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GP35 840 leads quite the consist as it heads through Germantown, WI. Trailing is the SD35 2500 and SD24 2402. That ex Southern SD was very elusive for me. In all the times that I shot the Fever, and believe me, that was a lot of times, I caught the 2500 leading only once. Stuck in the middle again....
57007 leads the way towards Dereham with the 1415 service on the Sunday of the 2017 Spring Diesel Gala. The DRS loco was a late replacement after a variety of issues with the other booked visitors.
slowly leads 375 over Hill Street as they approach a stop indication at LS Junction in Louisville, KY.
Built for NS in 2012, it's one of 20 Heritage units on the roster that were painted in the colors of predecessor roads that make up today's Norfolk Southern.
An SD40N pair leads the KCS Knoche Yard to UP Neff Yard transfer on Main Track 4 of the UP KC Metro Sub as it crosses the Coal Route Diamond at Troost.
This train has just finished making a loop around the West Bottoms to get itself turned around since Knoche Yard and Neff Yard are parellel to each other and there is no easy connection between the two. This train literally went the opposite direction at this same location about an hour earlier. 7/16/16.
37069 leads with 37059 in the middle and 57002 on the rear second day of three locos on shakedown /testing of the Anglia RHTT sets based at Stowmarket here returning from Kings Lynn
313062 leads 313018 into Alexandra Palace on 15th June 2018 with 2B70 1255 Moorgate to Hertford North.
The York built 313s are now over 40 years old and are due to be replaced by the new class 717s from January 2019. These dates seems to be written in snow if any of the past fleet introductions are anything to go by so don't be surprised if the old order are around for some time yet.
47848 leads a ROG-operated D.A.T.S. Ltd. (Data Acquisition and Testing Services - see www.datsltd.com/) Midland Main Line OHL test train past Irchester (south of Wellingborough). The working is 3Q18 17.11 Bedford - Corby North Run-Round Loop, and was running nearly an hour late. As it was required to run at no more than 30mph, there was an East Midlands Railway "Meridian" very close behind it!
The formation of the train was:
47848 (ROG), 11018, 12122 (both ex-Virgin "Pretendolino" mark 3 coaches), 91128 (ex-LNER), 90035 (DB), 11074 (ex-125 Group mark 3), 11090, 12032 (both ex-Greater Anglia mark 3s), 12092 (ex-125 Group mark 3), 82136 (ex-Greater Anglia mark 3 DVT), 47815 Lost Boys 68-88 (ROG)
The workings today were:
5Q61 15.39 Leicester LIP - Kettering (transit move; set off 46 late)
3Q60 16.23 Kettering - Bedford (set off 40 late)
3Q18 17.11 Bedford - Corby North Run-Round Loop (set off 56 late)
3Q62 19.43 Corby North RRL - Luton (set off rouhgly on time)
3Q61 21.34 Luton - Kettering (set off 18 early)
5Q59 23.19 Kettering - Leicester LIP (transit move; ran about an hour early)
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GRLW GP30u 4204 leads Z590 past Miliken Road on their way out of town during a fall downpour. 4204 is Ex ATSF 2751, a member of their early 80s GP30u rebuild program. The 30u program involved replacing the 567 prime mover with a 645, boosting the horsepower from 2,250 to 2,500. Other upgrades included replacing the traction motors, adding a rooftop A/C Unit, and others. Somewhere around 80 of these rebuilds were done by the ATSF at Cleburne, and two of them ended up with the GRLW from LTEX. The other unit, 4203, is still in an extremely worn down version of its ATSF freightbonnet scheme and almost never runs. Ironically, 4203 is actually the better pulling motor compared to 4204 but due to how horrid it looks, GRLWs owner hates using it (paint is expensive.)
20196 leads 20139 on a northbound mixed freight, probably heading for Tinsley yard along the Down Goods at Chesterfield, 28th July 1977.
