Welcome to my Hobby/Interests Page!
Miscellaneous TRAIN Information
Yes, trains are one of my interests; real trains, model trains, riding
trains, photographing trains, reading about trains...well you get the idea.
Here are some links:
If model railroading is your thing, check
out Model Railroader
Railroads
These sites are the actual web sites for the commercial railroads, not
railfan web pages:
Other Railroad-related links
Pictures
I finally got a few train-related pictures onto my site. The locations
where these were taken are from Albany to Buffalo (low bridge, everybody
down)...
Up Close This
is a picture of the new GE locomotives now owned by Amtrak and, more recently,
Metro-North. These engines have a much different profile from older F40PH
engines used by Amtrak. This picture was taken in Albany in February 1996.
Big Blue Quality
Roughly 280 miles to the west along the Waterlevel Route lies the city
of Buffalo. Once second only to Chicago in number of trains per day, Buffalo
is still a busy rail center. This shot of a Conrail lashup was taken on
a cold, snowy day in December, 1995.
Susie-Q In
between Buffalo and Albany is the city of Utica, home of the Utica Brewery,
makers of Utica Club, Matts, and the award winning Saranac. Utica also
has the nicest functioning train station on the Water Level Route in NY
State, the marvelous Union Station. This station was once used by the New
York Central RR, the Lackawanna RR, and the weary New York, Ontario, and
Western RR. The tracks of the ex-Lackawanna are now owned by the New York,
Susquehanna, and Western RR and run south through the valley of the Sauquoit
Creek, up the hills and down to Binghamton, NY. This shot was taken in
Sauquoit on the ex-Lackawanna tracks in 1994 as train UT-1 heads toward
Utica.