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8235 leads clinker train 2234N to Maldon through Bargo in a brief opening on a fairly cloudy day.
2020-09-20 Pacific National 8235 Bargo 2234N
An ex-Pennsy SD-45 leads a westbound freight through Canton for "Flare Friday", with the assistance of a Santa Fe GE and a blue CR EMD. This CR patch job is actually "more" of a PRR patch job than a PC one. While the unit had been patched with complete PC lettering and herald, it still wears it's PRR number, and I'm pretty sure it's also still wearing the PRR Brunswick Green for the most part. That engine is really that not dirty and I noticed numerous ex-PRR units where the Brunswick Green weathered into that brownish olive color that looks like dirt.
An ET44AC leads coal loads out of Peach Creek as CSX C207 bound for export from Newport News. The train is splitting the C&O signals at W.E. Baber in Baber, West Virginia. This was the location of the Baber siding that served a coal loadout, but the loader has since been demolished and the siding removed.
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CSX Logan Subdivision
Baber, WV
CSX C207-19 (Coal Loads; Peach Creek, WV to Newport News, VA)
CSX 3278 ET44AC Blt. 2015
(DPU) CSX 3127 ES44AC Blt. 2013
CBRW 652 leads the Connell Turn north towards Warden, WA under cloudy skies.
After watching the interchange at Connell, WA, we decided that despite the larger storm clouds above, chasing them north would probably be a good idea anyway since I wasn't sure the next time I would be back on this line. The rain wasn't pouring, so most of the dirt roads through the farmlands weren't totally destroyed into mud yet so we drove north and got a couple of shots. I'm not sure why, but I decided to try to use my 35-16mm lens the whole time so I ended up with most shots looking similar to this one, although I was able to find a couple different angles. At this location, I kind of just jumped out of the car and went wide, trying to get the house in the back in the shot, not much else to it.
6/13/22
A Warbonnet Dash 9 leads a UP yard job from BNSF's Argentine Yard to UP's Neff Yard as it crawls up Track 79 on the KCT North-South Corridor at Old Union Depot Interlocking. 2/20/16.
This magnificent tree is along a nature trail in Corolla, NC that leads out to Currituck Sound. Taken at ground view in the early morning light with a IR modified D800 (830nm)
Selected as a Flickr Explore image, June 1, 2016
BNSF 3183 leads M-SUPSUP4 under the abandoned Missabe at Alborn, MN on the morning July 10, 2015. BNSF runs these Superior to Superior trains up the Casco Sub. for Kelly Lake occasionally to handle extra Iron Range traffic, like chips and fines.
This train had plenty of taconite chips from Keetac and the three Geeps and SD40-2 were really laboring to move the over 100 car train that was 12,000+ tons. Full engine consist was BNSF 3183, 2124, 1832, and 2921.
NPR 3502 leads a 4 GP35 power pack and a 78-car grain train east toward Fordville, ND on the former SOO Wheat line.
This was a great day of railfanning, one that should never had happened. I was supposed to be picking up a KC-135 from the depot in San Antonio, but it had a leaking fuel tank and would not be ready to go for a few more days. We were able to fly home commercial the evening prior which afforded me the opportunity to chase the Northern Plains Railroad in the morning and BNSF later in the afternoon:
www.flickr.com/photos/chris_paulhamus/48070034761/
Unexpected free time is always nice...it's even better when you can add standard cab EMD goodness into the mix!
DB's 66073 leads GBRf's Colas liveried 60096 'Skiddaw' and a set of RHTT wagons through Trowell Junction working 6M22, the 13.09 departure from Doncaster Belmont Down Yard to Toton TMD.
Interesting to note that the factory that has provided the background to this angle for so many years.....has nearly gone!
