[Unoriginal]

Was having some fun with cuesta grade yesterday. It’s a very nice route!

[railguy]

Every so often, I revisit an activity that I created a few years back, modify it a bit, and run it again. Here is an example: Three locomotives rest away the dry, but still very hot summer's night hours in Redding, California (Redding XL route, gently modified), awaiting their call for duty on locals during the day. The SD59 and the SD70M have been completely shut down, but the GP38, being old and hard to start, has been left to idle the night away.



Later, the southbound Coast Starlight arrives at Redding. The Dispatcher takes the opportunity to have a northbound freight meet it while the Starlight is stopped to take on and let off passengers.


Later yet, the northbound Coast Starlight stops at Redding, smoking it up as it accelerates out of the station after the stop.


Finally, a hot northbound train roars through Redding, as the first glimmers of dawn show in the sky.

[railguy]

Weter, on 28 September 2023 - 01:50 PM, said:

Railroad never sleeps...Thanks for sharing.

I spent some years working in the railroad industry. Where I worked, railroad operations were generally conducted during the day, but when things were running in the night, the whole feel of the railroad was different. I now live near a railroad mainline that runs 24 hours a day. I love the sound of the trains running through at night.

One of my favorite tunes is the jazz tune "Blues in the Night," with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by the great Johnny Mercer--whose tunes often had a railroad-related theme woven into them. One of those memorable verses from "Blues in the Night" was:

Now the rain's a fallin', hear the train a callin', oooo-ee
Hear the lonesome whistle blowin' 'cross the trestle, oooo-ee
Oooo-ee-a-oooo-ee, ol' clickety-clack
Comes echoing back the blues in the night.

Pretty much sums it up, even yet today.

[Weter]

I think, yes.
However, steam whistles had more "live-like" voice, in US 3- and 5- chime horns are still popular, what sounds nice often too.

[griggs]

I liked this picture enough to make a faux-photocopy art edit of it. Definitely a little gaudy in retrospect but I thought it looked pretty nice.

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[Railroad Librarian]

....railfanning in the fall -- my favorite time of year.

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[Unoriginal]

Messing around with the conrail kellog branch.

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[kraken]

Narrow gauge line Czechoslovakia Osoblaha 1930.Osoblaha 1930

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