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Majestic Princess is a Royal-class cruise ship currently operated by Princess Cruises, a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc. Built by Fincantieri in Monfalcone, Italy, she is the third Royal-class ship in the fleet and debuted in April 2017.
Majestic Princess was originally outfitted to accommodate the Chinese market, with facilities and amenities originally designed to meet Chinese tastes and needs. This included accommodating all passengers with Chinese in signage, announcements, and offerings. Such facilities include a Cantonese cuisine-centered specialty restaurant, a tea bar, a VIP casino, and private karaoke rooms.
Majestic Princess has 18 decks, 15 of which are accessible to passengers.[8] She currently measures 144,216 GT, has a length of 330.0 m (1,082 ft 8 in), a draft of 8.4 m (27 ft 7 in), and a beam of 38.4 m (126 ft 0 in). She is powered by a diesel-electric genset system, with four total Wärtsilä engines, producing a total output of 62.4 MW (83,700 hp). Main propulsion is via two propellers, each driven by an 18-megawatt (24,000 hp) electric motor.[9] The system gives the vessel a service speed of 22 kn (41 km/h) and a maximum speed of 23 kn (43 km/h). The ship houses 1,780 passenger cabins and 757 crew cabins. Of the 1,780 passenger cabins, 81% have a balcony. The ship has a maximum capacity of 5,600 passengers and crew.
The then-unnamed vessel was ordered on 30 July 2014 from Fincantieri at a cost of €600 million. The ship was planned to carry the same features and design as her two sister ships, Royal Princess and Regal Princess. In May 2015, Princess announced that their third Royal-class ship would be deployed to China year-round and be modified accordingly. On 9 October 2015, it was unveiled that the ship would be named Majestic Princess, and also carry the conjoining Chinese name, 盛世公主号 (Shèngshì Gōngzhǔ Hào, literally Golden age princess), an interpretation selected by Carnival PLC China's employees, which means "Grand World" or "Grand Spirit". On 10 July 2015, the ship's keel was laid at the Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone. She was floated out on 8 February 2016. In January 2017, she successfully completed her sea trials. Majestic Princess was delivered to Princess Cruises on 30 March 2017 in Monfalcone.
Majestic Princess embarked on her inaugural cruise on 4 April 2017, a five-day Adriatic voyage round-trip from Rome, visiting Kotor and Corfu. She spent her first month cruising in the Mediterranean before embarking on a 49-day re-positioning voyage to Asia from Rome on 21 May 2017. She arrived in Shanghai for her Chinese debut on 9 July 2017 and was christened that day by Yao Ming and Ye Li.
Majestic Princess was originally planned to sail from Shanghai on a year-round basis, but it was later announced that she would begin sailing from Australia for approximately half of a year. She debuted in Sydney in September 2018. Between 2017 and 2021, Majestic Princess operated sailings in East Asia from Keelung between April and August, and in Oceania from Sydney between September and March. Originally slated to debut on the West Coast of the United States in fall 2021 from Los Angeles to sail to the Mexican Riviera and along the California coast, fleet redeployments later scheduled her to debut several months earlier and begin sailing in Alaska from Seattle in summer 2021.
Matched RJC geep pair 1804 and 4119 passes the tilt board signal at the diamond with the OHCR outside Brewster, Ohio, in the last sunlight of the day on Jan 31, 2022.
Despite having a bit of a revolving door of power the last few years with gensets and SD40's moved on and off the property, this pair of units has steadily roamed the Cleveland Line for the last 15+ years. They are currently accompanied on the line by a former UP/MILW MP15 and a GP40-2 which wears the solid black paint scheme of its previous owner, Lehigh Railroad.
At the Marathon Refinery in Catlettsburg, Kentucky, RJ Corman operates an industrial switching operation to serve the in-plant needs of railcars for the refinery. Three gensets are based at the site, with two seen here performing some Saturday evening moves alongside CSX's Big Sandy Subdivision and the C&O signals that govern the Leach control point in the heart of the refinery.
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RJ Corman - Marathon Catlettsburg Refinery
Catlettsburg, KY
Unknown Symbol
RJC 2696 RP20GE Ex. UPY 2696 Blt. 2007
RJC 5400 RP20BD Ex. RPRX 5400 Blt. 2009
Enchanted Princess measures 145,281 GT and has a length of 330.0 metres (1,082.7 ft), a draft of 8.49 metres (27.9 ft), and a beam of 38.4 metres (126 ft). She is powered by a diesel-electric genset system, with four total Wärtsilä engines, producing a total output of 62.4 megawatts (83,700 hp). Main propulsion is via two propellers, each driven by a 18 megawatts (24,000 hp) electric motor. The system gives the vessel a service speed of 21.9 knots (40.6 km/h; 25.2 mph) and a maximum speed of 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph). The ship houses 1,830 passenger cabins and 757 crew cabins.
