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For 122 Pictures in 2022 #32 "Freight", this is a crude oil tanker (oil is freight) inbound to the Port of Corpus Christi. Taken from the Leonnabelle Turnbull Birding center boardwalk in Port Aransas, TX. It is quite a rust bucket. I could not read the vessel's name due to what appears to be peeling paint, but looking on Euronav's website, it is either the Ingrid or a twin. I am assuming this load will end up back in the EU, which I am very happy to see, as it helps make up from the loss of Russian oil (hopefully permanently).
If you look closely to the stern you see a line going from the ship, and the top of a tugboat. I presume this helps to keep the ship from drifting out of the dredged channel.
Providence and Worcester Train NRWO makes its southbound trip back to Plainfield, seen here along the icy banks of the French River in Webster, Massachusetts. B40-8W #4006 leads B40-8 #4004, both remaining Brown and Orange, at least for the time being.
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A southbound RhB freight pauses at Bergun, with the local post van pushing in on the shot. September 1996.
For Freight Car Friday here's a look at a string of system cars entrained on CSXT train C748 rolling southbound along the west bank of the Hudson River at about MP 46.4 on modern day CSXT's busy River Sub. This loaded coal train loaded at Core Natural Resource's Bailey Mine on the former Monongahela Railway's Manor Branch, then originated from Newell Yard and was ultimately destined for the Consol Marine Terminal in Baltimore for export. Normally these trains would take the direct route to Baltimore via the former Baltimore and Ohio mainline thru Cumberland, but due to the track outage for the Howard Street tunnel clearance project they are taking a massive detour in order to get to the port because it is located north of the tunnel on the east side of the Patapsco River. This detour routing has meant the temporary return of regular unit coal trains to this line for the first time in many years much to the delight of fans.
As for this cut of cars per the folks at Railcarphotos.com these are 51 ft 286K rotary dump bathtub gons in series 300000-300449 built by FreightCar America, Job 120010, Jul-Oct 2010.
Highlands, New York
Saturday May 31, 2025
With just about a week until my next visit, I thought I'd have a look back at what I got on a grey day at the Gloucestershire & Warwickshire Railway last March... GWR 2800 Class 2-8-0 locomotive 2807 pulls away from Winchcombe station with its freight train during a 30742 Charters photographic day.
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On a fine winter's day, standing sentinel over the Calder Valley is the elegant Stoodley Pike Monument, a 121' high stone structure completed in 1856 and replacing a monument built some 40 years earlier celebrating the defeat of Napoleon.
Visible from miles away it's a familiar sight both to locals, and hikers from further afield lying as it does on the 270 mile Pennine Way walk between Edale in Derbyshire and Kirk Yetholm in Scotland. For the latter it represents a fine resting spot after a long day walking the peat moors in these parts before making the trek downhill to the fleshpots of Hebden Bridge and a decent night's rest. In fact the Monument contains an unlit spiral staircase that leads to a balcony on the west face, some 40' above ground level - those with surplus energy (and a torch) can enjoy an even better view over Calderdale towards Todmorden and the westerly extremes of Yorkshire.
Not all walkers will be dwelling though. The "Howarth Hobble" challenge walk, an event for teams of two in mid-March, also passes this point on its 32 mile circuit. With 4400' ascent and a time limit of 10 hours for completion, competitors generally have their heads down and by this point, circa 19 miles into the route, are maybe even daring to dream about the finish and the meat pie and mushy peas that will greet them back in Howarth. Most normal folk complete the course in 8-10 hours, but the winning team gets around in a mind-boggling 4 hours!
Well I wasn't up to much hiking today but, while waiting for my snapping target, had at least time to dwell on the dozen or so times I've enjoyed the view from up there. Indeed, if you look carefully, you'll see at least one hiker stood beside the monument no doubt taking in the splendid scenery.
If it's the train that interests you, well it's the 07.20 Wilton EFW Terminal - Knowsley Freight Terminal (6F16) domestic and industrial waste in the hands of DBS Shed 66034, approaching Todmorden. And who knows, maybe carrying some of your Christmas garbage.......?
29th December 2016
Voke - Lithuanian Railways 2M62M-1198 hauls a mixed freight on the route Kaliningrad - Russian mainland on a cold February morning.
This photo was taken at the freight station in Mannheim germany, with an Olympus OMD EM 10. A lens I used an Olympus M.9-18.
I ended the beautiful day at the elevated track near Hrastovlje, almost halfway the climb from Koper to Črnotiče. The RG1604 to Maribor and Budapest was followed by an uphill container train. It is seen here at the entrance of Hrastovlje station, which is today only served by a bus service. Above the train, on the other side of the valley, the tracks cut through the steep hills. The train will be there in only a few minutes.
SZ 363 025, train 43622 Koper > Dunajska Streda. Hrastovlje, July 12, 2024.
For a late Freight Car Friday offering here's a view of Berkshire and Eastern Railroad train EDMO is exiting the west portal of the 4.75 mile long Hoosac Tunnel at MP 420.4 on the B&E operated Pan Am Southern Freight Mainline, the one time Boston and Maine Fitchburg Division.
