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The Lackawanna Freight House in Jersey City was once an important facility for sorting the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western's inbound and outbound cargo for the railroads waterfront freight terminal. The large brick warehouse is now home to a handful of private businesses including a production line for the famous "Cake Boss" Carlos Bakery.
Another look back to 2019. Though freight under wire here is a daily occurrence, freight in daylight here is very rare.
Here is the post I wrote at the time:
And I thought the Wednesday before this was special with my impromptu chase of PR3 down the East Providence branch and up the East Junction to Seekonk. Well this day I was in for a far bigger treat!
While heading home from work on I95 I drive right alongside the Amtrak NEC main where it appears alongside in Pawtucket just south of the old Lawn Tower. Across the main is the remnants of the old New Haven receiving yard from the days of when Providence once had a hump yard (closed in the mid 1950s). P&W largely uses this for storing cars and for staging northbound traffic left by PR3 for the overnight WODA/DAWO turn to pick up. When I glanced off the highway I saw that the previous night's pick up was still there (these were the same cars I'd seen on my way into work on Tuesday night) so I knew DAWO didn't go to Worcester. Then moments later I saw the road train over in the yard pulled down by the power plant where the old Colfax used to be. So, naturally I put the brakes on my homeward commute figuratively and literally and hopped off the highway at Smithfield Ave.
I paused for a minute over in our layover facility and texted a friend who I knew was the engineer on that job. He confirmed that he had a rough night and that was indeed their train tied down and they'd never made it to Davisville. But he was heading home to bed and didn't know what their plan was.
So then I headed over into the Amtrak MOW base (luckily the gates were all frozen and snowed open!) to get near the head end. The P&W trainmaster was just dropping the PR3 crew on the head end and confirmed that they were going to head to Davisville. This meant a very rare daylight run on the corridor south of Cranston Yard (the south limits of where PR3 normally goes). So I grabbed a few shots in the remains of the old New Haven Northrup Ave Yard and then watched them shove out with the trainmaster helping them make the moves.
Meanwhile my friend and fellow Keolis employee (and ex PW engineer) Nick Palazini showed up and we made a plan to get some rare shots. We grabbed a shot off the Smithfield Ave bridge then headed south not knowing how quickly he'd get a window through the station and down the mainline.
There was no doubt which shot I wanted. Arguably East Greenwich, RI is the most scenic stretch of the NEC in my home state. In addition to a surviving historic depot and a gorgeous stone arch bridge, East Greenwich sports the only stretch of seaside running along the old NYNH&H Shoreline in the Ocean State.
So naturally there was nowhere else to even consider. I think you'll agree this was a worthy choice. Despite waiting nearly 90 min in the wind and cold on a narrow dock at Prime Marina along Greenwich Bay on the east edge of Narragansett Bay.
So here we see PR3's crew on a 47 car WODA road freight southbound headed toward the Seaview interchange in Davisville.
This is a shot I've dreamt off from the day I first discovered it, and while shooting Amtrak and MBTA trains here is fun, nothing can top a big freight under wire on the old New Haven.
Another uber rare bucket list shot acheived...and all by pure chance on a morning after work!.
Hope you enjoy this even half as much as I do!
East Greenwich, Rhode Island
Wednesday March 6, 2019
It's Freight Car Friday so here's a look at yet another ore hopper. While I've featured many shots of the classic 70+ year old Missabe hoppers and their modern CN replacements here's what the competition runs. This particular car was one of 180 empties found in BNSF train UALLBRM2 25T heading up range for loading at Hibtac seen rolling through the interlocking at West Chub Lake at MP 35 on the Lakes Sub.
These cars are unique and cool in their own right and though many have been cycled thru a rebuild program at Havelock Shop that has seen them emerged patched with new BNSF numbers many unblemished originals like this remain. This particular car is 44 years old and was part of a 300 car order built by Bethlehem Steel between May and July of 1980 for the Burlington Northern. This car and it's siblings have spent their entire service lives cycling between the Iron Range the Allouez terminal in Superior.
Carlton, Minnesota
Thursday September 12, 2024
Luftbild vom Paketzentrum (oder Frachtzentrum) in Aschheim, von der Deutschen Post eingerichtetes Verteilsystem für Pakete.
The work at Belle Plaine is complete and these two Chicago & North Western F3As eagerly await a clear signal for the return home to Ottawa Yard.
They are former CGW locomotives built in 1948 and acquired by the C&NW in the 1968 merger; they sport the “Employee Owned” herald of the 1970s. The expanded mesh screening between the portholes on the locomotive bodies identify them as Phase II F3As.
Thomas Sansone’s models. Photo by Mark Mathu.
Visit the HO scale NAPM club on-line at www.napmltd.com.
Baltimore & Annapolis Railroad freight motor 18 is at the company's Bladen Street yard in Annapolis, MD, May 30, 1949. Number 18 was built in 1909 by Jewett for the Annapolis Short Line electrification. It was originally a 6600 volt AC powered combine numbered 37. In 1914 the ASL was converted to DC power and #37 became freight motor #300. It was acquired in the 1921 merger with the WB&A becoming that road's 18. When the WB&A was abandoned in 1935, the newly formed Baltimore & Annapolis Railroad purchased it and it became their sole freight locomotive until it was replaced by a GE 70 ton diesel electric locomotive numbered 50. Walter Hulseweder original B&W negative.
National Rail's 7BS2 Superfreighter with TNT loading waits for a spark to pass before 8135 and 8162 are able to negotiate the crossovers to the freight line (previously Down relief).
The low sun cast shadows on 395 025 & 029 as they speed through Lenham Freight Loops on the 1142 St Pancras to Margate service.
PRR K-4 leads a Procor tank car and another Canadian boxcar on a rather interesting freight train.
Captured with a Voigtlander 58mm f/1.4 prime @ f/10 and a slower shutter to get some motion blur but not wipe away the buildings on my garden railroad.
New freight flow bringing steel from the midlands here we see 66013 still in the EWS maroon passing Rainhill working 6M10 12:36 Toton Up Sidings - Seaforth C.T MDHC (EWS)
The sun glints off the side of 66099 as it skirts the edge of Hunt Cliff near Skinningrove, with a loaded steel train from Tees yard to the steelworks at Skinningrove. In the distance are Boulby cliffs which at a hight of 679ft are amongst the highest in Britain.
Freight trains next to the University of Minnesota's Old Main Heating Plant
Cityscape Dinkytown "Downtown Minneapolis" Fog Foggy "Freight Train" "Gold Medal Flour" "Long Exposure" Minneapolis Minnesota Night "Steam Plant" Train "University of Minnesota" "University of Minnesota's Old Main Heating Plant" reflections "United States of America"