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Sr1 3093 hauling mixed steel freight train from Rautaruukki (Raahe) to Tampere. Train was running over two hours late when departing from Seinäjoki after dropping off some wagons to the yard.
West of Kalamazoo, Amtrak's Michigan Line is basically devoid of freight trains other than NS local B05. This train runs out of Burns Harbor and will run up the AML as far east as Decatur. While the local itself is usually not much more than a handful of cars, the chances of seeing a long freight on the Michigan Line improved a few years ago when Northstar Grain built a large grain elevator in Decatur. Grain trains will usually run with a pair of ITCS-equipped GP60s on either end of a pair of road units, however on this day B05 ran with a trio of GP60s and an Admiral cab SD40-2. The units are seen here headed east under the old NYC coal tower at Michigan City. Once they reach Decatur they will build an outbound grain train and head back to Burns Harbor. The tank car between the third and fourth units is for a customer en route.
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A visit to the Twin Cities back on Memorial Day weekend in 1978 finds a Northwestern freight departing the yard behind a trio of former Chicago Great Western F's. Up front is an old veteran, F3A 211. Behind him is a F3B, the 307, and the 217, a FP7A, which is cut off in this view. The 217 has survived and is on display at Olewin, former home of the Great Weedy.
20118 approaches Wakefield Kirkgate with the outward leg of the Grimsby to Bridlington RHTT.
After the stop for a crew change here she will then proceed to Barnsley and then back to Bridlington, the Huddersfield leg was caped on this day. The 20s were pressed into use due to the unavailability of the 37s allocated this year and the weight restriction on a bridge near Bridlington thus preventing 66s being used.
With an RMT strike on this day causing the independent freight lines by-passing Crewe to be closed, trains were passing through the station. DB Cargo Class 66/0 No. 66013 heads south with 4Z21, the 10:18 Trafford Park – Southampton Western Docks lightly loaded intermodal on 3rd January 2023.
Having turned onto former M&StL trackage at Norwood Young America, this empty tank train enters the home stretch on their trip to be loaded at the ethanol plant at Winthrop, MN.
An empty train belonging to the peat factory "Torfwerk Johann Böske" en route to the loading area on the moor.
The small locomotive was built by Schöma in 1988.
Providence & Worcester train NR-2 skirts along the Thames River in Ledyard, Connecticut under a crystal clear sky. Composite of two photographs - one longer exposure (40 seconds) for the sky and water, and one flash lit (1/200) for the passing train.
Strobist Info: Three Alien Bee B800 flashes - one off the camera to the right on the opposite side of the tracks at 100% with an 11" long throw reflector. One directly in front of the camera, aimed back at the camera (behind the bush) at 30% with an 11" long throw reflector. And the third parallel with that flash, on the opposite side of the tracks, pointed back at the camera at 100% with an 11" long throw reflector. All triggered with Paul C. Buff CyberSync radio triggers.
A Union Pacific freight train pulls into Kelso, California in the Mojave desert. Kelso has been a railroad yard since the days when helper steam locomotives had to be added to freight trains to help pull them over the long Cima grade. When I took this photo in 1987 there was a long line of diesel engines waiting on a side track, so maybe they still saw duty as helper engines. I am converting my slides to digital images, so this photo has been scanned from a Kodachrome slide.
For Freight Car Friday here is an overview of one of New England's largest and most famous facilities, Rigby Yard. With no locomotives in sight the eye is draw to the multitude of colorful freight cars still dominated by boxcars as is traditon in the Pine Tree State. Also noteworthy is the cut of spine cars loaded with blue Eimskip containers and used to transport Poland Spring water from Waterville to Ayer, a rare shorthaul intraline move that was one of Pan Am's rare innovative successes in recent years.
The more than 200 acre yard complex was built by the Portland Terminal Company in 1923 on the grounds of the old Rigby Park, a harness tracing track that operated from 1893 to 1899 then sat unused until 1922 when it was sold to the PT which was looking to consolidate multiple smaller and older legacy yards around the Portland area.
