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Utah Railway's Valmy, Nevada to Wildcat, Utah coal empty loads its ninth hopper at the Andalex Resources, Inc. loading facility on March 13, 1999. This now idled terminal opened for coal loading in April 1985.
Alter Ego: Avatar
Name: Greg Mocha
Allegiance: Neutral
Powers:
* When asleep Greg manifests an Avatar he plays as on a game. This avatar has: Super Strength, Durability, Regenerative abilities, can breathe underwater and on land, no need for sustenance, infinite stamina, immunity to pain and enhanced senses.
* The Avatar randomly spawns in different places throughout the city.
* When the Avatar '"dies" it dissipates and Greg wakes up with no recollection of what he "dreamed" about, unaware of his abilities.
Weapons:
* Armour that is always equipped when the avatar spawns as well as a battle axe. Sometimes the loadout changes depending on if Greg has changed his game avatar in person.
Key Weakness: Greg can't control his avatar, it just appears when he falls asleep and acts on suppressed thoughts that he though of throughout the day.
Origin:
Greg is an average Joe American who is a gamer in his spare time, he wishes for a more exciting life but little does he know he in fact is a meta human. In his sleep he manifests his gaming avatar and gets up to random antics depending on Greg's mood. Sometimes he can be a villain stealing money or seeking a challenge from heroes or even saving civilians and taking on deadly villains.
“Used to deliver vital cargo, supplies, and materials to the more remote and isolated Hibernia settlements, particularly ones far from main roads and supply routes. Specifically designed to traverse rough and uneven terrain that other transport vehicles cannot easily cross, the ‘Mountain Goat’ has four large, articulated wheel bogies the can widen and drop down for ‘all terrain mode’. In this state, the front mounted camera can scan the immediate ground topography and the onboard computer terrain system can automatically adjust the positioning of the wheel bogies so that the vehicle and cargo can remain as level as possible. Despite the convenience of this automated system, properly driving the truck demands skill, attention, and an in-depth understanding of the workings of the suspension system so trained drivers will still utilize the extremely wide viewing range of the large front windshield to avoid accidents, damage, or any scenarios where the truck can become stuck. The rear cargo container can be removed entirely to quickly swap hauls or to accommodate different cargo loadouts.”
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For the Hibernia project.
Thanks to the guys in the Hibernia group for providing feedback and suggestions during the WIP stage. It allowed me to really improve and tweak some aspects of the design for this final version.
The Nickel Plate heritage unit brings a string of empty coal cars through the loadout at Consol as it prepares to hold the train throughout the loading process before heading back towards Weller
Twisting through the reverse curves connecting the main to the mine loadout, this train of 100 hoppers will load on a balloon track behind me.
Somerville mine once loaded 3-4 trains each day, but as coal buying power plants changed their contracts and reserves diminished, the sole remaining train you could count on was the 5-days a week train for IP&L Petersburg station. It loaded at Somerville for many years before switching to neighboring Wild Boar mine at Lynnville as Somerville mine would down operations. The mine closed around 2020 and only an inactive loop track remains, everything else having been razed.
Cook and Sons #1 -#2, at the Sapphire Coal Company loadout, Thornton, Kentucky. April 26, 2003. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo
Unit 1, SW7 built for NYC #8884>PC #8884>CR #8884
Unit 2, NW2 built as NYO&W #127 >NYC #9512>#8695>PC #8695>9177>CR #9177
Clover Fork Coal Company's Kitts tipple rusting away in Kitts, KY. Built in 1914, this tipple was used until 1958.
We're on the now coal mainline of the ex Virginian Railway's Guyandotte River Branch, at Cub Creek Jct outside of Justice, WV. The Guyandotte River Branch handles all tidewater coal traffic to the mainline at Wharncliffe after the infamous "hill runs" via Princeton and Kellysville were discontinued a handful of years ago.
At Cub Creek Jct is where the aptly named Cub Creek Branch rejoins the Guyandotte Mainline. It runs 7.5 miles to my backside to serve the Coal Mountain loadout. Mine run U88 is in the distance taking a loaded coal train from the Gary 50 loadout on the Pinnacle Branch at Pineville to Gilbert Yard where they will tie up and taxi back to Elmore to complete their day. After taking the signal at the junction, they will dive into Tunnel No.3 before exiting and immeadiately crossing overtop of WV Route 97. It’s a railroad full of many deep cuts, interesting junctions, bridges and tunnels that is so scarcely documented.
Codeline poles and L&N searchlights and bracket the Rockhouse Subdivision as Hazard Shifter C840-24’s pair of YN2 CW44’s work south through Lothair, Ky with a loaded company hopper train from Blackhawk Mining’s Typo loadout. Once at Martin, the train would turn into a T442 for Charleston, Sc.
Unfortunately just a few years later, all but a few of the classic US&S installations on this stretch would secumb to flood damage and be replaced.
August 24, 2019.