The IHB's Blue Island hump job has just cleared the diamond in Dixmoor, Illinois as they shove a long cut of cars up and over the hump. A GP40-2LW has been paired with a slug built from a converted NRE 3GS21B genset.
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IHB Main Line
Dixmoor, IL
IHB 590 (Yard Job; Blue Island Yard - Dixmoor, IL)
IHB 4021 GP40-2LW Ex. KLWX 9552, WGCR 9552, YVRR 9552, CN 9552 Blt. 1975
IHB 2021 Yard Slug Ex. IHB 2143 3GS21B Blt. 2011
PeruRail Vistadome train 504 roars out of the tunnel at KM 108 at full throttle with EMD GR12 510 in the lead. While ALCO's were the primary attraction at PeruRail these 567 powered EMD's put on a damn good show. The new gensets....not so much.
With a trio of MK1500Ds, PTRA's Job 235 enters Manchester Yard at the western end of the Port of Houston, catching the last rays of sun on a late November evening.
The railroad's newly-arrived GMTX Geeps have become commonplace, so catching a pure set of the red and yellow Gensets was definitely a welcome surprise. Additionally, the train's routing straight through Manchester Yard provided a nice view with the Kinder Morgan and LyondellBasell refinery facilities in the distance, as this train is normally routed around the yard via UP's Strang Sub.
Houston, TX 11/29/2021
UP's one and only 2GS14B sits at Dolores.Taken from the frame of an SP MP15DC, this prototype evoked memories of Alco's C415 design. Unfortunately, it never caught on and this was the only one ever made.
The Cortena Job had just dropped off their cars and was returning south to Woodland. This day there was no G&W paint to be seen as a good chunk of California Northern's roster are former Rail America gensets.
Harbor 3800 takes a break from working Riverdale Yard amongst a nice gathering of power.
Riverdale, IL
2021.08.25
Tier 3 Genset, RJ Corman RS23BD 2017 is at Lexington, Kentucky on August 5, 2019. (Photo taken with permission)
After putting together their train, the Dallas, Garland & Northeastern's Garland Turn departs from Garland, Texas behind a pair of NRE Gensets still wearing their RailAmerica paint. The crew is on the ground throwing the switches at Garland Junction, where the train gets off of the DGNO Garland Subdivision and on to the CPKC Dallas Subdivision to head towards Dallas Yard.
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DGNO Garland Subdivision
Garland, TX
DGNO Garland Turn (Local; Garland, TX to Dallas, TX Turn)
DGNO 2002 3GS21C Blt. 2010
DGNO 2000 3GS21C Blt. 2010
A UP GP15-1 and a Genset switch out customers at the industrial park in Buena Park, CA on UP LOA39R. This region is still bustling with carload traffic, feeding a number of local yards in the area.
Some Genset crap then leased by RailAmerica. I think they started out on the Houston Belt & Terminal.
It’s a beautiful Spring Day under code blue skies, as Indiana Harbor Belt’s 594 job is working the hump at their Blue Island Yard with what they consider their “Yard Goats.” IHB 4021, a GP40-2W and a now downgraded 4 axle genset that’s now a slug, IHB 2021. Both units are freshly painted in the company’s revised “retro” scheme from the mid 60s and 70s. They’re seen here at a crisp 2.1 MPH shoving their last cut of cars of the day over the hump and into the bowl. Taken: 3-27-23
It’s been almost 3 years since the Harbor purchased three former CN GP40-2Ws for yard service. Every now and than they shuttle cars between Blue Island Yard and their Michigan Ave Yard in East Chicago, IN, as well as small transfers around the yard but it’s very rare and not common to see them lead a road train westbound, as they’ve yet to do so.
Units that Amtrak seems to have given the (literal!) cold shoulder to, rest under snow cover at Chicago's Lumber Street engine facility. These include the gensets that almost never run, out-of-work NPCUs, and P42DCs- still employed but less busy these days with pandemic-reduced schedules.
LOW10's power sits at Union Pacific's 4th Street yard along the Los Angeles River. These three gensets are relatively unblemished with only a bit of graffiti. In a weird reversal of the norm, these engines soon fell out of favor in the LA Basin and were replaced with standard Geeps a few years later.
4 years before NRE decided it was time to purge themselves of locations, the Silvis shops were just bustling with contract work, Here Soo 6033 and a single motor demo genset, maybe someone knows which, were the only two units on this end of the shop with a Watco SD40 in the paint booth to the right. Behind us was all kinds of CP, Watco, and other railroads work that filled up every bit of track space. I am not sure what it looks like today as the shop works towards closure but I'm sure its no where even close to as busy as it was on this day.
