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Southern Pacific | Southwest Rails
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The Railroad Photography and Videography of Robert Pierce. Posts from the ‘Southern Pacific’ Category. July 4, 2016. Patriotism – Then & Now. February 4, 2016. Go East, Young Man! December 22, 2015. January 2, 2015. For The Espee Lover in You. July 12, 2014. Southern Pacific Dash 9-44CW’s. June 1, 2014. April 6, 2014. Before Passenger Trains Were Pariahs. March 20, 2014. Southern Pacific Locomotive Alpha & Omega. December 23, 2012. Fifties Flashback – Southern Pacific Steam. October 6, 2012. July 31, 2012.
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Special Trains | Southwest Rails
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The Railroad Photography and Videography of Robert Pierce. Posts from the ‘Special Trains’ Category. July 5, 2016. 2016 Circus Train In The House – Via The Back Door. July 4, 2016. Patriotism – Then & Now. July 7, 2015. Circus Train in the House! November 2, 2012. UP 844 and The UP150 Special’s Houston Arrival on 10/26/2012. Subscribe to Southwest Rails. Enter your email address to receive notifications of new posts by email. Robert at an OLS event in Bay City, TX. I hope you enjoy your visit here. C...
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look4trains.com: September 2013
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Friday, September 13, 2013. I have had past chances to shoot multiple maroon units in a day, most recently last spring during a trip up the NSSR. To retrieve coal empties that had been stored during the winter. In that case, though, both were museum pieces. Today, I got one of those, along with an active DMIR unit. Sunday, September 8, 2013. Seems like a good title for a post discussing the life and times of a greenhorn steam engine crew member. Many of you are likely aware of the fact that I've rece...
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look4trains.com: Fading Away
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Sunday, October 12, 2014. While the title could be applied to my blogging career, in this case it's not. Instead I thought I would take the opportunity to explain some of what I've been doing in the basement lately. Here's a visual example:. So I've gathered up a small supply of tools and material, for example, this stuff:. And then I go to work as shown in the link to Jeremy's Dry Brush Technique, above. Here's one final example of what I've been fooling with. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Locatio...
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look4trains.com: Operations!
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Saturday, January 24, 2015. There are a great many enjoyable aspects to model railroading. As you know if you are a long time reader of look4trains, creating new things from scraps has always been one of my favorites. Another thing I've always enjoyed is imagining how the minature world I'm constructing would fit into the larger transportation system. Here's a shot of the power on Kent's train as it approacheds the helix that will take it down to the staging level. So even with some hiccups, it was great...
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look4trains.com: February 2015
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Sunday, February 1, 2015. A couple of days after last weekend's shakedown op session on my layout. Dan Mackey sent out a text announcing a trial run on his huge, still under-construction WC layout. I snapped up the invite and planned for a fun evening with a group of like-minded model railroaders. I'm looking forward to doing it again. When this layout is done, Dan will have to bus in people to keep it all operating. It's gonna be a sight to see, that's for sure! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Brian Ambrose...
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look4trains.com: Your Challenge if you Choose to Accept it: Numberboards
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Saturday, November 22, 2014. Your Challenge if you Choose to Accept it: Numberboards. While my model railroad layout is not strictly "date limited", it is clearly a modern day layout. There are still good numbers of Cascade Green diesels on the modern day BNSF, but as far as I know they are all patched to the reporting marks of the current railroad. As a result, the unpatched BN units I still was running bugged me. Yesterday I set out to correct this. This morning, I sat down and thought. "Surely", I...
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look4trains.com: November 2014
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Saturday, November 22, 2014. Your Challenge if you Choose to Accept it: Numberboards. While my model railroad layout is not strictly "date limited", it is clearly a modern day layout. There are still good numbers of Cascade Green diesels on the modern day BNSF, but as far as I know they are all patched to the reporting marks of the current railroad. As a result, the unpatched BN units I still was running bugged me. Yesterday I set out to correct this. This morning, I sat down and thought. "Surely", I...
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look4trains.com: June 2013
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Saturday, June 8, 2013. Along County Road 7. Today Mrs. L4T and I had to head north for a graduation party in International Falls. Since there has been a tremendous dearth of railfanning in these parts recently I cleared a deviation from the Highway 53 routing and we headed west to follow the former DMIR right of way. Made it as far as South Coons before we spotted our first victim, a loaded pellet train sitting at the signal. Third unit in that consist was a beauty. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Christoph...
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MaPac Memory | Southwest Rails
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The Railroad Photography and Videography of Robert Pierce. January 5, 2015. I came across this interesting view of two ladies moving some. MaPac GP38-2’s at Mt. Vernon, IL in August of 1987. (. Click image to view a larger version. I get the impression that they’re hostlers, not a switch crew as such. Nevertheless, it’s an unusual scene. I can’t say I’ve ever seen two women working together like this. If I had, I might have railfanned a lot more…. From → Missouri Pacific. Larr; For The Espee Lover in You.
