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2 years ago this week, a pair of BN green units bring an intermodal train full of COVID-19 supplies east to St. Paul. To this day, this is still one of my favorite photos.
A quartet of 40 series EMDs hustle Rio Grande train No. 100 through Colton, Utah, five miles east of Solder Summit on Aug. 7, 1986. Train 100 was a daily move, interchange received from the Southern Pacific at Ogden, Utah, and interchange delivered to the Burlington Northern in Denver, Colorado.
Two of the hotter trains on the west end of the NS system meet at Dawson, IL, with 258 holding the main and 255 running the siding. While 255 normally runs with a solo unit, 258 can be a mixed bag. Its 1x1 configuration on this day allowed for a nice nose-to-nose meet.
The Kootenay Valley Railway's "Hotshot" heads west on the Boundary Subdivision on its way to Castlegar and Trail, passing the Brilliant Dam on the Kootenay River. The KVR is operated as an internal short line on the Canadian Pacific and includes the Boundary, Nelson and Rossland Subdivisions.
SD40R No. 7313 leads Southern Pacific’s DVOAF through Riverton, Utah the evening of July 6, 1994. This rural landscape, 15 miles south of downtown Salt Lake City, is unrecognizable today with the addition of commuter rail and 26 years of commercial and residential development.
A five pack of four axle EMDs lead an eastbound priority manifest into the horseshoe curve at Mitchell, CO on D&RGW's Tennessee Pass Line.
Canadian Pacific SD40-2F No. 9011 leads "The Hotshot" out Cranbrook, British Columbia in March 2015. The train will make its way west through the Kootenays to Nelson and Trail.
A late NS 229 crosses the CSX Callahan Subdivision at Crawford, FL on their way east toward Simpson yard in Jacksonville, FL.
Wabash searchlights remain dark until the 4th or 5th car passes it, so these searchlight aspects were photoshopped for optimum image quality.
A hotshot for Chicago slams through Williamsfield, IL on the Chili Sub. This is another of those spots that I visited infrequently, and no matter how long I stayed, I always netted more afternoon westbounds than I ever did morning eastbounds.
An eastbound Union Pacific Z train with brand new power rolls away from Mt. Hood. The train is on the segment of double track east of The Dalles, Oregon.
The huge nose on this SD60M, combined with the postage stamp sized UP shield, demonstrates why fans begged UP to bring back the streamliner wings in the 1990s.
Looking like the MAIL trains that used to grace these rails, a former Conrail SD40-2 has eastbound Q008-17 at track speed, splitting the 90s era Type-Gs at milepost 159 on the Indianapolis Line east of Sidney, OH.
Taken last night and met up with fellow photographer Stu Patterson. Enjoyed the craic and great company. Cheers marra! (HotShots)
Union Pacific's Long Beach, California to Denver, Colorado priority intermodal blasts through Henefer, Utah on Sept. 22, 2022.
Santa Fe's famous 199 train screams through Coal City, in a nice spring rain. Great days, rain or not.
May 14, 1994.
I135-17 wasn't the only thing rumbling through Harpers Ferry on a stormy sunday afternoon, as the friendly conductor flashes a wave while they flew through the iconic Harper's Ferry Depot. Standing next to me was a young man in an orange CSX shirt, thrilled to hear they were coming when I walked in with my scanner. It was genuinely fantastic to see his enthusiasm for a train, any train, and to see his excitement as we listened to them calling signals, the low tones of a Gevo echoing off the mountains. His enthusiasm for an intermodal with a common leader was a great reminder to me that they don't always have to be rare, unique, or special. Sometimes a hotshot with a common leader fits the bill just fine, and in this case, I135-17 sure did.
With Shoreham work complete, 149 is well underway as it leaves Medina behind and cruises westward into the setting sun with lights to South Haven.
CP SD70ACU 7059 leads CPKC 180 West through Itasca, IL, just a few miles into this train's trip to Mexico.
Vianet Djenguet sur le terrain - in the field !
Vianet Djenguet est un photographe, caméraman et réalisateur animalier franco-congolais reconnu pour son engagement en faveur de la conservation et sa capacité à filmer la faune dans des environnements extrêmes et souvent hostiles. Fort de plus de 15 ans d’expérience, il a collaboré avec de grands diffuseurs internationaux tels que la BBC et National Geographic, parcourant le monde pour documenter la vie sauvage, notamment en Afrique, en Asie et en Amérique du Sud !
