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In spite of the devastatingly rapid urban sprawl motivated by Utah Valley's 21st century tech boom, there is about a half mile of track between Provo and Springville where if you face the right direction and squint hard enough it still looks rural, a microcosmic remnant of the open land filled in with ugly mcmansions and precast warehouses in the last decade. The Roper to Helper manifest inches down the mainline keeping a wary eye out for switching moves made on the Ironton industrial lead. 13 September 2023.
Looking at this superficially, you might wonder why such an item features in the Science Museum. However, the clue is its age - 93 years old.
Still not there? Well in 1931 a debate was raging in some circles in the UK about whether petrol, diesel or steam was the way ahead for lorries. At the time, most truck makers favoured petrol. But Foden's prototype F1 flat-bed proved cleaner than steam and more economical than petrol and thus the future was born.
The Foden company had started by manufacturing steam traction engines in Cheshire in the late 1880s. They also became renowned for their steam wagons and were the world's largest makers of steam road vehicles. However, the final Foden steam vehicle was built in 1934.
The F1 had a similar chassis to the last steam wagons, but Foden married a Gardner 5L2 five-cylinder diesel engine to it. The Gardner company, in Manchester, had pioneered the high-speed diesel engine for road use in Britain and had an outstanding reputation for quality.
When introduced into commercial service, the F1 and similar lorries would have been used for short-to-medium journeys, largely complementing the railways. However, by the 1960s articulated diesel lorries with large-capacity trailers were using the developing motorway network to travel across country and even across continents, supplanting rail for much long-distance haulage.
EMD F7 diesel electric locomotive three unit Demonstrator set, 1950. These locomotive utilized the early model stainless steel side air grills. Notice the futuristic "GM" logo located on the nose door. This photo is from my collection, photographer and location unknown.
The name of the photographer that took this photo is unknown.
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New York Ontario & Western EMD F3 locomotive # 502 & another, are seen leading a stopped National Railway Historical Society railfan excursion train that's stopped in the New Haven Railroad yard at Maybrook, New York, ca early 1950's. This yard stop probably also provided for a tour of the yard area, beside the excursion on the NYO&W route. In the background you can see some New Haven Railroad ALCO FA-1 & FB-1 locomotives. The society members are for the most part well dressed as compared to the clothes that may be wearing today on such a trip. The cars used for the excursion train were most likely borrowed and may belong to the New Haven Railroad. The EMD F3 locomotives are one of the earlier phases with the chicken wire situated over the side vents,
The name of the photographer that captured this image is unknown and it came from a photo that was on the Internet. This photo has been cropped and modified from the original to improve its appearance.
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Here are a few of Ian's photos that he captured, while we were at Tarana railway station yesterday (Sunday)
De diesellocomotieven 6472 + 6442 vertrekken met een goederentrein vanaf de helling van de Werkspoorbrug.
The dieselengines 6472 + 6442 are departing with a ballasttrain.
In the rock cutting just beyond the Oban station throat, no 27 040 backs down to couple up to its train.
10 January 1978.
Photo by and courtesy of Peter James.
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Deutz-Fahr DX6.10 tractor from 1987
Seen at the 2025 East Midlands Steam and Country Show at Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire
Deutsche Bahn diesellocomotief 216 103-2 komt voorbij in het station van Bottrop Hauptbahnhoff.
German Railways dieselengine 216 103-2 is passing by in the station from Bottrop Central station.
Norfolk Southern operated N&W A class 2-6+6-4 steam locomotive # 1218, led Railfan Excursion Train is being hauled by three EMD diesel locomotives on this branch line portion of the trip to Crossville, Tennessee, October 1987. The steam locomotive was cut off at the junction (Harriman) where this branch line connected with the main line. The train is crossing over one of the numerous trestles and bridges found on this mountain line. There was much Fall beauty to be seen on this trip.
97302 (with 97303 at the other end) sits at Harlech having arrived with the 20:09 Machynlleth Carriage Sidings structure gauging train. It then reversed direction and headed back south, and onwards to Derby.
Rail vehicles parked in the machine shop. Seen during a visit to Railtown 1897 in Jamestown California on 11-20-2015.
The afternoon Service Towards Lucknow Aishbagh Arrives With IZN YDM4 6528 from Tikunia ( Train Name - Tikunia - Aishbagh Passenger )
I was to board the same train towards Lucknow and somehow captured it since I knew it had a stop of 5 minutes at the station so , Hence I got enough time for the click.
