers on break inside the Harvey House in Seligman in 1943:
#Railroads #OldPhotos #PrescottAZHistory #History
0
0
0
0
#OTD in 1928
👇🧵
‘Accuracy and Speed in All Certain-teed Operations make possible High Quality Products at Low Cost’
Illustration by Herbert Paus (1880-1946)
#Illustration #illustrationart #illustrationartists #HerbertPaus #Certainteed #skyline #skyscrapers #railroads #archery
4
0
1
0
Burlington Northern (BN) 5651 led a train across the high bridge at the California Central Model Railroad Club (CCMRC) in the historic Agnew depot in Santa Clara, CA, on Saturday, January 30, 2016. This is a Rivarossi model. The real BN 5651 was a GE U28C. Reportedly it was built in 1966 as CBQ 563 builders number 35752. It was retired in 1981.
BN U28C 5651 led a train across the high bridge at the California Central Model Railroad Club in the historic Agnew depot in Santa Clara, CA, on Sat, Jan 30, 2016.
(Please see alt field for more detail)
#trains #railroads #railroading #modelrailroading #HOscale #ccmrc #santaclara #santaclaraca
27
7
0
0
‘Edmund Lewandowski (1914-1998) was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He attended the Layton School of Art from 1931 to 1934. He assumed a public school teaching position to make a living while he pursued painting on his own and sought commissions in advertising and magazine illustration. In 1936, he was invited by prominent modern art dealer Edith Halpert to join her Downtown Gallery. That same year, he began painting murals commissioned by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts of the Federal Art Project and during 1939 and 1940 executed murals for the post office in Caledonia, MN. From 1942 to 1946, Lewandowski made maps and camouflage for the United States Army Air Forces and United States Air Force. In 1947, he was appointed to the faculty of the Layton School of Art. The otherworldly clarity of Lewandowski's work won him inclusion in a show themed around Magic Realism at the Museum of Modern Art in 1943.’ https://poulwebb.blogspot.com/2021/01/fortune-magazine-part-4.html
#Fortune for #MARCH 1948
👇🧵
‘Diesel for the Upgrade’
Cover of Fortune magazine, March 1948
#Illustration by Edmund Lewandowski (1914-1998 👉ALT)
#FortuneCover #illustrationart #illustrationartists #graphicdesign #EdmundLewandowski #AmericanArt
#diesel #dieselfuel #railroads
5
0
1
0
SP 9504 at the Tri-City Society of Model Engineers model railroad in the historic Niles depot in Fremont, CA. This is a Scale Trains Models. The real SP 9504 was an EMD SD45X, SP Class EF642-2. Reportedly: it was built in 1971 to SP specifications as EMD 4202, builders number 36807. It was sold to SP in 1972 becoming SP 9504. It was retired in 1984 and scrapped.
SP 9504 at the Tri-City Society of Model Engineers model railroad in the historic Niles depot in Fremont, CA.
(Please see alt field for more detail)
#trains #railroads #railroading #modelrailroading #HOscale #tcsme #scaletrains #ge #niles #fremontca #southernpacific #southernpacificrailroad
24
1
0
0
A goofy photomanipulation of the Museum's Squishable 4024 plush as a stand-in for the real Snoqualmie Valley Railroad 4024. It's pictured at an odd angle, dramatically derailed by a comically oversized penny on the tracks. The smile on the plush and its hang tag have been swapped into a worried frown. The background photo is of the end of the Museum's line in North Bend, WA.
Conversation with family last night brought up the age-old myth that you can derail a train with a single penny.
Spoilers: You can't, but that penny can turn into a projectile! Plus, placing items on train tracks is dangerous!
trainmuseum.org/railway-rule...
#NRM #TrainMuseum #safety #railroads
6
1
1
0