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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
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
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.
This freight train was moving through the fog at about 5 mph on a frosty morning in the Montpelier, Idaho railyard.
A look at #60099 before her recent incarnation working for DCRail.
She leads the empty Preston to Lindsey oil tanks towards Knab's Bridge, east of Barnetby; on the mid-afternoon of Thursday the 6th of September 2012 while working for DB Schenker.
30% of CSX's ST70AH roster is seen along Highway 75 in Houston, NC, leading Q583 towards Hamlet, NC. These are most definitely some of my favorite units, despite how quiet they are in person.
Rolling along the Modoc Line on a Sunday afternoon, Union Pacific's Alturas Local passes a pioneer grave. This site is located next to California highway 139 at Perez.
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.
We came up to see the pendolino drags but were amazed at the amount of freight as well..what a place.... 66229 heads round the curve at Smardale
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
Norfolk Southern train 12R slowing for the curves at Rectortown, Virginia as it heads west on the B-line
Generally, freight trains bound for, or going past Tokyo take the Musashino Line. The Musashino Line starts in Tsurumi in Kawasaki, circumnavigates the downtown core to Urawa in Saitama, and back south to Funabashi in Chiba. Freight trains take this route as a way to avoid the crowded passenger corridors between Omiya and Kawasaki.
There is one exception to this rule, train 3086. This daily cross-country intermodal train starts in Sapporo and terminates in Nagoya, a journey covering around 1500km. The shortest route between these two points takes this train through Tokyo via the Yamanote Freight Line and Shonan-Shinjuku Line. This means it'll pass Ikebukuro, Shinjuku, Harajuku, Shibuya, and Osaki before heading south to Nagoya. It is the only regularly scheduled daylight freight train on this passenger heavy corridor and is quite sought after among local tori-tetsu.
Here, EH500-44 leads the train into Ebisu on a cool, sunny Wednesday afternoon.
JR Shonan-Shinjuku Line. JRF EH500-44 (Train 3086)
Ebisu, Shibuya Ward, Tokyo.
Stanier 8F 2-8-0 48624 steams towards Rabbit Bridge on the Great Central Railway with its train of "windcutter" mineral wagons during a Timeline Events photo charter.
One for the freight car modelers: Pure Carbonic Company Dry Ice Reefer.
Duplicate slide in my collection, photographer unknown.
The daily freight train of BZK between Razdelna and Pirdop is approaching the final station of the half-day journey.
Adelaide Specialised Freight Kenworth T908 Double Road-Train parked up at the Lochiel Assembly Yard for a quick chat before heading North to Darwin.
The Seminole Gulf Railway Desoto Turn works an aggregate distribtuor on the outskirts of Punta Gorda. Included in their pick up was a GP10, but only briefly, as they only needed the covered hoppers to add to the rest of their train sitting on the mainline.
Mit diesem Slogan wirbt 183 213 von ELL/WLC als sie Pölling mit einem Containerzug Richtung Nürnberg passiert.
Drove up to the old Santa Fe grade crossing at Rt 26, got out of the vehicle, and was just in time to see two FAST moving freights go by, one eastbound, one west. The blue & white diesel in this photo is a leased unit, heading up a fast moving westbound stack train.
Interesting note: I intentionally set my Olympus zoom on 25mm, which is the exact same as a 50mm in 35mm SLR photography. No telephoto or wide-angle, just a nice, boring straght-forward wedge shot of a passing train, just as you would have seen it had you been standing next to me.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Rt 26 grade crossing
BNSF Railroad
Marshall County, Illinois
Olympus E-510 DSLR
Olympus ED 14-42mm f3.5-5.6 zoom
Quantaray Pro polarizer filter
ISO 400 RAW
Single chimney BR Standard Class 9F 2-10-0 92134, visiting from the North Yorkshire Moors Railway for the Great Central Railway's autumn steam gala, passes a gang of track workers as it approaches Kinchley Lane with a lengthy mixed freight train during a Timeline Events photo charter.
Finally making it back to BNSF's Argentine Yard two days later with a transfer from UP's 18th St. Yard is BNSF train Y-KCK1111-30A with a pair of SD40-2's for power, one in BN Cascade Green and other wearing Heritage 4 paint. They're seen here sitting on the Elevator Lead after coming out of The By's as they wait for KCT to give them signal at Adams St. Interlocking. 8/30/20.
This always was my favorite part of the train. You can keep your aggressive engines, your gondolas and freight cars shuddering under their load. Plus, how can we feel anything but affection for something so named; it's a bumptious little word -- both assertive and somehow comical -- and hearing it pronounced sometimes makes me want to giggle. I mourn the passing of these cozy little cars. One of my pipe dreams is to refit one of these as a kind of private car and attach to the back of various trains and travel about the country.
Here is a link to an interesting article in the Wikipedia: