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BHP Billiton withdrew the last of their 40 GE Dash 8 locomotives in July 2015, as they were replaced by newer, more powerful locos. Scrapping started soon after at the Sims Metal plant in Wedgefield, and industrial suburb of Port Hedland.
These were unique American-design locos within Australia, in that they had the short hood removed and rebuilt cabs at the very front of the body.
best-of set from over 300 photos shot in the mojave airplane graveyard. nikon n90s + fuji velvia RVP film
When a sign warns you of something, you should usually follow it....or end up reversing down a road for 100 metres!
best-of set from over 300 photos shot in the mojave airplane graveyard. nikon n90s + fuji velvia RVP film
The legendary Penzance Fryer - featuring pioneer Class 40 D200 :) There were many fine rail tours back in the 1980s, and it was often possible to get haulage behind your favourite class and travel over rare track at the same time, as with this tour, and all for a modest outlay of £15-20. Happy days 😍
In this view we see pioneer loco D200 (aka 40122) - steaming away nicely awaiting departure after having run round the train at Penzance - the very first of the class to make it there! The railtour - "The Penzance Fryer" - which was run by Traintours, became rather infamous, with D200 suffering over the South Devon Banks and almost coming to a standstill on the Cornish hills! The tour started at the ungodly hour of 03.00 at Manchester Victoria, but with 45107 in charge. From memory, I joined the tour at Crewe where D200 took over 😎)
I don't recall jumping down onto the tracks, but I guess I was keen to get an unusual angle of D200 as she steamed away, as the crowds were teeming on the platform :)
Anyone recognise themselves on the platform?
And does anyone recall what time we departed Penzance - it's not clear on Six Bells Junction: www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/851109tt.htm
NOW on SoundCloud! Enjoy the sound of the English Electric Type 4 - for a good 45mins you can immerse yourself in reliving the experience of hanging out of a Mark 1 carriage window behind a classic diesel 😎
The recordings I made on the day were recorded onto a Maxell II metal tape and have lasted quite well over the last 40 years - some distortion with the loco at full power much of the time, but atmospheric all the same!
Visit the track here: on.soundcloud.com/jpZQTxxeRFJv0GFM53
Track list:
1) Start - 2m 00s we start with D200 as she struggles up Dainton Bank, between Newton Abbot and Totnes, with 10 Mk. 1s. The train can clearly be heard entering Dainton Tunnel.
2) 2m 10s - 7m 50s D200 is now struggling even more up Rattery Bank on full throttle 😍) after leaving Totnes - the weather was foul all day and the rails were somewhat slippery!
3) 7m 50s - 14m 05s continuing up Rattery Bank, with Wrangaton summit finally reached at 12m 15s!
4) 14m 10s - 19m 45s now we’re on the return working, just passed Saltash and over Brunel’s finest bridge on the run into Plymouth (slightly garbled on this section)
5) 19m 50s - 21m 15s after a short scheduled stop at Plymouth, the station staff attempt to get the train moving again 😍)
6) 21m 20s - 26m 20s finally we depart Plymouth, and whistle through the suburbs before getting signal stopped.
7) 26m 25s - 27m 35s after the signal stop, the train continues east heading for the infamous Hemerdon Bank!
8) 27m 35s - 30m 35s D200 with a standing start at the foot of Hemerdon Bank! , with Wrangaton summit finally reached at 12m 15s!
9) 30m 40s - 35m 30s D200 continues on full power up Hemerdon Bank 😍)
10) 35m 30s - 35m 50s a quick snatch of D200 giving a blast under the station roof at Bristol Temple Meads on the run-round
11) 35m 55s - 38m 45s we now depart Bristol Temple Meads heading north for Birmingham.
12) 38m 45s - 43m 40s and as a suitable finale, we hear D200 at Bromsgrove again performing a standing start on the attack of the famous Lickey Incline!
The British Rail Class 40s were built by English Electric between 1958 and 1962. They were numbered D200-D399. Despite their initial success, by the time the last examples were entering service they were already being replaced on some top-level duties by more powerful locomotives. As they were slowly relegated from express passenger uses, the type found work on secondary passenger and freight services where they worked for many years. The final locomotives ended regular service in 1985. The locomotives were commonly known as "Whistlers" because of the distinctive noise made by their turbochargers.
