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An SD70M leads UP train MASPR-18 up the A&S through Double Track JCT, leaving the MACK Block and entering the TROY Block. Between here and HN Cabin, the northbound main is the MACK Block and the southbound main is the VAN Block. 3/18/23.
BNSF 7849 leads a northbound manifest through the U.S. Air Force Academy, CO.
Pikes Peak is partially obscured by clouds, but that's nothing compared to just a few miles north of this spot. Near the Palmer Divide and on the north side, the clouds had reached the ground and visibility was down to about a quarter of a mile. As I drove south, I was surprised to see how much things had cleared. It was a wet July; at last count, it was the 3rd wettest July on record. Things are still quite green for this time of year, with lots of monsoon moisture still present, hence the clouds over the mountains this early in the morning.
On a side note, that jogger you see on the New Santa Fe Trail just below the lead unit came to a stop, whipped out her phone, and snapped a photo of the train as it passed her by. Guess it just goes to show we're all railfans on some level!
325011 leads 325015 into the Daventry Railfreight Terminal ready to be dragged into the Royal Mail hub. Back end of September when the contract with DB ends a further 100 plus lorries will be on the road moving the mail from Scotland.
73136 leads 73140 at Grateley with a rake of china clay tanks on the SO Quidhampton - Willesden trip working. Taken on a hazy 22/03/97. This train had a habit of producing all sorts of motive power, 73's making a welcome surprise on this particular day.
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43238 leads 1D13 12.03 London Kings Cross - Leeds, the power car now in NRM 40 years 1975 - 2015 vinyls complete with covered nameplate.
It has been reported the loco is due to be named at York on 23/09/15.
22/09/15
37667 leads 37521 at Daresbury with Locomotive Services 5Z10 0850 Crewe Holding Sidings to Berwick-upon-Tweed on Thursday 4th March 2021.
The former 37151 & 37117 were working part one of what appeared to be a round-Britain ECS tour of very mixed stock involving the formation running up to Berwick then over to St Bees where it departs late on Thursday back overnight to the north west area and then via the S&C and G&SW routes to Carstairs. It then heads up to Glenfinnan where it arrives on Friday night, before arriving at Mallaig on Saturday morning.
A small party including the LSL director were on board.
CN 7032 leads the CN 1500 Hamilton Yard Job as they make a rare appearance in the east end of Hamilton, Ontario's industrial area, where they are pictured switching out Yellowline Asphalt.
CN 8833 leads stacker train Q120, as they pass by Fort Lawrence. Seen here, going away, approaching the TCH and Amherst, Nova Scotia. After I took my previous photo, I turned around and just starting shooting some going away shots. I normally don't do much with them, but I like how this turned out, so I'm keeping it.
October 15,2016.
BNSF 8238 leads an eastbound intermodal at Verona. Here's what happened: Me and my friend walked over here to get the eastbound shot when they yelled at us to get away from the tracks and all that. We tried to stay as far away from the tracks as possible and we weren't sure if it was trespassing, so when the maintainers told us to leave that spot we did. Then not long after when we stand at the crossing on a PUBLIC sidewalk behind the gate line, that maintainer closest to the camera told us that we were trespassing and that taking pictures of trains is illegal for "security reasons." He proceeded to rudely tell us to put our cameras down and leave and that BNSF police and Grundy County Sheriff have been contacted. We left, but we didn't go down without getting revenge. We called BNSF police and talked to an officer about what happened, and we were told that the maintainer was completely in the wrong and that we have every right to be there. After the phone call he said he would call off Grundy County Sheriff and have a word with the maintainer in question. I didn't care if we didn't catch anything else good after that, we got our revenge on one of the biggest assholes I've ever met. 3/14/16
37667 leads 0Z37 07:13 Crewe H.S. to Barrow Hill L.I.P. towards Clay Cross at Danesmoor. Friday 21st February 2020. 37190 is to donate its bogies to 37688.
67021 BP leads classmate DOR 67024 BP through the curves @ STANTON GATE with the 1E02 08.46 LONDON VICTORIA - CHESTERFIELD, Wednesday 24th November 2021
L265 leads a pair of 22 Class upgrade through Jannali Station with loaded Manildra Group flour train 8982 from Manildra to Bomaderry. From memory this was the second or third last Manildra to Bomaderry hauled by ARG prior to Pacific National taking over the contract.
This is a re-upload of an older photo which was poorly cropped and post processed. It was not the planned composition, as a second after this frame was fired, an up Tangara slid into platform one and blocked the shot. Full disclosure, I've removed a distracting overhead support (not actually attached to anything) from the top left corner of the shot.
