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Wendell1976

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More freight and passenger train pictures of the Jack London Square in Oakland, California.

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/513935/

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/428985/

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/590393/

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/589340/

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/335031/

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/95305/

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/101394/

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/281036/

 

Wendell

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Wendell1976

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More pictures from my native metropolitan area of Los Angeles. These two pictures are LA Metro's(Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority) Gold Line light rail trains. The first picture shows a train traversing the median of the 1st Street Bridge over the Los Angeles River. The second picture is the train running down Marmion Way. The Gold Line route is 31 miles(50 kilometers) long and runs from Azusa to East Los Angeles via Pasadena and Downtown Los Angeles.

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/311980/

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/228237/

 

Wendell

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In those pictures there appears to be a third (unused?) track.

Any idea what that is/was for?

 

Cheers

 

Keith

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Wendell1976

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In those pictures there appears to be a third (unused?) track.

Any idea what that is/was for?

 

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Keith

Keith, in the Union Pacific freight photo, the third track(the farthest one on the left) looks like it is abandoned.

 

Wendell

Idaho, USA

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Keith, in the Union Pacific freight photo, the third track(the farthest one on the left) looks like it is abandoned.

 

Wendell

Idaho, USA

Thanks.

I guessed it was.

Looking at Google maps it seems it was just a third track from the Amtrak station area west towards the freight yard further on.

 

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Keith

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Wendell1976

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Here are two pictures of a Union Pacific Railroad train in Springfield, Illinois(state capital). One of the pictures includes "heritage" locomotives. In both pictures, the train is running down 3rd Street. Springfield is about 200 miles(320 kilometers) southwest of Chicago and about 100 miles(160 kilometers) northeast of St. Louis, Missouri. The late Abraham Lincoln was a longtime resident of Springfield before he became the 16th President of the United States(in the 1800's). Lincoln's picture is on a U.S. five-dollar bill and a penny(one-cent coin).

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/409176/

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/279288/

 

Wendell

Idaho, USA

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Wendell1976

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Here are some pictures of a Norfolk Southern(including "heritage" locomotives) train in Warsaw, Indiana. The train is running down Hickory Street. Warsaw is about 40 miles(64 kilometers) west of Fort Wayne and about 120 miles(192 kilometers) north of Indianapolis.

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/572544/

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/570002/

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/431979/

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/517294/

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/517587/

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/396644/

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/343275/

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/369339/

 

Wendell

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Wendell1976

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Street-running pictures of New Albany, Indiana. These are some pictures of various railroads running down 15th Street. The trackage primarily belongs to the CSX, which dates back to the Monon Railroad(Chicago, Indianapolis, and Louisville Railway). New Albany is a suburb of Louisville, Kentucky(on the other side of the Ohio River).

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/368166/

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/13775/

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/313216/

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/182224/

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/13502/

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/232051/

 

Wendell

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Wendell1976

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Not your average train to run down the street.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8svKXQ2eaM

 

Train v car

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=603kPUzv36M

 

And another train v car

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAwZ0K6qCaA

 

Cheers,

Mick

Mick, those are some nice video clips. In the first video, I am familiar with Renton, Washington(suburb of Seattle). The BNSF does street-running for a few blocks in the downtown part of that city. I have been through Renton a lot of times as a over-the-road truck driver.

 

Wendell

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More pictures from the Los Angeles area. These are pictures of LA Metro's Expo(Aqua) Line light rail train. The train is in Santa Monica, California running down Colorado Avenue. The Expo Line route is 15.2 miles(24.32 kilometers) long and it runs from Santa Monica to Downtown Los Angeles. Santa Monica is a beachfront, suburban city on the Pacific Ocean.

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/577271/

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/623375/

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/583746/

 

Wendell

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Here is a "before" and "after" picture of The Embarcadero in Downtown San Francisco. In the first picture, the San Francisco Belt Railroad is doing some freight switching back in 1977. The S.F. Belt ceased operations in 1993. In the second picture, the S.F. Muni(San Francisco Municipal Railway) light rail train is now presently running up and down The Embarcadero. The Muni runs underneath the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/48132/

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/504387/

 

Wendell

Idaho, USA

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Here are some more pictures of the South Shore Line commuter rail train in Michigan City, Indiana. The train is running down 11th Street in the snow. Michigan City is about 40 miles(64 kilometers) west of South Bend and about 50 miles(80 kilometers) east of Chicago.

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/562664/

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/562691/

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/580706/

 

Wendell

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Here are some more pictures of the South Shore Line commuter rail train in Michigan City, Indiana. The train is running down 11th Street in the snow. Michigan City is about 40 miles(64 kilometers) west of South Bend and about 50 miles(80 kilometers) east of Chicago.

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/562664/

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/562691/

http://www.railpictures.net/photo/580706/

 

Wendell

Idaho, USA

 

Why so many pantographs per train, to UK eyes that looks quite strange, are the photos of one unit, more than one or many individual units? A typical four car unit in the UK will usually only have one pantograph.

 

Martyn

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Why so many pantographs per train, to UK eyes that looks quite strange, are the photos of one unit, more than one or many individual units? A typical four car unit in the UK will usually only have one pantograph.

To put it into a UK context, you're looking at a train composed of lots of individual one-car units. Each car has it's own pantograph (most have two!)

 

The single level fleet is, I think (bit of digging!) comprised of:

 

Cars 1 to 48 Built 1982/3 (with some wreck-replacements in 1992) - These have cabs both ends and two pantographs.

Cars 101 to 110 Built 2001 - A cab one end, two pantographs

Cars 201 to 210 Built 1992 - No cab, one pantograph - these are referred to as "trailers" - if that's accurate nomenclature the pantograph presumably just does light and heat!

 

In addition to those, cars 301 to 314 are bi-level Gallery cars built in 2009, Cab one end, one pantograph.

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Why so many pantographs per train, to UK eyes that looks quite strange, are the photos of one unit, more than one or many individual units? A typical four car unit in the UK will usually only have one pantograph.

 

Martyn

Martyn, over here Stateside, there are many passenger train cars(mostly light rail) that have two pantographs per car.

 

Wendell

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Martyn, over here Stateside, there are many passenger train cars(mostly light rail) that have two pantographs per car.

 

Wendell

Idaho, USA

Seems to apply to Japan as well, they have trains with lots of Pantographs.

 

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Multiple pantographs are probably to avoid high voltage connections between cars. Here in the UK the pantographs are usually on the power cars, there are a few exceptions where the pantograph is on the adjoining cars. One advantage of course is the flexibility of each car having its own pantograph, as long as you have a cab at each end you can combine cars into any formation required.

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