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BHPIO loaded Yandi iron ore with 6077-5645 assisted by mid-train 6074 (just visible on the far curve) passing the 225km near Shaw on September 5, 2002.
6077 was the last of the 8 GE Erie US-built AC6000 locos, a short-lived class that were built in early 1999 and all scrapped 15 years later in 2014.
(02.050.34_BHPAC-6077Mwt)
Shot yesterday, in a live class of my portrait workshop here in Buenos Aires. At the Simik bar/photographic museum. Everything that shines behind is metal and glass from all cameras.
Lens: Canon 50mm f/1.4 LTM ("Japanese Summilux", 1957-72).
Street, natural light portrait during a live class of my lighting and portrait workshop.
Lens: Carl Zeiss Sonnar 85mm f/2 (Contax rangefinder mount, 1953).
Here’s another photo from the amazing PhotoWalk in Paris. This was supposed to be the end of the walk, but it ended up being the halfway point!
In post-processing this one, I made the Louvre feel a little more warm and inviting, while the outside stayed a bit more cold and foreboding. I edited this one in front of a live class in Christchuch… I hope people enjoyed that bit ! :) Not all of my edits were successful that day, but I think this one turned out alright.
- Trey Ratcliff
Click here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.
Another picture from a live class of my portrait workshop, here in Buenos Aires.
This is from my first roll with my new (for me) Leica M5. And one of my favorite lenses (Zeiss Sonnar 85mm f/2), via the amazing Amedeo Contax/Leica rangefinder coupled adapter.
Taken during a live class of my portrait workshop, here in Buenos Aires.
Godox AD200 Pro flash in 1,30 mts umbrella box + reflector as main light. Rim light from the sun.
Lens: 7artisans 75mm f/1.25
Former student and fellow geek/photographer, during a live class of my portrait workshop in Buenos Aires.
Dec, 2021.
Lens: Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar 1.4/55 (GDR, 1960s).
Shot in a live class of my portrait and lighting workshop, here in Buenos Aires.
Lens: Voigtländer Nokton 50mm f/1.2 Aspherical.
A live class of my (local) portrait workshop (most classes are still online, and all of them are for the international edition). It was in a bar in Avenida de Mayo, the historical center of Spanish immigrant culture in Buenos Aires (legend has it that during the civil war, republicans were on one side of the avenue, and fascists on the other!) I also shot some pictures in 35mm film. I hope to have those soon.
The color scheme comes from the spilt complementary color harmony rule. I had a picture of the bar with this brown/orange hue, and light blue appeared like a nice combination. My student César got the blue-colored jacket and book!
Lens: 7artisans 75mm f/1.25 (beautiful Sonnar type lens).
Shot in an old bar in Buenos Aires, during a live class of my portrait workshop,
Leica M5 + 7artisans 50mm f/1.1 + Kodak Vision 3 500T.
Big Train in a Bigger Landscape: 6076-5667 leading with 6073 helping mid-train on an empty BHPIO iron ore train seen departing Garden crossing loop on September 7, 2002. This was a common configuration for BHPIO trains during this 2002 visit.
In the background, the spectacular hills of the Pilbara Hamersley Range. Compression courtesy of a 500mm lens.
6076 was the second last of the 8 GE Erie US-built AC6000 locos, a short-lived class that were built in early 1999 and all scrapped 15 years later in 2014.
02.041.34_6076_Garden500Mwt
She is a first division volleyball player, a talented photographer (and a geek who creates Lightroom presets!). She is also a student in my portrait workshop (still mostly online), and I invited her to be the subject in a live class.
Here I picked my treasured 85mm vintage Sonnar lens for a close shot, and quickly set up a butterfly lighting scheme with light coming from the street and a white reflector over the table, in clamshell fashion.
Lens: Carl Zeiss Sonnar 85mm f/2 (Contax rangefinder mount, 1953).
Shot in a live class of my portrait workshop, here in Buenos Aires.
Leica M5 + 7artisans 50mm f/1.1 + Kodak Vision 3 500T.
Short lived class 210 unit 210001 accelerates away from Didcot with the 12:47 service to Oxford on 7th June 1984
Intended to replace the first generation diesel mechanical units, the class comprised only 2 units, one 3 car and the 4 car unit shown here, both with electric transmission. As part of the initial evaluation, each set was equipped with a different diesel power plant; 210001 with a Paxman 1104hp unit.