66721 leads a rake of new FEA wagons from Dollands Moor to Peterborough, with 66707 on the rear.
The Class 66 is painted in a special livery (dating back to 2013), marking the 150th Anniversary of London Underground.
43102 leads 1C43 1136 Sheffield to St Pancras, heading south through Flitwick, resplendent in the 1980s 'Swallow' livery.
East Midlands Trains have returned 43302 to this livery, for the final few months of operations on the Midland Mainline, and reverted it back to 43102, before it is reportedly destined for NRM York. This InterCity125 powercar was one of the pair which set the world diesel rail speed record at 148.5mph in 1987.
Penn Central ex Pennsylvania Railroad GG-1 # 4877 leads a westbound passenger train on a platform track past tower SS71 and through Devon Junction, Connecticut, 1969. It appears that some MOW work is being performed to the right. The two main line tracks that turnout to the left head to Derby Junction with a connection to the Maybrook line and then up to Waterbury. The front train line is leaking some water vapor from the steam line. This train is Penn Job and will head to Pennsylvania Station in New York City. This photo came from my collection of negative scans. This photo has been cropped and modified from the original to improve its appearance.
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BL20-2 No. 2121 leads a GP38 No. 3824 on the Bakersfield to Buttonwillow Branch. This is part of the San Joaquin Valley Railroad network, and the photo was taken on the C58 Rosedale Highway, opposite Brant Road.
Quite a fortuitous shot, considering the former Southern Pacific branch cannot see too much traffic these days. Whilst this is quite a short train by US standards, the sheer size of the units is well demonstrated by the "ant like" looking tanker rig on the road adjacent to the line. Wednesday 21.9.16
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A little further ahead, the river opens into this suspended vision, as if guiding me step by step toward its main course.
The fog wraps everything, turning the landscape into an unreal threshold: reflections blend with branches, the water becomes a thin veil, and silence takes on its own shape.
In the distance, barely visible through the mist, a narrow strip of land emerges from nowhere. On it, a few trees rise like a natural watershed, a fragile boundary between what is near and what slips away.
It is a passage point, a line that separates two worlds and, at the same time, brings them together.
This image feels as if it has walked out of a dream —
one of those that leave a trace of light in your eyes and a quiet sense of belonging in your chest.
Here, the Ticino doesn’t just flow: it guides, shelters, and leads.
Poco più avanti, il fiume si apre in questa visione sospesa, come se volesse accompagnarmi passo dopo passo verso il suo corso principale.
La nebbia avvolge ogni cosa, trasformando il paesaggio in una soglia irreale: i riflessi si confondono con i rami, l’acqua diventa un velo sottile, e il silenzio sembra farsi materia.
In lontananza, appena intuibile dietro la cortina di vapore, una lingua di terra affiora dal nulla. Su di essa, alcuni alberi si alzano come un piccolo spartiacque naturale, un confine fragile tra ciò che è vicino e ciò che sfugge.
È un punto di passaggio, una linea che separa due mondi e allo stesso tempo li unisce.
Questa immagine sembra uscita da un sogno —
uno di quelli che al risveglio lasciano negli occhi un’eco di luce e nel cuore un senso di appartenenza difficile da spiegare.
Il Ticino qui non scorre soltanto: guida, custodisce, accompagna.
One roads leads to two and suddenly there is a junction for traffic and the scope for decision, revision and division til contemplation arrives at cognition and transmigration induced by transmutation, we can somewhat transmogrified continue our transportation.
The metamorphosis that awaits at the cross roads, or the junction of ways gives us a chance to look at the roads not chosen as different fates, or potential we have the chance to transmogrify into the pupa and to transfigure through the imago and transmute into the butterfly that flutters down the right road, or the best road, or the only road beating our wind evoking wings as we proceed and progress in due procession to our ultimate goal.
The Chthonic Hekate is underwhelmed in the underworld by the sparkle of the above and the dark intentions from below that make some of the sparkle. She knows the outcome of each of the ways ways available to us. She might like to be acknowledged, but that does not mean that she will share her knowledge, unfortunately she is happy to leave us in self-knowledge that is mis-knowledge. The Triple Form of Hekate is full within the three phases and yet there is also a Forth Form. Her light in the darkness includes sparking, lighting, spluttering and also none igniting. Her symbol of three Moon in reflected illumination is also a symbol brightly obscuring her other form within the Dark, or New Moon. She is happy in the dark with her unilluminated vision and her brightness in the Full Moon also knows the New Moon visible on the horizon for just a few moments. Called for and sought at the Trivia Three Ways and crossroads also asked for and answered within the home where all junctions are started and ended and where insight and protection are often most required. From the ignition of Fresh Flame to Full Light through Dying Embers and within Extinguished Ashes she is never absent always available if you call on her without subconscious desire, rather with intent to take her hand with resolve to lead you on towards where you aspire.
