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I like capturing and sharing the textures, geometry, colors, and other aesthetics of moving freight cars, well-worn, utilitarian, no two exactly alike.
47156 at Warrington on a mixed freight of scrap wagons, from Fords Halewood, and bogie oxygen tanks from BOC Widnes, 29-05-1991
For Freight Car Friday here's a look at fallen flag car entrained on CSXT Rigby to Selkirk manifest train M427 rolling west at MP QB50.7 on CSXT's Boston Sub, the former Boston and Albany Railroad mainline. Once ubiquitous, these classic 59 ft Plate C style boxcars ruled the rails for more than three decades and were built by the hundreds of thousands from the 1960s to 1980s but now their numbers are shrinking rapidly. Those shippers that continue to rely on boxcars have shifted to modern 286K high cube plate F designs and they day will come in the next decade or two when the classic plate C car can only be found on company work trains or in museums. But for now they are still earning revenue and this train is the best one in New England to still find them on a daily basis. To learn more about boxcars check out these links:
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This particular car, Boston and Maine 3331 is dressed in the dark blue Pan Am Railways image with the iconic globe logo co-opted from the airline is from a 50 car order of 50 ft 110 ton gross weight cars built by Pacific Car and Foundry in Aug-Sep 1979. The car was delivered in B&M blue with black doors and large Boston & Maine billboard style lettering that was the final image of the independent pre Guilford B&M under the administration of President Alan Dustin during the 13 years of bankruptcy.
Auburn, Massachusetts
Friday March 21, 2025
9th December 1995. "Yes Tor" in the last of the days sun in Acton Yard with 6N20, a Redland's self discharge train which had been working on the North London Line.
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ET42-036 with a freight train with coal for export is passing the remotely controlled Gdańsk Motława Most junction post. Track no. 2 was then the only active track between this post and Pruszcz Gdański station. January 23, 2005.
More coal then went to ports and out to sea than the other way round, opposite to today.
Photo by Jarek / Chester
ET42-036 z pociągiem towarowym z węglem wjeżdża na zdalnie sterowany posterunek odgałęźny Gdańsk Motława Most. Tor 2 był wtedy jedynym czynnym torem między tym posterunkiem a Pruszczem Gdańskim. 23 stycznia 2005 roku.
Wówczas więcej węgla szło do portów i na morze, niż w przeciwną stronę, jak to można zaobserwować obecnie.
Fot. Jarek / Chester
Another shot that isn't the greatest given the challenging light but something I've long wanted. This is one of the two places in Rhode Island (the other being East Greenwich) where Amtrak's ex New Haven Shoreline main actually has a view of the shore. I've shot many MBTA and Amtrak trains here at this scenic location but the only freight to cross is P&W's WODA turn from Worcester to Davisville and back that normally runs under the cover of darkness. But as I already shared earlier in this post:
P&W local PR-3 made a very rare run down the corridor to Groton so after shooting them in Stonington I stopped here on the way home. Here are the two B39-8s with only a handful of cars for the Port of Providence (most of their train was dropped for the Seaview in Davisville) heading back east crossing the bridge over Apponaug Cove at MP 174.5.
Warwick, Rhode Island
Thursday February 25, 2021
After falling a little short on my last attempt to build a micro freight terminal, I decided to give it another try. This time, I used a smaller scale (1:305 instead of 1:200) and narrowed the scope a little so that I could include all of the details that were missing from the first one.
This diorama is a section of a small, manned freight terminal, designed to handle both containerized and RO-RO cargo. A Panamax class container ship is docked at the quay and is ready to be unloaded. In the staging areas of the terminal are the cargo from a recently unloaded RO-RO ship, including a fleet of new cars and some heavy equipment (including a few ultra-class, 400-ton mining trucks). Yard trucks and reach stackers are busy moving containers around the yard, and there are two fully loaded freight trains on the rail spurs ready to pull out.
4M94, with 66523 at the head, awaits the road at Water Orton with 60015 on 6E08 to Immingham having been given priority over the Intermodal.
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ST44-651 with short freight train to Raciąż, loaded with white beets for the Pfeifer & Langen Polska sugar factory at Glinojeck. The train will reach Koziebrody passenger stop and after several minutes terminates at Raciąż station, where the load is handed over to the industry shunter crew. November 23, 2006.
Just a year or two later root trains stopped running and the deliveries are made using road trucks.
Photo by Jarek / Chester
ST44-651 z wahadłem buraków do Cukrowni Glinojeck, przemierza szlak między stacjami Sierpc i Raciąż, ściślej rzecz biorąc między przystankami osobowymi Zawidz Kościelny i Koziebrody. 23 listopada 2006 roku.
Jak jeszcze cukrownia Glinojeck brała buraki cukrowe koleją, start kampanii buraczanej oznaczał również sezon na kursowanie do paru wahadeł na dobę buraków z północy kraju do stacji Raciąż, skąd cukrowniane "tamary" zabierały warzywa do zakładu.