Ultimately, they were deemed too complex with the added disadvantage of the loss of passenger space due to the location of the prime mover compared to underfloor designs such as the class 15x units.
My favorite yoga studios are closed and are now offering online live classes 😌 This was the view from my mat this morning. The kitties were surprisingly well behaved 🐱
She is a photographer and a volleyball player. She is also a student in my portrait workshop (still mostly online), and I invited her to be the subject in a live class.
Lens: Carl Zeiss Jena Pancolar 1.4/55 (GDR, 1960s).
...Back to sharing the series "Interval" from my Creative Live class!
Sand. The passing of time. Becoming dust.
"Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix born from the ash.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones
Thank you Creative Live crew for the enormous effort of getting hundreds of pounds of sand into this little room, and then, fast as could be, getting it back out and then again when you donated it to a playground. The whole of it made me so happy. Seeing this scene come to life thrilled me. And I challenged myself, too, to use this little room with such direct light. I'm so glad I did.
"Fragments"
Model: Christin Purcell @jinxedorchid
Watch this being made in "Fine Art Photography: The Complete Guide" www.creativelive.com/class/fine-art-photography-the-compl...
A freshly repainted Western D1015 Western Champion heads to Paddington from the West country, passing one of the very short lived Class 14 locos making up a pick up goods train in the yard ...
At the end of my Creative Live class when I finished making this series, I printed each image for a segment we filmed about how to print your images. During the wrap party, I gifted a print to each student and central crew member as a thank you for all the hard work that was put in. To my surprise, each person wanted a different print. No two people asked for the same one. It was a great lesson in seeing how different people are impacted by different things; how the smallest detail can draw someone in, how our experiences contribute hugely to how we interpret art.
I had felt a little down on this image, like it wasn't a big enough concept, or maybe like it fell flat in some way. But when I gifted it to Sarit, an in-studio audience member / friend, I saw it through her eyes. I saw why she loved it and it made me love it, too. Our art only contains one story if we keep it to ourselves. When we give our art to others it becomes imbued with their stories too, and what a gift that is. To see the world through someone else's experience - that is why I love sharing what I do.
--
"Gossamer"
Model: Christin Purcell @jinxedorchid
Part of the series "Interval" shot for my CL class: "Fine Art Photography: The Complete Guide" www.creativelive.com/class/fine-art-photography-the-compl...
Nikon a-t-il une surprise dans sa manche pour un futur proche ? Il se peut très bien qu'une petite erreur dans un article récent partagé sur le profil Weibo de Nikon China semble le faire croire …
Does Nikon have a surprise up its sleeve for the near future ? It very well may if a little slip-up in a recent post shared to Nikon China’s Weibo profile is to be believed …
Dans un article faisant la promotion de la classe « Creative Camp Live de Nikon China, Nikon China » a partagé quatre images, toutes vraisemblablement prises avec des systèmes d'appareils photo Nikon à monture Z. Bien qu'assez anodine, une image en particulier a attiré l'attention des lecteurs aux yeux d'aigle qui ont remarqué que l'image avait une résolution de 6670 x 10000 pixels. En d'autres termes, un appareil photo avec au moins un capteur 67MP aurait pu prendre la photo !!!
In a post promoting Nikon China’s Creative Camp Live class, Nikon China shared four images, all presumably taken with Nikon Z-mount camera systems. While innocuous enough, one image in particular caught the attention of eagle-eyed readers who noticed the image has a resolution of 6670 x 10000 pixels. In other words, a camera with at least a 67MP sensor could’ve taken the photograph !!!