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New Haven Railroad J-1 class 2-8-2 Mikado steam locomotive # 3022, leads a short local freight train along the Air Line at Portland, Connecticut, 1947. This area at this period of time was a true countryside branch line railroad operation. You can see the engineer in his cab window. You may take notice of the outside braced boxcar coupled to the tender. Portland is a town and area situated on the east side of the Connecticut River across from Middletown.
The name of the photographer that captured this image on film is Kent Cochrane and it came from a photo that was on the Internet. This photo has been cropped and modified from the original to improve its appearance.
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37518 leads from the front with the 15:15 service from Wareham to Swanage with 33012 DOR and the recently painted London Transport liveried stock on the afternoon of the 1/1/17
Clinchfield 800 leads CSX Train P901 past Dante Yard with the 75th Annual Santa Train after a stop on the CSX Kingsport Sub. The CRR has been hit hard the past few years by the economy. Some of these coal hoppers are in service, but many of them have sat here long enough for kudzu to creep up on them.
The special power this year is made up of a pair from Ed Bowers' Vintage Locomotives, Inc. fleet: VLIX 800 and VLIX 2024. #800 is an EMD F3A built new in December 1948, later rebuilt to F7A specifications in 1957, and served Family Lines, Seaboard, and CSX before going into private ownership, and later C&O Paint. The CSX Huntington, WV Locomotive Shop returned the engine to as-delivered appearance for the event.
Behind the F-Unit is an SCL 2024 dressed up for the event as the next in sequence EMD SD45 the Clinchfield would have acquired when they swapped 7 U36C's to the Seaboard Coast Line for a like number of SD45's in 1977, and left them in this interim, almost hybrid paint scheme.
Locomotives: CRR 800, CRR 3632, CSXT 9992, 9999
11-18-17
Dante, VA
Java railway junction. I was looking east on the mainline of the CPR. The Great Sandhills short line railway leads off on the left.
After having travelled from one end to the other of the Indonesian island of Java, visiting Java SK was high on my to-do list.
My car is seen on the right. The local farm roads here are a bit sketchy. I don't recommend visiting in bad weather!
Rural Municipality of Swift Current.
Province of Saskatchewan in late March 2021.
This road leads to the old mining camp of Cerro Gordo (Fat Mountain) Now privately owned and maybe one day an out-of-the-way resort. In the distance is the Owens Dry Lake and the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range.
FYI; Cerro Gordo is a very old mining town that sits 8000' above sea level. up this 8-mile dirt road. The mine produced $500 million by todays standards Currently owned by Brent Underwood who bought it for $1.4 million.
WSOR 4030 leads a good sized T-008 around the curve at the west end of a mystery Wisconsin town at the breakneck speed of 10mph. This is a shot I've been wanting to get for a while, as I always like town sign photos (if you can't shoot the depot, shoot the town sign!). I hadn't noticed it at the time I was taking the photo, but the two birds seen in this shot are remarkably similar....
The lonely highway that leads from the town of Winslow, Arizona, on I-40 north to the three mesas of the Hopi Reservation is largely flat and unremarkable. Hidden away just off the road is a gem of a scenic overlook named Little Painted Desert. As the short road reaches the rim, the full beauty of this unbelievable land opens up. To the south the land flattens out as it falls toward Homolovi State Park. To the west and north, the multi-colored hills rise and undulate in mesmerizing folds. At the rim the cliffs are red and orange and the mesas of the Hopi land peek out above them. This is a particularly great spot at sunrise and sunset, when the warm light brings out the reds, greens and browns of the landscape and the texture of the hills stands out sharply.
CLP9-BRM002 leads 7740V up loaded SSR grain wagon transfer (8 green BGUY's rakes) from Maroona to Appleton Dock, already passing through near Nth Shore, taken on Tuesday 10th September 2024.