Locomotive History
20196 was originally D8196 and was built by English Electric in 1967. It was allocated to Toton from new and spent virtually it whole career allocated to this Nottinghamshire depot. However it would spend over eighteen months stored unserviceable until given a classified repair at Glasgow works in October 1984. It was briefly renumbered 20308 in the late 1980’s when dedicated to Peak Forest aggregate duties but had reverted back to 20196 prior to withdrawal in January 1992. It was broken up by MC Metals in September 1993. 20139 was originally D8139 and was built by English Electric in 1966. Withdrawn in May 1991 it was one of four class 20’s sold for further use in France becoming 2003 in the Compagnie de Chemins de Fer Departementaux fleet. On withdrawal in France it was returned to the UK in September 2005 with a view to preservation, however it was sold for breaking up and was broken up in may 2010 at EMR, Kingsbury.
Praktica LTL, Kodachrome 64
Only a week since C503 finished up with SSR, C508 has appeared on CA07, as seen here as it leads two BRM's and a CM
T364 leads 408M, 1054T, 407M - 476M, 1088T, 475M and T395 (trailing) through Spotswood on 9880 to Tottenham. These comeng sets are now withdrawn from service, and will face scrapping at North Shore sometime soon. 25/9/21.
DB 66077 leads 6L43 Mountsorrel- Barham east through Cattishall crossing in some very warm Sufflk sunshine thanks to the driver for the friendly toot
43194 leads 1A90 12:56 Penzance to London Paddington service with LA15 and 43188 in lovely loight. - 26/03/17
leads 87002 and 47810 passed Cheddington while working 0Z20 Crewe - Eastleigh light engine move
the 87 and 86 are off for a repaint for there new owner
20161 leads 20047 approaching Attenborough station with an empty unfitted coal train made up exclusively of 21 ton coal hoppers, 15th June 1981. These empties are almost certainly heading for Gedling colliery. After nationalisation in 1948 British Railways continued to build London and North Eastern Railway design coal hopper wagons with both welded and riveted bodies. Over twenty three thousand were built between 1949 and 1958 to five diagrams 1/141, 1/143, 1/145, 1/146 and 1/149 with the vast majority (nearly seventeen thousand) to diagram 1/146. They finally disappeared in the late 1980’s.
Locomotive History
Following the failure of the class 17 Claytons British Rail returned to its initial Type 1 design and ordered another hundred class 20 locomotives from English Electric. 20161 is one of this later batch of class 20’s built by English Electric at the Vulcan Foundry. It entered traffic in September 1966 and was allocated new to the Nottingham Division (in reality Toton) and was withdrawn from Toton twenty one years later in February 1988 having (as far as I can tell) been a Toton engine all its life. It was broken up by Vic Berry, Leicester in May 1990. 20047 was built by English Electric at the Vulcan Foundry and entered traffic in December 1959 and withdrawn in the early 1990’s. However 20047 was subsequently sold to Direct Rail Services, overhauled in the late 1990’s and renumbered 20301. It is currently (September 2014) stored at Barrow Hill.
8211 leads 8241 on Pacific National’s 9827 loaded grain from Inner Harbour bound for Gilgandra, seen out of Bribbaree. 01/01/2025
M50680 leads a three car class 120 DMU set into Nottingham station, 19th May 1980. The western approach to Nottingham station has completely changed from this view with all of the railway infrastructure (goods depot, goods yard, shunting frame, 16ton mineral wagons) all gone being replaced by new Magistrates courts and Inland Revenue offices.
Unit History
M50680 was built at Swindon works in 1958 as part of an order for forty nine, three car sets for Western Region long distance “cross country” services. In the late 1960’s, twenty two sets were transferred from the Western Region to Derby Etches Park, to replace Cravens class 105 three car units which where transferred to Accrington where they were reduced to two car power twins with the trailer vehicles being withdrawn. I am old enough to remember our surprise on the arrival of these class 120 sets in the East Midlands (no internet in those days) and the improvement they brought to the East Midlands local services. Until the introduction of the class 150 “Sprinter” DMU’s in 1985 these class 120 units formed the backbone of the East Midlands local train fleet. By March 1986 the remaining class 120 vehicles had been transferred away from Derby and by October 1989 the last class 120 vehicles had been withdrawn.