Considérant que le capteur à la plus haute résolution de Nikon pour sa gamme de montures Z dépasse 45,7 MP (pour le Z7 II et le Z9), cette image devait être prise avec un appareil photo non Nikon, mise à l'échelle à l'aide d'un logiciel ou prise avec un appareil photo supérieur … appareil photo Nikon de résolution qui n'est pas encore sorti 🤔
Considering Nikon’s highest-resolution sensor for its Z-mount lineup tops out at 45.7MP (for both the Z7 II and Z9), this image either had to be taken with a non-Nikon camera, upscaled using software or taken with a higher-resolution Nikon camera that’s yet to be released 🤔
Nikon Les rumeurs et les commentateurs sous le message d'origine suggèrent que cette image aurait pu être prise avec un système d'appareil photo sans miroir « NIKON Z8 » inédit. Le capteur de résolution la plus élevée que nous ayons vu dans un appareil photo plein format commercial jusqu'à présent est un capteur de 61 MP à l'intérieur de l'a7R IV de Sony. Ainsi, quelle que soit la caméra (vraisemblablement plein format basée sur le rapport d'aspect et la résolution 3: 2) capturée, cette image prend la forme pour prendre la couronne de résolution de l'a7R IV.
Nikon Rumors and commenters under the original post are suggesting this image could’ve been taken with an unreleased ‘Nikon Z8’ mirrorless camera system. The highest-resolution sensor we’ve seen in a commercial full-frame camera thus far is a 61MP sensor inside Sony’s a7R IV. So, whatever camera (presumably full-frame based on the 3:2 aspect ratio and resolution) captured this image is shaping up to take the resolution crown from the a7R IV.
L'image en question, qui présente un jouet fidget de More Than A Knuckle (MTAK) entouré de bouchons de bouteilles, n'a montré aucune correspondance dans aucun outil de recherche d'image inversée que nous avons utilisé, ce qui signifie qu'il est peu probable que Nikon utilise ce genre d'image de stock.
The image in question, which showcases a fidget toy from More Than A Knuckle (MTAK) surrounded by bottle caps, hasn’t shown any matches in any reverse image search tool we’ve put it through, which means it’s unlikely Nikon is using any kind of stock image.
Que devons nous en penser ? - What should we think ?
Have a nice day … « les artistes » ! 😉
Shot this week, in a live class of my portrait workshop, here in Buenos Aires. All natural light. I am not into "languid" style portraits, and I usually try to go for "kinder" expressions, but seems like this really was what came out naturally for her.
Mamiya 645 Pro + Mamiya Sekor C 80mm f/1.9 + Fuji Pro 400H (120).
20071+182 arrive onto the Willington Power Station lines with a Denby - Willington MGR rake which at the time included a brake van for working the level crossings on the branch.....one of the short lived class 114 parcels units,54932+54902 is held at the Stenson Junction peg while the coal train crosses in front of it on 19th Dec 88
86321 is heading south at Bletchley on 27th June 1980 with Ford Palvans forming the 6E39 06:00 Ford Sidings at Halewood to Dagenham Dock. 86321 was a member of the short lived class 86/3, which was an 86/0 fitted with SAB resilient wheels, they were later re-classified as 86/4 when fitted with Flexicoil suspension. M147
Looking immaculate in its Inter-City livery 47609 "FIRE FLY" stands at the south end of Exeter St Davids's station.
Just creeping into view behind is one of the short lived Class 155 DMU's, which I think was working a Paignton - Cardiff service.
Among a gathering of incapacitated DMS`s in Alperton Garage on 7 January 1979 were cannibalised DMS 715 which was subsequently put back together for a few years more use and damaged DMS 1661 which wouldn`t run again making it one of the shortest lived class members.
A North British type 2 - later class 21 - a short lived class due to reliability issues - heads south through Anniesland with a freight working - probably bound for Rothesay Dock or Dalmuir, on a winters day. Late 1960s.
Fernanda, in the live class we had last week, this time on 35mm film.
I often read people discuss the slower pace that comes with film photography. It is that way, of course. But I am not sure there is anything particularly valuable in just being slower. The key aspect to me is not the the slower speed, but how film demands that you visualize the picture before.
In the case of rangefinder cameras, this is extreme, as you have to see in your mind how the lens is going to render the scene at different apertures, how is it going to blur the out of focus areas, etc. I think this is great training. And it's still within the limits of what I think it is reasonable masochism (cameras with separate rangefinder and viewfinder windows,for example, are unreasonable masochism!)
Voigtländer Bessa R3M + Voigtländer Nokton 40mm f/1.2 Aspherical + Kodak Vision 3 500T.
Playwright, screenwriter and actress Carla Scatarelli, in an old bar in Buenos Aires. Shot during a live class of my portrait workshop. We planned it this way together, as she so often writes in bars and cafés.
Lens: Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 2/35 ZF.
