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La bella livrea della E190 025 delle ÖBB che effettua un merci per Rail Cargo Italia, in breve pausa nella stazione di Latisana.
Charming livery for ÖBB's 1216 025 that operates a freight train for Rail Cargo Italia, in a short stop in Latisana station.
The Naugatuck Railroad is that rather rare tourist railroad and museum which is also a common carrier freight railroad. However, as a non profit the freight revenue returns to support the ongoing preservation, restoration, and expanded excursion goals.
This view looks north near MP 6.9 on the Naugatuck Railroad's mainline as NAUG 686 shoves a cut of empty construction debris/trash gons north for storage on the mainline just south of the Thomaston Station since no passenger excursions were operating at the time during the museum's winter off season. This unit is an EMD GP9 painted in a scheme mirroring its original look as Norfolk and Western 686 for which it was built in Mar. 1959. It and sister 859 came here in 2019 from South Carolina's Hampton and Branchville Railroad.
The the train is passing under Reynolds Bridge which carries Waterbury Road (unsigned State Road 848) over the Naugatuck River. Built in 1928, it is one of a small number of surviving concrete open-spandrel arch bridges in the state. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. The bridge is a three-arch open spandrel concrete structure, with four concrete beam approach spans on either side. The main span is 169 feet long, while the secondary arches are each 97 feet; the brige has a total length of 487 feet. At the time of its construction in 1928, the open-spandrel design was used for long concrete bridge crossings, and this was the longest designed by the Connecticut State Highway Department up to that time. The Cornwall Bridge, built a few years later over the Housatonic River and railroad, has a longer span. It has also been featured here and photos of it can be found in my Housatonic album.
As for the railroad, the Naugatuck is the operating arm of the Railroad Museum of New England. Home to one of the largest collections of preserved historic railroad equipment in New England, RMNE and its predecessor organizations have been active since the 1960s and the RMNE name was adopted in 1987.
This line goes back to the original Naugatuck Railroad which was chartered in 1845, to be built between Bridgeport and Winsted, adjacent to the Naugatuck River. Construction began in April, 1848, and was completed by May, 1849. The first regular train service began June 11, 1849. The New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad began leasing the Naugatuck in 1887; and formally merged it in 1906.
Passenger service between Waterbury and Winsted was discontinued in 1958. Facing hard economic times as a result of the decline of its New england industrial base in the 1960s, the New Haven Railroad became a part of the Penn Central merger on January 1, 1969. The branch line suffered during the Penn Central years, losing freight customers and falling into disrepair and was left out of inclusion in Conrail by the USRA's final system plan.
In 1976, the State of Connecticut stepped in to save the northern portion when it purchased the line between Waterbury and Torrington, and Conrail was named the designated operator. In 1982, Boston & Maine leased the line line when under progressive president Alan Dustin it expanded into Connecticut for the first time in its history. But traffic continued to decline on the route, and Guilford Rail system (owners of the B&M) discontinued regular freight service on August 2, 1995. The future of the line was in question. Looking for a new home where it could establish a tourist operation the RMNE moved from Essex on the Valley Railroad to Thomaston.
The RMNE restored the original Naugatuck Railroad name from 1845 when it obtained a state charter for its new wholly owned operating subsidiary on June 7, 1995. The first passenger trains ran in October of 1996. They operate regular excursion service on the southern portion of the lines and occasional charters and specials to the northern end in Torrington.
In 2016 the the NAUG also began regular freight operations when Cherry Hill Construction opened its brand new C&D Transfer Facility called Frost Bridge about 2.5 miles south of this point. To learn more about the Naugatuck's freight operations check out their page here: www.naugfreight.com/
Thomaston, Connecticut
Thursday January 22, 2026
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IN two tone green livery D1705 (47117) 'Sparrowhawk' passes Woodthorpe with the windcutters during the 2006 Diesel Gala.