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Vianet Djenguet is a Franco-Congolese wildlife photographer, cameraman, and filmmaker, renowned for his commitment to conservation and his ability to film wildlife in extreme and often hostile environments. With over 15 years of experience, he has worked with major international broadcasters such as the BBC and National Geographic, traveling the world to document wildlife, particularly in Africa, Asia, and South America !
A rare (for the Shasta Route) Southern Pacific General Electric B39-8 leads an intermodal train north out of Redding, California. It was a searing hot August afternoon in 1998.
At the time, you could park in the shade of a bridge and enjoy this vantage, out of the hot sun. ETTS.
Former Chicago and North Western C44-9W 8687 was leading the hot SCCSZ along with a former Southern Pacific C44-9W on 11-3-96.
It was holding outside of Clinton due to congestion ahead.
Hotshot intermodal train I025 rockets south after a quick swap and go at Casky Yard on the CSX Henderson Subdivision.
CSX C40-8W 7797 and C40-8 7612 were screaming eastbound on the former B&O at Wellsboro in 2000.
Fall colors were just starting to turn along the Garrett Subdivision and a pair of clean YN2 GEs were looking pretty decent in the early morning light.
CPKC’s new daily northbound intermodal, 181, seems to be seeing mild success, with the train I shot on 5/20 being all of 20 cars long with two KCSM GEVOs on the point
As many will probably know from Danny Harmon's famous videos on the tropicana juice trains, these used to run as a hotshot unit train from Florida to NJ. During CSX's implementation of PSR, they were relegated to lower-priority manifests M300 and M301, both of which are reliably daylight trains on the RF&P. And while these trains do usually move with a purpose, they're not exactly the hottest trains on the railroad. That pace apparently wasn't working for Tropicana, and very recently the juice has been moved back to priority intermodal trains I031 and I032. While they're not the juice trains of old, it's still pretty neat to see the juice back on the headpin of the hottest trains on the RF&P.
Crosley era un fabricante de electrodomésticos que pensaba que la gente no necesitaba coches tan grandes. Este fue su segundo y último intento por convencer a sus compatriotas que grande no era mejor.
La gama de Crosley en esta segunda generación incluía este deportivo, una especie de mini Jeep para granjas y una ranchera.
Kicking snow and hauling some hot trailers from Chicago and points west, GTW train #434 rolls through Royal Oak, Mi. on 3-17-81.
CP 4443 is in charge of a 2-198 at Weaver West on a humid August 19th, 2018 morning approaching the west end of siding. I hated this rendition of the CP scheme with the giant space between the C and P, as if leaving space for a CA headlight package that wasn't there on these former SOO 4400's, as well as the hump service equipment on the roof. I couldn't care less, now, as this along with many others will probably never lead again out on the main without PTC.
With a friendly wave from the cab, Soo Line train 203 passes the shore of Pewaukee Lake at Pewaukee, Wisconsin, on the nice autumn day of October 6, 1990. An EMD SD60M/SD60 combo in new “candy apple red,” power the westbound hotshot.
Cruising through the community of Matfield Green, KS, a westbound BNSF "Z" train is making its way down the southern transcon on a mostly sunny Saturday, March 1, 2025 afternoon.
Hotshot NS 203 hustles South through Thomasville after midnight with a CN C40-8 leading the way South to Atlanta.
The Shasta Route crests the southern Cascades in Siskiyou County, California about a mile and a half east of Grass Lake siding. From there, eastbounds negotiate 22 miles of continual downgrade before they encounter level trackage on the floor of the Butte Valley at Mount Hebron. Having completed the descent, an LABRD flies through Mount Hebron on August 1, 1994. Since the train is about fifteen minutes behind Amtrak 14, it should have a swift trip to the crew change at Klamath Falls.
At the time, double stack traffic was fairly rare on the Shasta Route. My notes on the slide mount say that the symbol of this train was LABRD, which I would guess I discovered at the time from either radio traffic or a crew standing lineup message. I'm not sure what the "D" in LABRD signified, as it was typically used for detours or reroutes. Anyone?