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Nice shots IKE

Many Thanks Ike

Colorado Pacific Railway owned by a Russian billionaire operates on former Missouri Pacific trackage in eastern Colorado

I happen to know the engineer. He lets me ride along once in a while

Thanks Ike and Redrider. SKOL is kool rail road
They operate former Santa Fe Trackage in south east Kansas

SKOL WB at Udall Kansas in fading light we finally got some cooler weather here in Kansas today

WB South Kansas & Oklahoma local Freight. This train operates 5 days a week on BNSF Ark City Sub between Wichita Kansas and Winfield Kansas

South Kansas & Oklahoma train WB on BNSF
Ark City Sub. MP 246. This train operates 5 days a week between Winfield Ks and Wichita Kansas

Great Shot of the CN IKE

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FRISCO was a kool RR. 1522 4-8-2 rolled thru Kansas on a BNSF employee special Back in 04 maybe About 20 years ago. I think it’s been retired due to mechanical issues so it doesn’t get back out on the road anymore, unfortunately. Mark

Waukonda not my photo. But yes, they used the original Pullman blueprints and drawings to restore this car 100% accurate. It’s actually a sleeper the seats fold down to a bed and then another bed folds down from the over head. BTW the wood is white oak.

Yes Missouri That’s what I love about the Narrow gauge railroad in Colorado and New Mexico. It’s like stepping back in time 100 years or more. actually the railroad was built in 1880 144 years ago. But these are pictures anybody can shoot today. The people who run the railroad strive to make it as a...

DRGW 463 just took on water for return trip to Antonio Colorado. This location is known as Osier It’s the halfway point on the railroad road. Trains can turn around here on the loop track. Elevations about 9200 feet

DRGW 315 is a 2-8-0 consolidation built by Baldwin locomotive works in 1895 seen here on Hangmans trestle. A horse thief was hung off of this trestle in the 1880s. Westbound on the narrow gauge out of Antonito, Colorado

Yes red rider she pulls special trains a few times a year in fact I rode one last year

DRGW 463 built by Baldwin locomotive Works 1903. She’s a 2-8-2Mikado type. Nicknamed “mudhen” By the crews That operated her. Because of the way she waddled going down the track

One more DRGW 463

DRGW 168. Ten wheeler. she sat on display in a city park in Colorado Springs for decades. She was returned to service in 2019. Here we see, resting in the locomotive shed at Antonito, Colorado. There’s something about Ten wheelers that just turns me on. Mark

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I highly recommend riding the C&T it’s like stepping back in time 100+ years. If your ever in Southern Colorado or Northern New Mexico look em up
Mark

Here’s a shot of restored 1889 Pullman sleeper car. This car is immaculate. Over 30k man hours to restore it

A few more shots

August 3rd I spent the day on Cumbres & Toltec Narrow Gauge RR. riding a photo freight sponsored by the Friends of the C&T RR. The train was a recreation of a Chili line train. The Chili line departed the DRGW narrow gauge main line At Antonio Colorado and ran down to Santa Fe NM back in the...

BNSF 8420 EB empty Red Rock coal train with 2 DPU units on the rear rolling back to the mine in powder River country of Wyoming. Red Rock Oklahoma power generating station Average is a loaded train about every day about 15K tons

KCS 4824 on point of EB stacks. At Udall Ks on BNSF Ark City Sub. KCS units are on borrowed time now that CP owns em