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Loaded grain train G908 creeps around more tight curvature of the Gainesville Midland Subdivision, passing the old loadout at CW Matthews just outside of Belmont, GA.
With the Basilisk starfighter, I wanted to try some weapons/loadout variants, like in a SHMUP. This is the level IV, high caliber, tri-barrel gatling. The one in the original photos looks like it will be level 5. More upgrades to come!
After swapping crews, U47 picks up where U41 left off and loads the last 10 cars at Dixiana (out of sight around the curve) on a gorgeous fall afternoon. The coal is bound for Eastman Chemical in Kingsport.
After spinning a motor on the wye at Winns Branch, (formerly the Coon Creek Branch), Shelby Shifter R282-24 prepares to pull 55 loads of Wateree bound black dimaonds from Excel Mining’s Scotts Branch Tipple.
July 24, 2025.
(SEE & HEAR)---WFA-1, ex-C&O SD40, Escalante Western, at the power plant rotary dump, Prewitt, New Mexico. April 17, 2001. Jack D Kuiphoff photo © video
Cab ride video to Lee Ranch loadout on this train in my Youtube link.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNrKWLNfQEE
Return, loaded cab ride with some operating time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkbUnVkDoXA
fb, 6/16/2023.
The Deseret Power Railway rolls west near milepost 23 with another unit coal train for the Bonanza Power Plant. This is the 2nd trick run which generally, when there is a train, finishes loading between 3 and 4 pm, and arrives at the power plant around 5 pm.
The DPR runs roughly 35 rail miles between Blue Mountain Energy's Deserado Mine loadout near Dinosaur, CO and the Bonanza Power Plant near Bonanza, UT.
The Pennsylvania Railroad heritage locomotive is on the head-end of a Norfolk Southern coal train at the Consol loadout near Oakwood, Virginia.
Truck after truck leaves one of the many loadouts in the cane fields as the day winds down for these workers who have been going since before sunrise. The 409 is creeping west following another cane train that had just made a pick up from the cane loadout in the background.
H801 eases up to Gumm Siding before they prepare to run around and shove the train to the Anjean loadout.
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
Ushering in the 2020-2021 harvest season, USSC 4-6-2 "Pacific" 148 brings 10 loads in from the Sugarton loadout.
There was quite the crowd on hand for this event, as it marked the first time revenue freight was pulled by steam in Florida in over 40 years. After pulling these 10 loads to the mill, 148 was put on display next to the Clewiston shops for the public to get a good look at this classic steam engine up close.
The second-to-the-last car of the first cut of a 60-car unit coal train of higher sulphur coal destined for the Eastman Chemical in Kingsport, Tennessee, is just about finished loading at Red River Coal's prep plant and loadout at Steer Branch/Dixiana, Virginia. Momentarily, the locomotives will pull these cars forward, then double over onto the rest of train and shove back to continue the loading process.
Empties bound for the loadout at Creech, KY split the intermediates just west of Gate City, VA. The CSX train is running on NS trackage rights as KL01 between Frisco, TN and Big Stone Gap, VA.
A trio of Deseret Power Railway (DPR) E60C's leads the morning eastbound empties under County Road 3150 (Old Bonanza Highway) at milepost 28, between Bonanza and Vernal, UT. The DPR runs roughly 35 rail miles between Blue Mountain Energy's Deserado Mine loadout near Dinosaur, CO and the Bonanza Power Plant near Bonanza, UT.
The railroad was firing on all cylinders this day; alas, I was not. This is the earliest I've ever seen the morning round trip, meaning I was in a tail chase from the moment I arrived in the area. The eastbound was my first chance at a decent shot.
CN 2131 and 2119 with empties from Fairlane are looping around and will soon take the spot of CN 2112 and 2111 that are starting to pull from the T-bird loadout now that the empties are clearing up. a good eye will also spot NSHX 120 to the left, and also some stone cars above the 2111.
South Florida is table top flat and pretty boring but the trains down here are so unique they more than make up for that!
South Central Florida Express train Cane 1 is zipping along at 40 MPH making their 50 mile trip from the Childs loadout to the Clewiston mill as they approach the busy US Route 27 crossing at MP 924 (as measured from Richmond, VA via the old Atlantic Coast Line main). The sweet smelling train of fresh cut cane is led by USSC 4203, a rebuilt GP40-2 that began life in Oct. 1966 as a straight GP40 built new for the Milwauke Road as their number 193.
Glades County, Florida
Saturday March 15, 2025
U52 ties their train down on the extension infront of Race Fork Mine in Hurley, VA after taking 105 coal loads over Raitt Mountain. This train loaded at Buch II on the Levisa Branch. This loadout is the fastest flood loader on the former Pocahontas Division, now Blue Ridge Division. If all goes well, they can have 105 cars loaded in about 2.5 hours. That was not the case for this train however. The crew was having issues with the slow speed control with the then brand new SD70ACC to my knowledge. These units went through a lot of teething issues when they were first delivered. With most of those issues solved, they have become the favorites of a lot of crews.