Shot in October, 2021, during a live class of my portrait workshop, here in Buenos Aires.
Voigtländer Bessa R3M + Canon 50mm f/1.2 LTM + Kodak Portra 160.
Another Alexander W type but this time on an AEC Swift chassis. London Country SMA14, one of this attractive but short lived class, seen here at Windsor.
The unique Infrastructure liveried Class 47, 47803 seen at Plymouth in August 1993.
Originally it carried large 'Infrastructure' lettering in red on the bodyside but that was short lived.
Class 31, 31116 also wore a similar livery in the same period.
Playwright, screenwriter and actress Carla Scatarelli, in an old bar in Buenos Aires. Shot during a live class of my portrait workshop. We planned it this way together, as she so often writes in bars and cafés.
Lens: Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 2/35 ZF.
I really enjoyed the recording of the free class by Andrea at @aworkofheartstudio . I was disappointed that I had missed the sessions working under the influence of @nullsie who is a firm favorite of mine. I was tickled to find out that I'd be able to view them, so a couple of hours before today's live, I started watching. It wasn't long before I had grabbed my journal and a jar of olives and dived in. I watched and worked right through the live class. Oops! I hope we're home for tomorrow's session. If I had known I was going to go for a blue background, I wouldn't have colored the flowers blue. Oh well, as Andrea said in class, it's in my journal, no big whoop. Anyone recognize the jar?
Shot last week during a live class of my portrait workshop, in an old bar of Buenos Aires (the international workshop is online, of course!)
Contax RX + Carl Zeiss Planar T* 1.4/50 + Kodak Vision 3 500T.
I revisited my very old concept of the "Snakelace". This is a bit different than the old snakelaces as those all had single beads who could move on the cord. This version does not feature single beads, as this would be too complucated for a live class. Anyways - this could be a new live-class to teach - if there is enough interest;)
LB&SCR A1 Class no. 672 Fenchurch with sister engine no. 55 Stephney on the Bluebell Railway with a charter special from Sheffield Park to Horsted Keynes. Nicknamed Terriers, these locos were first used on suburban services in South London.
Built by the London Brighton & South Coast Railway to the design of William Stroudley during the 1870's this popular and long lived class are now widespread across southern England on various preservation lines. No less than ten of this class have survived in preservation.
West Coast Railway Co. 47854 Diamond Jubilee brings up the rear of 1Z68, 06:20 Peterborough – Carlisle “The Moorlander” approaching the Erewash Valley from the Trowell Branch at Trowell Junction, 6th July 2013.
Locomotive History
47854 was originally D1972 and was built at Crewe works, entering traffic on the 6th November 1965 allocated to Haymarket MPD. From October 1968 it spent a year allocated to Gateshed before returning to Haymarket where it would remain for the next fourteen years. Under the 1973 TOPS renumbering scheme it became 47271. Late in 1983 it was fitted with electric train heating and emerged from Crewe works in December 1983 as 47604 and allocated to Eastfield. For the next nine years it would be either allocated to Eastfield or Inverness. In July 1991 it was renumbered 47674 as part of short lived class 47 sub class 47/6 which consisted of seven locomotives (47671-677) formed from a batch of class 47/4's having an increased electric train heating rating, for dedicated use on Anglo-Scottish sleeper services, based at Inverness. 47674 transferred to Crewe in September 1992 for Royal Mail and parcels duties and also had spells at Bristol (1993) and Stratford (1994) before returning to Crewe in 1995. In November 1995 it was renumbered 47854 when fitted with “long range” twin fuel tanks and the next eight years would find it on various “Inter-City” duties allocated to Crewe, Toton and Willesden. In January 2004 it was leased to the West Coast Railway Co. for charter train duties.
One of the fun things about railfanning in a new area is the little surprises found along the way. Be it a faded sign on an old bridge bearing the name of a predecessor fallen flag, or an unexpected depot or tower, or the occasional classic freight cars such as this. This was one of those pleasant surprises that warranted a few images for posterity.
An old 40 ft. boxcar that is fairly intact and still sitting on its own wheels rests on a spur used as a storage shed by local CSXT MofW crews.
While I don't know the age or pedigree of this particular freight car, it is certainly far older than the image it wears. The Seaboard System was one of the shortest lived Class 1 systems existing only about 3 1/2 years from December 1982 until July 1986. I've often read that the Seaboard was created specifically as a "Temporary Railroad" as part of the multi step process that lead to the creation of the modern CSXT super system. It is interesting to note that CSX Corporation was formed in 1980 when Seaboard Coast Line Industries and Chessie System merged. SCL Industries was the parent company of a group of southern Class 1s that for a decade or so had been operating each of its separate railroads (the three largest components being L&N, SCL, and Clinchfield) under a common image and marketing scheme known as the Family Lines System. This schema was still in effect when CSX Corporation came into existence and the simplifying of the corporate structure was an important initiative of the new parent company.
But, Ron Flanary wrote an excellent article about this short lived railroad in Railroad's Illustrated a few years ago and I wanted to share this piece of his always fabulous writing:
"It has been stated that Seaboard System was intentionally a “temporary” railroad, owing to its brief existence before the eventual consolidation with Chessie System to create CSX Transportation. “That’s not true,” according to Sidney Johnson, a retired CSX executive who was a part of the management team that implemented the changes. “Dick Sanborn and some other members of the executive management team wanted to clean up all those old corporations and come up with something less confusing than the ‘Family Lines.’ At key interchange points, other railroads were never sure which of our companies were in the conversation if you mentioned ‘Family Lines.’ It could be SCL, L&N, Clinchfield, or any of the other railroads under that banner. Sure, it was a sentimental loss to see these proud old railroad names go, but it was a transportation business doing its best to adapt to the enormous opportunities afforded by deregulation, so it made perfect sense.” Johnson went on to state there was no plan or intention at that moment to make SBD a short-time transitional corporation. “To the contrary, we invested heavily in a new image for our locomotive fleet, a fresh new logo, and an aggressive program of new signage for bridges, buildings, and the freight car fleet. It was our intention that Seaboard System was here for the long haul…”
But that wasn't to be, and on July 1, 1986 Seaboard System renamed itself CSX Transportation and then the dominoes fell quickly as the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was formally merged away into the Chesapeake and Ohio (both long operating together as the Chessie System) and then a couple months later in August 1986 the Chessie was formally merged into CSXT. But the legacy of the Seaboard held sway in the gray paint that dominated CSXT's locomotives for its first nearly two decades as well as the fact that the Seaboard and predecessor SCL's headquarters city and building remain as the home of CSX to this day overlooking the Saint Johns River in Jacksonville.
But here along the Ohio River far from traditional Seaboard territory a relic of that temporary (or not!) railroad lives on....
Parkersburg, West Virginia
Friday August 21, 2020
'On Feb. 22nd 1968 Mike Walker and I completed a most successful day in Cheshire by visiting the MPD at Speke Junction. Here is a general view of the depot (44877, 2 Black 5s, 45253 and an interesting Hunslet shunter).'
My guess in 2023 is that the Hunslet is an example of the short lived class 05.
An image from an album of prints by the Revd David Benson, a curate in Hull when he took most of his photographs. Nearly all from the late 1960s, he not only chased steam (plenty of such photographs from others), but didn't ignore the first generation diesels, of which there are some fantastic images. Also a good number of shots around Hull Docks. Loaded into the Flickr album 'A Curate's Collection' in reverse order, so when I've uploaded them all you can browse the album as it was compiled.
inspired by brooke shaden's creative live class back in july i set out to make this and found my way back into art photography.
Metropolitan-Cammell 'Lightweight' units E79056 and E79272 withdrawn from service and stored at the former Ipswich depot (32B) on 2nd May 1971, pending collection for scrapping. Metropolitan-Cammell produced 36 of these two-car sets, the first railcars to be procured by BR from an outside contractor, seven units were used by the LMR chiefly on Bury-Bacup services, and the remainder were deployed to rural services in East Anglia, although some units subsequently migrated elsewhere for short periods to Scotland, Lincoln and for use on the Romford-Upminster shuttle. Metropolitan-Cammell developed what was to be their successful and long-lived Class 101 DMU from this 1955 design. The ‘Lightweight’ units were distinguishable from the later units by their cowling below the buffer beams and the MU jumper cables. Although a successful product, withdrawal of many rural passenger services in East Anglia in the 1960s following the Beeching Report, and their non-standard coupling arrangements saw their early withdrawal well before they were life expired. All units apart from one were taken out of service between 1967 and 1969 and were subsequently scrapped. One unit comprising two motor brake seconds (E79047-E79053) was selected for overhaul at Derby Litchurch Lane Works and was converted for use as a departmental Plasma Torch Research unit for the Railway Technical Centre at Derby and designated as ‘Laboratory 21’. This was also eventually scrapped, but at least saw further service until 1981.
