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Electric Locomotive EF66
Located : Omi Nagaoka station on the Tokaido Main Line of Japan Railway.
Maibara city, Shiga pref.
東海道本線 / 近江長岡駅
滋賀県米原市
Erie Lackawanna westbound freight passing the old Erie Railroad water tower and shop area at Susquehanna PA. In less than three months the EL would pass into history as the Erie had less than two decades before.
One for the freight car modelers: Pure Carbonic Company Dry Ice Reefer.
Duplicate slide in my collection, photographer unknown.
66517 charges through Caerphilly Station with coal empties destined for Cwmbargoed from Margam (4C93).
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
For Freight Car Friday here's one that except for the graffiti looks as if it could be a publicity shot for TTX.
While I miss the classic Plate C 50 ft boxcars dressed in assorted railroad schemes that were so prevalent the last four decades it's nice to see that the all American boxcar is still alive. Nowadays the prevalent car type is 60 ft Plate F 286K cars like this string of double plug door TTX owned cars. TBOX 666573 in the center is two decades old having been built by National Steel Car in Hamilton, ON as part of thousand car order job number 1290 between Jun 2004 and Mar 2005.
Long strings of boxcars going to the many warehouses in the Boston Suburbs fed by CSXT's Framingham based locals are common on this train, Selkirk to Worcester manifest train M436 (which had run around M264 at Palmer) which is seen crossing the ancient double stone arch bridge over the Quabog River at about MP 75.5 on modern day CSXT's Boston Subdivision, the once and forever Boston and Albany Railroad mainline.
Warren, Massachusetts
Wednesday December 3, 2025
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.
[polska wersja poniżej]
SU46-017 with a freight train from Horka on the German side is approaching Węgliniec. May 20, 2006, in the middle of modernization of the line no. 295, including electrification of this to date unelectrified line. Track no. 1 is temporary removed so all the traffic uses track no. 2. is moving along track No. 2, over which the catenary is already installed.
The works were completed afterwards and... it turned out that this electrification wasn't specially necessary at that moment, because the Germans (DB Netz) made their part about a decade later. So, in the meantime, the catenary on the Polish side was removed for couple of years and re-mounting was done together with the works on German side.
The most interoperable border crossing in Poland ever was opened. The change of the power and safety systems takes place near exactly at the border point over Nysa Łużycka river. To cover the Węgliniec - Horka section, the operator must have a multi-system locomotive and either a internationally certified driver or just two drivers - each one for every country. Comparing to the classic crossings, where the change of the locomotive meant the change of power/ safety system at one of the border stations, this way is something new and it looks like in the future such crossings will be more common. Today, only multisystem locomotives can be spotted at this crossing, like Vectrons, Eurosprinters and Traxxs, and occasionally diesel Class66 and BR232 - the latter have easier as only safety system switching must be done while crossing the border.
SU46 class locomotives in Węgliniec depot began to disappear, mainly due to the fact of not sending them for overhaul. Currently, the Dolnośląski division of PKP Cargo has one working locomotive of this class.
Photo by Jarek / Chester
SU46-017 z pociągiem towarowym z niemieckiej Horki zbliża się do Węglińca. 20 maja 2006 roku, środek prac modernizacyjnych na linii nr 295, których efektem ma być kompleksowa modernizacja oraz elektryfikacja. Tor nr 1 jest na tym odcinku zdemontowany i wkrótce zostanie położony nowy, a ruch odbywa się torem nr 2, nad którym już wisi sieć trakcyjna.
Prace zostały zakończone i... okazało się, że można sobie tę elektryfikację wsadzić, bowiem Niemcy (DB Netz) do swojej części przystąpili dopiero około dekady później. W międzyczasie zdjęto sieć trakcyjną na polskim odcinku, by ją powtórnie położyć równolegle z niemieckimi przyjaciółmi.
Powstało najbardziej interoperacyjne przejście graniczne w Polsce, na którym zmiana systemu zasilania oraz krajowych systemów bezpieczeństwa dokonuje się niemal przy słupku granicznym na Nysie Łużyckiej. Chcąc pokonać odcinek Węgliniec - Horka, przewoźnik musi posiadać wielosystemową lokomotywę oraz albo dwusieciowego maszynistę, albo dwóch maszynistów - do każdego odcinka granicznego oddzielnego człowieka. Przyznam, że w porównaniu z klasycznymi przejściami, gdzie zmiana systemu odbywała się na stacji granicznej, jest to bardziej wymagające rozwiązanie, chociaż mimo tego przejście jest chętnie wykorzystywane przez przewoźników. Dzisiaj pojazdami trakcyjnymi na tym przejściu są wielosystemowe Vectrony, Eurosprintery i Traxxy, oraz sporadycznie spalinowe Class66.
Również w międzyczasie seria SU46 w Węglińcu zaczęła stopniowo zanikać, głownie z okazji niekierowania lokomotyw na naprawy rewizyjne (w międzyczasie nazwane przeglądami poziomu 4), ani tym bardziej na główne (poziom 5). Aktualnie Zakład Dolnośląski spółki PKP Cargo posiada jedną czynną lokomotywę tej serii.
Fot. Jarek / Chester
Freightliner Class 66/5 No. 66547 runs along Hunt Cliff and past the derelict fan house working 6F34, the 15:23 Boulby Mine – Tees Dock loaded potash hoppers on 24th October 2024.
An 0 6 0 lancashire and Yorkshire locomotive climbs the steep gradient out of Keighley with a demonstration freight
From the archives - A new refurbished photo from 2010.
Drama at Rørøosbanen. At Elverum railway station they are "head to head" before the last leg to Rena.
SBB Re4/4 II 11286 (Re420 286) is seen leading freight 61078 from Sion to Lausanne along the shores of Lake Geneva at St Saphorin - 05/10/2024
A quiet, cloudy afternoon in Tamaqua is interrupted by the passing of Reading & Northern's train NRFF, powered by five SD50s as it passes the ex-Reading station in town. This was the first time catching one R&N's SD50s in the gray "Fast Freight Service" in the lead.
28.1.2017.
LMS Stanier Class '8F' 2-8-0 No 48624 steams through Woodthorpe with the freight bound for Swithland Sidings.
GCR Winter Gala 2017.
13.6.2021.
Statfold Barn Railway.
Bagnall 0-4-2T No 3023 'Isaac' heads the freight train at Statfold during the Enthusiasts Weekend.
Norfolk Southern train H55 gets up to track speed as they depart Suffern, New York with a grain train for Paterson, NJ. While once a common sight on passenger-dominated rail lines in the northeast, these days much of that freight traffic has either been run off or forced to run at night. But there are still some holdouts across New Jersey Transit's system, including this M-F Suffern based local.