06 060 & 06 029 of BDZ Cargo with freight trains at Bratsigovo station. That's definitely is not a common view on the branch line to Peshtera. This year there were several courses of a freight trains with fuel for a military fuel base, located near the town of Bratsigovo, but overall the freight traffic on this line is very very poor. I would say that these fuel trains from time to time for this base are the only freight traffic on the line.
In this situation I was lucky to catch both locomotives when 06 029 took out an empty train from the base, while 06 060 is waiting for it to push the full tanks in the base.
A trainspotting video of the shunting action in Bratsigovo and the passing train with the two Sulzers is available here:
The freight traffic from Burgas has been slowly, but steadily increasing over the past year. Last week, an additional tanker train left for Sofia in between the two regular evening freights. The shiny 46 036 was chosen to drive it.
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ET22-102 with a set for transporting the long rails passes the freight part of Gdańsk Wrzeszcz station. On the left in the background SM42 locomotive with two wagons of local freight trains. Far in the middle Wr1 switch tower that was demolished couple of years later, when Pomeranian Metropolitan Railway was constructed.
Photo by Jarek / Chester
ET22-102 z zestawem do przewozu długich szyn mija towarową część stacji Gdańsk Wrzeszcz. W tle po lewej SM42 z dwoma wagonami lokalnego pociągu zdawczego. Daleko w tle pośrodku nastawnia Wr1, która przestała istnieć, gdy wybudowano linię Pomorskiej Kolei Metropolitalnej. March 3, 2005.
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In October of 1990, recently-restored Pere Marquette Berkshire #1225 pulled some freight trains on CSX's Plymouth Subdivision between Plymouth and Grand Rapids. These trips were test runs to see how the engine performed as a prelude to the locomotive's big trip to Huntington, WV the following year for the NRHS convention. They marked the first time since 1951 that a PM steam locomotive had operated on PM rails, and by all accounts were a success. The west-bound trip is seen here at the east end of Trowbridge in East Lansing, where #1225 was displayed for nearly 25 years at Michigan State University.
A scanned slide from my collection, taken by B Carlson.
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ST44-949 with daily freight train TNGS 8580 from Szczecin Port Centralny to Zajączkowo Tczewskie several minutes before reaching Człuchów. March 26, 2005.
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ST44-949 z codziennym pociągiem towarowym 8580 ze Szczecina Portu Centralnego do Zajączkowa Tczewskiego niewiele minut przed osiągnięciem Człuchowa na trasie. 26 marca 2005 roku.
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The Zillertalbahns freight services are still going strong three years after the resumption of service. The trains schedule remains basically the same with a approximately 7:30 departure from Jenbach to Fügen which works out well in the long summer days. Unlike last year I got the freight on the first attempt. The train is seen here entering the Ziller Valley at Strass.
After New England Central train 324 outlawed at White River Junction, local crew 600 took the train the rest of the way to Brattleboro. The train is passing one of the many farms with an impressive tractor set up. Photo taken Putney, VT
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Duo of Czech 740-class locomotives (740.426 and 740.638) with international freight train 661010 from Meziměsti to Rogoźnica (here you can read the story about this very train, worth reading) approach Boguszów Gorce Wschód junction. Before it happens, the train will pass the area that used to be a freight station (Boguszów Gorce Towarowy, formerly Fellhammer Güterbahnhof) just after this curve. It seems more than 50 years ago the station tracks were dismantled. July 4, 2021.
Photo by Jarek / Chester
Duet czeskich kocurów (740.426 i 740.638) z międzynarodowym pociągiem towarowym 661010 z granicznego Meziměsti do Rogoźnicy (nawiasem, warto przeczytać ciekawą historię tego pociągu tutaj) zbliża się do tarczy ostrzegawczej posterunku odgałęźnego Boguszów Gorce Wschód. Za chwilę, za tym łukiem, który widać na zdjęciu, pociąg minie teren byłej stacji Boguszów Gorce Towarowy. rozebranej ponad 50 lat temu. 4 lipca 2021 r.