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The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway E1 Class were 0-6-0T steam locomotives designed by William Stroudley in 1874 for short-distance goods and piloting duties. They were originally classified E, and generally known as "E-tanks"; they were reclassified E1 in the time of D. E. Marsh.
The first six locomotives of this useful and long-lived class were built at Brighton and appeared in traffic between September 1874 and March 1875. They performed well and further orders were placed at regular intervals until December 1891 when the class consisted of eighty locomotives and were used throughout the LBSCR system, principally for goods and shunting, but occasionally for secondary passenger duties.
After 1894/5 the class gradually began to be replaced by R.J. Billinton's radial tanks of the E3 and E4 classes. Withdrawals commenced in 1908 when one locomotive was broken up for spares, and others were withdrawn at intervals until May 1914, when the increased need for locomotives during the First World War meant that there were no further withdrawals. One locomotive (no.89) was rebuilt with a larger boiler by D. E. Marsh in 1911 and reclassified E1X and renumbered 89A. However this was rebuilt back to a ‘E1 Class’ in 1930 once the boiler was condemned.
Thirty examples survived the transfer of ownership to British Railways in 1948 but during the 1950s they were gradually replaced by diesel shunters. The last survivor, BR no 32694, was allocated to Southampton Docks. It was withdrawn in July 1961 and scrapped at Eastleigh Works later that year.
Thirty examples survived the transfer of ownership to the Southern Region of British Railways in 1948 but during the 1950s they were gradually replaced by diesel shunters. The first withdrawal was LBSCR 93 in May 1908. The last survivor, BR No. 32694, was allocated to Southampton Docks. It was withdrawn in July 1961 and scrapped at Eastleigh Works later that year.
E1 Class No.137 (137 ‘Dijon’) also carried SR.No.B137, it was built at Brighton Works in 1879 it was withdrawal in 1933 it probably ended up at Eastleigh Works (BR) to be scrapped the same year.
Photographer Unknown – seen here ex works at Brighton Works c1910
Passengers on the AJECTA steam special from Paris to Épernay admire the motive power during a stop for water at a very frosty La Ferté-Milon station. 140C231 is one of a long-lived class of 2-8-0 freight locomotives that worked coal trains in Lorraine to the very end of SNCF steam operations in 1975. It was built in Glasgow in 1917.
December 1989
Rollei 35 camera
Kodak Ektachrome ASA 100 film.
One of the fun things about railfanning in a new area is the little surprises found along the way. Be it a faded sign on an old bridge bearing the name of a predecessor fallen flag, or an unexpected depot or tower, or the occasional classic freight cars such as this. This was one of those pleasant surprises that warranted a few images for posterity.
An old 40 ft. boxcar that is fairly intact and still sitting on its own wheels rests on a spur used as a storage shed by local CSXT MofW crews.
While I don't know the age or pedigree of this particular freight car, it is certainly far older than the image it wears. The Seaboard System was one of the shortest lived Class 1 systems existing only about 3 1/2 years from December 1982 until July 1986. I've often read that the Seaboard was created specifically as a "Temporary Railroad" as part of the multi step process that lead to the creation of the modern CSXT super system. It is interesting to note that CSX Corporation was formed in 1980 when Seaboard Coast Line Industries and Chessie System merged. SCL Industries was the parent company of a group of southern Class 1s that for a decade or so had been operating each of its separate railroads (the three largest components being L&N, SCL, and Clinchfield) under a common image and marketing scheme known as the Family Lines System. This schema was still in effect when CSX Corporation came into existence and the simplifying of the corporate structure was an important initiative of the new parent company.
