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Apologies for the gap in adding photos but my duties as carer for my wife mean that I have little spare time at present. I have some respite coming up soon and maybe I will find some more time, so please continue watching this space.
In planning some events to photograph over the next couple of weeks I was visiting the Dean Forest Railway site and noticed that the tanker train was booked to run with the visiting class50. I was only able to take a couple of scenes of the last working and it gave my wife a run out to see the scenery. Thanks to the volunteers who made it easy for Jan to view the trains from the car.
Class50 50021 Rodney is seen approaching Parkend with the 14.45 Lydney Junction to Parkend tanker train on 6-9-25. Some of the staff/ workers had had a very late notice that the 50 was working. It was good to see a well loaded brake van. I only met one other photographer during my visit.
Parkend has changed significantly over the last few years. No longer a rural backwater but a fully functioning railway.
Ref: IMG_3912 6-9-25
Sporting Santa on the front, cable tied into the knuckle coupler, G528 powers up Lovely Banks away from Bell Post Hill on approach to Moorabool with 9157 loaded cement train to Mildura.
9157 was operated as an 'extra' service to Mildura as 9101/2 had not been operating back as 9102 Sunday Night/Monday Mornings and as 9101 on Monday Nights/Tuesday Morning for the past 3 weeks due to a decrease in loading. The container train had been stabled in Merbein from Saturday morning till Tuesday night.
This was the last cement train to operate from North Geelong to Mildura in physical cement hoppers. The hoppers then returned Thursday Night/Friday Morning to Gheringhap empty. This service will now be carted in containers from Appleton Dock.
The Waurn Ponds - Somerton cement train remains as the last movement of cement hoppers, however this will cease on Wednesday 23rd December 2015.
Monday 14th December 2015
20102 drifts down the grade at Lochmuir with my favourite working - 6K71 13:27 Perth Yard to Millerhill SpeedLink working. The bulk of the train is empty car transporters which would have been used to deliver new Renaults to their delighted owners in the Perth area. Usually a type 2 working, I doubt I would have been too disappointed as it actually ran and I hadn't cycled a dozen miles in vain!
15th June 1983
Freight train 3204 waiting for departure from Seinäjoki to Tampere with two Dv12 locomotives (#2717 and #2713).
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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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