The classic Conrail can opener logo adorns an empty tri level auto rack that provides a great visual of how tight the clearances are on this legendary bore. Orignally double tracked, when the tunnel was reduced to single track in 1957 the rails were centered to allow for TOFC loads. Clearances were increased in 1997 by lowering the track and again in 2007 by notching the roof providing the current clearance of 19 ft 6 in to clear most auto racks as well as double stacked international containers.
North Adams, Massachusetts
Saturday November 23, 2024
[po polsku, dłużej i nieco refleksyjnie, poniżej]
ST43-345 with a freight train (tank wagons) after passing the Wisłoczanka passenger stop and yet before reaching the station in Boguchwała. Another from "Subcarpathian detours" series.. August 15, 2011.
Forgive me not translating my long impressions from Polish (below), they are related to my friend I took this photo with and who died from COVID-19 in 2021.
Photo by Jarek / Chester
Kompletnie nie pamiętam kiedy i gdzie go poznałem. Musiało to być chyba przed grudniem 2000 roku, bowiem, gdy peregrynowałem lokomotywownię na Odolanach w nocy, to mi towarzyszył... chyba. Albo jednak dopiero w 2001 roku się poznaliśmy, pewnie przy okazji jakiejś imprezy, ale jakiej? Tego momentu nie pamiętam. Z pewnością wpadł do mnie do Gdańska, gdy jeszcze tam mieszkałem, na długi weekend listopadowy owego 2001 roku, chociaż słaby to był weekend, ze świętem 11 listopada w niedzielę. W każdym razie pojeździliśmy nieco po północy kraju i pokazywałem mu moje zakątki, pogoniliśmy "lopka" na Ostbahnie, pokręciliśmy się po Węglówce, takie tam standardy północy. Wyznał mi chyba wtedy, że moje pierwsze fotki w sieci zainspirowały go do tego hobby. Ojej, urosłem, chociaż z tych moich pierwszych fotek i pierwszych internetowych stron to ja dumny nie jestem - było to technicznie i kompozycyjnie po prostu słabe. Sami wiecie, nie każda fotka, którą człowiek pstryknie, nadaje się do pokazywania urbi et orbi.
Ale on nie był byle kim, miał niezłe zacięcie, potrafił rozkminiać jakieś "motywy", kombinować, jak do jakiegoś w sumie banalnego ujęcia podejść tak, że nagle na nowo odkrywało się znane okolice. I był cholernie zawzięty, jak coś nie wyszło, to tylko złowieszcza cisza i nerwowe zagryzanie wargi zdradzało, że nie jest pogodzony z losem.
W sumie niewiele razem gdzieś wypadaliśmy. Pewnie wszystkich wspólnych wyjazdów było nie więcej, niż palców u obu rąk, a wypadów wyłącznie we dwójkę tylko dwa - ten pierwszy, gdy byłem gospodarzem terenów, oraz ten ostatni, gdy dłuższe zamknięcie na linii 96 między Stróżami i Tarnowem wymusiło objazdy linią Rzeszów - Jasło. Czyli, było nie było, ostatni wspólny wypad tylko we dwójkę miał miejsce w długi sierpniowy weekend już niemal dwanaście lat temu!
Wypad był całkiem udany, chociaż nie wszystko wyszło tak, jak miało i parę dłuższych momentów nerwowego milczenia zaliczyliśmy. Ale i poszukiwania różnych ciekawych miejsc, które już miałem tu okazję pokazać i pewnie jeszcze pokażę, sprawiały nam frajdę.
Ostatnim dniem wypadu był poniedziałek, 15 sierpnia. Jakoś ruch nie dopisywał, gdzieś w tyle głowy czuło się potrzebę powrotu do Warszawy, we znaki dawało się zmęczenie parudniowymi podchodami i ganianiem pociągów nie zawsze w do końca spokojny sposób (chociaż mimo czasem brawurowej jazdy, czułem się z nim, jako kierowcą, całkiem bezpiecznie). Chyba w okolicach południa złapaliśmy ten pociąg, ST43-345 z beczkami pomiędzy przystankiem Wisłoczanka i stacją w Boguchwale. A potem długo, długo nic i... zdecydowaliśmy się ostatecznie wrócić do domu. I tak to właśnie zdjęcie z 15 sierpnia 2011 roku było tym ostatnim wspólnie robionym.
Widywaliśmy się potem nie raz, ale o ile dobrze pamiętam, dłuższego wypadu nie było, z pewnością nie we dwójkę. Aż w ostatni czwartek (tekst pisałem w maju 2021 r.) kolega przesłał mi SMS "Jeżyk nie żyje"...
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Fot. Jarek / Chester
One of those 'can't decide between b&w and colour' moments!
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QJs 1987 and 2680 with JS 5431 banking are near the top of the steep climb from Liushu before dropping downhill to Nancha with a freight of mainly timber from Yichun. 4 March 1990.
