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GBRF 66779 "Evening Star" with the 4M86 17.02 Ely Papworth Sidings to Wellingborough at Kilby Bridge after the sun sank behind the cloud bank just before sunset time
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
Mass Central train PA-2 rolls south through some fall color along Route 32 in Ware with both the railroad's GP38-2s.
A loaded grain train led by Veteran YN2 CSXT 427 rolls east from the yard in Hinton, West Virginia along the New River.
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.
prairie 5199 banks a freight on the climb to Berwyn tunnel --the driver glares at photographers, even though they are on the public side of the fence
Rock Island Rail's freshly painted 4373 is northbound at Albin, Mississippi during it's debut for the matching pair of 38's on May 23, 2020.
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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
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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.
Fot. Jarek / Chester
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
BNSF SDF40-2 #6976 leads a demo freight east on Illinois Railway Museum's mainline in Union Illinois
Increasingly I seem to be heading out to get a single working - and yesterday was no exception, although I managed to bag a few extra shots of DMUs which form the vast majority of trains on this line.
The 'target' train is the 7.25am Wilton EFW - Knowsley Freight Terminal (6M16) empty domestic and industrial refuse containers, hauled this day by DB Cargo Shed 66067. It's captured here passing through the short tunnel under Deanroyd Road, Walsden, and I'm stood over the cut-and-cover tunnel close to Bottomley Road where, a few yards behind me, lies the northern portal of the 1.6 mile Summit Tunnel.
I'd scoped this shot out a few weeks ago when there were fewer leaves on the trees, but the low sun created some challenging reflections off the yellow fronts rendering most shots all but useless. I got lucky yesterday though because a cloud shadow just managed to disappear no more than 10 secs before the train came around the corner, and of course the higher sun didn't pose quite the same reflection problems it did on the last visit. Thankfully too there was just enough of a gap above the top of the railing to capture both loco and one of the blue containers in the frame.
It was nice to see the plan come to fruition .... but not quite as nice as the bacon butty I enjoyed afterwards in the lay-by up the road where I'd parked the car :)
Shot was taken right side of the fence.
1.04pm, 21st May 2019
Das Eisenbahnmuseum Bochum befindet sich im Südwesten von Bochum, das 1977 auf dem Gelände des von 1916 bis 1918 erbauten und 1969 stillgelegten Bahnbetriebswerkes in Dahlhausen. Es ist mit einem Areal von etwa 46.000 m² eines der größten privaten Eisenbahnmuseen Deutschlands.
The Bochum Railway Museum is located in the southwest of Bochum and was opened in 1977 on the site of the railway depot in Dahlhausen, which was built between 1916 and 1918 and closed in 1969. With an area of around 46,000 m², it is one of the largest private railway museums in Germany.
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.
Hyco Empties barrel thru Seneca like they have thousands of times before. Since being installed between 1960-62 after N&W acquired the VGN in 1959, the signals here have guided a multitude of trains between Roanoke and Norfolk. The siding was removed after 2020, and both ends of the former siding (Seneca EE, Marysville WE) fell to NS signal crews on 11/4/25.
H26 paused at Roy waiting for some Keystone action to pass before making their way back toward Lancaster.
Not something I see often these days. \Here we have 66775 with the 4V29 12.29 Burton West Yard to Acton Yard passing Kilby Bridge
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
A pair of 73's are seen at Kensington Olympia with a short Freight. Mainline Blue liveried 73136 and Civil Engineers livery 73108 are seen with the Freight at 1601 on the 21st April 1999
This freight train was moving through the fog at about 5 mph on a frosty morning in the Montpelier, Idaho railyard.
With the trees showing the last of the Autumn colours, British Railways Standard Class 9F 92212 leads its freight train towards Ropley on the Mid-Hants Railway during a Matt Allen and Warwick Falconer photo charter.
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
Reading & Northern's road freight, dubbed the 'North Reading Fast Freight', hustles across the bridge near Jim Thorpe, PA on a mild December evening. Leading the train is the matched pair of 'Fast Freight' painted units, 5018 & 19.
After spotting 6 loads and pulling 9 empties at Eastern Fence on the Calverton Spur, the RS70 crew is seen shoving on last time on the spur to reach LIRR's mainline. The crew utilized the runaround track on the spur to position the engines for the journey back west to Pineaire Yard in Brentwood. I've said it once and I'll say it again, this spur is easily my favorite spot on the Island, an area that constantly makes you ask yourself "Am I really still on Long Island?"
A freight train from Minneapolis. I always liked the idea of watching moving trains. Trains and locomotives always fascinated me.
August 7, 2008. Minneapolis. This one here.