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This here is a Lego freight house for my new switching layout. This is based off of a CPR design but isn’t supposed to be an exact model of anything specific. There is currently no interior but I might someday come back and add one later.
More photos of my layout are on my Instagram, @calvin_and_bricks
Southern Railway class S15 no. 506 departs from Loughborough Central on 28th January 2023 with the 'windcutter' rake of mineral wagons, during the GCR Winter Steam Gala.
If you were to shrink down, like Brave Dave or Canadian Hopper, and ride the freights in an old grainer, this might be your view.
It's Freight Car Friday again so let's have another look at the All American boxcar. Last week I shared a photo of string of classic 50 ft Plate C cars that were the industry standard in the late 1970s and 80s and discussed how precipitously the boxcar fleet has shrunk over the past four decades. But they are not dead yet and certainly will never go away completely and some trains are dominated by them to this day. Such is the case here with CSXT L010 which headed to Framingham from Readville with a string of nearly all boxcars and reefers rolling off Main 1 onto single track at MP 15 on the Keolis/MBTA Franklin branch...the one time New Haven Railroad Midland Division mainline.
Just for comparison, a moder 60 ft Plate F car like the brand new unblemished UP 701165 seen here is a 286K car with 6647 cu ft of space vs a 263K car with 5283 cu ft of space such as those in last week's photo....or a full 25% more carrying capacity. This is valuable for boxcar type traffic that often will cube out before weighing out hence driving down cost and driving up efficiency. Every little bit is needed to help keep boxcars relevant in the 21st century and beyond...
Norwood, Massachusetts
Monday January 8, 2024
Freightliner class 70 no. 70010 heads 6M89 from Dewsbury Blue Circle to Hope Earles sidings, passing through snow covered Hathersage station on 20th November 2024.
Two privately-owned Bombardier Traxx locos haul a long southbound intermodal train across the river Reuss, climbing towards the Gotthard tunnel. 25th September 2011.
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In the driving rain Bolton Black Five 45110 is in charge of 7N95 a Halliwell to Healey Mills freight near Littleborough (Gale) on Wednesday 19 June, 1968.
The loco subsequently worked the Liverpool to Manchester and return legs of the ‘15 Guinea special’ 1T57 to mark the end of steam on British Rail on 11 August, 1968. It was later preserved.
I forgot I had finished this the other day but forgot to post!
I wanted to start getting into trackside structures for a better railroad, and figured a good place to start was a freight house.
This freight hose hosts a single semi trailer loading dock, and three sliding platform door, which sits level with the box car doors. The model also includes a "pallet jack" and several pallets of assorted goods.
Short freight train with PRR SW1200 #8539 passing through the left part of my US TT scale (1:120) layout
Riding home on the Indiana Toll Road, I was completely surprised by coming up on this one, which forced an impromptu chase up to Hegewisch, IL. For those not familiar, I'm in Illinois, while the other end of this yard butts right up to the Indiana border. It would've been nice to get a matched set of South Shore engines, but when there's freight under cantenary, I'll take what I can get.
This is the absolute limit of how close mainline trains get to the Garw and Ogmore valleys these days.
The OVE (Ogmore Valley Extension) line stretches from Tondu station to Margam Knuckle yard and is a diversionary freight line used only very occasionally when there is work being carried out on the mainline between Port Talbot and Bridgend. When trains use this diversion they have to reverse direction at Tondu in order to Proceed through Bridgend and this is achieved by using the double tracked Garw loop to perform a "run round" where the locomotive is detached from one end of the train and moved to the opposite end and reattached.
The Garw loop is the last active portion of the line that once split at Brynmenyn station and connected the Garw and Ogmore Valleys to the mainline. The line to the Garw is relatively intact all the way to Pontycymer but is currently overgrown and derelict after the loop. The line to the Ogmore valley has been lifted but the route still exists as a cycle path that follows the original track bed all the way to Nantymoel.
The future of the OVE line looks uncertain as there is talk of the bridge which carries it over the mainline in Margam being demolished when the mainline is electrified thus rendering the OVE line useless.