Having wrapped up their work pulling and spotting cars at the Northeast Materials loadout on the Wells-Lamson Spur, the WACR is starting downhill as they shoved east on the 900 ft siding here at MP MP 10.9 on the Montpelier and Barre Division. They will carefully make their way with 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).
At left can be seen AEX 2004, a former Canadian National Budd RDC stored on the grounds of the former Bombardier Railcar plant visible in the background. Check out this earlier post to learn more:
Unincorporated Websterville
Barre Town, Vermont
Friday August 1, 2025
Black Mesa & Lake Powell's morning turn between generating station and coal loadout is 15 miles into its return journey and making the rails and overhead catenary sing. The line is isolated, having no connection to the national rail network, and serves the Salt River Project-Navajo Generating Station near Page, AZ with coal from Peabody's Kayenta mine near Shonto.
I'll chase this run to Cow Springs before back-tracking to Route 98 for the drive back to Page, and luckily, get one more shot before it pulls into the unloading loop at the generating station.
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Tredente // Interactive Blender
Where: Equal10
When: March 10th
This fully interactive portable blender allows you to make a smoothie whilst on the go!
Check out the video for a preview 😄 (available on Tredente SL Youtube Channel).
There are 4 fruit loadouts to choose from and 5 blender texture styles in total. A texture changing HUD is included FREE with every pack.
Fruit:
- Strawberry & Banana
- Mixed Berries
- Greens (FP Exclusive)
- Tropical
Blender Textures:
- White (FP Exclusive)
- Black
- Teal
- Coral
- Green
Hope you like it guys.
Another load loading at the mine with a quad of NdeM's. The sign indicates that if you touch the Spicy Spaghetti you'll regret it.
A CSX mine run shoves the second half of its train down to the end of track at the Yellow Creek coal loadout. Once the first hopper behind the power is under the tipple, flood loading will begin and the train will slowly inch forward until it is fully loaded with black diamonds. Once loaded, they will couple onto a second cut of hoppers that was already loaded this morning. The whole process will take several hours, with them finally coming off the branch after dusk. Note the sand on the rails, extra traction was needed to shove the empties up the steep grade near the tipple.
The location is off the former L&N Carr's Fork Branch. This branch splits off what CSX now calls the Rockhouse Sub at Jeff and snakes its way northeast before ending here. In the not-too-recent past there was another loadout off the branch at Kodak, but that is no longer active leaving Yellow Creek as the only reason for the branch's existence.
An empty BNSF unit train enters the loadout yard at the Cloud Peak Antelope Mine in the Powder River Basin.
June 12, 2022, Ilford HP5+
CSX B637 passes the old coal loadout in Emlyn with its 96 loads of ethanol bound for Lawrenceville, GA. 3-20-22
After unloading their train at Bonzana, Desert Power's coal shuttle makes the return trip to the Deserado Mine loadout. Maintenance of Way work windows were plaguing this visit. As the morning loads went west, an MOW crew would follow them. The Deseret crew would not return till the MOW's track and time expired. Thankfully, today's window was less than four hours.
After dropping empties at Scotts Branch, C661 heads back down the Coal Run Subdivision light power as the mine's remote control Alco begins loading cars.
Midwest Transload SW1500 1206 (ex-UPY 1206, SP 2639) and GP38AC (ex-INRD 3809, INRD 31, HLCX 3681, IC 9552, GM&O 733) rest at Southern Illinois Motor Express/Midwest Transload at Willisville.
Midwest Transload is on the site of the old Captain Mine. The loadout was right before the locomotives, by that old signal.
Midwest Transload is served by Union Pacific out of Chester and Canadian National out of Centralia.
Hot on the tail of the first morning inbound cane train on the USSC mainline, #USSC312, U.S. Sugar’s highest rostered GP11, wastes no time hauling its inbound cane train the last few miles back to the U.S. Sugar mill in Clewiston, FL, beginning to round a sharp 90° turn to the north. This cane job, the ID I’m unaware of, has 20 assorted sugar cane cars coming out of the Prewitt Block, filled to the brim with freshly harvested sugar cane stalks. In the next few hours, the cars will be set out in the mill yard, unloaded through the rotary dump, and prepped for another run out to a cane loadout.
USSC 312 is one of eight active GP11’s on U.S. Sugar, acquired through South Central Florida Express in the mid-2000’s. Early in its life in Florida, it was numbered 9031, dressed in a prominent orange and blue paint scheme. Most notably, it had and to continues to sport a hybrid Leslie S5T. It had not previously worn one during its tenure on the IC and ICG. As to where to got it from, I suspect that it must've come off of one of U.S. Sugar's now retired GP7's or GP9's. Compared to USSC 405’s tab back S5T [the only other unit on USSC with a five-chime Leslie], 312’s could definitely use some tuning, emitting some very shrill-sounding notes.
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Clewiston, FL
USSC Mainline
Date: 01/21/2023 | 10:26
ID: [unknown]
Type: Loaded Cane
Direction: Westbound
Car Count: 20
1. USSC GP11 #312
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A raw, bone chilling February 5, 1995 finds an eastbound empty unit train pausing at Blackwood, Virginia on the Interstate Railroad to await a track warrant to continue toward Norton. On the left is Blackwood #2, one of many single-car loadouts still in operation at the time, loading coal in the old Appalachian style.
