Steam locomotive Frisco 1630 pulls a mixed freight through the early morning countryside, from the Illinois Railway Museum (IRM) during their 70th anniversary weekend in Union, Illinois. We were told this train would run at 7am and when we arrived at the location at 6:30am it was already approaching! Still, I like this shot I got across the fields, although I had hoped to put the drone up. Didn’t even get to the crossing and they never made a second run to this point. According to IRM website: St. Louis – San Francisco Railroad (“Frisco”) 1630 is the museum’s most famous steam engine. A “Russian Decapod,” it was built in 1918 for export to Russia but was embargoed when the Bolshevik Revolution took place. Instead, the newly completed engine was sold to the Frisco, which used it in both freight and passenger service into the 1950s. The Frisco later sold it to Eagle-Picher Mining, where it saw use hauling freight and aggregate trains until the mid-1960s. It arrived at the IRM in 1967. Tech Info: Nikon D800, RAW, Nikon 70-300 @180mm, f/5, 1/200, ISO 9050. #trainphotography #railroadphotography #trains #railways #dronephotography #trainphotographer #railroadphotographer #jimpearsonphotography #UPtrains #NikonD800 #IllinoisRailwayMuseum #Frisco1630 #trainsinbadweather #illinoistrains #steamtrains

Frisco 1630 pulls a mixed freight through the early morning countryside from Union, Illinois

Steam locomotive Frisco 1630 pulls a mixed freight through the early morning countryside, from the Illinois Railway Museum (IRM) during their 70th anniversary weekend in Union, Illinois. We were told this train would run at 7am and when we arrived at the location at 6:30am it was already approaching! Still, I like this shot I got across the fields, although I had hoped to put the drone up. Didn’t even get to the crossing and they never made a second run to this point.

According to IRM website: St. Louis – San Francisco Railroad (“Frisco”) 1630 is the museum’s most famous steam engine. A “Russian Decapod,” it was built in 1918 for export to Russia but was embargoed when the Bolshevik Revolution took place. Instead, the newly completed engine was sold to the Frisco, which used it in both freight and passenger service into the 1950s. The Frisco later sold it to Eagle-Picher Mining, where it saw use hauling freight and aggregate trains until the mid-1960s. It arrived at the IRM in 1967.

Tech Info: Nikon D800, RAW, Nikon 70-300 @180mm, f/5, 1/200, ISO 9050.