EvolvingWorld

Today we had a new visitor, the 503 and the 504 with two side dumpers, two flat cars, and a couple of loaded gravel cars parked on our track. Unlike the archaic gravel cars, some of these flat cars, built in the late 70′s, almost [...]

Caltrain has been running ballast trains again to their terminal at Chilco street again, and this morning i went outside and saw this cut of cars newly arrived on our neighborhood siding. These cars are incredibly covered in grafitti.   Many of them are very old. Check out this one:

Built in 1957, this one is older than [...]

It’s time for another walk to our favorite siding off the Dumbarton line in Menlo Park. Today we had some new arrivals, courtesy of Uncle Pete. They just showed up last Friday. When they came in, it was decided that this little guy had to come off the track. Notice the chain drive and the perpendicular [...]

In front of the Art in Action’s office is a little siding off the Dumbarton line. While there’s not a lot of railroad traffic, it is fascinating that every couple of days something else turns up parked here. Sometimes it’s gravel hoppers, sometimes some locomotives laying over. Lately we’ve had a variety of Maintenance of [...]