1. The tropical rain forest that leads to Santa's House., 2. ebb and flow, 3. Simplicity, 4. detail, 5. Vision, 6. Blue Torrents, 7. Here yesterday, gone today., 8. Feel the Peace Inside You.,
9. Just add seasoning, 10. Diamonds, Diamonds, Diamonds!, 11. The colors of Autumn......... really!, 12. sylvia's hotel, 13. Focus on Autumn, 14. Bokeh Web of atumn colors, 15. Missing..... Spiderman, if you see him, send him home to his web!, 16. Delish........ ous.,
17. All summer long., 18. Dinner time!, 19. Sky Scraper Art, 20. The Continental Divide, 21. Off to Edmonton... Do I need a Parka???, 22. Crab spider waiting for a snack, 23. Dancing in the wind....., 24. tip toeing through the ferns,
25. Tu Lips are better than one, 26. The waiting game, 27. A hint of lilac!, 28. WaVeS of GrEeN, 29. dance partners, 30. Peace:A state of tranquillity or quiet., 31. Chlorophyll, 32. May Macro Madness,
33. Happy Mothers Day, 34. Fernalicious, 35. Something to make you smile!, 36. things to come II, 37. simply spring ...., 38. Magnolia: The Opeing Act., 39. Fire and Rain, 40. Golden dreams of spring,
41. Peace and quiet, 42. Cherry Bokehliscious, 43. Pitt Meadows BC, 44. Crisis of Credit, Visualized- see the link below., 45. An Eyeful of Spring, 46. Springtime Dreams, 47. today I saw....... spring colored in PINK, 48. purple rain.... in the spring,
49. Spring forth, 50. flickr.com/photos/51211704@N00/3369605650/, 51. a winter dream, 52. dreaming, 53. Spring to life, 54. Introducing Spring!, 55. : ), 56. obstacles,
57. Queen of Peace Monastery, Langley BC, 58. Golden Ears Provincial Park, 59. Visitors Wanted, 60. Had a baddddddd day, week, month or year?, 61. Belated Bokeh Wednesday, 62. All signs point towards .......... spring, yes spring!, 63. Todays 07:45 am sunrise with coffee., 64. storms come, and storm go.,
65. sunrise, 66. spring sunrise, 67. endless limits in 2009, 68. Thru the bedroom window, 69. Berries with frosting, 70. 2008: A simpler Christmas., 71. flowering in November in my garden, 72. Changing colors of Autumn
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PL5 leads 48137 and PL7 towards Maitland with an empty Austar coal train.
These trains have ceased running as of December 2010, with Austar (the owner of the Pelton mine) having completed an upgrade project on the former SMR to allow heavier axle loads to run on the line. The PL and 48 class have been set aside to be replaced with leased CFCLA EL Class locomotives, running in pairs.
The 48 class will likely move over to grain working, or into storage, while the PL class will likely be set aside due to their continued unreliability and not being popular with crews.
20227 leads 20096 past Medge Hall with 3S14 1113 Grimsby to Sheffield. Hopefully we will get something similar with 20132 + 20118 being added to the York pool of locos, before the RHTT season is over.
24th October 2011.
507 leads RUPO as they trudge along the Rumford Branch at the Dead River Trestle. I was scoping out a different angle from the one that I normally do from the Route 106 bridge. I walked off the beaten path to this spot which I liked except for the overgrown brush and branches. That tree in the front of the locomotive was unappealing. And the one under the cab window can go to. I could have taken down the one under the cab window, but the hill was slick, and the train was nearing. I need to get some brushcutting equipment and put it in the trunk hahaa.
CSX 7381 leads an eastbound along the Mohawk River, east of Amsterdam, past the abandoned Mohawk Power & Light coal-fired generating station.
The station, built in 1920, last generated electricity in 1950 the market for its power taken over by hydro-generated electricity.
UP 9371 leads 9337 and 9318 around the curves approacning Bealville in the Tehachapi Mountains of California.
1 February 2002
357 026 leads an eight car c2c service along the sea wall between Chalkwall and Leigh on Sea. I read or somewhere the other day that this stretch of the route could be called 'The Dawlish of Essex'!
Storms move east over the Continental Divide in the background as BNSF C44-9W No. 5273 leads a 4 hour and 50 minutes late California Zephyr with two Amtrak P42DC's trailing as the train heads west out of Granby, Colorado along Union Pacific's Moffat Tunnel Subdivision on September 4, 2016. Three Iowa Pacific Private Cars bring up the rear of the train.
BNSF 1050 leads a JB Hunt stack train towards Tunnel 2 on the climb up the western slopes of Tehachapi Pass.
This was my 9th trip to Tehachapi, and my first serious 'away game' with the Canon 1Ds I'd had for a few months.
Here coupled with a 300mm 2.8 rented from one of the camera shops in LA on the way up here, I remember being blown away by the stubble on the driver's face. This was the beauty of eleven million glorious pixels compared to the Fuji slide film I'd been using.
I still have this camera for rare emergencies if the other one is under repair - it still takes a fine picture and the 45-point AF is still brilliant, although it is reaaaaally slow to start up and to write pictures to the card.