Fot. Jarek / Chester
EN - An old and rusty freight railway wagon. Probably abandoned for 30+ years.
IT - Ruggine su un vecchio vagone merci, probabilmente abbandonato da oltre 30 anni.
Another early start got me to Helwith Bridge to see 66152 on the Tees Dock-Newbiggin gypsum wagons.The engine failed in Dentdale causing significant delays to the following trains.It could have been much worse but the train was rescued by a Colas Class 70 which was working south light engine
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The northbound chase of the third Dakota and Iowa train of the day (the Sioux City to Hawarden job) only yielded a few shots as it was relatively short distance, the light was generally wrong, and the day was winding down. This was by far my favorite of the mini chase of this train seen here in the small town of Akron. They are passing one of the very few surving Milwaukee Road depots along the line, that seems to have lasted because it has long been privately owned.
This is right about MP 12.3 on what was historically the thirty-seventh sub of the Milwaukee Road's Minnesota-Dakota Division in the road's last years. Here are DAIR SD40-2s 3029 and 3025 (EMD blt. Jun. 1979 and Jun. 1980 as MP 6041 and BN 8117 respectively) leading a moderately sized train of tanks, gons, and aggregate hoppers.
To learn a bit more check out my first post of this great day here: flic.kr/p/2mmzSW3
Akron, Iowa
Monday August 30, 2021
66740 with 6S94,the Wembley-Irvine china clays on 24/6/2020. With the freights booked to cross near Gisburn in the Ribble Valley this overbridge looked to be the best option to get both.There were obviously problems later with this train as RTT shows it stuck at Blea Moor for some 7 hours !
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Ty45-20 with the freight train passes Głuszyca Górna ex-station? Not at all, it's just an event train 88050 for railfans with nice freight outfit on February 10, 2001. The travellers were in first two wagons (equipped with coal or coke-fired heating stoves). Unfortunatelly the negative film I took that day went bad through the years and again, Piotrek must have been curating it in Gimp couple of hours to preserve all these puffs of smoke around. The overall effect is not the best but I appreciate all efforts he made to make it possible to show.
Photo by Jarek / Chester
Ty45-20 z pociągiem towarowym w Głuszycy Górnej? Nic z tych rzeczy, to tylko imprezowy pociąg 10 lutego 2001 roku, numer 88050 relacji Wałbrzych Główny - Kłodzko Główne. Uczestników "zakwaterowano" w brankardach (w których zainstalowane były "kozy" na węgiel czy koks).
Niestety negatyw, który wówczas miałem strasznie spsiał przez te lata i Piotrek (znów) musiał sporo wysiłku włożyć, by zachować piękne kłęby pary nad parowozem. Chociaż końcowy efekt nie zadowala mnie w pełni, to chylę czoła przed jego umiejętnościami i cierpliwością (nie wiem, co większe).
Fot. Jarek / Chester
The Rhätische Bahn 11:29 Landquart to Ilanz freight 5737 arrives at Valendas Sagogn station in the care of Ge 4/4" 614 'Schiers'.
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North Rails freight train on its way from Uusikaupunki to Kouvola. Trees are slowly showing signs of autumn.
So after watching them 'Blast Off' from Monmouth the agonizingly slow speed chase was underway. This is not your father's Maine Central...no more CTC and no more 40 mph...it's a plodding, dark, mostly 10 mph affair these days. But I suppose if you didn't know any better it would look impressive from these still photos (excepting the ratty patch jobs of course) with six units and intermodal on the head pin.
Here is the decent sized Pan Am Railways train POWA headed to Waterville with 37 loads, 45 empties, 5903 ft trailing three C40-8s (MEC 7535, 7609, 7620) and three dead in tow GP40-2LWs (MEC 506, 515, 503). They are hugging the shore of Maranacook Lake at about MP 141.3 on the modern day Freight Main, the one time MEC Portland Division.