Praktica LTL, Ektachrome 200
BNSF 4637 leads a ballast train west under the West Chillicothe searchlights in Chillicothe, IL. I'm glad I was able to knock this shot off my bucket light before it's too late.
47760 leads it's class mates 47580 "County Of Essex" and 47746 "Chris Fudge 29.7.70-22.6.10" past Wilsons Farm Crossing on the 0Z47 Carnforth Steam to Southall Loco Services Ltd Light Engine move - 09-05-16
2212 leads 2Y12 empty Mindarie sands train from Pelican Point to Dry Creek through Suburban Ethelton in Port Adelaide on 21-4-08.
At Dry Creek main line locos will be added for the run to Mindarie on the Loxton line .
In a matter of months this would be a passenger only line with all freights using a new bridge over the Port River using a new alignment near Birkenhead
57316 leads a heavily delayed 1Z40 08:21 Edinburgh to Inverness private charter using the Northern Belle stock through Dunblane on 13th March 2022. The train left Edinburgh with 57314 and 57316 in top and top formation only for 57314 to succumb to mechanical problems between Edinburgh Park and Newbridge Junction. 57316 then returned to Edinburgh with the stock, leaving 57314 in Newbridge Down Passenger Loop, running via Waverley and the sub before heading back north as planned. 37685 was later sent to Inverness for the return working to Gleneagles and the onward ecs to Joppa Straight. www.realtimetrains.co.uk/service/gb-nr:U91072/2022-03-13/...
Consist: 92904, 10734, 17167, 325, 3247, 3275, 3267, 1566, 3273, 3174 & 99025
66136 leads 6D72 , the 11:32 Hull Dairycotes-Rylstone Quarry, empty JGA, 90t glw Tarmac hoppers over the Manually Operated Level Crossing at Rylstone on 12 March 2009.
The image provides a good view of the pneumatic cylinders and mechanical linkage for operating the wagon’s top loading covers.
814 leads an empty ballast having dropped on the Tytherington branch heading back to Westbury, 20/5/22.
Caledonian Sleeper 73968 leads 73966,92038 and 92010 though Newcastle working 0Z80 Polmadie to Doncaster
68016 leads 57003 and 66304 as they pass through Carlisle whilst working a delayed 0C02 Crewe Gresty Bridge - Carlisle Kingmoor having had a prolonged stay in Barton & Broughton loop and a steady run north delaying a Pendolino in the process due to the 57 having isolated brakes necessitating running at a reduced speed
18/06/21
Penn Central ex New Haven Railroad EMD GP9 # 1200 leads a freight train as seen from an opposing passenger train's cab window view as it rounds a curve on the Shore Line Route in Connecticut, 1970. You can see the engineer and fireman in their respective cab windows. There is a freshly painted PC box car on this train along with a P&LE box car. Bob Hughes was able to take this photo while he was on a cab ride. It appears that the trains are at a grade crossing. In the background it looks like a bill board with an ESSO ad for "Put A Tiger In Your Tank."
Toledo Hauler crossing a bridge near "Nortons", between Eddyville and Nashville, Oregon MP 737. The PNWR 3001 is working its train through some thickly forested country, up and over the Coast Range Mountains of western Oregon. It is about twenty-nine miles into a 7+ hour, 74.7 mile long trek bound for Albany, Oregon pulling a 14 car train loaded with wood products from the Georgia Pacific Mill at Toledo, Oregon. The consist also includes sister #3002, GP39-2 #2310 and the two slug helper engines #101 & #102.
20187 leads 20183 off the curve at Lenton South Junction with a loaded unfitted coal train from one of the Lean Valley collieries, 3rd September 1980. The train appears to have in it formation just about every possible type of early British Railways coal wagon, 16 ton, 21 ton and 24 ton mineral wagons and 21 ton and 24 ton coal hoppers.
