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A cut of John Deere 8R Tractors on a TTX Flatcar await the next stop in Waterloo, IA. I have always been a fan of seeing tractors and CAT loads on flat cars.
After adding the lead motor in Champaign, X335 storms north through the small town of Buckley, IL on its way to Gary, IN.
For Freight Car Friday here's another piece of display equipment from Minnesota. While not a freight car itself, this relic from a bygone era spent more than three decades trailing seemingly endless strings of ore hoppers up and down the rails of the Iron Range country.
Built in 1952 by International Car this bay window caboose was retired in 1986 and placed on display coupled to massive DMIR 225 in 1994. If you missed the Steam Sunday photo of that mighty Yellowstone resting proudly here in the Missabe's shop town you can find it here: flic.kr/p/2oBSNko
And here is a link to the little Proctor museum that owns and cares for this caboose:
Proctor, Minnesota
Wednesday May 10, 2023
UP 6938, one of the few remainng DDA40X locomotives sits on display in North Little Rock, AR at the Jenks Shops.
DB Cargo's 66098 passes the lens just east of Edale on 6E18, Peak Forest Cemex Sidings to Attercliffe Cemex Works in Sheffield.
The light dusting of snow higher up the hills hints at the temperatures today, but with 40mph wind gusts as well the wind chill made this easily the coldest shot I've taken over the winter. Just as well I had a nice walk back home to warm me up!
Mixed freight, rolling away. Photographed along Norfolk Southern's heavily used Pittsburgh Line.
Nikkor 300mm f/4, wide open.
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
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.
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
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4L80 Felixtowe-Coatbridge storms north on the WCML near Thankerton. Lanarkshire's Tinto Hill in the background. Early one summer's morn; '89 I think. Sorry no loco numbers.
BRITOMART at Minffordd Station on October 06, 2024 with a freight train during the Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways Byones Weekend 2024.
Click here for more photographs of the Ffestiniog Rauilway in 2024: www.jhluxton.com/Railways-and-Tramways/Welsh-Narrow-Gauge...
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.
Not a location renown for capturing shots of freight traffic, but the ongoing farce at Nuneham viaduct near Culham, with the line between Didcot and Oxford closed until at least mid June, means some Oxford area freight services are being diverted via the Chilterns line. This includes aggregates to/from Oxford Banbury Road and automotive traffic out of Cowley for Southampton Docks
66501 Japan 2001 has just passed through Brill Tunnel with 6C58, the 12:10 Oxford Banbury Road - East Usk empties
47 082 Atlas with a nicely mixed vacuum braked freight at Reading heading for the B&H or Basingstoke
A mixture of freight groups all going towards the port of Burgas. First up are some open E-cars with bentonite from Kardzhali, then we have a group of containers and at the end a few more E-cars with scrap metal. Hauled by locomotive 46 033 of BDZ Cargo.