British Railways originally ordered ten Class 40s, then known as "English Electric Type 4s", as evaluation prototypes. They were built at the Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire. The first locomotive, D200, was delivered to Stratford on 14 March 1958. Following fitter and crew training, D200 made its passenger début on an express train from London Liverpool Street to Norwich on 18 April 1958. Five of the prototypes, Nos. D200, D202-D205, were trialled on similar services on the former Great Eastern routes, whilst the remaining five, Nos. D201, D206-D209, worked on Great Northern services on the East Coast Main Line.
Taken with a Zenith TTL SLR camera. Scanned from the original negative with no digital restoration.
You can see a random selection of my railway photos here on Flickriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/themightyhood/random/
best-of set from over 300 photos shot in the mojave airplane graveyard. nikon n90s + fuji velvia RVP film
Narvik Station. The end of a long rail journey for me starting in Lisbon, Portugal.
© Image & Design Ian Halsey MCMXCIX
My table, paintings, toy box and skate board created at the White Canvas Project this weekend which was hosted by the very supreme Supremebeing™ Official Page. We had a blast! To see what me, Will Barras, Jim Vision of EndoftheLine, Memuco, Guy McKinley, Blaine Fontana of Fontana Studios, Mr Penfold, Chase, SheOne, David Walker and Bue the Warrior got up to visit whitecanvasproject.com/ and keep up to date with me as I will be sharing lots more photographs and info soon. All pieces will be part of an exhibition held in London in October where you'll be able to buy any of these goodies made with love and sweat. x SD x
Wikipedia, The Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, often abbreviated as the D&SNG, is a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge heritage railroad that operates on 45.2 mi (72.7 km) of track between Durango and Silverton, in the U.S. state of Colorado. The railway is a federally-designated National Historic Landmark and was also designated by the American Society of Civil Engineers as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1968.[3]
Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad
Overview
Headquarters
Durango, Colorado
Locale
La Plata County, Colorado
San Juan County, Colorado
Dates of operation
1881–present
Technical
Track gauge
3 ft (914 mm)
Length
45 miles (72 km)
Other
Website
Route map
Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Highline above Animas Canyon
Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad is located in ColoradoDurango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad
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Location
Durango, Colorado
Silverton, Colorado
Coordinates
37°17′51″N 107°52′14″W
Built
1882
Architect
General William J. Palmer
NRHP reference No.
66000247[1][2]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP
October 15, 1966
Designated NHL
July 4, 1961
The route was originally opened in 1882 by the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG) to transport silver and gold ore mined from the San Juan Mountains. The line was the "San Juan" extension of the D&RG 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge line from Antonito, Colorado, to Durango. The last train to operate into Durango from the east was on December 6, 1968. The states of New Mexico and Colorado purchased 64 miles of track between Antonito and Chama, New Mexico, in 1970, which is operated today as the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad (C&TSRR). Trackage between Chama and Durango was removed by 1971.
The line from Durango to Silverton has run continuously since 1881, although it is now a tourist and heritage line hauling passengers, and is one of the few places in the U.S. which has seen continuous use of steam locomotives. In March 1981, the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW) sold the line and the D&SNG was formed.[4] Today, the D&SNG, along with the C&TSRR, are the only two remaining parts of the former D&RGW narrow-gauge network. The railroad has a total of nine narrow-gauge steam locomotives (eight of which are operational) and ten narrow-gauge diesel locomotives, six of which have been acquired since 2020, on its current roster.
Some rolling-stock dates back to the 1880s. Trains operate from Durango to the Cascade Wye in the winter months and Durango–Silverton during the summer months. Durango depot was built in January 1882 and has been preserved in its original form.[4] Train".
The D&RG Silverton arrives pulling the glass-topped "Silver Vista" observation car in 1947.
William Jackson Palmer (1836–1908) was a former Union General (serving in the American Civil War) who came to Colorado after managing the construction of the Kansas Pacific Railway into Denver in 1870. Prior to the war, he had risen within the ranks of the Pennsylvania Railroad, serving as secretary to the president. After arriving in Denver, he formulated a plan to build a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge railroad southward from Denver to El Paso, Texas[5] (see Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad). In 1871, the Denver & Rio Grande Railway began to lay rails south from Denver. Palmer and his associates had agreed that the choice of 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge would be well suited to the mountainous country, and relatively less expensive construction costs would enhance the viability of the new railroad. The original north–south plans of the D&RG eventually expanded to include extensions throughout the booming mining country of central and southwestern Colorado.