The fourth to last General Electric ET44AH produced for CSX leads Eastman Chemical empties through Natural Tunnel, Va, on their way to load at JRL Coal's Creech loadout in Merna, VA. The train is operating as NS KH01 on trackage rights before they reach home rails at Big Stone Gap, VA, a few miles up the road. This coal train makes a few round trips a week ferrying coal from Eastern Kentucky and Southwest Virginia coal mines to Eastman Chemical's giant facility in Kingsport, Tennessee, just over the state line to the south.
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RBMN QASD departs for Reading Anthracite in Girardville after working the loadout at Gilberton, Pennsylvania.
With the Basilisk starfighter, I wanted to try some weapons/loadout variants, like in a SHMUP. This is the level VIII, the weapons on the ship are the same as level VI, the gun drones are retained, and a shield drone is added in front. The one in the original photos looks like it will be level 5. This is the final upgrade I've built, and the last that I had ideas for.
Two of the Indiana Railroad’s six former BN SD40-2s slowly pull an IPL coal train through the loadout at Blackhawk, IN on a warm September afternoon. At the time, coal was loaded into 40 car coal trains for IPL during the day, with the mainline runs happening at night. The Farmersburg Mine, owned by Peabody, was closed in 2010 due to depleted resources, with business moving to the new Bear Run Mine about twenty miles to the south.
Here is another from this fabulous long ago chase of BNSF's 'Lost Local' on the ex GN Laurel Sub mainline near MP 134.7. After leaving the Lewistown Branch (which by this date only went as far as a loadout in Moore) it was a straight shot back north 102 miles from the junction at Sipple to Great Falls. Here the train is rolling past United Grain's modern 650,000 bushel elevator located on a loop track capable of loading shuttle unit trains. This facility contrasts greatly to the historic prairie skyscrapers of yore that such as those they just passed down the line at Hobson as seen in this photo: flic.kr/p/2iA26Q7
Trailing the BN GP39-2 are a Santa Fe GP35, and a BN GP38-2 with 29 cars on the drawbar.
Unincorporated Moccasin
Judith Basin County, Montana
Friday December 26, 2008
Empties on the A&O utilizing the normal CSX run-thru power pulls under the Sentinel loadout and will break apart his train into smaller cuts for loading.
C820 ties down their first cut of loads from NRG just north of the loadout before running down to grab the next cut of empties. In the foreground stands an ex-L&N phone booth while a local chats with the train crew.
Union Pacific SD60 No. 6048 leads an Intermountain Power coal train loading at Skyline near Clear Creek, Utah on July 14, 1990.
Utah Railway Alco RSD-15s No. 403, 401 and RSD-12 No. 600 pull a cut of new Rock Island hoppers loaded with United States Fuel coal in Ben Johnson Canyon at the Mohrland, Utah loadout on July 24, 1979.
SD9 129 has recently been repainted into the old scheme and it leads SD38AC 205 with 2 loads (buffer cars) and 96 empties for the Thunderbird South loadout at Spruce, MN on August 10, 1991.
On a gray late summer day a pair of SD70MACs are slowly shoving as they work to load an 87 car Anchorage Sand and Gravel unit train (Alaska Railroad symbol 155W) beneath the conveyor fed loadout at MP A3 on the Palmer Branch.
With the old QAP and CPP pits no longer in service this loadout is the only freight customer on the little branch that in days of old once stretched far out the Matanuska River valley to coal mined at Sutton and Chickaloon. These days, other than these season gravel trains, the only trains to operate on the branch are a dozen or so special passenger trains to and from the annual Alaska State fair celebration held at the Palmer fairgrounds.
Dominating the background is snowcapped Granite Peak rising to 6729 ft in the Talkeetna Mountains about 18 miles away as the raven flies.
Palmer, Alaska
Thursday September 14, 2017
Norfolk Southern's U52 job takes 110 coal loads across Garden Creek coming from the loadout at Consol on their way towards Weller, VA.
A train has just finished loading at High Power Mountain near Summersville, WV and is seen here passing under the former Terry Eagle loadout near Drennen, WV. The train is traversing the former New York Central West Virginia Secondary, which was the far southern reach of the Central.
Back in 2009, an empty from Pittsburg, TX, for Texas Utilities at their Monticello Plant had arrived at Rawhide Mine for loading. The mine had their crew aboard and are beginning the process of weighing the empties at 2 mph as they head for the loadout. These train ran over the KCS south of Kansas City, MO, so sometimes KCS power ran thru on the trains.
This mine ran its 1st train in 1977, and in 2018 produced 9,504,750 tons with 110 employees. Approximately 30% of Rawhide Mine's coal was sent to the Monticello Station in Pittsburg Texas until the station closed in January 2018.
CSXT C604 shoves its second cut of empties towards the loadout at Wen-Lar on the Left Fork of the Straight Creek Branch on the CV Sub.
