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Scene on the large lawn in the park of the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (CiuP) behind the main building (14e)
Paris, France 30.05.2022
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Szene auf der großen Wiese im Park der Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (CiuP) hinter dem Hauptgebäude (14e)
Paris, Frankreich 30.05.2022
EMD GP40-2 No. 3107 provides the Rio Grande Zephyr extra boost as it leads train No. 18 through Provo, Utah on a sunny August morning in 1976.
DF 7226 leads a decent 934 along the Katiki coastline. A bit of a rarity, as we don't see many single loco trains in these parts any more.
10 Sept 2019, train 934, 7226, Shag Point, SIMT-NZ
A nice n spiffy Conrail 3390 leads westbound RoadRailer train #RR-241 past the old Pennsy station. The station was built in 1887 and closed in 1990 when Amtrak removed it's trains off this route. At this time, I figured it would soon be toast, but it actually was saved and exists today as the offices for the Lima Utilities Department. Wish more places had brains to use depot's for a nice second purpose like that. By surviving it actually becomes the only structure of Lima's once vast array of railroad structures to still exist today. Sadly everything else including everything on the 65 acre Lima Locomotive Plant property is long gone.
Conrail 5087 leads an all GE consist of multiple paint schemes with a Westbound at Pleasant Drive in East Palestine, OH on January 29, 1994. This is the location of the catastrophic NS derailment on 2/3/2023. The Leake Oil Company that was affected is out of view to the right at about where the signal bridge is.
47712 leads the 8.35 RCS service from Skipton to Appleby on 1/9/2020.47593 is on the back
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37401 leads a generator coach and a break first tailed by 20107 down Rannoch moor towards the station at Rannoch on the morning of Monday july the 14th 2026. The ensamble had visited Fort William in support of Locomotive Services Limited 'The Chairmans Train' over the weekend of July the 11th and 12th before heading back to Carlisle Upperby depot as train 5Z12, the 08:15 off Tom na Faire depot, Fort William.
Waters of the Susquehanna are high on 15 March 1986, forcing train BUEB to tiptoe around flooding on its arrival at East Binghamton Yard. Ex-Lehigh Valley GP38-2 No. 7317 leads B&M GP40 No. 329, P&LE GP38-2 No. 2038, and B&M GP39-2 No. 365.
MEC 371 leads POED, after the previous crew sat at Athol Station for almost three hours waiting on a "live recrew". Finally the crew showed up and with the high hood in lead position, the train throttled up on Track 1 and headed west towards East Deerfield. At one time this was a much busier yard than just a parking lot for MOW equipment. Interesting to see six units on this train, the entire consist was; MEC 371, MEC 515, MEC 379, MEC 617, MEC 601, and LTEX 6528.
A little something out of the ordinary, CEFX 118 adds some colour as it leads a grungy AC4400 through the CTC double track with 12,000 tons of train.
43055 leads the Midland Pullman set over Whalley Arches with the 07.02 Crewe – Carlisle LSL test run on Tues 11th May 2021.
Note: the light dipped a little just as the train was passing over the viaduct, and the shot has been corrected in PS by a friend who is far more skilled in that department than me.
BNSF 7361 leads a southbound blade train into Larkspur, CO.
What started out as a "I just wanna get out and take a drive" turned into a full-blown train chasing afternoon. And even though all I caught were GEs, it was still (slightly) better than staying in and adding CO2 to the inside of my house...
On a cloudy afternoon, Trona 2006 leads a train into Searles. Here the crew will pick up a coal train to return to the plant in Trona.
Taken in April of 2025, in less than a year so much has changed for this railroad. At the time it was known that Trona was looking for replacement power, and later that year they would lease two SD60s and an SD60M from UP. The addition of SD60s to the roster would see the former UP SD40s getting scrapped. Around the same time, the lead motor in this photo would get sold to a leasing company, though it is currently still at the railroad's shops being repaired. While it certainly seemed like the replacements were coming soon for the rest of the roster, or so one would think, a completely unexpected turn happened.
