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HWH based WAM-4 loco - 20645 (ex-ET locomotive) showed up with Ranchi ( RNC) bound 18606 (Jaynagar-Ranchi) Tri-weekly Express at its tow !!
Express Clothing Store, Enfield, CT, 2/2015 by Mike Mozart of TheToyChannel and JeepersMedia on YouTube
Transpennine Express 68026 'Enterprise' seen passing through Gatley on 0Z68 1038 Crewe LNWR to Manchester International Depot
11108 Varanasi-Gwalior Bundelkhand Express pulls into Jhansi Jn with an offlink MGS WDM-3A # 18783 ding duties, full rake has brand new 2011 manufactured coaches!
TransPennine Express 397005 seen after arriving into Manchester Airport on 1M96 from Glasgow Central
Stock for the PNR "Bicol Express" stabled at the new Tutuban Station, Manila, the Philippines. 25 January 2017. The overnight "Bicol Express" long distance service to southern Luzon was suspended pending repairs to the infrastructure.
Hovertravel's Island Express leaves Southsea Hoverport with a mid-afternoon flight to Ryde, Isle of Wight.
ANGL based WAG-7 loco - 28167 showed up with Amritsar (ASR) bound 12317 (Sealdah-Amritsar) Akal Takth Express at its tow !! WAG-7 is not an off-link for this train now-a-days !! ANGL shed has been flooded with CFC type G-7 locomotives !!
On June 2nd, in celebration of National Trails Day and the 50th anniversary of the National Trails System Act, the BLM, in cooperation with National Pony Express Association and Lincoln Highway Association representatives, led a guided tour of the Pony Express National Historic Trail through lands managed by the BLM Salt Lake Field Office. The Pony Express National Historic Trail was added to the National Trail System on August 3, 1992 and extends from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California. The trail commemorates the two year run of the Pony Express Mail Service. While the Pony Express only ran from 1860-1861, the trail is also linked to early western explorers, a stagecoach service, the first transcontinental telegraph, overland emigrants, and the first cross-country automobile route. Tour attendees experienced the trail through traces left by stagecoaches and riders, listened to cowboy poetry, learned about the history of the trail, and saw landscapes basically unchanged from 1860.
Photo by Rachel Wootton, BLM
4965 Rood Ashton hall is seen at Birmingham Snow Hill running around it's train. The hall was about to take the first Shakespeare express of the day out.
Long exposure of the Daily Express building in London
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FRUIT GROWERS EXPRESS
Insulated Boxcar
CSXT 198994
ex-Solid Gold
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"NOT A SOLID COLD, BUT A SOLID GOLD!
The name, solid cold comes from my all time favorite boxcar: The mechanically refriderated Solid Cold "reefer". The story of the Solid Cold is as follows: In 1982 Fruit Growers Express, or FGE (owned by CSX) needed to repair and upgrade their 20 year old existing fleet of RBL boxcars (insulated plug door cars with moveable load dividers). 2500 of these RBL cars were to be retrofitted with a modified load divider system, as well as installing Chemply fiberglass resistant lining to the sidewalls and upgrading the cushioned underframe and plug door system.
The new refurbished RBL cars cost a fraction of the price of what a new car would have cost ($12,000 vs $60,000). These rebuilt cars were as good as “gold” and as “solid” as a new car. To market these new cars to shippers, FGE had the new cars re-painted with a 3D looking scheme that read Solid Gold.
The first prototype out of shop (in Alexandria, VA) was to be stenciled “Solid Gold” on the right side. During stenciling however, part of the ‘G’ had slipped and the horizontal leg of the ‘G’ was missing therefore making it look like a ‘C’. The stencil blunder gave FGE the idea to market their mechanical reefer cars in companion-like fashion to the Solid Gold and at that moment the name SOLID COLD was born.
In 1987 CSX replaced their marketing director with someone new. In an effort to establish his “identity”, he changed the “Solid Cold” to “Real Cold”. About 50 cars were repainted in this new scheme. The concept and the individual behind it were laughed off the property. As another interesting note, in 1983 FGE retrofitted 50 RPL cars for Stroh’s beer, in which they installed a 20,000 gal stainless steel tank for moving product at a protected temperature. These 50 cars had “The Chiller” logo in the same script as the Solid Cold cars.