But, Ron Flanary wrote an excellent article about this short lived railroad in Railroad's Illustrated a few years ago and I wanted to share this piece of his always fabulous writing:
"It has been stated that Seaboard System was intentionally a “temporary” railroad, owing to its brief existence before the eventual consolidation with Chessie System to create CSX Transportation. “That’s not true,” according to Sidney Johnson, a retired CSX executive who was a part of the management team that implemented the changes. “Dick Sanborn and some other members of the executive management team wanted to clean up all those old corporations and come up with something less confusing than the ‘Family Lines.’ At key interchange points, other railroads were never sure which of our companies were in the conversation if you mentioned ‘Family Lines.’ It could be SCL, L&N, Clinchfield, or any of the other railroads under that banner. Sure, it was a sentimental loss to see these proud old railroad names go, but it was a transportation business doing its best to adapt to the enormous opportunities afforded by deregulation, so it made perfect sense.” Johnson went on to state there was no plan or intention at that moment to make SBD a short-time transitional corporation. “To the contrary, we invested heavily in a new image for our locomotive fleet, a fresh new logo, and an aggressive program of new signage for bridges, buildings, and the freight car fleet. It was our intention that Seaboard System was here for the long haul…”
But that wasn't to be, and on July 1, 1986 Seaboard System renamed itself CSX Transportation and then the dominoes fell quickly as the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was formally merged away into the Chesapeake and Ohio (both long operating together as the Chessie System) and then a couple months later in August 1986 the Chessie was formally merged into CSXT. But the legacy of the Seaboard held sway in the gray paint that dominated CSXT's locomotives for its first nearly two decades as well as the fact that the Seaboard and predecessor SCL's headquarters city and building remain as the home of CSX to this day overlooking the Saint Johns River in Jacksonville.
But here along the Ohio River far from traditional Seaboard territory a relic of that temporary (or not!) railroad lives on....
Parkersburg, West Virginia
Friday August 21, 2020
The sign on the flight-deck railings says it all. Apollo is waving good-bye.
The Leander-class frigate, HMS Apollo, beginning a great show during our departure from the first full Operation Armilla patrol in the Straits of Hormuz. In those days, we weren't allowed by the MoD into the Persian Gulf - that came during later, much busier, and harder deployments. This was somewhere in the Gulf of Oman.
She has got powerful fire hoses attached to her twin 4.5 inch guns producing the big jets out to port, and has also set up her engine room to produce great belches of steam out of an exhaust port low down on the hull amidships. A moment later, a team inside the funnel began releasing out-of-date smoke flares - see the next shot in the albums.
After some officer-of-the-watch manoeuvres with the rest of the departing and relieving ships, we were heading off back home, the end of what had been a tedious six-month deployment for most of both crews, in sight.
The Leander-class, consisting of 26 units, was among the most numerous and long-lived classes of frigate in the Royal Navy's modern history, beginning in 1963; Apollo was the penultimate unit of the class. Steam-powered and initially armed with 4.5-inch guns, many were later converted to Ikara, Seacat/Exocet, Seawolf/Exocet and towed-array variants. The last Royal Navy units were decommissioned in the early 1990s; five ex-Dutch units (Van Speijk-class) now in Indonesian service are still in commission.
Examples of the versatile and long-lived Class 37 passed to all three ‘shadow privatisation’ freight companies in 1994. Whereas Loadhaul and Mainline set about repainting theirs in new colours, Transrail retained the former Railfreight livery with new graphics to good effect. This was a shrewd decision from an accounting perspective as, within two years, the three companies were acquired by American-owned Winconsin Central and merged to form English, Scottish & Welsh Railways (26-Mar-22).
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Part of the railway that has been much in the UK news of late as this exposed coastal route in south west England suffered massively in this winter's storms and was breached - closed, and expected to re-open in April 2014. This view shows one of the Western Region's new diesel locomotives, delivered as part of the BTC's modernisation of British Railways and intended to replace steam. The image shows D600 - one of a small, and short lived class of locomotives that formed a skirmish between the BR HQ and the Western Region about the types of locomotives required to replace steam on ex-GWR lines. Known as the 'Warship' class, the locos were built by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow and fitted with MAN engines with hydraulic drive. For a short time, as seen here, they powered the 'flagship' services from London to the South West. The locomotives had a very short life of about a decade.
The artwork is interesting and bears some comparison with French Railways/SNCF posters of the era - not a surprise as it is the work of Albert Brenet (1903 - 2005), the French transport and marine artist.