As a lot of you may already know, rumor has been recently going around Trona will be ceasing operations in the coming months. With global competition and other economic challenges, such as government regulations, both soda ash and boric acid production at Searles Valley Minerals has become much more expensive. With energy costs being around half of the cost of production for the company, and rising prices, SVM has to permanently lay off hundreds of employees. To my understanding, the main plant employs about 540 people, 300 or more will be laid off. With this also comes a huge cut in production, and in an announcement it was stated this would cause the shutdown of Trona and the Argus Cogeneration Plant. Unfortunately, it seems there is really no way out for Searles Valley Minerals, and unfortunately this might be the nail in the coffin for the town. With most of Trona already being a ghost town, and the company being in this state, I can only pray for the best for the residents.
EJE 656 leads CN L504 on former GM&O trackage south across the UP Pickneyville Sub at Percy, IL. This is a first for me shooting here, and this is a verty rare occurrence from what I understand. I had been in Effingham during the morning and drove back down to here to chase this. Well worth the extra driving.
An SD70MACe leads CSX G769 as it heads south on the CC Subdivision with grain loads from Michigan bound for North Carolina. As the train rolls through Ryland, Kentucky, it splits the L&N searchlight signals at the Ryland control point, which was once the location of a crossover on the double track between Spring Lake and Visalia.
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CSX CC Subdivision
Ryland, KY
CSX G769-26 (Grain Loads; LSRC - Wixom, MI to Monroe, NC)
CSX 4713 SD70MACe Ex. CSX 4713 SD70MAC Blt. 2003
CSX 212 AC44CW Blt. 1996
CN 2449 leads two other Dash 8s into the yard at Proctor, MN on the morning of March 9, 2018. The 2449 had to hold north of the scale while section worked on the switch into the A Yard. Temperature was 8F so it was probably frozen as we're in the thaw/freeze part of the season. The delay allowed me to get in position on the St. Louis River Road bridge to shoot the U714 yarding and also allowed the DMIR 215 to nudge into the scene, while it works the E Lead Switch.
BLE 909 leads the usual trio of EMDs down Proctor hill. This train was longer than most I've seen up here. My guess is they were running doubled trains due to crew shortage and what not.
AMTK 140 leads the westbound Southwest Chief through the iconic semaphores at MP 706, the northernmost semaphores left on BNSF's Raton Subdivision. Fishers Peak can be seen by the base of the eastward signal, some 58 miles in the distance
Union Pacific's 'Chicago & Northwestern' heritage SD70ACe leads a Los Angeles, CA - Atlanta, GA stack train through Winston, GA after a quick meet with Amtrak #19.
BNSF 1915 leads the daily North Yard Job operation as it works the underground storage facility at Springfield, MO. This facility has been seeing trains since the days of Frisco, and later Burlington Northern. It's neat to see the old paint schemes of former line owners on home rails and even cooler at such an unusual location.
CSX 7283 leads CSX M653 passing the historic main street station in Richmond, VA. This is happening as train Y110 drags them out of Fulton Yard to the AM junction, where M653 will be turned loose to head south on the Bellwood Subdivision to reach the A line, then head to Rocky Mount, NC.
Harry Needle's Railfreight liveried 20118 nears Shireoaks at the business end of 3S13, the 09.24 water cannons from Sheffield to Woodburn Junction via Gainsborough.
519 leads train 1333 out of Lake City on a warm summer evening. Nice to see 4 cars instead of the normal 3, but it's likely just because one of the cars is bad ordered. Since the train only spends a short period of time in Chicago each day, they usually don't have enough time to add and remove a car without causing a delay.
MRL 4406 leads the day gas local west on MRL's 10th sub. The peaks behind are obscured with fog and snow while we got a nice drizzle of rain.
43146 leads the 1A81 11.30 Edinburgh to Aberdeen Scotrail Inter7City service past Pettycur Bay, Kinghorn, with the seaside town of Burntisland in the background, 14th June 2023
Photograph taken with Caravan park owners permission.
A SD75I leads BNSF Train H GALTUL9 07A under the 342 Signal just west of Bucklin on the BNSF Marceline Sub. seconds after sunset. This is one of the last few remaining Santa Fe Signal Bridges in the state of Missouri on the Transcon.
