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I saw this ICG relic when I shot 181 at Farley's Lane. Made it a point to get a good roster shot as 181 pulled into the Pass at Bates to meet 256.
ICG 680056 - 86 ft hicube boxcar
Bates CP - New Berlin, Illinois
March 4, 2023
1999 Skoda Pick-Up LX 1.9D.
Supplied by Barmoor of Ryton (Skoda).
Seen here about to embark on its last ever journey.
Scrapped (last MoT test expired in July 2014).
Page is a city in Coconino County, Arizona, United States, near the Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell. Unlike other cities in the area, Page was founded in 1957 as a housing community for workers and their families during the construction of nearby Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River. In 1997, Antelope Canyon was discovered on Navajo land adjacent to Page. This natural slot canyon, formed by erosion, has created a steady increase in tourism for Page, as word spread of the beauty of the canyon.
#255 lopes along at 45-50 MPH at Bates with a single AC GEVO and a long train of Roadrailers loaded with Ford autoparts. Given the flat terrain, this is as fast as this supposedly hot train will ever go on this trip.
NS 8149
A check of my notebook this day (Sunday, June 4, 1989) showed that I didn't shoot anything else earlier in the day. Maybe I had some family event going on, maybe I had too much fun on Saturday night and slept in (quite possible) or maybe I just didn't feel like doing anything else. But late in the afternoon I found myself up at the C&NW's bridge over Turtle Creek at Tiffany, WI. The Proviso-Janesville, WI "B-Train" was always along late in the afternoon to take boxcars of autoparts and empty autoracks toward the GM plant up there. A low rumble to the southeast, a flash of yellow through the trees and then C&NW 950, 892 and 6818 were over the Civil War-era limestone arch bridge.
Soon these will be packed in grease. Just waiting for the brake rotors to arrive.
Photo: Sony NEX-5N + Micro-Nikkor-P Auto 55mm, f3.5
A former Texaco site which stopped selling fuel around twenty years ago, the pumps were still visible in the 2009 Google street view as well as a small amount of red paint on the canopy.
By 2012 the pumps had been removed and the former petrol forecourt was trading as Autoquip.
2009 Google street view
Roadrailer train 255, loaded with autoparts for new Ford F150 pickup trucks, speeds past a junkyard on the east side of Jacksonville, Illinois. In the background a wrecked Ford pickup truck looks on.
NS 1137 - SD70ACe
NS 9383 - D9-44CW
Blacks Lane - Jacksonville, IL
August 18, 2020
Ford auto parts train M45 ducks under the 90 foot signal bridge at Hazel Dell on a gorgeous August evening back in 2015. This was the start of a 5 train burst in just a little over 60 minutes on the joint NS/UP trackage south of Springfield.
NS 7556 - ES44AC
NS 9285 - D9-44CW
Hazel Dell Interlocker - Springfield, Illinois
August 20, 2015
PRINCESS YOUHAN AND CHRISA TRANSPORT
Operator: Precious Youhan and Chrisa Transport
Fleet No.: 88148
ENGINE
Maker: Guanxi Yuchai Machinery Co., Ltd.
Model: YC6A240-30
CHASSIS
Maker: Dongfeng Motor Company
Model: LGF4GMJT5EF1 - EQ6100
COACH
Coachbuilder: Aspire Autoparts and Repair Services Inc.
Model: Anhui Ankai HFC6108 replica
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Location: McArthur Bridge, Ermita, Manila
Back in the summer of 1996, 47312 climbs Hatton Bank with loaded vans of Rover parts bound for Longbridge.
Car: SSW 65057
Date: 2019/01/05
Location: Janesville, WI
Train: None
Notes: Built in 12/67 by Pullman Standard, this 86' double door Hy-Cube was not long for the world. Several of these were in storage at South Janesville and by the summer of 2019, they were scrapped. These were a personal favorite of mine, despite looking a bit ragged near the end.
Built in 1977 by Greenville Steel Car Co, this big boxcar spent its heyday on some of the hottest trains run on the Southern Railway. It still finds itself hauling lightweight auto parts many years later, seen here on Detroit's south side. However, with the AAR's regulation restricting interchange of railcars over 50 years in age, there may only be a few more years left in the life of this 10,000 cubic foot behemoth.
Below the faded "Southern" lettering is one of the railroad's old slogan's: "Gives a Green Light to Innovations".
SOU XP A806 #42566
Allen Park, MI
September 17th, 2023
A northbound freight from Mexico rolls across the Austin Sub near Corbyn, TX, just south of New Braunfels. December 2019.
A pair of Dash 9's lead an extremely late running 120 east at Bates. This train consisted of approximately 70 empty autoparts cars, with 2 cars of junk freight tacked onto the rear end for good measure.
NS 9739 - D9-44CW
NS 9166 - D9-44CW
Bates CP - New Berlin, IL
February 14, 2020
WP X921E with all its worked completed and ready to leave the yard at the Ford plant located at Milpitas, CA on September 22, 1975. The two people in the photo are my best friend Jim Garrison with the camera and most likely the WP head end brakeman on the train.
The reason why the train is just sitting there after doing their work is the following. My best friend Jim Garrison, who had never see the WP, and I, who seen it twice, decided to take a three day trip to see the WP. We drove all night up the coast to the Bay Area where we photographed the WP in San Jose, the SP in Bayshore and San Francisco, the State Belt railway in San Francisco, the WP in San Francisco and Oakland and then we decided to follow the WP through Niles Canyon and over Altamont pass to Stockton. Please note that back in 1975 there was no place to get information about went certain types of trains ran from one place to another. As we were driving through Niles Canyon we saw a westbound WP with F-units so we turned around and gave chase. At this point we didn't know where the train was going, to Oakland or San Jose or some place in between. So first we drove to the WP Oakland yard and found out the trains wasn't coming to Oakland. Then we headed to San Jose where the yard office still open and the WP operator told us the train was at Milpitas yard next to the Ford plant and that the train was almost ready to leave. The operator knowing how railfans like the F-units and that we really wanted to photographed these units called the train and said there two guys in his office who wanted to photograph their train and could they wait for us. The crew said yes they could wait for us and we got back in the car drove as fast we could stopping only for a pit stop to the Milpitas yard, which luckily was easy to find, found the train waiting for us. We took our photos as the sun set and then thanked to crew for waiting for us. And then the train left for Stockton and we left to find a room for the night north of Richmond, CA.
My wife sent me out to get her a bowl of chiil from Steak & Shake just as #145 was passing thru Starne Interlocker on the east side of Springfield. This gave me just the right amount of time to get down to Cockrell Lane, nail a shot of the train in gorgeous late summer light, get the chilli, and then return back home with my wife none the wiser. Perfect timing indeed!
BNSF 6652
NS 9630
And I think I know what my father meant when he sang about a "Lost Highway"
And old George Jones, I'm glad to see, is finally getting straight
And Waylon's staying home and loving Jessi more these days
And nobody wants to get drunk and get loud
And all my rowdy friends have settled down...
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Big M's original auto yard on the north side of Williams, Ca.
At last light, Norfolk Southern SD70ACe #1137 heads West on the point of the 181 train as it approaches Carrollton, MO.
Supposedly these 86' Autopart boxcars are on short time due to their age.
EMD's and CPL's: Railfanning on the old B&O doesn't get any better than this. An SD70MAC and an SD50 lead autorack/autoparts train Q243 thru the SE transfer track and onto the Toledo Subdivision at Deshler, Ohio.
CSXT 4742
CSXT 8500
A pair of ex-Conrail locos lead #145 west at County Line Road. This section of the former Wabash KC line is about as flat as flat can get.