New owner CSXT is pouring a lot of money into this yard which was once a massive joint facility serving the PT and its two Class 1 owners the Boston and Maine and the Maine Central Railroads. I'm not sure what the future holds but its nice to see track work, site cleanup, and building repairs after decades of neglect by owner Guilford Transportation (later Pan Am Railways).
This telephoto view was taken from the Pleasant Hill Road overpass technically in the town Scarborough near MP 200 on CSXT's ex Pan Am Freight Main, the north end of the former Boston and Maine Portland Division.
South Portland, Maine
Saturday February 18, 2023
Mixed freight, rolling away. Photographed along Norfolk Southern's heavily used Pittsburgh Line.
Nikkor 300mm f/4, wide open.
Crossing the mud flats, a 56 car train approaches Brazos heading for interchange with the Cal Northern at Lombard. The covered hoppers are empties returning from the industries near Petaluma, and the tank cars are moving out of storage at Schellville. The afternoon lighting during winter and spring when the hills are green is magical, almost unreal. So far very little has changed since SMART took over management of the railroad. The trains are actually run by a contractor, Summit Signal Inc. of Willits, and the guys running the trains are so far are the same friendly guys as before. SMART apparently has the right to the NWP name, but it is unclear what they will want to call their freight operation, hopefully it will continue to be NWP. Back in the old days SP hauled 100 car trains of lumber cars to and from the NWP interchange at Schellville via this route, this is probably about as close to one of those long trains as todays SMART/NWP is going to get. The signals are not block signals, they are approach signals to the lift bridge at Brazos.
The freight Chord linking Dollands Moor to High Speed One is only used once or twice a day at most and therefore is always a little "slippy" Add in the fact it is so steep its a struggle for even a class 92 to get up with a train. The in cab signalling speed up here is 30 KMH and if the speedo were to go over 35 KMH then the TVM would sense it and apply the brakes. So if the wheels start slipping the speedo goes over 35 KMH and the brakes would apply so the best option is to "sand" the rails on the climb whilst applying full power to actually get the train up and over the hill so to speak without the wheels slipping. 92 011 is seen on full power and sand being applied as the sun rises over D Moor on 6L23 0528 D Moor-Ripple Lane Exchange Sidings via High Speed One.
2 x 2-10-0's with 56016 leading head a downhill freight through the Euphrates Gorge towards Erzincan in March 1977.
UP 6938, one of the few remainng DDA40X locomotives sits on display in North Little Rock, AR at the Jenks Shops.
2M62UM-0094 with freight train and DR1AM-246.3 with Riga - Zipule service meet between Pļaviņas and Koknese
Vegetation between the main line to the left and the freight 'old road' to the right at Rotherham Masbrough means an almost head on option now .
The 4Z27 diverted Coatbridge - Daventry has 88007 leading 68005 .
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GBRf 60026 'Helvellyn' moves across the pointwork at Ely North Junction on Saturday 20th December 2025. The GBRf locomotive, substituting for DCR's usual fleet of Class 56 & 60 locomotives, heads the 6M89 0911 Middleton Towers to Chaddesden Sidings loaded sand train. Further issues for this working occurred due to a track fault issue between Watlington and Kings Lynn, creating a two hour delay leaving the Norfolk town.
This location has been making the news for several years due to this junction currently holding back development of additional passenger and freight paths in the region and further afield. As a result of three major routes converging (the Hereward towads Peterborough, the West Anglia Main Line to Kings Lynn and Breckland Line to Norwich) , with later two single track briefly, the lack of additional paths is halting rail growth for cross country freight and passenger services.
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Electric Locomotive EF 210 / Japan Freight Railway Company
Located : Shimamoto station on the Tokaido Main Line of Japan Railway.
Shimamoto-cho, Mishima-gun, Osaka.
JR貨物 / EF210形電気機関車
東海道本線 / 島本駅
プラットホーム大阪側先端にて撮影
大阪府三島郡島本町桜井1丁目