LMIX RG 301 basks over and tries to put out a grass fire started by the sparks. The fire kept burning after they moved on.
The final grinds are put on the new welds after new sections of track were put down following the derailment. Oh ya, sorta interesting seeing the sparks with all the loose paper and the "no smokin... (more)
BNSF 5308 prepares to depart Clyde with some extreme burn damage...quality GE product for ya.
Day shift coming to work
MABA switching out its train in NMJ with 2 U18. 407 is shooting flames out of the stack
Fireman stokes #190's fire. Check out http://community.webshots.com/user/wcubart for more NC Narrow Gauge and Standard gauge steam.
Fixing a minor rail defect at night is quite a show, here a UP MOW worker grinds down the fresh steel to rail head-level. This type of operation causes many small fires in the process.
As 11R crests the grade, NS 8854 shoots flames and smoke skyward.
Sparks fly as a rail grinder works west on track 2 of NS' Pittsburgh Line.
BNSF track forces race to repair the damage caused by two derailed ballast cars (see photos 117229 and 117252). A mound of ballast acted as the "tripod" for this 1/2 second exposure.
A signal employee fires a small weld to melt the signal wire to each side of the joint gap.
Hopper carrying ties caught fire on Water St. Overpass in Northumberland around 7:00 pm.
Fireworks at the park in Cresson.
SP SD35 6902 suffers an electrical fire as the train waits in the hole in Soledad Canyon west of Palmdale, CA on July 15, 1973. The crew never noticed the smoke pouring out of the second locomotiv... (more)
Houston, we have a problem.