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Bi-State Development (BSD) hosted Freight Summit 2016 on April 27, which served as the official launch of the St. Louis Regional Freightway, BSD’s newest enterprise aimed at capturing a share of the significant increase in freight volume expected over the next 25 years.
As I arrived at the Pump Road crossing this short westbound manifest freight train was just about there. I jumped out of the car and caught this grab shot of it with my pocket Nikon. CW44AH 562 and ES44DC 5421 are plenty of power this small train. (Since I had just arrived I didn't have time to move the trash out of the way of my shots yet.)
If you look carefully, you can see a container train heading slowly towards Homerton, east London, I guess heading towards Tilbury.
This old gondola was part of a mixed freight train being run for a private charter on the Niles Canyon Railway.
The freight depot at Waupaca Wisconsin still has a Soo Line sign. The track next to it (left of photo) serves Waupaca Foundry Plant 1.
[Sorry I haven't posted in a while, spent a lot of time working on the book]
I had a weird, disappointing, and ultimately good time out trackside today.
Got to my spot about 10:00 AM or so, then 20 minutes or so to hike out to my spot. Immediately the freights started coming. One after the next for a little while.
After a few freights, I texted my friend @railfanscajonpass that I was out there. This is a friend who benches 5-6 days a week, so I figured he was probably out somewhere close. He was, he pulled up like 20 minutes later and we hung out for an hour or two, and then he was off to hit up another spot.
After a while it seemed like the freights slowed down and I had some time before the next one. I hiked over I would guess 1/4 mile to a bridge spot that always has new graff. That spot also has one throw up that I always shoot because everyone who comes through there signs it. White outline and the black fill has probably 100 smaller (in size) names written in the fill. Every time I come up here there's new names. I've been flicking this for a couple years now. This time however, someone buffed and went over the entire piece and a piece next to it. What the hell ?!
Look, I'm not even a writer, but damn. Even I know that this wasn't right...
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Later, I was at a different spot, and two dudes were acting super sketchy really close to where I was, which weirded me out enough that I hiked further down the tracks and this lead to something, I found another good view to catch the freights from. A little something different you might notice in today's photos. Turns out one guy was painting under the trestle, and the other guy kept coming up by me as a lookout. Whatever... I get out there to be away from people. So, I did. And found a new spot!
Caught a lot of great pieces today, got to hang out with my friend, and didn't get bit by any rattlesnakes! In the end, it was a good day.
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Photograph from an album compiled by James Gordon Steese who served as president of the Alaska Road Commission during the 1920s.
Collection name: James Gordon Steese Papers
Original held by: Archives and Special Collections
Institution: Dickinson College
Location: Carlisle, PA
Contact us at: archives@dickinson.edu