In 2019, I joined a group of friends for a solemn, but important, railfan journey to Norfolk Southern's Pittsburgh line. An often railfanned stretch of railroad, this line was still controlled by vintage Pennsy-era signals which made everything look cool. It was well known that the signals were on borrowed time, and we went to document their existence one last time. While we were there, NS began loading a train at Amfire Mining's Portage, PA loadout. At the time, these coal shuttles were almost exclusively powered by the railroad's SD80MACs: huge 5,000 HP behemoths capable of getting the heavy unit trains up and down the steep grades of the surrounding mountains. As a diversion from the Gevo parade, we took some time to shoot the loading operation, and the 80MACs were a nice bonus. Not even a year after this, NS announced they were retiring all 29 of these locomotives, and this photo became one for the history books. Even a scene like this, one that played itself out countless times in Pennsylvania coal country, all of a sudden became a treasured photo in my portfolio, and I am glad we decided it would be worth spending our time on. Because it turns out, surely it was.
The morning BMLP loads depart the Peabody mine at Kayenta, AZ, headed for the Navajo Generating Station near Page.
The lone signal mast is supplemented by a switch indicator further up the line where the single main splits to form the loading loop.
The crew of SCFE Cane 1 would spend no more than 40 minutes doing their work at the Miami Locks loadout, located about a mile east from the western end of the Lake Harbor Block. Their 17 empties would be interchanged for 15 loads destined for the Clewiston Mill. Once their air brake test was complete, it was back west to town for the crew to cap off their lengthy work day.
Exactly one hour before sunset, #USSC6324, U.S. Sugar’s sole SD40T-2, operating SCFE Cane 1, makes itself known to the residents of Lake Harbor on its journey west to Clewiston while thundering over the Miami Canal with their sugar cane loads, blasting its [oddly-configured] K5LA for the grade crossing. The Miami Locks loadout would be the last location Cane 1 was set to work for the day, having no other stops to make for their second and final round trip out of the Clewiston Mill.
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Lake Harbor, FL
SCFE Fort Pierce Subdivision
Date: 02/21/2024 | 17:18
ID: SCFE Cane 1
Type: Loaded Cane
Direction: Westbound
Car Count: 15
1. USSC SD40T-2 #6324
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© Vicente Alonso 2024
CSX R656 has begun loading at Lynch 3 while the old Lynch 2 silo looms in the background. Lynch 3 is actually the newest loader on the CV, having been built in 2011 right before a downturn in traffic began. It could actually be considered Lynch 4, as the original Lynch 3 is about a half mile further back.
Deseret Power Railway (DPR) E60C electric locomotives DPR-1, DPR-2, and DPR-3 are seen with their train at the Deserado Mine loadout, where approximately 45 hopper cars are being loaded with coal for the 33 mile trip to the Bonanza Power Plant in neighboring Utah.
Canadian National coal train No. 769 departs Leyland, Alberta, on July 15, 2013. The train is headed up the Luscar Industrial Spur off CN’s Mountain Park Subdivision and will load at Luscar Mine loadout that was once part of Teck’s Cardinal River Operation.
After bringing loads down to the runaround and shoving empties back up to spot at the loadout on the Wells-Lamson Spur, the WACR returned back downhill light engine and have just coupled up to their train on the west end of the 900 ft siding here at MP MP 10.9 on the Montpelier and Barre Division. They are getting ready to carefully shove seven loads (the maximum permitted by rule) down the steep grade to the lower switchback, where they will reverse direction then continue the descent off Millstone Hill into the city of Barre. The assigned power on the line is green GMRC 804 (a GP9r blt. Oct. 1955 as NW 13) and red VTR 206 (a GP38-3 206 blt. Oct. 1969 as SOU 2718 and originally a high nosed straight GP38).
Unincorporated Websterville
Barre Town, Vermont
Friday August 1, 2025
(SEE & HEAR)---Western Fuel Association, Escalante Western with ex-C&O SD40's, WFA-1 WFA-2 WFA-3, about to depart Lee Ranch loadout, to head back to the power plant at Prewitt, New Mexico. April 17, 2001. Jack D Kuiphoff photo © video
See this return cab ride in my Youtube link...
With a train of empties for the Lynch 3 loadout, R614 cruises railroad south past the former siding at South End Baileys. As downgrades face the L&N's Cumberland Valley, Pineville is now the only intact siding on the Kentucky side of the railroad.
A pair of GATX leased GPs head south down the old Winifrede Railroad, bringing another cut of empties to the mine for loading, a process that has happened on this line for almost longer than anywhere else in the country.
A handful of miles from the Kayenta Mine Loadout in far northern Arizona at the eastern end of the line, a four pack of Black Mesa & Lake Powell’s General Electric Motors take an empty string of rag-tag coal hoppers through the Klethla Valley for the next load of coal for Page.
Union Pacific C40-8 No. 9203 pulls a Valmy Power coal empty into the Sharp loading facility west of Levan, Utah on March 10, 1990.
The coal was trucked 78 miles from the SUFCo mine, 30 miles northeast of Salina in Sevier County, Utah. The high iron at right is Union Pacific's 83-mile Provo Subdivision, renamed and rebranded the Sharp Subdivision after the UP-SP merger in 1996.