In July 1881, the Denver & Rio Grande reached Durango and started building the final 45-mile stretch up the Animas River to Silverton. The first 18 miles to Rockwood were completed by late November. The remainder of the route entered the narrow Animas Canyon, which has steep granite walls. The labor crew, made up of mostly Chinese and Irish immigrants, blasted the canyon cliffs off and left a narrow, level shelf to lay the tracks on. Grading was completed by late spring 1882.[6]
The D&RG reached Silverton on July 10, 1882. Trains hauling passengers and freight began immediately. The D&RG soon re-emerged as the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad (1886) and ultimately began operating as the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad (D&RGW) on July 31, 1921, after re-organization of the Colorado lines and Rio Grande Western of Utah.[7] Eventually, the railroad became widely known as the "Rio Grande".
The Silverton branch, as it became known, struggled under D&RG ownership following the Panic of 1893 and the end of free coinage of silver. Typical of many portions of the surviving narrow-gauge branches into the middle of the twentieth century, the line faced sagging revenue due to ever-declining mining ventures, highway trucking competition and insignificant passenger revenue. Annual snowslides and several major floods on the branch would only continue to challenge the railroad's ability to survive.
The Silverton
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After World War II, domestic tourism began to grow across the country and the Silverton branch of the railroad would benefit. Bolstered by national exposure via Hollywood movies being filmed along the line in the late 1940s, the railroad created The Silverton, a summer-only train service, on June 24, 1947.[8] A short time later, the railroad adorned a locomotive and four coaches with a colorful yellow paint scheme and launched modest public promotion. With this effort, "The Painted Train" officially started a new era of tourism that continues to this day. Freight traffic, however, continued to decline, and during the 1950s The Silverton operated as a mixed train.[9]
By the 1960s, a modernized D&RGW did not see the Silverton Branch as worthy to maintain and a petition was filed with governmental agencies to abandon it. The Interstate Commerce Commission declined to grant the request due to the continued increase in tourist patronage. Following the ICC's ruling, the railroad reluctantly responded by investing in additional rolling stock, track maintenance and improvements to the Durango depot. The railroad purchased some of the property around the depot, cleaned up the block extending north to Sixth Street and facilitated the opening of gift shops and other tourist-friendly businesses. As ridership continued to grow, the D&RGW operated a second train to Silverton on certain days.[10]
1970s
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Since 1971, the Silverton branch and nearby Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad (C&TSRR) were the only remnants of the Rio Grande's once extensive narrow-gauge system.[4] During the late 1970s, the D&RGW was actively trying to sell the Silverton branch and, in 1979, Charles Bradshaw, a Florida citrus grower, offered the railroad a legitimate opportunity to divest itself of the now-isolated route. On October 5, 1980, The Silverton made its last run under D&RGW ownership and, after operating a work train the following day, the railroad finally concluded its 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge train operations,[11] bringing to a close an era that began 110 years earlier with its narrow-gauge railroad from Denver to Colorado Springs.
2000s to present
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In June 2018, the railroad shut down for several weeks due to a wildfire, named the "416 Fire",[12] which was fought by two air tankers, six helicopters and some 400 firefighters on the ground.[13] An estimated 54,129 acres (21,905 ha) of the San Juan National Forest were burned, with losses estimated at more than $31 million. Given the fire risk from coal cinder-sparked wildfires, the railroad's owner plans to invest several million dollars to replace coal-power with oil-power for its steam locomotives and has acquired two new narrow-gauge diesel locomotives.[14] The railroad's coal-burning steam locomotives were suspected of sparking the "416 Fire" blaze,[15] and some area businesses and residents filed a civil lawsuit against the railroad and its owner in mid-September 2018.[16] As of 2023, the railroad aims to have most, if not all, of its operational steam locomotives converted to oil-power.[17] The railroad closed for several months in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[18]
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End of Line presents Meeting of Styles 2009
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The Meeting os Styles is London's Largest Graffiti & Street Art Festival! It is presented by EndoftheLine. The UK represented with 60 carefully selected artists from all over the country and beyond. Painting over one weekend only.
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While hiking around Long Lake, my wife spotted the remains of a dragonfly on the sand. The body had been consumed by a bird or fish, but the wings were lying there in perfect symmetry. Yet another generation done for a species that has existed for a third of a billion years. It is a realisation that can certainly cause one to pause in thought, if only for a moment...
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Lens: Canon EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Location: Alicante, Spain [?]
Shot info: 24 mm at f/4.0 during 5 bracketed exposures, merged in Photomatix.