April 23 2003, Tunnel 2 Tehachapi Pass, CA, USA
For the birdophiles, there is a gold-bellied-swallowy-looking-thing above the first JBHU container...
2202 leads GM10, KL80 and KL82 through Campsie with 9182 Manildra Group container train from Bomaderry to Enfield. Due to ongoing loco reliability problems, ARG spot hired a number of locomotives from SSR during their last months of operation.
The last of the 44 class in revune service, 4497 owned by Qube departs Junee leading 1431 on the shuttle to Harefield on 3-10-22.
With a new intermodal facility about to open at Bomen, north of Wagga Wagga operational are likely to change and could be the last few months of 4497 operating
Conrail 5067 leads empty hoppers East on the Fort Wayne Line at New Brighton, PA on October 6, 1992. This train had actually come to a stop, and I had just photographed it crossing the Beaver River Bridge from within Big Rock Park. Since it stopped, I climbed up to the ROW for this view. Part of the Youngstown Line is visible ducking under the Fort Wayne Line in the lower right.
37401 leads 37425 out of Blackburn with the BLS tour to Carlisle on 27/8/2023.
I had intended to see this tour (reportedly the last using DRS 37s ? ) on the Darwen line but saw no point in exploring there in the heavy rain.Very dull conditions here but at least the rain had stopped !
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PC 1783 leads Cedar Hill-Oak Pt turn GB-2 through Noroton Heights CT on a gray day in the early 1970's.
The transition period from NH to PC is a special time for me as I was developing my own interest in trains aside from what I inherited from my father.
This year January 1 2025 would have been my fathers 99th birthday.
I chose to post this picture because on similar gray day my father, my brother Don and I chased an almost identical lash up on I-95 North from New Rochelle NY, were we first observed the train coming off the Hell gate Line.
Many of the local NH fans weren't enamored of the PC at all, so there are not as many photos of this period, when hand me down F7's and GP9B units were based in Cedar Hill.
I also remember seeing them run north on the Hartford Line as well as into NYC.
In the early post-merger NH days before the inception of the Metropolitan Region, there was still a fair amount of local freight being gathered up in the Bronx, Bridgeport and the towns along the line to NH.
GB-2 would not only forwarded this freight to Cedar Hill , on the weekends it also ferried local yard power to and from New Haven resulting in monster lash-ups on Saturday morning and Sunday evening.
The train also ran reliably in midday ...until the Metropolitan Region focus on passenger operations pushed it to an over night -early morning schedule.
Special thanks to Rob Pisani for providing me a copy, and Jim Bruno for taking this amazing shot and preserving a version of a core childhood memory
for me.
Noroton Heights Main Line New Haven Line -New Haven Division Northeastern Region PC
USED WITH PERMISSION
43159 leads through Toton yards on Sunday 29th October 1995 with 1V52, 09.40 Newcastle to Exeter, diverted down the Erewash Valley line due to engineering works.
In the background can be seen (L-R) Toton Centre signal box, the Upside hump control tower, and the wagon shops, all of which are history now.
Of note is that 43159 was the rear power car, with 43102 on the front, that created the world diesel speed record of 148.5 m.p.h. in November 1987, which still stands today.
43159 is still operational with 'The 125 group'.
©Dave Peachey.
NR29 leads another NR Class and offline BL35 through Picton with 5BM4 Brisbane to Melbourne superfreighter.
If some of these photos look familiar, they probably are - I'm organising my photos from 2008, and taking the opportunity to rework some of them and either upload for the first time, or replace older photos.
December 5, 1992: SD50 8509 leads a train of "miscellaneous" empties north out of Big Stone Gap, Virginia on a cheerless late fall day. Just ahead lies the Strawberry Patch and the Green, Green Fields of Ole Virginnie.
8509 was part of a 25-unit order of SD50's (8500-8524) ordered by L&N, but not delivered until after the Seaboard System consolidation. These units retained reminders of what they'd have looked like if delivered to L&N -- the cab roof mounted strobe flashers, the headlight in the nose, and a Gyralight between the number boards.
(Scanned from Kodachrome 64 slide)
BNSF 5603 leads a southbound coal load down the Joint Line near Monument, CO.
This was the end of Daylight Saving Time for 2017, but it appears that I not only fell back an hour but also fell through some sort of time portal to the '90s to catch this duo.
