In Japan, trains go upside down
Tangara close to Sydney Harbour, 1988.
Passenger car with panograph damaged from ice. Katoomba, NSW, Australia, 1984.
Train hauling a locomotive and it’s passenger cars because of panograph damage. Bell, NSW, Australia, 1984.
CLP9 and CLF1 near the Gold Coast, Australia on the Brisbane to Sydney Countrylink line.
Two more photos from the local area in the 1960s
It’s changed dramatically in 50 years
7am and still virtually dark on a freezing foggy November morning in Fuxin, China. SY Class No 1378 is ready with a loaded train of coal.
As the sun sets behind the Wasatch Mountains, the constant battle against gravity continues as a train struggles up the 2.4% grade to the summit. Even with four big units up front and a DPU at the rear, this short train is barely making 15mph.
Following the Columbia River east out Portland, this manifest leaves the day behind.
On December 2010 freezing rain fell on Moscow and vicinity. The glaze ice accumulation caused a number of accidents and power outages. Roads, trees, wires covered by a thick layer of ice.
