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New York, Susquehanna, & Western 142 quickly accelerates up to track speed, giving passengers scenic views of the adjacent Delaware River.

Aboard the UP Metra, Chicago

A private train from Switzerland operated from Switzerland via Austria, Slovenia and Croatia to reach Bosnia and Herzegovina. They were returning to Osijek where they spent one night and then headed from Osijek towards Zagreb and via Zabok to Čakovec, where the locomotive changed and continued on its way to Maribor and back to Austria.

We decided with the day open to try to get one more shot after Crescent, so Steve and I hopped back in the pickup after Big Boy passed and hit the backroads heading north. We joined back up with the highway and the crowd following at Logan and setup at the Willett curve, arriving only a couple minutes before he got here. Perfect timing.

Knowing we wouldn't get back in front of it again until Denison, we called it a day and headed back home. My apologies to all at the understaffed McDonald's in Missouri Valley for having to deal with everyone. If the Penny's Diner would have been open, maybe things would have been better, but alas.

UP "Big Boy" 4014 leads the Coast-to-Coast Tour eastbound on the Boone Subdivision near Willett, Iowa, May 31, 2026.

Shay #5 and Climax #9 Idle prior to the Three Locomotive Race the morning of May 3, 2026 at Cass Scenic Railroad

-CSRR C-70-3 Shay #5
-CSRR C-70-3 Climax #9
-CSRR C-90-3 Heisler #6
-Three Locomotive Race
-“Titans of Logging” Weekend
-Cass Scenic Railroad, Railroad Dr
-Cass, WV
-May 3, 2026

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Heisler #9 Idles prior to the Three Locomotive Race the morning of May 3, 2026 at Cass Scenic Railroad

-CSRR C-70-3 Shay #5
-CSRR C-70-3 Climax #9
-CSRR C-90-3 Heisler #6
-Three Locomotive Race
-“Titans of Logging” Weekend
-Cass Scenic Railroad, Railroad Dr
-Cass, WV
-May 3, 2026

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Heisler #6 Idles prior to the Three Locomotive Race the morning of May 3, 2026 at Cass Scenic Railroad

-CSRR C-70-3 Shay #5
-CSRR C-70-3 Climax #9
-CSRR C-90-3 Heisler #6
-Three Locomotive Race
-“Titans of Logging” Weekend
-Cass Scenic Railroad, Railroad Dr
-Cass, WV
-May 3, 2026

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When riding the modern cars, it was possible to peer through a window and watch the motorman in the car, or the track ahead. Here the motorman is attentive to the track while working the ever-present cigarette.

A train set of wooden cars is taking the turnout and about to cross Track 2 before entering the open air station and stopping at the south terminal on Track 1. The operators for the interlocking here are working from the small concrete tower located on the upper right of the frame. The large shed to the left and the peaked building in the distance were used to store equipment when it was not operating.

1A69 Glasgow Queen Street to Inverness. Class 170 Turbostar in Scotrail Saltire livery seen here heading north towards Aberdeen leaving the east coast Harr behind.

METRA 210 aka TWO TENNY!

LMS Black 5 45110 stands on shed at Toddington on its first foray since overhaul, visiting the Gloucestershire & Warwickshire Steam Railway for the 2026 Cotswold Festival of Steam. This locomotive hauled two legs of the "Fifteen Guinea Special", British Rail's last main line steam-hauled passenger train back in August 1968 and was photographed during a photo shoot arranged by 30742 Charters.

Locomotive: London Midland Scottish Railway Stanier Class 5MT 4-6-0 45110.

Location: Toddington yard, Gloucestershire.

1040 Dereham to Wymondham Abbey service seen at Crownthorpe.

Ian Sharman - All rights reserved. Please do not use my images without my explicit permission.