UP LOA31R 13 shuffles a lengthy cut of cars as it builds its outbound train. The genset era was in full force on UP in the mid-2010s, but today Geeps are back to holding down these jobs. These two were some of the nicer looking ones that I have seen, without graffiti cluttering the flanks.
1201, 1202, BRM001 and BRM002 wind through the curves at the bottom of the Cullerin ranges with 4347 empty SSR grain train from Newcastle to Barellan.
Sunday 18th February 2018
It appears a certain Wisconsinite pest continues to pathetically grasp at straws trying to root out conflict. Oh well.
Looking down at the power pit at BRC's massive Clearing Yard, SLRG 9925, the famous Iowa Pacific E9, is stored with the Belt's pair of gensets. Meanwhile, a colorful medley of waybilled power has gathered nearby, on their way to new owners or lessors. You never know what you might find in the crevices of Chicagoland.
**Disclaimer** I feel like I shouldn't have to say this, but as some people want to play railfan police, I must note that I had permission to operate my drone in this area. South/West of the shops area is strictly no-fly as it is directly in the path of flights landing at Midway. I couldn't enter that area if I tried, as the DJI app prevents flight in restricted zones.
The north side MBTA wash train arrives at its west most terminus in Littleton, MA. From here, the crew will run around to the trailing genset to make the return trip east down the Fitchburg Line.
A flared radiator Genset from the Terminal Railway of the Alabama State Port Authority pulls a large cut of box cars from the State Docks at Mobile, AL adjacent to CSX's Siebert Yard.
Funeral train...
On Monday morning, I was driving to Tulsa from home as I usually do. I knew about this train and that it would come through Tulsa at some point in the morning, but didn't know when.
I was fortunate and received some intel from a reliable source saying the train was just west of Tulsa. At this point, it was still dark, but I went ahead and drove towards Cherokee Yard so that I could follow it.
The D-GATSTL (Light power- Galveston, TX to St Louis, MO) rounded the wye just before sunrise and then pulled into East Tulsa for a crew change. I made my way over to Tiger to setup for a shot as I knew the sun would be good at this spot.
After patiently waiting for close to an hour, the train finally showed up at Tiger. 5 Gensets and 8 Dash 8s, all standard cab except for the Warbonnet on the end. All going for scrap.
I will post roster shots of each locomotive later.
During one of the many snowfalls of February 2018, an IHB transfer job heads into Bensenville Yard in Franklin Park with a GP40-2 leading a genset.
NWP 1501 heads west across the Black Point bridge with three covered hoppers in tow, bound for industries in Petaluma.
I arrived in Schellville to both gensets and 1501 still in the cage. At this point, both genset were yet to be fully fixed up so 1501 would again be heading to Petaluma alone. It was basically a typical Petaluma run that day, excepts they were set back about 30 minutes which was just enough time for the sun to set to soon. They rounded the wye in Schellville and grabbed the three cars before quickly heading west. I stopped at the Fairville curves to try my luck at that spot but because they were just a bit later than usual, the shadows were longer and covering the majority of the curve. But I got the shot anyway and drove down to the Black Point bridge, I knew it would be dark at this point anyway but the sky was perfect and even though it’s pretty dark, it still turned out nice.
7/14/22
On the Indiana Harbor Belt main just west of Blue Island Yard at Seeley Ave, a pair of RP15BDF gensets shove back as an SW1500 waits. The RP15BDF is a dual-fuel unit, capable of operating on diesel or compressed natural gas. They may not be the prettiest things on rails, but they do at least add some variety- and personally I think they look alright from this end!
NWPs two gensets take the Lombard turn east, bound for CFNR.
This ones from back in covid summer. My favorite location at the time was at the port sonoma marina. I got some of my best shots on the line here but I never chased them that far sadly, and now the light is pretty shit for the runs east, especially in the winter.
7/6/20
Amtrak locomotive 597, a model 2GS12B genset built by National Railway Equipment in 2014, is seen shuffling around Washington Union Station, where it works moving equipment to and from Ivy City Yard. These locomotives were rebuilt by NRE from SW1000 units, which were rebuilt 20 years prior from SW9 locomotives - also by NRE! Also of interest in this view are Tower K in the background, the dwarf position color light signal in the foreground, and the Loram Railvac ballast excavating machine laid up in front of the tower.
MC-2 led by one of the MBTA’s two gensets, #3249 is seen rolling north under the Bourne Bridge on its way to Semass in Rochester back in September of 2020.
