A Norfolk Southern catfish! That's a beautiful sight. Anybody know what town that was taken in?
Reminds me of a little poem my grandfather taught me:
At railroad crossings
Here's how to figger:
In case of a tie,
The engine's bigger!
It's in Augusta Georgia. They have a rail line going right down the middle of the street. 
Which there are many still around the US like that.
Here's another:
I don't think I've ever seen a railway going down the middle of a road. pretty cool.
Now that's a pretty train. Anybody ID?
In reply to alex:
That's an EMD F9 (ABBA unit)
According to the Photographer it's pulling a "Office Car Special" which is probably some corporate train.
They both have the prancing horse on the front. Significant ?
In reply to iceracer:
They're both Norfolk Southern Units.
I was wondering more about the horse standing on the balcony in the second photo, until I looked closer and saw it's a statue. Still, kind of unusual.
"Kind of unusual"? And a train rolling down Main St isn't?
When I lived outside of Reading Pa and worked in it.. stopping for the train going through downtown was a regular occurance.
What sucked about it was the switch at the one end of town.. nothing like watching a 100+ car train make it almost all the way through town.. only to stop and back up to go to the other switch
Holy E36 M3 ABBA has their own train?
I think there is some kind of universal law that the length of a train is in direct proportion to the amount of a hurry you are in and the slower it moves. It never fails that when I really need to be somewhere, I get stuck waiting on a train.
Can somebody explain the term "catfish" in this context? And (in case you happen to know) is it railroad-specific (meaning a Canadian train guy would use it too) or specific to that part of the US?
Thanks!
The stripes on the front look like catfish whiskers. It's specific to Norfolk Southern trains, as they are the only ones sporting them.
EastCoastMojo wrote: Holy E36 M3 ABBA has their own train?
lol
ECM: Got it. Thank you!
I'm pretty sure the second picture is LaGrange KY. The horse was part of a local art project. Statues of all the Derby winning horses were painted and sold. It's not uncommon to see one in someone's front yard around Louisville.
mad_machine wrote: When I lived outside of Reading Pa and worked in it.. stopping for the train going through downtown was a regular occurance. What sucked about it was the switch at the one end of town.. nothing like watching a 100+ car train make it almost all the way through town.. only to stop and back up to go to the other switch
in the town i went to high school in, there was a little greasy restaurant called Big T's that was a popular lunch spot. the Union Pacific railroad guys would stop the train on the tracks that crossed the road that big t's was on, and leave it there while they were eating lunch. more than one time, we got within a few hundred feet of the place, and had to turn around and go back a different way to get there from the other end of the road.
Last I remember, Lompoc, Ca. had one rolling down the middle of town.
Semi-random, semi-on-topic question: what train line or lines run in the MT/ID/WY area?
Once I stayed in Miami, OK for a few days and was awakend by a train coming through town at 2:30 in the morning. Wahhhhhh WAAAAAAAAAAHHHH wuuuuhhhhhh.
One night i realized why it took so long, the train slowed to a near crawl before entering town. If you've ever been there, you'd know that nothing happens there after dark, the whole town literally shuts down. I think everyone else was used to it, as I was too after about three days.
I recognized the first location and wondered if trains passed along the tracks any more.
those are some very neat pics. thanks for sharing them guys.
Ashland, VA is a few minutes north of where we live. The old RF&P line runs right down the middle of Center Street. Amtrak and CSX trains run over it many, many times a day.
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