Category Archives: railroads

GRAND DELUXE EXPRESS WAITING AT LAMY, NEW MEXICO

Posted on January 11, 2021 by Thomas Bethune

The Grand Deluxe Express at Lamy, New Mexico, 2007 The very first time that I went to the Amtrak Station in Lamy (Santa Fe), NM was May 28, 2007. This was on the same trip to the southwest that I … Continue reading →

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More Eureka Southern/NCRA/ Northwestern Pacific Railroad Equipment Decomposing in Eureka

Posted on August 23, 2020 by Thomas Bethune

Part of the North Coast Rail Authority fleet of neglected locomotives. 2014

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VINTAGE HUMBOLDT TRAINS:

Posted on August 22, 2020 by Thomas Bethune

THE EUREKA SOUTHERN RAILROAD Central California Traction number 70 at Eureka CA c.1992. I think this locomotive was purchased from CCT for use by the Eureka Southern Railroad (former Northwestern Pacific Railroad). Sadly this unit was ultimately trashed and bashed … Continue reading →

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OCTOBER EXHIBIT AT F STREET FOTO GALLERY

Posted on September 13, 2018 by Thomas Bethune

Here is an example of the images that I will exhibit next month. I took most of them in the nineteen-eighties. Some were color slides, and others were large format black and white. These locomotives were parked at Simpson’s Korbel … Continue reading →

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NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD TRAIN AT DEL NORTE STREET

Posted on January 31, 2018 by Thomas Bethune

There were a couple of tracks at Del Norte Street (the dock is behind me and to the right). I assume that this was an inbound freight. The railroad was still active in the nineteen-eighties as the timber industry was … Continue reading →

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HUMBOLDT BAY IN THE NINETEEN EIGHTIES

Posted on January 26, 2018 by Thomas Bethune

  This image is a scanned 35mm color slide from about nineteen-eighty. I used to ride my bicycle to the Del Norte dock to watch and photograph the harbor activity. I took this photograph from the bluff above Broadway. The … Continue reading →

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Visiting Old Negatives

Posted on January 18, 2018 by Thomas Bethune

At the Pennsylvania Railroad Museum thirty years ago.

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CHIEF OF THE SANTA FE

Posted on May 5, 2017 by Thomas Bethune

These are some of my photographs that are in the new music video Chief of the Santa Fe. To watch go to this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88KlrcgkriE

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DEAD DIESELS

Posted on February 7, 2015 by Thomas Bethune

When I was about twelve years old I frequented the area where the outdated steam locomotives were in storage. That place was in the Southern Pacific’s Bakersfield Yard. The locomotives were replaced with “modern” locomotives like this one. The new … Continue reading →

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SOUTHERN PACIFIC ENGINE 4449

Posted on January 12, 2015 by Thomas Bethune

SOUTHERN PACIFIC ENGINE NUMBER 4449 AT SACRAMENTO 1991

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