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Running long hood forward, NS G36 has completed its Ceadertown transfer and is now heading back north. To get traffic to the C Line, NS service designers have this Rome, Georgia local come south with one consist, tie it down, and bring the park train north back to Forestville Yard in Rome. The train is passed CP Brice moments ago on its trip north; NS 6963 has been in this service for about a month and an a half.
50Q, with the GoRail and Veterans special units, comes to a stop at the signal at College awaiting permission into Williamson Yard.
NS 6963 leads 21T through Berea on a pleasent sunny morning. A lot of fans came out to see this. I didn't think it would arrive in daylight but I guess I was wrong. And it's a good thing that I was.
May 19, 2014: Norfolk Southern freight train NS 348 motors Northbound down Braswell Mountain approaching Rockmart, GA with the GoRail unit (SD60E EMD) leading a C40-9W and SD70M-2.
NS 16G heads east after getting an upgrade clear signal at MP CD270 on the Norfolk Southern Chicago Line with the neon glow of the GORail Unit leading the train by surprise.
Once shooting the 34N at Vickers Jct, I decided to drive around Toledo for a little bit, while missing the eastbound NS 177, I heard this 16G departing the T-Center in town which then I stopped at CP 286 to grab a shot, that's where I found out the GORail was the leader.
After getting a "somewhat decent" shot at CP 286, I choose to go follow them east, after falling behind by a couple miles behind the train, due to street lights and slow moving traffic, I finally got back up with the train here at MP CD270, due to them getting an approach at MP CD272 with NS 177 crossing over infront of them to head towards Bellevue, Ohio. The fall colors are booming and looking hot with the neon grow off the locomotive.
L'unico treno passeggeri internazionale attualmente circolante in Estonia è il convoglio notturno che in circa 15 ore di viaggio collega Mosca e Tallinn, facendo sosta anche a San Pietroburgo: ovviamente operato da RZD in Russia, nel paese baltico viene portato a destinazione dalla privata Go Rail, la quale utilizza per la trazione alcune locomotive diesel del folto gruppo TEP70.
Nella foto, il convoglio ha appena superato in velocità il villaggio di Kadrina, sulla linea a singolo binario che lo condurrà fino a Tapa, ultima fermata prima dell'arrivo nella capitale estone.
The only international passenger train currently operating in Estonia is the night convoy that connects Moscow and Tallinn in about 15 hours, making stop also in St. Petersburg: obviously operated by RZD in Russia, in the Baltic country it is brought to destination by the private company Go Rail, which uses for the traction some diesel locomotives of the large TEP70 group.
In the photo, the train has just passed the village of Kadrina, on the single track line that will lead him to Tapa, the last stop before the arrival in the Estonian capital.
When I saw that this had already gone through Ashland and was still moving through Pacific Jct. I figured it'd make for another overnight arrival for a heritage motor in Ottumwa. For reasons unknown to me, it got held outside of Creston for quite a while and I had a screen shot of ODIS waiting for me when I woke up at 0600.
It indicated that this train had gone through Osceola at 0420, which was a nearly identical time as the GoRail motor from a couple of weeks ago. Figuring that it had to be nearby, I got out of bed and went to find it. When I heard it clear a warrant at Halpin, I knew I hadn't missed it so I got gas and a cup of coffee and waited for it to come to me.
I snagged it first a couple of times in Ottumwa, then got it here at Agency before letting it fly away near Batavia. Check another off the list!
CN ethanol load, U70691, with GO Rail NS SD60E leading the way along the Freeport Sub. Power NS6963 and NS9458.
Norfolk Southern's GoRail and Veterans units leads empty grain train 57Q through downtown Atlanta, headed towards Indiana for another load of corn.
Norfolk Southern's specially painted "GoRail" SD60E number 6963 leads vehicle train 18N down the mountain and around track one at Horsehsoe Curve near Altoona, Pennsylvania. 18N moves automobiles between Fostoria, Ohio, and the Doremus Auto Ramp in Newark, New Jersey.
When I saw that this had already gone through Ashland and was still moving through Pacific Jct. I figured it'd make for another overnight arrival for a heritage motor in Ottumwa. For reasons unknown to me, it got held outside of Creston for quite a while and I had a screen shot of ODIS waiting for me when I woke up at 0600.
It indicated that this train had gone through Osceola at 0420, which was a nearly identical time as the GoRail motor from a couple of weeks ago. Figuring that it had to be nearby, I got out of bed and went to find it. When I heard it clear a warrant at Halpin, I knew I hadn't missed it so I got gas and a cup of coffee and waited for it to come to me.
Here's the last I saw of it nearing Batavia. I thought I was going to eek out some sun, but I had to settle for the awkward high-cloud partial sun lighting.
NS 229 crossing over the St Johns River (milepost 260.4G/FEC1.1) headed to Florida East Coast's Bowden Yard in Jacksonville, FL
Probably the biggest surprise of the day was hearing the GoRail SD60E was working NS A04. It was a welcome sight to see this engine since the last time I saw it prior to when this picture was taken was in summer of 2017.
TEP70 0236 mit dem Nachtzug nach St Petersburg bei Kadrina
TEP70 0236 with night train to St.Petersburg near Kadrina/Estonia
4/2018 - Altoona, PA
38Q's trip down the mountain is almost over as it crosses the brickyard crossing in Altoona with the GoRail SD60E and an exCSX Dash8.
May 19, 2014: The GoRail unit (SD60E EMD) leads Norfolk Southern manifest train NS 348 Northbound between Braswell and Rockmart, GA.
Watch video of the train here www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AqOoWq_Gd8
Norfolk Southern's GoRail and Veterans units pose side by side for a portrait before being put together as power for train 336 at Norris Yard’s diesel shop in Irondale, Alabama.