Locomotive History
Following the failure of the class 17 Claytons British Rail returned to its initial Type 1 design and ordered another hundred class 20 locomotives from English Electric. 20187 is one of this later batch of class 20’s built by English Electric at the Vulcan Foundry. It entered traffic in January 1967 and was allocated new to the Nottingham Division (in reality Toton). By 1992 it had been withdrawn but it was sold to DRS, refurbished and re-entered traffic as 20308 in 1997. 20183 is also from the later batch of class 20’s and entered traffic in December 1966. It lasted in traffic until withdrawn in January 1990 and was broken up by Vic Berry Leicester in March 1990
Re-scanned and re-edited 21st January 2018
Canon AT1, Kodachrome 64
ODC-Come on in
I used a web sharpening setting i came across on this photo as a tester, its too much for me, but i guess the resolution on flickr is quite high so its not needed. I couldnt for the life of me make this look straight either!
ARR 4002 leads a coal train out of the yard in Anchorage, AK for a run south on a sunny late winter evening.
This is the first photo in a series I'm calling Alaska Revisited. I'm going back through my shots from my time there and seeing what I have to work with. Some will be alternate shots of images already uploaded (i.e. mash vs. a wider angle shot), some will be from different angles, and some will be completely new. I'm not sure what I have in total, but for whatever reason, they didn't get consideration the first time through.
This was only the second Alaska Railroad train I caught after having moved to The Last Frontier less than two weeks prior. I spotted this guy in the yard and repositioned over to Elderberry Park and walked a bit north on the Tony Knowles Trail to get this shot. The Tony Knowles trail parallels the tracks for some ways in Anchorage, but I was never able to get much use out of it as far as shots go. I did chase this guy down the Turnagain Arm, but was unsuccessful while having to deal with Friday rush hour traffic and being unfamiliar with the turnoffs along the Seward Highway.
Didn't have my camera with me so I made do with my phone. I dropped off David, my better half, at Alfreton station early this morning where the mist was still lifting. Sun across the tops of the rails, tracks disappearing into the distance and the suns rays bursting over the bridge.
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The United States leads the world in incarceration rate with over 1.6 million people in our jail system. More laws are passed every year and there are enough law books to fill several libraries. How many of these laws and regulations are designed to fill the pockets of our Federal, State & Local governments? How many are even enforceable? Persons committing corporate or “white collar” crimes who rob thousands of people for millions of dollars often get away with a slap on the wrist because the can afford good lawyers to keep them out of jail. The ones who commit petty or victimless crimes (i.e. parking tickets) and are too poor to pay fines literally “pay the price” which often compound their problems.
Rosa Parks broke the law by sitting in front of the bus. Maybe some laws need to be broken, changed or even dismissed.
Strobist Info:
One SB-800 on a Chimera beauty dish on TTL -.7 EV directly overhead subject.
One SB-600 bounced off a white reflector under camera for fill @ 1/16th power.
Triggered with Phottix Stratos II
43049 leads 1Z69 06:51 Doncaster to Paignton 'Midland Pullman' past Hollicombe on Wednesday 20th July 2022. 43046 on the rear
UP 5909 leads a short 1x1 DPU train of rock from Cabazon, CA down Beaumont Pass through the orange groves at Redlands, CA as it makes it's way west into the LA Basin.
Traveling through the Multiverse Threshold often times leads to unique experiences.
One such experience was a trip that led me to the Orbis Estate and Gardens in a wondrous land somewhere beyond our know universe. It had recently snowed but the sun was out and the warm golden rays were swiftly chasing the cold away.
As I walked, admiring the twisting, maze-like walkways through tall shrubbery I came upon a clearing that held a large egg-shaped object. As I approached to have a closer look, the object began to rock back-and-forth. I was both intrigued and apprehensive as cracks appeared in the ovoid. Quite suddenly, the end shattered and an enormous hand and forearm burst through the opening, dripping with a green fetid smelling ichor.
As I backpedaled madly, the hand seemed to search about as though it was attempting to grab me. I felt certain that if I were to fall into it's grasp, I would certainly burst like a ripe grape. Needless to say, I turned tail and headed the other way at top speed hoping to be long gone before the rest of the creature could break free of that nasty egg.
Strobist:
1 Vivitar 285 HV mounted on a lightstand, camera left, fired at 1/2 power with no modifier. Triggered with Yougnuo RF trigger.