#ballast train

Ballast Train at the Gateway-July 2022

Earlier in the week, Conway Scenic operated a ballast train with GP35 216 to Crawford Notch and then worked its way east through the famous Gateway cut and over the Girders bridge. There was cosmic lighting, with low clouds scraping over the tops of the mountains with shafts of sunlight reaching the ground. To gain necessary elevation, I climbed up into the Gateway cut, following in the…

Workin’ on the railroad; Ballasting the Mountain

A few weeks ago, I accompanied the Conway Scenic Railroad ballast train on its journey up the Mountain. I had multiple things on my agenda: we needed a accurate accessment of where ballast was needed for future trips; I wanted to inspect the limits of some recent slow orders; I’m looking to rework the company Timetable and was checking various aspects of the right-of-way; and I wanted to…

Six Lumix Views of Branch Ballast Extra

Yesterday, Thursday May 5, 2022 was a beautiful bright day in Conway, New Hampshire. I traveled with the ballast train, which was the only train moving over the Conway Scenic Railroad. Since the train made a number of stops to drop stone, I had ample opportunity to make photographs. I exposed these views with my Lumix LX7, but also made a few photos of the lads working the train using my Nikon…

Work Extra at Puddin’ Pond

Another in my ballast train series. Yesterday, April 22, 2022, Conway Scenic Railroad operated a Work Extra on the Redstone Line to Pudding Pond to dump ballast. I traveled with the train and used my Panasonice Lumix LX7 to document the work. This was the first time since the railroad acquired former Maine Central GP38 255 that it worked out the Redstone Branch as far east as Pudding…

Ballast Crossing the Liffey a Dozen Years Ago.

I was still new to the concept of digital imagery on 22 April 2010 when I made these views with my old Lumix LX3 of an Irish Rail ballast train running around at Platform 10 at Dublin’s Heuston Station. This view from the top of the Phoenix Park Tunnel was just a short walk from my old apartment at Islandbridge. The dust in the air was the result of a volcanic eruption in Iceland. The old…

Strasburg Rail Road Ballast Train

Upon leaving the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, Kris and I heard a distant locomotive horn. Although, there were no trains scheduled, I surmised there was an extra on the line, so we drove to the first grade crossing west of the yard and waited. After just a few minutes, Strasburg Rail Road’s former New York Central SW8 ambled westbound towing a lone three-bay hopper carrying ballast. That…

TRAVELS WITH A BALLAST TRAIN-PART 2

Below are a few more views from my travels with the Conway Scenic ballast train last week. All were exposed using my Nikon Z6 mirror-less digital camera. Any favorites? Tracking the Light Posts Daily!