This is one of those legendary places in railroading everyone should see at least once for themselves. It truly is breathtaking and hard to wrap your head around when you see it for the first time. I've photographed trains in many places where they are dwarfed by the environment. In all those other cases it is nature that humbles the train be it towering mountains, or mighty rivers, or the vastness of the desert southwest but not here. Here it is the hand of man that dwarfs the train in the form of Tunkhannock Creek Viaduct...the lagest concrete railroad bridge in the world.
Built by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad between 1912 and 1915 as part of the railroad's Nicholson Cutoff project which as a new 39.6 mile alignment between Clarks Summit, PA and Hallstead, PA that shortened the line by 3.6 miles but more importantly reduced the gradient and 2400 degrees of curvature for the massive amount of freight traffic (much of which was anthracite coal) flooding the line. The cutoff also included the construction of a 3600 ft tunnel and the shorter but no less impressive Martins Creek Viaduct in a similar concrete arch style. The DL&W was a pioneer in concrete construction using the material for depots and towers and had built two smaller but concrete arch bridges over Paulins Kill and the Delaware River five years earlier as part of its Lackawanna cut off project.
To learn more about this structure check out these links:
www.nicholsonheritage.org/tunkhannock-creek-viaduct/
www.worldrecordacademy.org/2022/05/worlds-largest-concret...
This route remained important and busy even after the Lackawanna's 1960 merger with the Erie. However after Erie-Lackawanna was folded into Conrail in 1976 the big blue government railroad had little use for the line and in 1980 sold it to the Delaware and Hudson between Binghamton and Scranton so they could replace and abandon their challenging Penn Division over Ararat Summit. The D&H continued to operate the line which during the Guilford years was a link in the 752 mile long Freight Main Line reaching from Mattawamkeag, Maine to Kase Tower in Sunbury, Pennsylvania. Guilford spun the D&H off into bankruptcy in 1988 and Canadian Pacific purchased the road in 1991 continuing to send up to a dozen trains a day over this route. Finally in 2015 CP sold all of the former D&H south of Mohawk Yard in Schenectady, NY to Norfolk Southern which continues to operate it a decade later.
These days little more than one giant train in each direction travels via this now single tracked route, one of which is seen here dwarfed by the massive bridge. Running in 1x1 DP mode is Norfolk Southern train H60, an Enola to East Binghamton manifest, seen sailing 240 ft above the valley of Tunkhannock Creek at about MP 653.2 on modern day NS' Sunbury Sub mainline.
Nicholson, Pennsylvania
Sunday September 14, 2025
21.11.2015. Southern Railways King Arthur Class (N15) 4-6-0 No 777 'Sir Lamiel' passes Woodthorpe with a late afternoon freight on a very cold, blustery November day.
Freightliner class 66/5 no. 66618 'Railway Illustrated Annual Photographic Awards Alan Barnes' passes through Ely station on 11th March 2010 with a rake of Bardon Aggregates hopper wagons.
BLS 465009 leads a southbound truck and trailer freight away from Frutigen climbing above the entrance to the new Loetschberg Base Tunnel.
28 July 2006
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Transfer from KCS's Knoche Yard to BNSF's Argentine Yard ducks underneath the massive 12th St. Viaduct on Track 79 on the KCT North-South Corridor with a Warbonnet Dash 9 leading the way. 11/26/16.
The Illinois Central legacy isn't quite dead in New Orleans. Located behind the old Stuyvesant Docks is the Illinois Central's half-mile long freight warehouse along Tchoupitoulas Street.
Ottawa Valley Railway 3410 locomotive
EMD SD40-2
Huron Central Railway
Mile 167.53
Garden River First Nation
Ontario
Electric Locomotive EF 66 / Japan Freight Railway Company
Located : Shimamoto station on the Tokaido Main Line of Japan Railway.
Shimamoto-cho, Mishima-gun, Osaka.
EF66形電気機関車 / JR貨物
東海道本線 / 島本駅
プラットホーム大阪側先端にて撮影
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Making her way south, along the Dolores River from Rico, the Rio Grande Southern's famous workhorse 10-wheeler #20 hauls a short freight through a snowy Colorado landscape, bound for Dolores, CO.
This February 2026 re-creation was staged on Colorado's Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, during a special visit from RGS Locomotive #20, brought here from the Colorado Railroad Museum. On this particular day, she was operating with a short freight for a Lerro Photography photo shoot. The train is pictured westbound along the Animas River, approaching the Tank Creek water stop at Milepost 474.6. Note that Locomotive #20 is running without a spark arrestor for this trip, which was permitted for this trip only because of the deep snow cover along the entire line.
Whitemoor Yard is littered with a variety of class 66 locomotives in conjunction with several weekend engineering projects taking place across East Anglia. GBRf 66761 is nearest to the camera, ready to lead a long welded rail train to Barking, while Freightliner 66515 heads a rake of Autoballasters bound for Lea Junction. Note two other Freightliner consists to the left of the image, including the newly repainted 66501. (Photo taken with drone)