slgwv's photos with the keyword: train

Along the Durango to Silverton narrow-gage excursion train, Colorado. The river's name is shortened from the Spanish original: El Río de las Animas Perdidas , "The River of Lost Souls." The story is that several members of a Spanish expedition in the 1700s were swept away and drowned while trying to cross the river. Note the rust staining along the river banks. It's from acid-mine drainage, due to sulfide oxidation making sulfuric acid that in turn mobilized metals. Not all of it is a result of mining, but mining certainly exacerbated it! The stain is harmless--it's literally just rust (iron oxides and hydroxides), but it doesn't add to the esthetic experience--

Shuttling back and forth behind the car wash, evidently assembling a train. Post Falls, Idaho. Altho there's a "BNSF" logo reflecting the merger of Burlington Northern and Santa Fe, the locomotive is still mostly in the old Santa Fe livery.

Along the Humboldt River on the original US transcontinental route. The route of the Western Pacific (Feather River route) also comes thru this canyon (it's on the other side), and in fact parallels the transcontinental route for 100 miles or so. Of course, it's all Union Pacific now, but even back before the railroads had merged there was a joint operating agreement along the parallel tracks, such that one side was westbound and the other eastbound.