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Freightliner class 66/5 no. 66588 passes through East Croydon om 8th August 2025, heading 4M53, VTG box wagons from Newhaven Day Aggregates to Wembley Reception sidings.
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
COME ON FREIGHT CULTURE! Put your money where your mouth is! U.S. residence, go to NEARzine.com (forwards to an AFL/CIO site), enter your zip code and then after your representative shows up enter your name and address to support TWO MAN TRAIN CREWS! SPREAD THE WORD!
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.
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.
A few more of Union Pacific's astounding 4-8-8-4 "Big Boy" locomotive on the "Great Race Across the Southwest"...or, as I call it, the "Charge Across Kansas" for the portion I'll be seeing.
When the train left Topeka on 11/20 it had a nice surprise...freight! Sure, it's just a handful of grain cars; but the "King of Steam" hauling freight in 2019 is still very cool. Here we are out on the plains as the train approaches Silver Lake, KS.
Quando stavo per partire per la Germania, la cosa che mi entusiasmava di più era la possibilità di vedere "qualche" merci misto, composto cioè da carri "a traffico diffuso".
Ebbene, quel "qualche" si è trasformato in un numero impressionante di treni di questo tipo, da non credere!
Ve ne propongo uno tra i tanti, con una potente Br151 in testa e carri diversi al seguito, tra cui uno pieno di automobili!!!
A DB Schenker Br151 hauls a mixed freight train on the Frankfurt–Bebra railway.
BR Class 25 25007 on what appears to be a very short freight train, at Larbert station in the late-70s..
The loco was withdrawn in 1981, and scrapped in September 1982. No less than 20 Class 25s have survived into preservation..
Larbert station has since been completely rebuilt, and the platforms shortened at this location....
Restored from a severely under-exposed grainy original..
Original slide - photographer unknown