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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.
f class 48305 is seen at Woodphorpe on the Great Central Railway with a freight train having just passed the other way. A lucky shot
On a cold winter morning, a NYC freight train is meeting another train in a double track section. TT scale models blended into a virtual environment made by Midjourney.
Electric locomotive EF510
Located : Between Shimamoto station and Yamazaki station on the Tokaido Main Line, Japan Railway.
Shimamoto-cho, Mishima-gun, Osaka pref.
JR貨物 EF510形 電気機関車
日本海縦貫線 / 大阪 ～ 青森 運行高速貨物列車
東海道本線 / 島本駅 ～ 山崎駅 間にて撮影
大阪府三島郡島本町4丁目
Electric Locomotive EF 510 / Japan Freight Railway Company
Located : Between Kinomoto station and Yogo station on the Hokuriku Main Line of Japan Railway.
Shimoyogo, Yogo-cho, Nagahama-shi, Shiga pref.
JR貨物 / EF510形電気機関車
JR北陸本線 / 木ノ本駅 - 余呉駅 間
滋賀県長浜市余呉町下余呉
A sunny Saturday morning and decision made to head over to the delights of the WCML.....intention - to hopefully capture a lovely 86 on passenger duty, something I hadn't had the pleasure of for quite some time.
Things didn't start well, a check on RTT before leaving home revealed a late departure from Euston. Oh well I thought, gives me time to check out the location and catch some freight workings....but had Les failed??..... Arrival at the my intended A51 location, it revealed the delights of RTT were still accessible on my phone....great! A quick check and the intended tour was 110 late......oh dear!
After spending an hour alongside the A51 (and a few freights, Pendos and Voyagers later) . I decided to head to pastures new to capture the 86. There was a freight due soon, the intended victim, a Dollands Moor to Ditton Foundry freight. Before I left, RTT showed I had enough time.... When I rucked up.....no internet...totally blind...oh the joy....we've all been there so many times....
Drove to the intended location, parked up, and decided naahh, so I scrubbed that location and decided to head back a little way along the road I had just driven..... although I first had to run back to the car, which I think raised suspicion with a local, who proceeded to hang around and watch my movements for a while (sir I hope I provided entertainment??). Anyway, weekly exercise over, car found, started up, and driven...but arrival at this (final) location coincided with the passing of the aforementioned freight!!...damn!! Not to worry the main reason for heading over to rural South Staffs was the 86.
But.....no internet, much hanging around.....wondering.....where is it? Is it still running? Many test shots on Pendos and Voyagers later....it appeared, unannounced, Duff hauled. After spending a good 45 minutes poised and ready for action, and shot testing on Pendo after Pendo, one final test shot proved to be my downfall. I was reviewing the shot and checking that my limbs still moved as the Duff appeared......I was not ready, not poised at the critical moment. Oh well!!!...note to self, get fitter and learn to stay poised for longer.....stop chimping at test shots!
Bellamour Lane, Rugely, Staffordshire. A Virgin Class 390 Pendolino speeds north with 1F13 0907 London Euston to Liverpool Lime Street.
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For Freight Car Friday here's a look at a historic freight car being reborn by the talented and dedicated folks at the Railroad Museum of New England. Inside the museum's modern Thomaston Shops Bangor and Aroostook 2569 is being repainted into its iconic as delivered red white and blue 'State of Maine Products' scheme.
The flashy image debuted in 1950 on 300 XIH insulated heated plug door box cars ordered from Magor Car Company primarily to haul two od the railroad's primary commodities, paper and potatoes. In 1953 they ordered 150 more identical cars from Pacific Car and Foundry of which order this car was a part of. The scheme was used on other boxcars including rebuilt cars from the 1930s and 40s and new 50 ft cars with sliding doors used newsprint service. Overall some 2500 cars were painted in this scheme (according to online sources) until it was and phased out in favor of a cheaper and simpler scheme in the mid 1960s. Of particular interest, the New Haven also had 100 identical cars that were tacked onto the PC&F order but had New Haven lettering and the script logo inside the white band.