37402 BR leads 37419 M on the 3S13 08:52 WRENTHORPE RECP - GRIMSBY TOWN RHTT @ HATFIELD & STAINFORTH , Wednesday 21st October 2020
Originally built in 1954, a almost 64 year old (body at least) GP9r, 4619 leads L50060 15 as it doubles up its pick up in Durand Yard in the driving snow. The advanced (extra) section is in the process of picking up 45 cars for Flint Bristol Yard. The train is passing the old GTW cab that stands guard of the old railroad town. Durand is a shell of what it used to be but is still an important point on the CN map where the Holly and Flint Subs cross and also the presence of the GLC and HESR into town.
NR32-NR112-LDP008 leads 7SM2 up PN Intermodal from SFT (Chullora) to MFT (Sth Dynon), seen going through McIntyre Loop, Sunshine Nth, taken on Sunday 25th June, 2023.
Near the village of Vrimë lies the staircase that leads to the temple of Akrep, the White goddess, also called goddess of the Sun and the Light. Legend says that the staircase was built by a single man, a fisherman who lived near the stream. Desperate with the disappearance of his son, he made a promise to the goddess that he would erect a temple, an orphanage, and a fountain of the legendary miraculous water that rose at the top of the mountain.
This fisherman was a very exaggerated man, and his son had only gone to the neighboring village to see a girl and returned a few days later. Even so, the man built the temple and the fountain and its garden, which today are visited by people who travel hundreds of miles just to see them, as well as the orphanage, which receives children from all over the region.
Setting standards too high often leads to a feeling of not being enough. If the goal is always to achieve everything extraordinarily, much pressure builds up quickly because not achieving equals failure quite often. A narrow field of vision frequently causes another problem: tunnel vision - a one-way street where compromises are rare.
However, if there is no room to experiment, the beauty of coincidences will always stay unknown. Though the small surprises sometimes sweep through life like a storm and mess things up, they often let everything shine in new splendor that makes being so vibrant.
CN 2932 leads an 'X594' potash train, as it approaches Passekeag, New Brunswick, along the CN Sussex Subdivision. This train, which is not labeled as a 'B730', is hauling the remaining potash loads, which was set off by the original B730 on Saturday. These guys ran about 45 minutes behind the regular 'A406' freight. Nice to see two westbounds on this line in that short period of time.
February 23, 2016.
CN 3064 leads another GE and 146 cars towards Hawthorne, Wi on Oct. 2, 2016. This southbound was up to 10-15 miles per hour, dragging its train of just less than 10,000 feet up Hawthorne Hill with only 2 GEs and no mid train units. The second half of the train was empty auto racks and sand cars, so once they crest the hill it will be easy running towards Stevens Point.
Merseyrail 507007 leads a 6-car formation out of the tunnel and cutting from Liverpool Central with the 13.50 Southport - Hunts Cross.
* This is now the site of Brunswick Station built in 1998 and is close to the original Brunswick station built by the Cheshire Lines Committee in 1874. The Liverpool Overhead Railway passed over the line near Brunswick Shed and into a tunnel to access the Dingle terminus on a bridge a couple of hundred metres behind me.
Baku, Azerbaijan
I thought I'd fill you all in on the events of this day... which has nothing to do with my picture except to say it was the culmination of a very long day!
Our flight out of Istanbul's new International airport was early morning which meant an even earlier get-up and check-in. The hotel booked us a taxi from the front door and off we set. Now we'd enquired about travel times to the airport as this was just on the cusp of the rush-hour start. Typically the airport run is about 30 minutes away but we were advised to allow 40 minutes just in case of traffic build up. This was going to be no problem - we always plan ahead, unfortunately our taxi driver had other ideas.
Having studied all about velocity, mass and momentum at college, I/we always put on seatbelts front or back but these seemed inadequate in this particular taxi... a full four-way racing harness would have been better. Whether someone had just beaten his airport run pole time we'll never know but he was sure as hell intent on regaining it this very morning!
Speed signs and limits were just for other drivers this morning as we hurtled down the main highway out of the Sultanahmet. He was only forced to brake when we came across what looked like a road block or accident... mainly lorries for some reason! We came to a stop in the outer lane only for our driver to crunch his gearbox into reverse and driver backwards down the road before we had chance to compute what the hell was going on. We passed a break in the central reservation Armco barrier... low and behold back into first gear and drove through the gap!
So there we were driving up the wrong side of the road with cars coming head on, flashing their headlights (who wouldn't in a situation like this) darting out of the way for this madman.
