RAILROADS IN PHOTOS AND PAINTING

Oops. Too late.

here is an oldie :

Train in the Snow at Argenteuill - Claude Monet

Another Monet, Arrival of the Normandy Train

More at this link, including a Turner -
http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2006/1/9/13824/20576

Carnduff, Saskatchewan, Canada
by William Hobbs

kingston and pembroke railway ( locally known as the KICK AND PUSH )
service ended in the mid sixties

Good thread, farmer. I'm watching with interest.

Really like some of the paintings & images that have been posted so far. (I'm a big Hopper fan, tsar!)

I'm also very interested in some of the stories behind the great railways of the world. How they happened, why they happened, who actually built them. Many are the stuff of big visions & dreams, I'm sure ... though not achieved without considerable human cost, I'm just as certain.

I've looked, but haven't yet found any suitable archival material I'd like to post about some of the great Oz railways. Later, I hope.

Several of the US Railroads have interesting and cowboyish beginnings. My favorite storeies are those of the Central and SOuthern Pacific which were fought over among four very dysfunctionally associated men, including Chas Crocker, Leland Stanford, and Collis Huntington.

I do hope we'll be told some more of those stories, farmer. They're fascinating!

Farmer, is railway music allowed?

http://www.roennebech.dk/www_fredericiashistorie/html/fredericia/lex/billeder/f%C3%A6rgen_lillebelt.gif

1859-60 the Danish government suggest a passenger steamferry across Lillebaelt.
1872 the first trip between Fredericia and Strib was made by a steamferry carring trains. It was the ferry "Lillebelt"
1877 came another one "Fredericia"

MY ALLLTIME FAVORITE VERSION OF "THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS" IS THIS ONE, DONE BY WILLIE NELSON. I SAW HIM IN NEW ORLEANS WHEN HE PLAYED THIS VERSION WITH THE HARMONICA ENGINE SOUNDS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJMVj04lfyo&feature=fvw

hERES A PAINTING DONE BY A MAN NAMED Grif Teller . It shows the famous "Horseshoe Curve" near Altoona Pa. At this curve, first conceived and built right around the Civil War. The Alleghany Front is crossed by a single switchback at a convenient peneplain surface common in the Appalachians. The rail not only crosses the Hills but changes gage at the Western side. The trains used to have to change their wheel trucks and engines(COWS) hadda be changed so that the new rail gages could be accomodated. This is still done in some areas of AFrica and India today.

OOPS , I hit send before I posted the picture. The Curve is almost a complete turnaround for the train. I was doing some quarry development out near Altoona a number of years ago and used to go over to the curve at sunset to watch trains negotiate it today.

The opening of the Bonn-Cologne railway line by Nikolaus Christian Hohe (1798 " 1868), in 1844

Railway (run by the Hamburg HAPAG) lines on the island Sylt, about 1905

(you're a mind reader. ) Love that song, farmer! Wonderful. But have never heard anyone but Arlo Guthrie sing it before know.

What an incredible image! Never seen a train route quite like that before. Wow!



And this one, Walter. The workers! (I assume they're workers.) Women worked on building the rail lines, too?

Kicking Horse Pass in British Columbia, Canada.

A series of tunnels, spirals and bridges cut into the Rocky Mountains.



This is a painting from 1887.