Railworks America

This contest will celebrate the Golden Age of Passenger travel.


Rules:


1. Highlight the days before Amtrak, May 1, 1971.
2. Any route any era.
3. Titles will be part of the judging. If you want to add a description fine but there must be a title.
4. Steam or diesel.
5. No Photoshopping please.
6. Please attach screenshots to the forum and not an external photo place, some of them are a pain to try and retrieve your photo.

There will be 9, 1st place winners who will receive the following package.

- The North Jersey Coast Line route
- The NJT ALP-46 electric
- The NJT GP40PH-2B
- The NJT F40PH-2CAT

2nd Place will receive The North Jersey Coast Line route
3rd Place will receive The NJT GP40PH-2B.
4th Place will receive The NJT F40PH-2CAT

The deadline is Tuesday, March 29, 2016 at 10 PM EST.

The North Jersey Coast Line route

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The NJT ALP-46 electric

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The NJT GP40PH-2B

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The NJT F40PH-2CAT

Nighttime Streamline

On this clear night on July 7th, 1956, I climb onto my GS-4 ready to pull out of the station. I look back and see another GS-4 waiting for me to depart. I heard those Lark coaches would be discontinued the next year, but that's a rumor going throughout the yard.....

Title: "All Aboard!"

"The Last Local"

GN Train Xtra 85, The Atlantic Local, awaits for passengers to board so it can head of to Waterton. The date is 1955 and this is the last Local Passenger Train on the Atlantic Branch. In the background, two lovers part ways for what could be the final time. This is the last call for Xtra 85. The Great Northen is trimming its branch line locals to preserve its main trains.

Caught up with a pair of Baldwin Centipedes on the lead of a Secondary Passenger train. Unfortunately, a derailment blocking tracks 1 and 2 has caused some service delays and caused headaches for the operators at MO (Cresson) and MG (Above Horseshoe Curve) With Eastbound traffic being rerouted through the Allegheny Tunnel on track 3. Here we're stuck waiting for opposing traffic in the way of a Mail and Express, and a mixed freight.

Title: With her past following closely behind...
Desc: About two hours behind schedule, the Westbound Burlington Northern Empire Builder rushes through Skykomish, Washington, on this chilly morning in October 1970. Once the bustling terminus for electrical operations, the station hasn't seen service since the 1950s, and even the maintenance shops (seen in the background) are to be torn down in just a few years. In brand new Burlington Northern livery, this F unit leads a consist entirely of Great Northern and Northern Pacific equipment; a firm reminder of the BN's colorful and diverse history, leading unified into the next chapter of American Railroading.

"Joisey" Heading for Philly & DC.

TITLE: "Westbound"

Great Northern's "Empire Builder", with it's headlight dimmed, overtakes a Grain Extra, departing Shelby, MT, in a light drizzle......

Age of the Streamliners
In the early hours of a cool Spring morning, Santa Fe's premier Super Chief idles alongside streamliners of the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific railroads in Los Angeles Union Station. The crew anxiously awaits departure time as passengers scramble to get onboard and start their journey to Chicago.

"Headed back, on The Kennebec"

The year is 1947 and B&M E7a #3800 and its six new Pullman cars form one of the B&M's premiere passenger services, The Kennebec. Pictured here on an early winter afternoon awaiting its departure from Portland, ME Union Station on the final leg of the trip back to Boston. Sadly, all passenger service was cancelled on the B&M by 1960.

Daylight At Colfax

In 1964 an SP Daylight with E7 #6002 leading with a gaggle of old EMD's in the yard with freights and business trains.

Winter on the Overland Limited


UP's Overland Limited departs Cheyenne during an early morning snow storm. Both passengers and crew hope they beat the coming blizzard to Salt Lake City.

The NP North Coast Limited going West from Wenatchee on Stevens Pass.

Slides and storm damage on Stampede pass forced the detour.

"Parallel Universe" by Enrico Maximvs.

Time frame: It's over 100 years since the British Army won the American Revolution... and a very different WWII is taking place.
The American British Commonwealth, are moving troops over the California Alps to British ports in the colony of California, in order to fight the Japanese military after they attacked British territory in Singapore, Taiwan and India.

The Philippines are still held by Spain in this alternate timeline... Causing much concern to the Commonwealth, since Franco is an ally of the Axis.
Also, Spain would love to have California back after losing it to the British Empire during war...