#excursion train

My idea of an excursion train worth chasing by Greg Brown Via Flickr: Returning to Portland from Bend, a Union Pacific excursion train rolls through the Deschutes River Canyon near Sherar, Oregon. Thanks to the confluence of the White River, this is the only spot in the Deschutes River Canyon where you can get a train photograph with the peak of Mount Hood in the distance.

Six of Roger Puta's CB&Q 4960 Photos by Marty Bernard Via Flickr: Fire Box high by the 4th of July. July 1966.

Six of Roger Puta's CB&Q 4960 Photos by Marty Bernard Via Flickr: July 1966

Six of Roger Puta's CB&Q 4960 Photos by Marty Bernard Via Flickr: Going through Dayton, IL on June 10, 1962.

CB&Q O1-A 4960 pulling Illini Special between Neponset and Kewanee, Ill. on June 12, 1966 by Marty Bernard Via Flickr: A Roger Puta Photograph

CB&Q 4960 with a railfan special on the Walnut - Streator line at Zearing, Illinoia on March 20, 1966 by Marty Bernard Via Flickr: A Roger Puta Photograph

Boy We Were Stupid by Marty Bernard Via Flickr: I count a dozen foamers up on that signal bridge. I was not that stupid, but I did climb on top of a box car once or twice. Roger Puta's photo is of a CB&Q 4960 fan trip being passed by Train 11-35, the Nebraska - Kansas City Zephyr, just east of Meriden, Ill. on March 20, 1966.

Deep in the Woods by Greg Brown Via Flickr: The SP 4449 pulls the "Spirit that Won the West" train through Cow Creek Canyon on the Siskiyou Line. This is a remote area; the road that follows the track was not built until the 1970s. Since I knew it would be clogged with an absolute foamer cluster, I found this shot on top of a tunnel portal on a scouting trip a month earlier.