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Now I've already been building on the 12 ton ventilated van for some time now and only recently got it done. Due to the building techniques used it's quite heavy, but it is also one of my best rolling freight cars. The tank wagon is an older design, but I redid some of it. You can see those silverish bands to hold the tank rather than the strings I used before. Also the wheels are steered (so in curves they turn around a bit). The fake wheel holders are also new.
Llevaba varios meses sin fotografiar mercantes de esta compañía pero hoy el objetivo era la esquiva Vossloh 333. Una vez más no he tenido suerte y sigo sin estrenarme con esa locomotora. Pero sería un estúpido si me lamentara porque su "compañera" es toda una preciosidad y hoy lucía espléndida en la veraniega tarde de Luyando.
I've been for several months without shooting freights of this company, but today I was waiting for the elusive Vossloh 333. Again no luck and I still can´t see this locomotive. But it would be stupid if I was sorry because its "companion" is gorgeous and today all looked splendid in the summer afternoon of Luyando.
With 66702 Blue Lightning waiting to access the Sutton Park line with 4S57 Hams Hall to Mossned, Climate Hero 66004 powers up through Water Orton with 6H12 Walsall Freight Terminal to Briggs Sidings.
Monikers, ca. 2000-2020. Mostly shot on the CN main line while passing by me on their way through Georgetown, ON, while some were shot on stationary freight layed up along the CP line through Toronto.
With Bennachie prominent in the background, 37422 "Cardiff Canton" heads south near Kintore with 6A67 Elgin - Laurencekirk carrying seed potatoes for onward transport to Mossend.
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It's October 20, 2011. The short freight train consisting of SM42-028 and a dozen or so two-axle 3W/L Es-type open box wagons is passing the remains of the Grzegorzewice passenger stop which has been closed down for over 10 years, on the railway line no. 12. It was really lucky to meet such an exotic consist by chance, in addition with one of the oldest working in PKP Cargo SM42's that time.
I don't remember the use of such wagons commonly, maybe except for Halemba power plant, which tippler was adopted for these wagons exclusively. And the last time I saw them... being cut for scrap at Warszawa Główna Towarowa station in January 2021. An funfact: 3W/L wagons were remade from 202L refrigerated wagons, which turned out to be unnecessary in the 1990s, when road transport took over the vast majority of refrigerated products, being just more efficient and much faster.
Photo by Jarek / Chester
Mamy 20 października 2011 roku. Szczątki nieczynnego od ponad 10 lat przystanku osobowego Grzegorzewice na linii 12 mija krótki pociąg towarowy, złożony z SM42-028 oraz kilkunastu dwuosiowych węglarek Es, typu 3W/L. Spotkać taki egzotyczny skład przypadkiem, w dodatku z jedną z najstarszych czynnych SM42, to naprawdę było szczęście.
Moja pamięć ogarnia konieczność stosowania dwuosiowych węglarek w Elektrowni Halemba, gdzie wywrotnica przystosowana jest (była?) do takich mikrusów, poza tym nie kojarzę wtedy masowego użycia takich wagonów. A ostatni raz je widziałem... podczas cięcia na złom na stacji Warszawa Główna Towarowa w styczniu 2021. Ciekawostka dla niezorientowanych - wagony 3W/L powstały z przebudowy wagonów chłodni typu 202L. które w latach 90. okazały się niepotrzebne, gdy transport samochodowy artykułów chłodniczych okazał się dużo bardziej efektywny od kolejowego.
Wspominając o nieczynnym przystanku osobowym, otwieram rozkład jazdy 1997/1998 i przystanków - dzisiaj nieczynnych lub wręcz nieistniejących - na linii 12 znajduję dużo więcej: Długokąty, Grabce, Jeżewice, Gąski, Prażmów, Warszówka... to tylko te między Skierniewicami i Pilawą. Elektryczny pociąg osobowy ze Skierniewic do Łukowa pokonywał 160 kilometrową trasę w ciut ponad 3 godziny, co dawało niezłą jak na pociąg regionalny średnią handlową ponad 50 km/h. Najwyraźniej kondycja toru nr 2 była gorsza, gdyż w przeciwnym kierunku pociąg potrzebował około pół godziny więcej do pokonania całej trasy z postojami. Już wtedy częstotliwość nie byłą rewelacyjna - cztery pary między Skierniewicami i Pilawą (100 km), 6 par między Pilawą i Łukowem (60 km).
Fot. Jarek / Chester
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
MÁV 630 026 rolls to a stand on a through road at Szolnok station to await a path onwards while hauling a block train of Eaos open wagons.
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Freight train 3204 waiting for departure from Seinäjoki to Tampere with two Dv12 locomotives (#2717 and #2713).
In November 1993, New Zealand Rail (NZR) locomotives DF6029/DBR1282 head their Otiria to Whangarei freight through the yard at Hikurangi.
DF6029 was built by GM in Canada in 1979, while DBR1282 was originally built by Clyde Engineering as DB 1015 in Sydney in 1966. It was rebuilt by the same company in Adelaide, South Australia, and re-numbered in the early 1980s.
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