YDM4 Class is one of the threatened species of Indian Railways since only a few Meter-Gauge Railway Lines remain in India , A country which Once used to have one of the world's largest Meter Gauge Networks under British Empire and the meter gauge network that used to exist from North to South and East To West Of India is now depleted and left to a few places which will soon close down and the process of Gauge Conversion to Broad Gauge will take over.
Some Info On The YDM4 Locomotive :-
Co-Co diesel electrics originally from Alco (1961-1964), later manufactured by DLW (1968-1993). The initial batch of 55 from Alco were used for evaluation and comparison with a similar batch of General Motors locos. The Alcos were chosen as the preferred MG main-line diesel locos. Alco model is DL535A. Originally manufactured with only vacuum brakes and dynamic braking, no air brakes. Rated at 1350/1200hp. Max. speed 100km/h. YDM-4A are identical to YDM-4, except that they were supplied by MLW (1964) -- the Canadian batch consisting of about 99 locos. Some of the MLW locos do not have the 'A' suffix in the class designation.
Ahmedabad was the main centre for these locos. A few were hauling local trains in the Secunderabad-Bodhan section in 1997, and are reported [8/00] to be working around Mysore, Villupuram, etc. Some from the Guntakal shed are still [7/02] hauling trains on the Pakala-Guntakal-Bellary route. Some are thought to be at Gandhidham after gauge conversion left Gandhidham - Palanpur an isolated MG line.
DLW has exported some (15 each) of these to Tanzania and Vietnam (1976-1985), and to Bangladesh (2000?). The ones for Bangladesh were classed YDM-4BR and had dual cabs, a change achieved without modifying the length of the loco. This variant turned out later to have major cooling problems.
Malaysian railways (KTM) acquired 39 used YDM-4's from IR in 1996. It is not clear if they were leased or sold. Of these, 14 were returned to India by 1999. In Malaysia they retained their IR road numbers (between 6352 and 6725).
Builders: Alco, MLW, DLW
Engine: Alco 251B-6 (Alco/MLW), Alco 251D-6 (DLW); 6 cyl., 4-stroke, inline
Transmission: Electric (DC-DC, in contrast to most other locos that were AC-DC).
Axle load: 12t. Bogies: Co-Co trimount.
Fuel capacity: 3000l
Info Source - www.irfca.org/faq/faq-loco-diesel-mg.html
Land Rover 110 Soft Top from 1985 C139 URP
Ex military 85 KE 43
Seen at the 2024 Kettering Vintage Rally & Steam Fayre at Cranford, Northamptonshire
Union Pacific Sunnyside local crossing the desert between Mounds and East Carbon, Utah. 30 April 2023.
Here are a few of Ian's photos that he captured, while we were at Tarana railway station yesterday (Sunday)
SCL GE U18B locomotives are leading the southbound Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Circus Train along the former SAL line In Clearwater, Florida, 1-6-1975, Fred Clark, Jr. The Circus Train's next and final stop will be in Saint Petersburg at the SAL Southside Railroad Yard, and if I recall correctly they would set up and perform their shows at the Bayfront Center Arena.
This photo is from the Fred Clark Jr. photo collection, courtesy of Mark Zelinski. Any credit for this photo must be provided to the original photographer Fred Clark Jr.
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I took these Photographs on October 17 2004 while I was on a Business Trip in Grand Rapids Michigan. I arrived on Sunday, so I was able to send my Day taking Photographs around the Grand Rapids Metropolitan Area. I took this Photograph from the end of Judd Avenue, which ended in a Cul-de-sac near the entrance to CSX Wyoming Yard. There is a White Fuel Tank on the extreme Right of my Photograph near the Blue Locomotive.
It shows Two Canadian Pacific GE AC4400CW Number 9500 (second Locomotive Number Unknown) in CSX Wyoming Yard in Grand Rapids, Michigan awaiting it's next assignment.
The American Association of Railroads Reporting Marks for the Tank Car is NRTX, which refers to "Music City Star" as the owner. The Locomotives were too far away for my untrained eye to recognize. The Tower has a Wind Sock Attached to it, why I don't know !
I took this Photograph with my Minolta Maxxim 5000 Single Lens Reflex Camera with Color Print Film. The Film Processor (aka: Kodak) provided me with a Picture CD v6.0
Met aan kop locomotief 21 staat een trio locomotieven van Rotterdam Rail Feeding te wachten op het vervolg van hun reis.
