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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.
Electro-Diesel class 88004 'Pandora' of Direct Rail Services with a southbound container train on the WCML between Daresbury and Preston Brook Cheshire.
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
00 gauge models shot with monolight - and a vape pen.
I shot the sky and lovely light through the clouds down at the beach where I live, and blended the two images.
#3930 loaded Pacific National grain train behind EMD units 8170/8159/8232 catches the last of the afternoon sun between Jerrawa and Oolong, New South Wales on Sunday 2 April 2017
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47335 climbing towards Stoneycombe near Maddacombe Cross on the 04.50 Gloucester - Tavistock Junction. 20 August 1990.
Passing the station,South Island, New Zealand 21/11/2013.
The train at the platform was the tourist excursion along the coast
Copyright David Price
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Visiting from the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, Great Western Railway 2884 class2-8-0 no. 3850 makes a dramatic departure from Loughborough Central on 25th January 2025 with a demonstration goods train, during the GCR Winter Steam Gala.
Between heavy showers, GB Railfreight branded Class 66/7 No. 66767 passes through Gloucestershire en route from Castle Cement at Clitheroe to Hanson's Siding at Avonmouth on 26th February 2020.
This freight train sped towards me as it rumbled through downtown Stuart, Florida at 3;15 am early one morning.
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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
25th July 1995. "Ailsa Craig" heads across North Fen on 6Z39 9:16 March to Trowse. Note the Mainline Freight symbol without the name underneath on the side of the loco.
West Michigan has been dumped on with snow lately, accumulating over a foot over 3 days in some areas. But freight has to move no matter the weather, so yesterday the Coopersville & Marne set out from Coopersville with SW9 #7014 and their ex GTW caboose for Grand Rapids, to retrieve a pair of loaded centerbeams for Standard Lumber. The trip was slow, with the crew sometimes having to back up and get a running start at drifts, and tip-toeing gingerly through some ice-packed crossings so as to avoid coming off the rails. It also made for a great show, and here we see #7014 plowing through a drift at the 48th Ave crossing just east of Coopersville.
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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.