A nice way to kick off the New Year...
I had gone out early this morning to look for a GoRail-led inbound train that had unfortunately already gotten into Decatur before I hit the road. However, I settled for a great consolation prize of an empty coal train from the Iowa Interstate in Cedar Rapids, IA bound for loading at Deer Run Mine near Hillsboro. NS 403 with the Wabash heritage unit leading departs off the Loop at Wabic as the train is bound for the Brooklyn District, looking good in the best light of the day. In the back right, CSX keeps busy scurrying around their small railyard.
NS SD70ACe 1070
NS C40-8 8722
NS C44-9W 9726
January 2, 2015.
Westbound PPL empties heads west behind a trio of SD60Es. Currently PPL is cycling one trainset between Shire Oaks, PA and York Haven, PA.
Since its implementation of Precision Scheduled Railroading, NS's roster of SD60Es has all but been absent from many of my jaunts trackside over the last several years. Last Spring, I had seen posts that the GoRail SD60E was working local service between Bellevue and Fostoria. A Sunday afternoon visit to Bellevue found this to be the case as NS L11 arrived from Fostoria around lunchtime, worked Moorman Yard, and then departed back to Fostoria in the evening. The train is seen here working its way through the Mini-Plant interlocking on the Sandusky District having picked up an SD40E in the yard.
A special scheme Norfolk Southern SD60E #6963, for GoRail leads NS 214 north through Orange, VA on the DC Main along with C40-9W #9807 and C40-8W #8394. This shot added 35 miles to an already 135 mile re-recon drive to Charlottesville for some hopeful evening action.
Seppur geograficamente la città di Narva si trovi al giorno d'oggi in Estonia, quando ci si mette piede sembra a tutti gli effetti di essere già pochi metri più in là, oltre il confine, dato che circa il 90% della popolazione è di etnia e lingua russa.
La stazione è presenziata da numerosi agenti di polizia, e ne è consentito l'accesso dall'esterno solamente ai passeggeri dei treni in partenza: l'unico modo per scattare fotografie senza particolari problemi è salire sulla passerella pedonale che attraversa lo scalo e collega le due parti della città divise dalla ferrovia, da cui si ha visuale sulle lunghe tirate di carri merci in sosta.
In uno dei pochi attimi soleggiati di quella ventosa mattina, cogliamo l'occasione per scattare una foto a questa locomotiva TEP70 di Go Rail in manovra per attestarsi al Mosca - Tallinn giunto poco prima, mentre la più moderna TEP70BS delle RZD, appena scartata dal treno, attende il via libera per ricoversarsi fino a sera su uno dei tronchini di stazione.
Although geographically the city of Narva is nowadays in Estonia, when you set foot in it it seems to be already a few meters away, beyond the border, given that about 90% of the population is ethnic and Russian language.
The station is attended by numerous police officers, and access is allowed from outside only to passengers of departing trains: the only way to take photographs without particular problems is to get on the pedestrian walkway that crosses the yard and connects the two parts of the city divided by the railway, from which there is a view of the long haul of freight wagons parked.
In one of the few sunny moments of that windy morning, we take a picture of this Go Rail TEP70 locomotive shunting to settle in front of the Moscow - Tallinn train arrived just before, while the modern RZD TEP70BS, just rejected by the train, waits for the green light to recur until evening on one of the station sidings.
Norfolk Southern (Alabama Division) train 336 glides across Lake Martin near Alexander City, Al., with the GoRail and Veterans SD60E locomotives. This is the first time for these two specially painted Altoona units to operate together.
Norfolk Southern's GoRail locomotive leads mixed freight 16G south on the Cleveland Line single main at Bayard, Ohio.
Norfolk Southern Train 173 heads West across the CSX Diamonds at 27th Street Interlocking in Birmingham, AL. With a NS SD70ACe leading 2 NS SD60E's, the 3rd motor being the GoRail
4/15/2017
The "GoRail" SD60e leads intermodal train 23M into the Harrisburg Yard as a steady rain starts to fall.
Norfolk Southern SD60E no. 6963 the "GoRail" unit leads MAXFWX-4 late in the day westbound at Mineola, Texas. Photo May 5, 2018.
The energy-efficient Norfolk Southern GoRail engine was handed off to the CN to burn off horsepower hours owed to the CN. This engine wound its way on to the CN Freeport sub, leading a grain extra. Here is ethanol train U706-91, passing in front of the new fire station, eastbound at Plato Center, IL. Five flashes were used to illuminate the train; one flash illuminated the fire station.
Norfolk Southern's specially-painted "GoRail" SD60E leads train 12R away from Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania, about to cross Yellow Breeches Creek on the old Reading Railroad through-truss bridge. 12R is a daily manifest freight operating between Linwood, N.C., and Binghamton, N.Y. More information about GoRail can be found at www.gorail.org.
I'll have to come back this afternoon and upload the real thing...
I was tipped off early yesterday morning that it was very likely that the NS 6963, the GoRail motor, would very likely be leading a detour oil train (U-EPPNSB0-03T) through Ottumwa early this morning. I saw last night that it had made it through Ashland at 1913 and figured that it would get through Ottumwa before dawn.
I got a txt showing that it was through Osceola at 0411 and figured that it might just work out. I got up, showered, kissed Cara goodbye, and went trackside. When I heard it get a warrant from ICERRX to CTC Lucas Street at 0653, I checked the sunrise time and the map. I decided to race it east 10 miles to find a spot where I might get a sliver of the sunrise and I found it!
I think the thing I love most about this motor is that it began its life as CNW 8004.