Winthrop, Maine
Friday May 13, 2022
New Haven RR EF-4s 304 & 310 haul a westbound freight at East Bridgeport, CT in April 1964. Photographer unknown
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ST44-992 with local freight tran no. TKPS 22481 from Kościerzyna to Gdynia Port passes Babi Dół passenger stop. The structures on the ground clearly indicate it used to be a station here. August 24, 2002.
Photo by Jarek / Chester
ST44-992 z pociągiem zdawczym TKPS 22481 z Kościerzyny do Gdyni Portu, mija Babi Dół - aktualnie przystanek osobowy, ale ślady na gruncie wskazują, że była to kiedyś stacja, lub co najmniej mijanka. 24 sierpnia 2002 roku.
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A westbound Burlington Northern freight rumbles through Aurora, Illinois, and passes BN/Metra commuter trains laying over in Hill Yard on Saturday, April 16, 1988. The second unit on the freight is leased Kyle Railroad EMD GP40 No. 3116.
Just a little look back a decade to the working waterfront at this spot which is as far south as you can go by rail on America's northernmost railroad. A pair of Alaska Railroad SD70MACs are coupled to a string of gondolas sitting on Freight Dock track 1 shoved right up to end of track at the head of Resurrection Bay. Some more gons are seen sitting on adjacent track 2 while a self unloading vessel berthed up is swinging loads of pipe from its hold to the waiting cars.
Seward, Alaska
Thursday February 15, 2012
An eastbound Burlington Northern freight trailed by two cabooses slinks around the curves through the Badlands west of Sully Springs, North Dakota, on July 27, 1992.
DB Cargo 66047 with the 2020 Mountsorrel Sidings to Radlett Redland Roadstone from Wistow Road Bridge, Kibworth
Freightliner 66615 with the 6Z92 13.41 Elstow Redland Siding to Tunstead Sidings empty hoppers heading away from Kilby Bridge Junction towards Little Hill
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ET22-459 with coal train passes the north freight bypass of Poznań in direction Naramowice block and further probably towards Szczecin. September 17, 2004.
Although the landscape in Greater Poland is flat, here the raiilroad has to cross Warta river and its small valley, so this rail viaduct was constructed together with entire bypass in 1970. This viaduct with the bridge over Warta is about 1 km long.
Photo by Jarek / Chester
ET22-459 z "węgrlarzem" na towarowej obwodnicy Poznania (linia 395) w kierunku Naramowic, a może i dalej do Szczecina. 17 września 2004 roku.
Chociaż teren w Wielkopolsce jest płaski jak naleśnik, to akurat w tym miejscu Warta tworzy małą dolinę i aby ją pokonać, wybudowano w 1970 roku, razem z całą obwodnicą, tę estakadę. Razem z mostem nad Wartą tor nad ziemią prowadzony jest na odcinku ok 1 km.
Fot. Jarek / Chester
No todos los dÃas se puede contemplar esta isla junto a la que pasa este arenero de FEVE dirección Balmaseda.
Not every day you can see this island in the Ebro Swamp, because usually there is less water than when I got this picture. The freight of sand goes from Arija to Balmaseda.
BNSF SDF40-2 #6976 leads a demo freight east on Illinois Railway Museum's mainline in Union Illinois
Sledges are dangerous. Trust me. I would experience that in person in a couple of hours - at this moment we were only making sure not to be hit by one coming down the hill. With success, fortunately. All to get a nice view of the Samedan to Chur freight train. Towering above it all is the town of Latsch.
The freight train, hauled by Ge 6/6 II 701, is relatively long compared to the ones we had seen so far. I think these trains sometimes stop at intermediate stations to pick up, or drop off, cars.
RhB 701 with it's freight train from Samedan to Chur is approaching the station of Bergün.
RhB 701, Bergün 27-1-2016