During later years and subsequent changes in ownership, Solid Colds began to bare reporting marks such as SFLC, BNFE, ARMH and UPFE. These days, catching a Solid Cold is like finding a peice of hay in a needle stack. The majority of Solid Colds these days have been retired or upgraded/rebuilt under OT-37 or greater to make interchange rules. Rumor has it that many of the Solid Colds have been refurbished into the new UP Chilled Express cars. But that is another story. If anyone knows more on the whereabouts, history or even wants to trade photos of Solid Cold's feel free to drop me a line anytime."
Benched in Los Angeles County, CA
12041 HWH-NJP Shatabdi Negotiating a Curve Just After ENtering The HWH-BWN Chord Line...!!!
Loco Doing Duty Is WDP4 20061...!
Roses Express #1225 (18,698 square feet)
1321 East Memorial Drive, New Market Shopping Center, Ahoskie, NC
This location opened in 2015; it was previously a Maxway.
BR Standard Pacific 70013 breaks the peace as it thunders north with an express freight service, through Elliott Bridge and onwards to Redford.
I was chatting to the operator of the NHV's model railway and it was his first time at the controls solo. He told me the layout was based on a long-closed line in Scotland, but in a 'what if' scenario as if the line had remained in full operation throughout the 1960s. With a bit of hunting online I've been able to figure out that the layout is based upon the Carmyllie Railway, which closed to passengers in 1929 and freight in 1965. There's considerably more history to the line than just that - 110 years of history in fact, with seven different owners/co-owners in that time (!) - so I'm not repeating it all here. There's a Wikipedia Page for all that.
As with most model railways, it's a fictionalised version of its IRL counterpart, with the continued passenger traffic into the 60s and altered (but still local) station names; Redford represents the Carmyllie terminus, while Elliot Bridge represents one of the intermediate stations on the line (Elliott being the name of the water course the real railway followed for some of its distance). Principal traffic on the real railway was stone brought down from the quarries at Carmyllie, that came via a tramway that met the top of the line.
It's highly unlikely that Ollie Cromwell would have ever been found forging up through this corner of Scotland with a high speed freight, but I'm quite partial to devising random lore for fictitious (or semi-fictitious) transport-related universes/situations/whatever, so here's an idea;
70013 was sent up north for a short period, breaking up its time based at Carlisle into two, and while out and about the failure of another engine necessitated a couple of loco swaps that led to Ollie heading a late-running goods up the Carmyllie branch (which as the layout shows is a more major branch), with a bulk shipment of coal for both the Carmyllie quarries and BR's steam loco facility at Redford (a loco shed also being modelled there) as well as some miscellaneous 'trip' goods to be dropped at Elliott Bridge. 70013 would then be stabled at Redford shed overnight before taking a stone train back down the line and ultimately working another train or two back to its temporary Scottish home.
I like that, it works for the one photo at least - it would need significant alteration to explain why Oliver Cromwell was shuttling goods up and down several times a day. I'm not doing that too, because, well, I mean for some reason I've just gone and spent two hours researching not just the service history of British Railways 70013 Oliver Cromwell, but also the entirety of a random, long lost Scottish railway to come up with a fictitious backstory to a blurry photo of a model train...
If that's not pointless dedication then I don't know what is!
Optare Solo CX08 AOG had been new to Nefyn Coaches and is seen here operating for Express Motors in Caernarfon on 28th October 2018. Following the closure of the disgraced Express business, the vehicle passed back to Nefyn Coaches.
The Rooftop Express is a pretty funky show involving a truck and gooseneck caravan setup with great colourful lights, horses, cattle, men on the horses, commentary from a man on the horse, all good fun. It is a good show and I recommend you see it somewhere, have seen it in Sydney, Toowoomba and Brisbane of course.
On a sunny day, ultra clean and white looking SR's GOC WDP-4B #40067 arrives pf#4 of Trivandrum Central with the 21 coach rake of 16723 MS-TVC Anantapuri express in tow.This is the only train arriving TVC with diesel link from both ends.
Panda Express #2259 (2,578 square feet)
2031 Coliseum Drive, Peninsula Town Center, Hampton, VA
This location opened on April 18th, 2014. It was built on site of a former Steak and Ale.