Niestety żyjemy w takim kraju, gdzie kolej jest uznawana za wybitnie passé. I nie daje rady z konkurencją ciężarówek. Nawet nie zauważyłem, kiedy te pociągi przestały kursować, chyba to musiało być jeszcze w ubiegłej dekadzie.
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The six-wheel Electroputere machine meets the early morning sun at the entrance signal to the station of Zhelyu Voyvoda in Southeastern Bulgaria. Behind it is freight train 30621 - one of the 8 regular freights between Pirdop and Burgas which on this ocassion carries 18 tanks of sulphuric acid to the port.
Time is scarce at the depot of Burgas so they have only done a brief wipe on the most important parts of the bodywork - the ones showing the numbers of the machine on both sides and ends.
A local freight running on my mainline; with lots of nice Penn Central going on. As this is a pan shot of motion, I like to think of this as "Pan Central."
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Run Day, 11/05/2022, Cleveland, OH
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ET42-001, a heritage unit in one of its last runs, as the TME 124011 "Po Kruszywie" freight train from Warszawa Wawer to Sitkówka Nowiny, passes the Warszawa Miedzeszyn passenger stop, which has a characteristic modernistic platform shelter from the period of the electrification of the Warsaw area, couple of years before World War II.
May 22, 2022. And already on July 30 the locomotive finally was withdrawn and is to become an exhibit of technology in Zduńska Wola (Karsznice), probably a "cold" one.
In April the same year, the metal letters and numbers from the section B of the locomotive were simply stolen, so the crew of one of the PKP Cargo's depots carefully repainted the markings with white paint, imitating the original typeface of letters and numbers.
It is worth mentioning that the ET42 series is currently being withdrawn from the service. Units completing the mileage to the next overhaul are put away. Currently, out of the initial 50 units bought in late 70ies, circa 1/3 was scrapped or withdrawn. Withdrawn locomotives probably will not go back on the trails any more.
Photo by Jarek / Chester
ET42-001 w jednym z ostatnich swoich kursów, jako pociąg towarowy TME 124011 "Po Kruszywie" relacji Warszawa Wawer - Sitkówka Nowiny, mija przystanek osobowy Warszawa Miedzeszyn, z charakterystyczną wiatą peronową z okresu elektryfikacji Warszawskiego Węzła Kolejowego przed II Wojną Światową. 22 maja 2022 roku. 30 lipca tego samego roku ostatecznie lokomotywa przestała jeździć i ma stać się zimnym pomnikiem techniki w Zduńskiej Woli (Karsznicach).
W kwietniu z lokomotywy ukradziono oznaczenia z członu B, więc pracownicy przewoźnika odmalowali pieczołowicie oznaczenia białą farbą, imitując oryginalny krój liter i cyfr.
Wspomnieć warto, iż seria ET42 jest aktualnie wycofywana z eksploatacji. Egzemplarze kończące przebiegi międzynaprawcze są odstawiane jako oczekujące naprawy głównej lub skreślenia. Aktualnie z 50 kupionych w latach 70. egzemplarzy, około 1/3 została albo zezłomowana albo wycofana. Te wycofane prawdopodobnie już na szlaki nie wyjadą.
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the LNWR coal tank and midland half -cab pass ty newyyd with a demonstration freight--scanned slide 1990's
Freshly overhauled in Romania 46 124.4 is finally back to Bulgaria and it`s ready to pull freight trains all over the country.
"Freight" steht in Großbuchstaben an der Informationstafel auf Gleis 3 des Bahnhofs von Bitchū-Takahashi, wenige Augenblicke später biegt die EF 64 1022 auch schon mit dem Containerzug nach Okayama um die Ecke und durchfährt die Station.
“Freight” is written in capital letters on the information board on platform 3 of Bitchū-Takahashi station, and a few moments later EF 64 1022 turns the corner with the container train to Okayama and passes through the station.
Early morning freight train passing full speed through the station in Mjölby, Sweden. Seen December 6, 2007.
WOW! This won the Transportation Challenge at:
Battling through the intense commuter traffic, a New York and Atlantic Railway freight gets a path, with 301 & 261 in charge.
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.
Freight train,
Rolling through the city,
Freight train
Through the farms and fields.
Freight train,
You’re looking so pretty.
Over trestles and through tunnels
In the dark and light
Then you roll right out of sight!
Freight train
Rolling down the track,
60047 in Colas Livery, leads 6M51 16:28 Baglan Bay - Chirk Kronospan log train past Rhymney River Bridge Jn on 12/4/2016.
60001 is in the process of setting back 6M57 Lindsey to Kingsbury as a partially loaded 6V92 Corby to Margam slides by on the main line.
47283 thunders over the Eskmeals viaduct on 23 April 1986 heading 6A40, the Workington – Willesden Speedlink.
One of the challenges I have set myself, is to try and take a picture of a train with the sea or a river in the picture. On the 4th March 2017 I caught LMS 5MT Crab 2-6-0 No.13065 with a demonstration freight train as the locomotive runs parallel with the River Worth just after leaving Haworth Station for Oxenhope. The railway is part of the Keighley And Worth Valley Railway which was holding its annual Winter/Spring Steam Gala that weekend and No.13065 was one of the special guest locomotives.