About a year ago, I mentioned that the background here would be changing soon. Well, see for yourself:
leads to this: random, colorful circles on ma face.
Tonight I'm attending the opening of a dear friend's month-long art collaboration, called 25 Days of Building. I'm excited. I will wash my face first.
In May, 1975 Milwaukee Road's bicentennial SD40-2 156 leads southbound train #202 through the forest preserves on the north side of Des Plaines as it heads south to Deval. Jim Lewnard photo.
Frame #7505-15
UP 1066 leads the UP LSE59-07 local back toward St. Louis after running light power west to the U.S. Silica plant in Pacific MO. Leading the train back east is one of only a very small handful of patched Southern Pacific locomotives left on the Union Pacific roster now.
UP 1066 has been around the St. Louis area a little while now, and when I saw the LSE59 run west to Pacific earlier that afternoon and 1066 was in the consist and would lead the eastbound trip I knew I would have to set up somewhere for it. The Sherman Beach bridge came to mind right away, and would be maybe the only spot for the entire late afternoon eastbound trip that would have enough light for a decent shot. Once I arrived, some hiking, and trailblazing got me down to the water, and I set up. After about 40 minutes of waiting and hoping the rapidly lengthening shadows wouldn't screw up the shot, a westbound stack train rolled by, I assume ZDUNP-07. Not 30 seconds after the last car cleared the LSE59 ran across the bridge. Not 5 minutes later the entire bridge was in shadow. A lot of well timed events had to take place for this shot to happen, and given the tough sun conditions with a late afternoon eastbound runing on east-west trackage I think this turned out nicely.
I remember seeing these pretty frequently back in the late 1990s and early 2000s working around East Texas. Though I didn't realize what I was looking at till the late 2000s and early 2010s. This is the first SP painted GP60 that I remember shooting, though I know I've seen a couple in the past.
To my count the number of remaining patched Southern Pacific units is down to 16. Broken down by 3 AC4400CWs, and 13 GP60s. The GP60s are broken down into 8 Cotton Belt (SSW), and 5 Southern Pacific.
Wellsboro & Corning SD40-2 309 leads the Buffalo & Pittsburgh's SIRI as it gets on the move south after working in Foster Brook. The train is rolling along the concreted bank of Tunungwant Creek as it passes through Bradford, Pennsylvania. CN 8800 is part of the day's consist as it is being transferred to the CN's operation on the former Bessemer. .
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BPRR Main Line Subdivision
Bradford, PA
BPRR SIRI (Manifest; Salamanca, NY to Riker, PA)
WCOR 309 SD40-2 Ex. QNSL 252 Blt. 1973
BPRR 3891 SD60M Ex. NS 6779, NS 5529, CR 5529 Blt 1993
BPRR 5019 SD50 Ex. LTEX 7018, KCS 7018, NREX 8699, CSX 8699, CR 6834 Blt. 1986
BPRR 3343 SD40-3 Ex. KCS 3139, 6603, CN 5089 SD40 Blt 1969
CN 8800 SD70M-2 Blt. 2007
8150 leads the ARTC Track Inspection Train (AK cars) towards the 2500 metre signal at Aldgate. This train is working from Horsham in Victoria to Dry Creek to swap with Genesse and Wyoming Locomotives 2210 & 2207 for the next leg of the AK cars journey.
The AK cars themselves are a set of three specially equipped ex-NSWGR carriages fitted out for track inspection and testing purposes. They are operated by the Australian Rail Track Corporation over their own and other standard gauge lines behind hired motive power on a regular basis.
© Dom Quartuccio 2016
A SD60E leads NS Train 120 as it nears Taurus on the NS Kansas City District-BNSF Brookfield Sub. Main Track 1 with a hefty train, even despite not working NS Voltz Yard today on the way out of town.
Locomotives: NS 6931, NS 2750, NS 9245, NS 8459
5-15-17
Missouri City, MO
43189 leads 43188 'Newport Castle' at Chacewater with the 2C68 11.42 Plymouth to Penzance. Taken with permission of the landowner. 9/5/2024
6385 leads four other units and over 100 empty stonecars for Carey west through Medina on the afternoon of 9/25/16.
07/07/2019 - 50007/049 leads a rake of matching Blue/Grey stock back towards Burton after working 1Z50 Edinburgh - Birmingham New Street the pair them formed 5Z51 Birmingham New Street - Burton Wentmore both seen here passing Elford.