PTRA Job 235 comes around the bend out of Manchester Jct. on UP's Strang Sub, bound for North Yard. These MK1500D units have been formally retired and placed in a dead line in North Yard with the arrival of the GATX GP38-2s, making this scene from last fall something that won't be seen again.
Houston, TX 9/23/2021
On Independence Day 2007, a new RailPower RP20GE Genset was in transit to Texas on UP Train MPRPB 03 as it left Malden after meeting the KMNOA on the UP Jonesboro Sub. More than 15 years later none of these engines are serving the UP, not even the new one.
Locomotives: UP 9172, UP 9358, UPY 2692
7-4-07
Spoonerville, MO
Consumers two, two axle Brookville shifters drag a cut of loads into the JH Campbell power plant at Port Sheldon MI. These two units are the primary locos that the power plant uses but they also have a EMD SW/slug combo that had been put out to pasture awaiting sale or scrapping on site, a GE 80 Tonner and a NRE Genset Slug set that is their newest set. The power plant locos are hard to catch outside and usually it isn't in good light if you do see them. I think they are ugly as fuck but they are unique so and seldom shot.
I try to not post roster shots but this new slug set is a little too colorful not to post. Consumers Energy's newest locomotive set is seen sitting at CSX's Wyoming yard in Grand Rapids MI awaiting further movement to West Olive. This set will replace a SW cow and calf set that is already there.
SERAs Hill job heads east thru downtown Sonora on it's way to drop off some propane and 2 centerbeams for Sierra Pacific.
12/30/21
One of CFNR's NRE gensets, 501, takes a cut of boxcars towards the West end of Lombard to exchange with Biagi.
After a couple of hours searching for the Fairfield job, turns out UP decided to not run the LRJ90 the previous night, anulling CFNRs Fairfield job for the next day. We finally gave up and came down the road to Lombard to give the Napa Job a shot. We found them switching the Biagi warehouse up by the airport just before they came down to this end of Lombard. The chase ended with this shot, just after the morning drizzled had stopped.
12/22/21
Newly arrived GMTX GP38-2 #2206 leads PTRA's afternoon tank car transfer, Job 233 (normally 235), along the UP Strang Sub out of Pasadena and into the Houston city limits.
PTRA's red and yellow Gensets are beginning to be retired after 2 decades of service in the port of Houston, with these new Geeps sporting PTRA patches, LED ditchlights, and the rather generic-looking GMTX lease scheme.
As PTRA has decided not to apply a paint scheme to these Geeps, I can't say I'm very much a fan of them, although it will still be interesting to see these starting to earn their keep here.
Houston, TX 10/11/2021
The Harbor's daily delivery around the horn to the CSX at Barr Yard begins its walk across the block. A genset is in charge of the haul on this rainy spring afternoon.
NRE built 3GS21Bs are regulars on local jobs at Saginaw, Texas and a pair is seen in front of Attebury Grain on the afternoon of May 15, 2017.
140 using company power...who would've thought. This is the lovely petcoke train from BP Whiting. He's adding 50+ cars to No. 5 siding in Calumet City. Genset be damned, I was still happy to see Harbor orange on a move that usually utalizes whatever CSX junk came into town. The trains accumulate in Cal City until they get a unit train's worth and then head east on the Porter Branch to Willow Creek for points east on CSX.
Rolling up the steep hill and by the replica CL&N depot in Silverton, OH, CIND 2002 leads this day's Blue Ash Local north to work 4 of the branch's customers.
I&O utilizes two Gensets as dedicated power to the Blue Ash Local. They are the only two Gensets on the roster. Not exactly desirable power, but the former CL&N mainline they operate on is fantastically fascinating.
A line of 3GS21B locomotives sit in Galveston, awaiting to be sold and/or scrapped. These units were common on BNSF in the Houston area throughout the 2010s, and with them in dead lines now, it seems that they were an overall failure.
Galveston, TX 5/18/2020
MBTA Genset 3249 leads Mass Coastal train MC-1 south at Sagamore, MA while undergoing testing after receiving work from MPI.
Even the U.S. Navy got in on the Bicentennial wave. at the very isolated NWSC Crane base in Southern Indiana, the railroad repainted Baldwin DS4-4-1000 No. 1 into a basic, yet pleasing red, white and blue livery. Crane was long a haven for Baldwins. Most were re-engined with EMD 567 prime movers in the early 1980's, and returned to obscurity until the 2010's, when they were replaced with NRE-built Gensets, specifically 2 1GS7B's and 2 GS14B's. Some of the Baldwin rebuilds made it out to preservation status, but others were scrapped. The Gensets still work at the base.
Crane, IN.
4-5-1976
James Marcus photo
Chris Thompson collection.