Probably ... This is certainly a workshop of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad, but there is some disagreement on where.

A sharper image of that photograph appears on Flickr (Tom Wigley), and following the reference data it was copied from Shorpy, and then onto Pinterest, wheelsmuseum, and The Guide to New Mexico Architecture - the section on the Albuquerque Rail Yards of the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway. As it gives no further source reference, you might think the one on Shorpy is the original. But no - it is in the Library of Congress (and like almost all US government material it is public domain).

The Guide to New Mexico Architecture has it as:

Erecting Bay of the Machine Shop with a Full House of Locomotives to be Repaired. Looking West. Seeking information about photographer and date.

There are other photos here of the Erecting Bay of the Machine Shop of the Albuquerque Rail Yards, which do look like the same building. But when you look closely there are some small differences. As this was a modular construction, using factory-made frames, with standard equipment including things like the gantry cranes, I can believe that the AT&SFRR built two nearly identical ones in Albuquerque (much of which survives) and San Bernardino (which was entirely demolished).

 

My understanding is that those are the new(er) trolley buses parked up while rewiring is being done; Tallinn is somewhere I would love to return to.

 
1. Those are Tallinn trolleybuses, crammed into the back of the depot on Paldiski Maantee. Presumably they are ones withdrawn from service when half the remaining routes were ended 2000-2017, awaiting their fate. In Tallinn, you can tell they are trolleybuses by the colour - TLT's battery buses are turquoise, diesel ones green, and trams vermilion, with the same pattern.

While working out where they were, I did also discover that 40 new trolleybuses are now on order. However, all the old ones were withdrawn last month, apparently because they got too unreliable to persist with. Or perhaps so that the wires can be rebuilt and upgraded, and some city centre ones removed. That's for the new buses that have batteries and pickups so can charge on the move: so what colour will they be?

 

Perhaps San Bernardino, California?   

 

Yep 'tis ... An amazing number of ships every day stop at faux Mexico!

 
6.  Cozumel, Mexico.

CfN. 

 
2 looks like somewhere in USA because of the way the locomotive numbers are displayed on the angled boxes just behind the chimney.

 
Just 1, 2 and 6 remaining .... and it's anyone's guess where in Poland the pastries are, isn't it ... but remember that a magnificent display lien that ain't going to be at the equivalent of Finstock!

 
4. Is Shottle on the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway.

 

Can't be - no way is it purple enough! Neasden Depot, most likely.

 
3. is indeed the Swindon dump of broad gauge engines no longer able to run and awaiting the cutter's torch, and 0. is indeed in Poland (somewhere - anyone seen anything like this).  Those are the only two suggestions to date which are correct.

 
Not sure where 0 is - presumably somewhere in Poland - but I wish I was there! Looks delicious. As an old IT hack, I very much appreciate that you started at zero too!

 
5 is it the Elizabeth Line store pre opening at OOC

 
My guess for 4 would be Long Marston.

 
3 is the Swindon "dump". I think it is just after the last broad gauge conversion,  showing redundant locomotives awaiting their fate.

 
Advent Quiz - day one - 1st December 2024

Mass transit requires many vehicles - can you identify these places where there are similar vehicles "en masse"?  As a general rule for December, one guess each please during the day each question is set - you may come back with a further attempt if it turns out your first guess was wrong, and comments on those already identified very welcome indeed from all around.  Once midnight has passed, open house on any remaining questions (they will NOT all be "where is this" - there will be variety).   Today is "where is this":

0 - Poland, Red Squirrel (more detailed, anyone?)


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3. Swindon, eightonedee


4.  Shottle on the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway, brooklea


5. Neasden, stuving


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