N&W 2514 leads a pair of D&H U33-C's on an Eastbound D&H freight at the double semaphores at 320 on the East side of Adrian, NY on September 30, 1979. This train was leaving Hornell when I arrived there and I had to chase it down to the valley after getting a crappy grab shot at ZY. The light was still low from the fog, but this shot came out better than my first grab shot. The 2514 is the ex NKP 514, and it survives today at Steamtown in Scranton, PA.
BDZ PP 44 144 leads train 7621 (Vidin - Sofia), captured at Iliyantsi station. This locomotive has a lot of history! It has two crashes and a fire as well in his 40-year file, but he is still alive and regularly serves trains. Most of the train drivers hate it, because its electrical part is different than the others locomotive Skoda 68E of BDZ due to the reconstruction after the accidents.
If you want to see it on a video, here you can find it at 9:03:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih27WD6h3pY&t
And also here, after a major overhaul:
September, 2013:
BNSF #8262 leads a westbound rack train through Flagg Center on the C&I. #8262 was one of 25 SD75Ms delivered to BNSF immediately after the 1996 BN-ATSF merger. Rated at 4,300 horsepower, the SD75Ms were a more powerful version of the SD70M; only 76 models were produced.
With new ES44C4s arriving in 2014, the unit was renumbered to #262 and was ultimately rebuilt at Mid-America.
BNSF SD70ACe 9093 leads a colorful variety of power and a double-stack west at Lavic, California.
BNSF 9093 ~ Q CHISTO ~ Lavic, California
BNSF's Needles Subdivision
11.11.2014
8172 leads 81xx and DL50 north with 2122 empty garbage train from Crisps Creek sidings to Clyde. Seen here passing through the location of Komungla.
CP GP20C-ECO 2246 leads the 2024 CPKC Holiday Train West past the West end of Kittredge siding. Lanark, IL
GB Railfreight (on hire to DC Rail) Class 60 60087 'Ingleborough' leads the 6M89 0901 Middleton Towers to Ravenhead Sidings loaded sand train past Littleport.
47593 Galloway Princess leads 5Z40 06.50 Appleby North East Sidings - Skipton empty stock across Ribblehead Viaduct. D6817 (37521) is on the rear.
This was one of the later angles of several I took of this train crossing Ribblehead Viaduct (before hurrying back for breakfast at 8am!); an earlier on can be found here, where there are also more comments about trying to be too greedy and get too many different angles.
Having done the "North Pennine Staycation Express" about a week previously, having good weather for most of the Friday but poor weather on the Saturday (I'd stayed Thursday and Friday nights at the Moorcock Inn at Garsdale, for the princely sum of £60 per night including breakfast for a single room), the forecast for today (Saturday) was very good - but the cloud hadn't been forecast to clear until the previous evening. It had been a decision at 11pm on Thursday to book a room for Friday night, but with Friday's weather forecast to be poor (but much better further south) I spent Friday closer to home (Cossington area for a class 720 move, then the Burton area for GBRf 50s dragging a GWR 769 to Reading) and got to Garsdale in time for the evening empty stock back to Appleby (see here), driving from the M6 as the cloud was clearing out.
Today was a good day weather-wise, and I only lost one shot of the Staycation Express to cloud! And although cloud built up late in the afternoon, there was a clearance which arrived just minutes before the last southbound of the day!
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XP2012 leads the Daylight Melbourne XPT southbound through Donnybrook, having just passed the down Albury passenger train. Known to NSW as ST23, in Victoria this train is numbered 8622V.
Great Northern SD45 #400, "Hustle Muscle" leads the North Shore Scenic Railroad's weekly "Two Harbors Turn".
This particular excursion (as of 2025) operates once a week on Thursdays, while the "Duluth Zephyr" and "Pizza Express" run Fridays-Sundays.
GN 400 is paired with former Northern Pacific 245, which was also fired up and humming along on this diesel double-header. Naturally, a short chase was in order.
Seeing GN 400 run is like seeing an old friend, as it was 10 years ago it operated in Osceola, WI while on lease to MTM, where I volunteered at the time. The locomotive had an eventful decade since, getting a new 20-645 engine and being re-homed to Duluth. It doesn't operated much, but has seen regular service on most of LSRM's trains in June and now July.
Here the train departs the museum as it traditionally does by shoving out of the depot and onto the NSSR mainline.