I broke some new ground chasing the Maumee & Western yesterday. I shot them arriving in Defiance, something I hadn't seen for a number of years. The left Napoleon about 10:00a with 30 cars, mostly boxcars with a couple reefers, and arrived in Defiance a little before 2:00p.









The rest of the photos from the day are available on flickr.

Man..Thats some scary looking track work.
Nice pics.

eightyeightfan1 Wrote:Man..Thats some scary looking track work.
Nice pics.

Ed,Such track isn't new to railroading a lot of PRR's urban industrial branch track in Columbus was like that.You get to a point where you no longer pay attention to it.Of course such track had speed restictions.

Nice photos..

It's gotta be a bit scarey if you were riding in the cab - the loco starts tilting and feels like it is going over... hock:

Great pictures, please continue sharing what you find on your railfanning journeys.

Gary S Wrote:It's gotta be a bit scarey if you were riding in the cab - the loco starts tilting and feels like it is going over... hock:

Great pictures, please continue sharing what you find on your railfanning journeys.

Actually the engine rocks back and forth and you become accustom to that rocking and it would take a lot of leaning to roll a locomotive over even if the rail turned and then you would just hit the ground..

Long lenses tend to exaggerate the bad track effect, but no doubt it's not intended for 20mph running!

It's also a good illustration about how much more material and maintenance is needed to support a train at speed (when compared to a even a regional RR secondary line!). Or conversely, a good illustration on how bad track can be and still be serviceable. One of my father's buddies owned a short line railroad in eastern Ohio for a time - he had a section that he referred to as the "Ho Chi Min Trail" - not much more than rail in dirt!