Arguably the most famous freight cars ever built, they were the boxcar equivalent of Santa Fe's warbonnet F7s because they were mass produced in the post war years by both Lionel and American Flyer for their O and S scale trains that so many American boys of that era owned. While the Santa Fe was a giant western carrier with famous flashy streamliners the little B&A (as the locals referred to it) would most certainly have lived out its years in obscurity were it not for these boxcars.
It sure will be nice to see this back on the road and I for one look forward to shooting it on a photo freight in the future. Also worth noting is that this is a sister car from the same order as another restored survivor owned by the 470 Club that occasionally still operates on specials over the Conway Scenic Railroad where it resides.
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Thomaston, Connecticut
Saturday July 27, 2024
I looked through my slides taken 30 years ago this week on the Cape Mountaineer tour in South Africa and decided to scan this picture obtained during an outstanding session at Kraankuil. Just after dawn we witnessed a number of freight workings at speed along the Kimberley - De Aar main line. This one featured a modified class 25NC No 3454 with a dual Lempor exhaust system, the chimneys being arranged side by side rather than in line. The loco also had modified smoke deflectors with a curve at the top clearly seen in this picture. This is the last time that I saw steam hauled freight trains at express speeds. 26th July 1990.
Pan Am Boston based local BO-1 is heading home light engine after run to Peabody to deliver cars to Rousselot which is the very last customer remaining on the north shore and the sole reason this lonely freight train makes its biweekly treks up the old Boston and Maine Eastern Route mainline. This is a sad state of a affairs and a far cry from days of old, but now only crumbling vestiges of trackside industries and legacy names such as Brickyard serve to remind us of once was. But forget all that was lost for a moment and be thankful for this pretty sight we do have as the mysteriously Guilford repainted GP40-2LW 507 rolls south beneath the signal mast here at about MP 10.8 on the Keolis/MBTA mainline.
Lynn, Massachusetts
Tuesday December 29, 2020
Electric Locomotive EF 510 / Japan Freight Railway Company
Located : Between Kinomoto station and Yogo station on the Hokuriku Main Line of Japan Railway.
Shimoyogo, Yogo-cho, Nagahama-shi, Shiga pref.
JR貨物 / EF510形電気機関車
JR北陸本線 / 木ノ本駅 - 余呉駅 間
滋賀県長浜市余呉町下余呉
47335 climbing towards Stoneycombe near Maddacombe Cross on the 04.50 Gloucester - Tavistock Junction. 20 August 1990.
Two freights through the Lune Gorge on 23 June 1995.
Forty minutes after the passage of the freightliner - seen in the previous picture - the rails began to sing again, heralding the appearance of 6M27, the 1448 Mossend – Willesden freight.
Blease Fell dominates the scene and dwarfs the locomotive 60005 “Skiddaw”. However the real Skiddaw - at 931 metres - is almost twice as high as the fells in the background (Blease Fell is 474m).
RhB Ge 4/4" 621 'Felsberg' catches the evening sun as it passes through Reichenau-Tamins station in March 2011. The Freight 5257 was working from Landquart to Ilanz carrying building materials, empty containers for Surselva and empty Valser branded vans being returned from Untervaz for re-loading with bottled mineral water.
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An evening freight takes to the up/down slow line at Kilby Bridge Junction. EWS/DB shed 66197 with the 18.24 Luton Crescent Road to Peak Forest Cemex Sidings.
The lineside hedges have now been cut back ready for the OHLE instalation
This freight train sped towards me as it rumbled through downtown Stuart, Florida at 3;15 am early one morning.
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6990 "Witherslack Hall", 29/12/23
I applied the Lightroom HDR feature to this and find the result a bit startling. First time I have used it, not sure about the result