Train Maniac

It's not getting from A to B. It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between...This train is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It's a living, breathing something -- you just have to want to learn its rhythm. --David Baldacci var switchTo5x=true;stLight.options({publisher:''});

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20230331 里見駅-高滝駅間

上り列車もめっちゃいいじゃん！

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Traverse City Turn (one of three)

I was able to follow Great Lake Central’s TC Turn yesterday; I photographed it at three locales.

This first sequence was made along the former Pere Marquette on the west side of Boardman Lake in Traverse City itself. The crew had just worked Beacon Recycling to the south and are headed back to the depot where they left an empty bulkhead car from Williamsburg.

Four images by Richard Koenig; taken August 26th 2022.

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248 014 in Twistringen am 04.03.2026

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磐越西線　豊実駅〜徳沢駅

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The Wanderer, No. 5.

“The Night of the Fatal Trap”

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SPIRITED AWAY 千と千尋の神隠し dir. Hayao Miyazaki | 2001

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EMD - GP35, GP38

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Bicentennial Unit Comes to Town (4 of 4) Concluding a series of posts with ICG's bicentennial unit as subject...

Again, we’re on Illinois Central’s line to Indianapolis, called the “hi-dry” for its tall bridges and fills. Here's another reason it got that moniker: Shuffle Creek Viaduct (near Lake Lemon, northeast of Bloomington by ten miles or so). Difficult to believe it was fifty years ago this month. One image by Richard Koenig; taken February 2nd 1976.

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Bicentennial Unit Comes to Town (1 of 4) Given my zeal for railroad subjects, my parents allowed me to skip school one day fifty years ago now—for the occurrence of the Illinois Central Gulf’s bicentennial unit coming through my hometown of Bloomington, Indiana. We began our chase of the unit southwest of town at the Richland Creek Viaduct. These two shots above, however, were taken north of that, between the famous trestle and the small town of Solsberry, Indiana.

I should have said, this was IC's line that ran from Effingham, on the main line, to Indianapolis. It was called the "Hi-Dry" for that trestle (and one other to come). I've posted images of it before, but I'll add one here below (didn't get a great shot with the Eagle upon it).

Three images by Richard Koenig; two taken on February 2nd 1976, with the inset photo above made later that year.

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