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| Sears Tower dominates the Chicago Skyline in this June, 2005 photo taken from the Amtrak yard aboard the NYC-3 private railcar. | Sunset comes to the desert, enroute from Oakland to Denver on the NYC-3 in July, 2005. | |
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| Freight train in the distance, enroute to Whitefish, Montana, June 2005. | NYC-3 is about to pass through tunnels outside Glenwood Spring, Colorado July 2005 | |
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| NYC-3 passes through Columbia River Gorge enroute to Portland, OR, July 2005. | A remotely controlled engine couples up to NYC 3 in Whitefish, Montana, June 2005 | |
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| NYC 3 passes through the Montana mountains, just west of Whitefish. June, 2005 | NYC-3 passes through a snow shed enroute to Donner Pass, July 2005 | |
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| Train 69, the Adirondack, at the Canadian border. Amtrak's sole dome car operates only during the foliage season. Marc Caya photo. | NYC-3 carries the markers and a custom drumhead on the Adirondack. Marc Caya photo, October 2007. | |
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| SP 4449, running East of Marias Pass, 2009. NYC-3 is 5th car from the front. | Westbound out of Havre, MT, October, 2009. It was a snowy 30° in Havre and a sunny 60° at the Continental Divide. NYC 3 is 10 cars back. | |
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| NYC-3 returns to Portland behind SP 4449-West of Minot, ND, October, 2009. | NYC-3 at Hutchinson, KS, June 23, 2009. Photo by Chuck Smith. | |
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| Parked in Hyannis, MA September 2011-photo taken by a railfan and emailed to www.NYC-3.com. | Varina, Goddess of the Wind, near Horsehoe Curve returning from Pittsburgh, 10/2010. | |
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| View from the lounge while running backwards next to the locomotive at 110 mph between Philadelphia and New York - July 2012 | Peter Hine, our youngest volunteer crewmember and one of NYC 3's greatest supporters, passed away in early 2012 after suffering a catastrophic stroke on the Metro North commuter platform. Here, he's enjoying the Nevada desert at sunset. | |
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| Some railfan photographers go crazy for a good picture. Here, NYC 3 is heading up the Hudson River in late August, 2012. (The photographer is currently in Sing Sing prison.) | Crossing the Tunkhannoc Viaduct 8/30/2012 on the way to Scranton, PA | |
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| On a spring 2012 trip to New Orleans, our client was also a Culinary Institute of America gourmet chef and prepared all on-board meals. Some were almost too pretty to eat! | Departing New Orleans. The same dixieland band has played for seven different departures and the joy is felt by all, including the 94-year old gentleman in the doorway. | |
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| The NKP 765 came East in September, 2012 and some of our crew went out for an old-fashioned train chase. It wasn't the SP 4449, but it was GREAT! | Parked 50' from the cappuccino bar at Boston South Station, 10/5/2012. 1000 people took photos during the 4-day stay, which was 20 years to the date after our first Boston visit. | |
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| NYC 3 brings up the markers on the special Amtrak display train at Steamtown National Park in Scranton, PA, Labor Day 2012 | Sometimes strange obstacles force cancellation of trips. In this case, Hurricane Sandy deposited a small ship on the tracks--along with thousands of trees and flood waters. We never came close to making it to Savannah because all rail service into and out of New York was cancelled for a week in Oct. 2012. |