Locomotives: BNSF 288, BNSF 4212
1-7-19
Bucklin, MO
GB Railfreight (GBRF) 66788 (ex DB Cargo UK 66238) 'Locomotion 15' leads the 4L28 0806 Doncaster Iport Gbrf to Felixstowe South Gbrf intermodal through Manea.
DC Rail Freight 56091 'Driver Wayne Gaskell - The Godfather' leads 60046 'William Wilberforce' and 24 empty JNAs past Pymoor, working the 6Z30 1450 Brandon Down Goods Loop to Derby Chaddesden Sidings. The Class 60 had failed on a light loco run from Brandon to Brandon via Ely days 3 prior.
BR Green 37667 (D6851) 'Flopsie' leads the 5Z22 1053 Watlington to Norwich T.C. leg of Jeremy Hosking's private railtour towards Littleport. This was the second day of Hosking's private tour; the first day running from Edinburgh to Orton Mere via York and Lincoln Central. Over the next 3 days, the consist would visit parts of Norfolk, Suffolk and Kent. Trainload Construction liveried 37688 'Great Rocks' was at the other end of the train.
50007 leads a Alstom SWR unit from Derby for storage at Worksop
Due to the unavailability of the usual 47s and 56 the class 50s were used for a few days on various unit moves
PC U30B 2866 leads a Westbound Conrail freight at the station in Hornell, NY in August, 1977. This was my first visit to Hornell, and the action was non-stop between the CR and D&H trains. I was shooting Kodacolor print film with the old Graphlex camera. Quality is not the best, but you certainly can't get anything like this today, so I appreciate the images I have. The 2nd unit is the only GP35 that I am aware of to wear the Reading green scheme that was on the Reading GP39-2's and GP40-2's.
43054 leads 91122 with the new OHLE test train enroute to Peterbourgh to do a test / calibration run on the ECML prior to being used for testing the new 25kv electrification on the MML the power cars are required as need to get up to to 125mph to do the testing
CN 2511 leads U756 down the CN Rivers Subdivision on a frosty December morning in Miniota, MB. Unfortunately, this was the only shot I was able to get before the train tied down on a double track section due to a heavy westbound rush that lasted the entire day. I was sitting 7th out for days on end on the extraboard, so last minute I made a trek across the border while hoping to photograph this very class of unit. A paid four day vacation, can't beat that!
44871 leads 45407 at Low Borrowbridge with a very wintry CME.I was stood on the wall for this,the dreaded palisade fencing now makes this impossible.
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Picturesque Church Lane leads up to the Hellfire Caves just a short walk away and the Dashwood Mausoleum and church which crown the top of the hill behind me.
Beyond the rooftops of this very pretty National Trust owned village can be seen the trees of the romantic 18th century landscaped gardens that surround West Wycombe Park - the stunning home of the forever infamous Dashwoods.
The light after the rainstorm saturating the autumn colours.
Our street leads into the forest. To a small gate. Behind the gate is a pile of dead branches, which probably serves as hideout for the hunters. There are signs of wild boars along the way that leads further into the forest. It is allowed for us to walk there, because the path is a connection to the city of Beaumont-le-Roger. The picture is taken with ISO 12800.
DMIR 206 leads a late afternoon Limestone North into the setting sun at Munger back in November 2002. The Missabe usually ran this Minntac limestone out of Proctor in the afternoon and on the shorter days you sometimes had to eeek it out. On this day, the Limestone North had DM&IR 206, 416, 417, and 58 cars.
Besides the obvious difference with the motive power, a few other things have changed at Munger. Above the fifth side dump is the double searchlight in place as the approach signal to Carson and the Munger Shaw crossing further back is still protected by crossbucks.
UP 7091 leads the westbound MSPRV (Sparks, NV to Roseville, CA Manifest) through Yuba Gap, CA. The MSPRV ferries Reno area traffic to Roseville Yard, including excess power.
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GMTX 2233 leads a New Brunswick Southern Railway westbound empty woodchip train, as they skirt along the Saint John river on a beautiful Good Friday sunrise. I've been eyeing this spot for a westbound at sunrise, and I couldn't pass up this opportunity.
RP upload: www.railpictures.net/photo/613268/
April 14,2017.