Railroad buildings and places

Scenes alongside the rails

Photographs of locations where trains ran in the past and where they still run today along with some photos of places they visit. I've also got a couple of old postcards of the American Locomotive Company, ALCO, shops in Schenectady, NY

An old postcard of the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) buildings in Schenectady, NY.	An old postcard of the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) buildings in Schenectady, NY.	The Boston & Albany freight station in Worcester,Massachusetts.	The Allston (Boston) Conrail yard
A westbound SantaFe train passing through the Fullerton CA station	Amtrak sign hanging on the Los Angeles Union Station	The switch tower at Los Angeles Union Station	Westbound Santa Fe train in Yorba Linda CA
A Santa Fe trailer train snakes through the hills near the Tehachapi Loop	A Santa Fe container train is about to go under itself at the Tehachapi Loop	5 Locomotives are at the head of this train at the Tehachapi Loop	A westbound Amtrak train wait at Cajon Pass in Summit CA

The creation of the Wachusett Resevoir in central Massachusetts required railroad tracks be moved from the area that would be flooded by the creation of the resevoir. The result of that mandate were two engineering works of art in Clinton, Massachusetts. A tunnel 1110 feet long and a steel bridge 917 feet long spanning the valley of the Nashua River. The bridge stood 133 feet above the riverbed, was opened in 1903 and stood until 1975.

The east entrance into the tunnel.	The rails are gone so that can't be a locomotive headlight at the end of the tunnel.	Looking westward out of the tunnel at the Wachusett Dam in Clinton MA	The footings are all that's left of the great bridge.
The bridge spanned the Nashua River and led to Reservoir Switch.	A postcard of the railroad bridge seen from the Wachusett Dam

Last update May 2, 2004

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