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The long awaited update to Texas Railroad Maps is now shipping! The new edition features a plastic coil binding to allow the book to open flat or to easily fold pages back to hold your place
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Finally got a chance to get trackside on Saturday.
Several trains observed just north of Centralia, Washington on BNSF's busy Seattle Subdivision. Even caught some foreign power: Norfolk Southern on the point...
Just happened to see this on the way to Winterail...
Just added some old shots from 2008 to my Railfanning pages. Please take a look at https://www.djcooley.com/railfan/location/WA/BNSF_Scenic/bnsf_Scenic_Sub.htm for Baring, Scenic and Skykomish, all on the BNSF Scenic Sub (Stevens Pass) in Washington State.
See you at Winterail!
Local thrift store find for 20 cents: I Wanna be a Train Engineer, hosted by Steve Pool, Seattle TV personality. Lots of railfan footage and cab views of BN, Washington Dinner Train, Mt Rainier Scenic, both diesel and steam. Features railroaders Neal Prenovost, Floyd Johnson and Bob Harbison, c. 1995. Frank Latraverse, you were just a wannabe railroader then!
https://youtu.be/21NdiPQK5uM
Did a little railfanning recently while in California.
BNSF 7456 South passes by the cement plant at Monolith, CA, at speed.May 28, 2023
https://youtu.be/9oVEpCVY82Q
Recovered some long lost video I shot from the DV cassette days. Interesting locos (SD45-2, SD60) and paint schemes make up for the quality loss of "oldtime" video. But, you know, we thought it was great in 2006!
The only time I've been to Titlow, Washington was rewarded with good weather and some great trains. Titlow is where the double track squeezes down to one tra...
UP grainer shoving back into the elevator at Kalama, Washington, this afternoon (2/6/23). Half of the Class I's are represented in the power: UP 2753, UP 8159, UP 8610, NS 4328, CP 8713.
The other loop on Tehachapi: Caliente.
Going away shot of an empty grainer passing through Tokio, Washington. Busy on this line this afternoon. Almost at the same time there was a southbound coal train at Sprague, a southbound manifest at Tokio and a northbound coal train at Tokio/Ritzville.
Any explanation for both north and southbound coal here? Both were loads and in the hole for other trains.
Fri. May 20, 2022
We're back! Just finished enduring nearly 48 hours of internet service outage. Busily working to catch up!
They are here! California Railroad Maps are now shipping! Order today!
https://www.djcooley.com/index.htm
April 2, 2022: Most products are back in stock and available for purchase online or mail order. Due to material cost increases, prices have gone up about 15%. This is the first increase in our twenty year history, but our costs have been gradually inching up all along. Recent increases, though, have...
California Railroad Maps (2022 update) is at the printers and should be available to ship next week!
California Railroad Maps (2022) is at the printers! At first, there was no paper available, but now we are back on track. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks we'll be able to start taking orders...
Arrrrrgh! Not another SD40-2! Interbay, Seattle, Wa; Aug. 13, 1983. Ballard Bridge in background.
Map books are back in stock! Well, most of them... California, Illinois and Texas are being reviewed for updates before sending them off to the printers. Watch this space for announcements of their availability.
Oh, I should mention: after 20 years, we've had to institute our first price increase. Our costs have been inching up over the years but they really took a dramatic increase recently. A price adjustment thus became necessary if Sonrisa was to continue to exist.
Thanks for your support!
Hello, Winterail! Sorry to miss you this year. Hopefully next year.
You may have heard of paper shortages.... We have been out of paper for the last 4 weeks or so. Happily I finally located some in Portland (150 mile drive one way). Unhappily it cost 50% more than it did last year, which cost 15% more than the previous year. Again, unhappily, I will need to raise prices. Stay tuned on that.
In other news, on my way back I stopped at Kalama for a break and managed to get a shot of the coveted "stickers" unit. Does that mean I am a real railfan photographer now?😁
This is me about 20 years ago before I could afford a decent scanner...
Map makers before the invention of AutoCAD or GIS software, 1950s.
Big change to those of you living outside the United States. We are no longer able to ship internationally, due primarily to the unpredictable nature of shipping rates. Rates can vary from 50% to over 100% of product value with no certainty that tomorrow's cost will be the same.
Rates have been going up for some time but, as I found out today, they took a HUGE jump in 2022. Many international shipments I made last year ended up being at cost, which, obviously I can't afford to continue doing. Making matters worse is the Post Office's inability to determine future rates due to the inner workings of the countries involved. So for now, at least, we have to suspend international shipments.
From our first trip south since the pandemic a couple of weeks ago...
BNSF 7250/5074/6776 lead their train around and over itself at California's famous Tehachapi Loop. Presented in real time (except when it enters Tunnel 10), ...
CORP's fall colors at W**d, CA, with fresh snow on Mt. Shasta.
Stretched out between Tunnel 1 and Tunnel 2, BNSF 4651's train climbs the hill towards Bealville.
Far from home, Kansas City Southern loco #4790 trails the lead consist as it ascends the hill between Caliente and Bealeville.
Rainy day today so no photos until the sun broke through late afternoon. We arrived at the Caliente Creek crossing just a few minutes before this train arrived. As soon as it went by it started raining again! Murphy's Law in reverse...
TO OUR NEBRASKA CONDUCTOR FRIEND: You should have come back today! A lot different than yesterday.
BNSF 5413 leads an intermodal train up the hill from Bakersfield towards Tehachapi, California.
Beech Mountain Railroad in West Virginia, Timetable No. 2, Feb. 1, 2006. Anyone ever encounter anything like this?
Gives new meaning to the term "Sub"- division...
Another use for Sonrisa's Railroad Maps...
We have a toner cartridge en route from a warehouse in New Jersey. It's been taking FedEx awhile to get here. On tracking it today it's course has included St Paul, MN; Tioga, ND; Essex, MT; and Lamona, WA. Somehow I don't think an over the road truck would be on State Route 28 west of Spokane instead of I-90...
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Just happened to see this on the way to Winterail...
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