CSX 404 is on the point of CSX L200 as it hustles north towards Shelby past the the loadout at McVicker that is currently being dismantled.
Washington County Railroad's (WACR or 'Wacker') Granite District is an 11 mile line that is isolated from the rest of Vermont Rail System; it extends from an interchange with New England Central at Montpelier Jct, through Vermont's state capitol, to the town and city of Barre. The line features grades up to 8% and two switchbacks. Most of the traffic is granite from Websterville that is loaded into gondolas. GMRC 804 and VTR 207 have 10 empties from the interchange heading to Barre to be spotted at the granite loadout.
Just a simple shot over a decade ago out with some friends shooting what was then commonplace but now is no more. Three SD70MACs have 75 aluminum hoppers in tow as Alaska Railroad train 184N destined for the Usibelli Coal Mine near Healy for another load of black diamonds to take to the export terminal in Seward. This view looks down off the shoulder of the Parks Highway just before the overpass at MP 164.3 and the south end of the QAP gravel loadout track at Pittman.
At the time this was taken the ARRC had just come off a record breaking year in 2011 that saw us move just under 1.1 million metric tons to 18 ships. This was the best year in the history of the Alaskan export coal market, and in fact we were working on plans to get to over 2 million! 70 more used aluminum hoppers had been purchased to make two full consists each of which made two round trip 720 mile cycles each week.
But from those halcyon days the business evaporated just as quickly as hit had boomed, and four years later only four colliers called on the terminal at the head of Resurrection Bay. With only one ship for all of 2016 the final train ran in July of that year, less than four years after the date of this photo, and the ARRC called it quits and laid off the 16 employees in Seward, mothballed the facility, and sold off the hoppers.....none have run since.
In the distance rising to nearly 6000 ft are the impressive Twin Peaks of the Chugach Mountains on the far side of the wide Matanuska Valley.
North of Wasilla, Alaska
Wednesday August 22, 2012
A Mt Laurel mine run runs out their train in Sharples, West Virginia before shoving back to the loadout and loading coal.
The hogger on a loaded Black Mesa & Lake Powell unit coal train pauses for a portrait before departing the Kayenta loadout. By now, everyone knows this unique but isolated electric railroad was shut down in 2019 and the power plant it served at Page, AZ torn down. Apparently, the catenary has also been pulled down but the rails remain.
Stupid me, I should've gotten this man's name.
The first A-108 were commissioned more than forty years ago. Designed for the Colonial Navy as a heavy multi-role assault craft, the Harvester can engage capital ships in space as well as ground targets on planets. It is equipped with a medium blaster and a gimbaled double barrel rail gun to crack through any armour. A torpedo launcher bay and loadout hardpoints under the fuselage complete the offensive means. The independent thrust vectoring twin engines provide atypical maneouverability for this class of starfighters, enabling the A-108 to incorporate a mix of inertial gliding and vectored flight in their attack runs.
While fortunately no wars were raging for the last thirty years, the repeated deployment of A-108 squadrons to suppress secession endeavours of certain colonies has sparked a debate about the use and necessity of this type of offensive craft in peace times.
My entry for the Space Jam Starfighter Contest
I built this coming from the idea of incorporating massive swiveling thrusters at the back and the canopy pieces in the front. Everything in between just happened. My biggest and sturdiest build to date, the Harvester has a rigid Technic skeleton inside. The weight and leverage of the engines proved to be quite challenging for the kinematics and required locked turntables and rotation joints to support the forces.
The play features are:
- mountable drop pod with folded probe drone inside
- two fully poseable thrust vectoring engines
- wide angle 3D-swiveling double barrel rail gun
- retractable landing gear
- full-featured cockpit
CSX U446 splits the searchlights at Habersham with a YN2 duo leading. U446 at the time was an empty hopper train from Medley on the Florida East Coast (interchanged from FEC to CSX in Jacksonville) to Resource loadout on the CV out of Corbin.
Southwest view of the stacking tube and coal bins, with the rail loadout bottom center off in the distance.
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The US Steel Cumberland Mine Railroad SD38-2 #1 leads loads at Mapletown, PA from the loadout at Kirby to the barge transload facility at Alicia on October 5, 1990.
The railroad was isolated from connections with any other railroads. This operation is still active today under different ownership.
Nikon FM2, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8, Kodak 5033 PKR Kodachrome PKR 64.
A loaded sugar cane train crosses a trestle north of Clewiston at last light. US Sugar is the largest industrial railroad in the US, and during the October-March cane season they run trains on almost streetcar-like headways bringing sugar cane from loadouts in the fields to the mill in Clewiston. Full disclosure: an offending pole was removed in Photoshop about five cars back.
An empty hopper train curves off the main and heads into the Black Thunder Mine as one of the loadouts stands in the background. Black Thunder is one of the largest mines in the Powder River Basin, with three loadouts able to handle around 25 trains a day.
This train loadout is BT West. A conveyor system runs bituminous coal two miles from a crusher inside the mine up to the top of these silos where up to 35,000 tons of coal can be housed while waiting to be dumped into outbound trains.