"What the hell (please insert fruitier language here) are you doing!!!" I shouted or was it screamed to the driver as we both looked for grab handles and planned for the brace position. "It's ok, this shortcut and I put hazard light on"
That's ok then, I thought, perfectly understandable! What seemed like an eternity could only have been about 400 yards for we quickly passed the road block which turned to be a lane closure for road works and the "good" traffic had filtering into the one lane at the crossroads.
Just to keep the tension on heart attack levels we darted back onto the right side of the highway without a consideration for the lights or who had right of way. We sat in stunned silence with our hands gripped vice-like to the roof handles in fear. The rest of journey was somewhat of an anticlimax after that incident albeit at breakneck speed. We arrived in 22 minutes dead... he seemed pleased with himself so I assumed he had just regained pole position. I paid him the fare... I didn't give a tip!
The flight was pretty uneventful except to mention it was full of gymnasts on their way to a competition in Baku. The young South Korean girl gymnast in the seat next to Mrs R was clearly very excited for she practiced her floor routine in her seat for the full duration of the flight... with that dedication I hope she won a medal!
Fast forward to Baku...
Taxis in Baku are wonderful compared to our last one. The state owned ones are Hackney carriages, like in the UK, but purple in colour. Fees are all fixed and very cheap compared to UK black cabs... you can, however, hail private cabs but run the risk of getting ripped off by as much as 1 or 2 Manats (50p or £1), the choice is yours!
We got a purple cab from the airport to our hotel - the Flame Towers, and passed the very reason I wanted to come to Baku in the first place on route, but that's another story. Our hotel is simply a jaw dropping example of modern architecture that reflects the economic wealth of Azerbaijan in oil and gas hence the flame design. We had paid for an upgraded room for a sea view and upon checking in, the hotel had upgraded us to a suite... without wanting to sound gloaty it was bigger than the footprint of our home.
We don't squander time when on holiday and headed out after a very quick unpack and freshen up, which leads to this picture and the previous one. The afternoon was spent gaining our bearings and wandering down the promenade and into town. It was late afternoon and we hadn't eaten so the first diner we came across that took care of that. By the time we came out the light was fading and so we decided to head back to our hotel. It's at this point we realised how high the hotel is situated and it's a bit of a hike up the hills. When we eventually arrived back it was dark and we felt a little disappointed that the three towers weren't illuminated. I must confess I hadn't researched whether these were only illuminated for special occasions or a nightly show... we needed have worried! By the time we exited the lift, we pass a glass fronted balcony overlooking the sea and the opposite tower on the way to our room - the show was in full swing!
I hadn't planned on going out first night for photography as this wasn't that sort of holiday but how could I by-pass the opportunity. "I take it you'll need your tripod?"... bless her!
So we went out into the night... by the way this was Mrs R's idea and the picture her's as well.
CSXT 8774 leads a string of hoppers south down the grade out of Palmer Lake.
When one railfans the Joint Line, plenty of action will be seen but not much variety. So when a lone Bright Future CSX unit is on the point of a train, it sticks out like a sore thumb! This particular unit was the very first SD60I on the Conrail roster. Sadly, the blue paint has been replaced with CSX's YN2 paint scheme, but this paint has held up well.
As a bonus, and it's hard to see in this shot, but the red marker lights were illuminated during this portion of this train's southbound run!
3012 leads 2006 and 2003 on the work train Southbound at NSS Eklutna 739pm 5-17-15. To give this pre-context I had blown a golden opportunity to get this shot with the same power earlier in the week when I made a bad decision to stay put at the Matanuska River bridge. Today fellow railroader-buff Mark Hinsdale and I were parked on the south (rr east) side of the tracks (to be henceforth known as the Hindsale side). We knew this was getting close but figured we could see the signal light up. We hadn't considered the glare from the evening nose-on sun. I was standing next to his drivers side and heard EMD's. The words out of my mouth as I ran across both tracks were ba bA BA BA! BA!! BA!!! BA!!!!. The head end was already past the highway. I had no time to adjust my light meter and was focusing as he was moving quickly into my placement in the frame. After the Caboose cleared I was literally shaking with relief.
66013 leads the 2nd DB stone train out of Cowburn Tunnel in 15 minutes working 6E95 Dowlow Briggs to Boston Sleaford Sidings.
66161 ran up 10 minutes earlier with a similar load from Peak Forest Cemex to Limbury.
At this point with no mobile phone signal i headed east to Hathersage and was fortunate to catch 66742 on a late running 6G75 1849 Tunstead Sdgs Gbrf to Washwood Heath Up Sdg Gbrf after the tango shed working the opposite way into Tunstead.