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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.
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
Making her way carefully through the snowy Dolores River Canyon, Rio Grande Southern 10-wheeler #20 hauls a short, mixed freight on the eastbound run toward Rico, less than a dozen miles ahead.
This wintertime RGS re-enactment was staged on Colorado's Durango & Silverton during a February 2026 visit by Rio Grande Southern Locomotive #20, which is owned and operated by the Colorado Railroad Museum. The 20 was in Durango for the first time since 1952, to participate in a series of public and private railroad charters, including this photo freight. This particular scene depicts #20 and her freight approaching the Tank Creek water stop on the Animas River, at Milepost 474.65.
We're west of Hyde Park for this shot of an eastbound CN freight hitting detonators, led by CN GP38-2(W) 5605 and SD40 5052.
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.
Seen approaching Castrisch, RhB Ge 4/4" 621 'Felsberg' had a good mix of wagons in tow forming the weekdays 11:30 Landquart to Ilanz Freight 5737.
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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
Last shot of a 90 minute session with five freights of four different operators. Not a bad result in Britain today!
47 082 Atlas with a nicely mixed vacuum braked freight at Reading heading for the B&H or Basingstoke
[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"...
Żegnaj Mareczku, samych udanych zdjęć i świetnych motywów w Krainie Wiecznych Łowów (fotograficznych).
Fot. Jarek / Chester
One of those 'can't decide between b&w and colour' moments!
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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.
Late in the afternoon on March 13, 2018, Southern 4501 performs the last series of run-bys on a Pete Lerro photo charter as it leads its vintage freight consist through Trion, GA. The bridge over the Chattooga River can be seen beyond the caboose.
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.
Class 56 Group owned 56301, on hire to DCR, powers through Water Orton with 6Z45 Acton Yard to Burton On Trent West Yard.
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.
“Flagging the Crossing” - Crossing flaggers and crossing shanties at busy railroad and roadway intersections were once common on US railroads. Technology in the form of crossing signals and gates eventually replaced the flaggers and shanties. Yet surprisingly the practice lasted longer than one would have expected in some locations. One of these was in Mankato, MN on the Chicago & North Western. As seen here back in 1985, the flagger has left his shanty and is protecting motorists from a CNW freight that came southbound out of the Twin Cities on the former Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul and Omaha Railway (Omaha Road) route.