With dieselengine no 21 at the head a trio off Rotterdam Rail Feeding loco's is waiting to proceed their yourny.
A rather fine item of industrial photography on the cover of this c1960 English language leaflet issued to show the full range of industrial diesel engines built by the company. The factory dated back to 1840 being the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg AG prior to merger with the Maschinenbau-Aktiengesellscaft Nürnberg in 1898 that formed the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG, better known as M.A.N. At the time of printing the Augsburg works manufactured both diesel engines as well as printing presses; the latter had been built here since 1845 with the first rotary newspaper presses manufactured in 1873. The real claim to fame was the construction of, between 1893-1895, the world's first experimental diesel engine under the guidance of the inventor Rudolf Diesel.
The leaflet notes that the company employs 7000 workers in the Diesel Engine Division in Augsburg as well as others in the subsidiary factories in Nürnberg and Hamburg.
Here are a few of Ian's photos that he captured, while we were at Tarana railway station yesterday (Sunday)
Southern Railway steam locomotive # 4501 led Railfan Excursion Train with a vestibule view of an assisting EMD GP30 locomotive # 2562 from Salisbury to Asheville, North Carolina, August 1985. Ahead of the GP30 is two assisting FP7A locomotives, all required to provide the power necessary to handle this 17 car, mostly heavyweight passenger train, on the soon upcoming mountain grades.
Here are a few of Ian's photos that he captured, while we were at Tarana railway station yesterday (Sunday)
Amtrak Gulf Breeze, led by EMD F40PHR locomotive # 364, has just switched tracks to enter the station platform at Montgomery, Alabama, October 1991. A good size crowd is awaiting the arrival of the train, some waiting for de-boarding passenger, while others are passengers preparing to board. This train has a matching trio of Budd fluted stainless steel coaches.
Dit jaar ben ik met mijn oudste zoon voor de tweede keer naar de Havendagen in Rotterdam geweest; meestal waren we bij de Veluwse Stoomtrein Maatschappij voor 'Terug naar Toen' stoomtreinen kijken, òf naar de vliegshow Sanicole in België. Een fantastische ervaring deze havendagen. Veel demonstraties van het loodswezen, de Koninklijke Reddingsmaatschappij en het Corps Mariniers. We keken onze ogen uit. De Havendagen staan voor de komende jaren zeker weer op de planning.
This year I went with my eldest son to the Port Days in Rotterdam for the second time; Usually we were at the Veluwse Stoomtrein Maatschappij to watch steam trains 'Back to Then', or at the Sanicole air show in Belgium. A fantastic experience these port days. Many demonstrations by the pilotage service, the Royal Rescue Society and the Marine Corps. We were amazed. The Port Days are certainly planned again for the coming years.
Dit jaar met mijn oudste zoon naar het jaarlijks evenement 'Sporen naar het verleden' geweest. Naast de eigen locs, waren dit jaar de MBS 7853 'Navicence', de Stoomcentrum Maldegem WD 75196 en de SSN 65 018 te gast. Ook de Stichting Hondekop kwam met de 766 naar Goes. Dit jaar werden ook meerdere goederentreinen gereden, waar voor mij de nadruk op lag. Daarnaast waren de omC 909 en de USATC 7989, NS serie 600-2000 opgesteld. Het was weer schitterend weer en weer een erg geslaagd evenement.
In diesem Jahr bin ich mit mein ältester Sohn zum jährlichen Veranstaltung der SGB "Sporen naar het verleden" gefahren. Neben den eigenen Locs waren in diesem Jahr die MBS 7853 'Navicence', die Stoomcentrum Maldegem WD 75196 und die SSN 65 018 zum Gast. Auch die "Stiftung Hundenkopf" kamm nach Goes. In diesem Jahr wurden auch mehrere Güterzüge gefahren, die besonderes meine Interesse hatten. Zusätzlich wurden der omC 909 und der USATC 7989 der NS-Serie 600-2000 aufgestelt. Es war wieder schönes Wetter und eine sehr erfolgreiche Veranstaltung
This year, I went with my youngest son and his friend to the annual event "Sporen naar het verleden". In addition to its own locs, the guests of this year were the MBS 7853 'Navicence', the Stoomcentrum Maldegem WD 75196 and the SSN 65 018. Also the "stichting Hondekop" came to Goes. Several freight trains were also running, which had my mayor interest. In addition, the omC 909 and the USATC 7989, NS series 600-2000 were also shown. It was beautiful day again and a very successful event.