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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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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.
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.
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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Let’s start the festivities
Get it off right
You’re in time for the holidays
Will it be Merry or Fight?
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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.
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North Rails freight train on its way from Uusikaupunki to Kouvola. Trees are slowly showing signs of autumn.
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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
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
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
2nd July 2022, under a stormy sky, Warship class D832 Onslaught is seen at the head of a demonstration freight at the East Lancashire Diesel gala
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Na een geslaagde uitstap naar Duitsland volgde diezelfde week nog een boeiende dag in België. Hoewel het aantal goederentreinen op de Montzenroute beperkt was, konden er toch enkele fraaie opnames worden gemaakt in de omgeving van Hoeselt.
Een van de passerende goederentreinen was deze staaltrein uit Gent. Deze trein vertrekt vanaf ArcelorMittal Gent Noord en rijdt naar verschillende eindbestemmingen in Duitsland en Polen.
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After a successful trip to Germany, another fascinating day followed that same week in Belgium. Although the number of freight trains on the Montzen route was limited, several stunning shots were still captured around Hoeselt.
One of the passing freight trains was this steel train from Ghent, originating from ArcelorMittal Ghent North and heading to various destinations in Germany and Poland.
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Hoeselt, 21/09/2024
DB Cargo 186 234 + 186 116
47513: Gent Zeehaven - Seddin Einf Nord
A PHL switch crew switches out carload freight traffic in one of the railroad's yards near Long Beach. While mostly a container hauler for the Ports of LA and Long Beach, the PHL does maintain a healthy about of carload traffic.
For Freight Car Friday here's another in the continuing series of former Boston and Maine cars sprinkled throughout New England. This view looks across the Housatonic River at the historic former Hurlburt Paper Mill in South Lee. Amazingly there has been a paper mill on this site since 1806 and 220 years later there still is! Today it is operated by Onyx Specialty Papers and the oldest buildings in use date to around 1883. You can learn more here:
onyxpapers.com/about-onyx/our-history/
The facility no longer receives rail service here though the Housatonic Railroad's ex New Haven Berkshire Line main passes right through the mill complex. However, two boxcars spotted on a loading trestle offer the illusion that it does. The track they sit on is now disconnected from the HRRC main and the two cars are now just used as storage.
The two cars are clearly of Boston and Maine provenance but I cannot make out the numbers. They appear to be in the 77000 which would make them 50 ft 50 ton Pullman-Standard PS-1s part of a 1000 car order built between May and June 1956 when Pat McGinnis was modernizing the railroad. That would make them sister cars to this one I found in Vermont last year: flic.kr/p/2rsSoCD
If anyone knows the actual numbers or when these cars were spotted here I'd love to know more but presumably they would have been placed here during the nearly nine year period from April 1982 to January 1991 when the line from Pittsfield to Canaan was owned and operated by the Boston and Maine and later Guilford Transportation.
Lee, Massachusetts
Sunday November 9, 2025
The nightly Alaska Railroad 130S freight from Fairbanks to Anchorage was running very late this particular morning affording the rare opportunity for shots in daylight on the mainline. They have just crossed the long Knik River bridge and are swinging around a bluff to head south toward their final terminal in this view from the Old Glenn Hwy overpass at ARR milepost 145.6.
The moderately sized train of 4344 ft and 6731 trailing tons trailing three SD70MACs is heavy with jet fuel from Flint Hills Resources in North Pole destined for the Anchorage International Airport. Alas the 85,000 bpd refinery whose production once accounted for 40% of the railroad's revenue is no more having shut down for a multitude of economic and political reasons in 2014 and being demolished two years later after operating since 1977. To learn a bit more check out this: www.adn.com/energy/article/blow-fairbanks-economy-flint-h...
Providing a dramatic backdrop 15 miles distant on the far side of the wide Matanuska Valley past Palmer is the 6093 ft summit of Matanuska Peak in the Chugach Mountains.
South of Palmer, Alaska
Sunday March 6, 2011
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
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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.
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Freightliner Celebrity 70020 rumbles along the Up Washwood Heath Goods Loop heading 4M55 the 08:32 Southampton to Lawley Street while 66155 stands on the Down Derby Goods awaiting a crew change working 6V92 the 10:32 Corby to Margam.
A double of refurbished Unipetrol Orlen 121 (formerly Class 43E, Skoda 1960) works a westbound freight whilst passing by Podebrady on Kolin - Nymburk line.
It is Freight Car Friday so we're staying with our theme of Boston and Maine history around the vast ghostly ruins of the North Billerica shop complex.
For decades this area was a graveyard of cool locomotives and cars and I remember on my first visit in the mid 1990s getting my one and only glimpse of a real Maine Central harvest gold unit, albeit stripped and in the dead line. Today all those are long gone and with the exception of a few historic pieces preserved by the MBTA this boxcar is about it these days. Sitting behind the former storehouse / general office building on an isolated disconnected piece of track slowly sinking into the much is BM 76143, a 40 ft 65 ton car built in March 1957 as part of a 538 car order (Lot 8323) from Pullman Standard and delivered in bluen and black with giant McGinnis style billboard logos.
To learn more about this shop complex see the prior posts.
Iron Horse Park
Billerica, Massachusetts
Friday April 11, 2025
8f 48305 works a fitted freight past Didbrook on the GWSR during a Steamteam photo charter. October 1996.
July 5th, 2019, Iowa Bolt gets put on a local from South Amana to Newton. Though nothing compared to what she used to haul, it was still a decent load.