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Yes, load- not loads. 79 must have brought up a bad order car that 52 had to spot tonight. The forest fires out west really played havoc with the setting sun.
Loading point at the colliery at Sanbao, Liaoning Province, China, looked to be closed but the presence of loaded wagons told another story. The mines in this area were extensively developed by the Japanese during their occupation in the 1930s and early 1940s. All now demolished with a new road running along the line of the railway.
A Copper Basin train of ore loads arrives at the dumper for ASARCO's copper smelter in Hayden, AZ. From here a large conveyor (out of sight behind me) takes the ore uphill to the actual smelter, where it will be refined into copper. Unfortunately not much copper comes out by rail these days, but the captive ore and acid trains are still plenty to keep the Copper Basin busy.
IC 6251 is dragging a loaded train out of the Fairlane facility at Forbes, MN. Shortly, the train will enter the Missabe Subdivision and bomb South for Proctor.
No Electrical Power....
We suddenly have a lot of load shedding this last couple of days. I have my opinions on why but won't go too much into it right now. I think I will have to write a book about corruption and mismanagement and political stuff if I want to really explain why it is as it is.
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Photographed at Randfontein in South Africa.
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WNYP's stone train for Turtlepoint is being live loaded at Machias, New York on August 6, 2019. If I remember right I believe we counted on average eight buckets to a car. The load time was about three hours of which half of it occurred during a torrential downpour. This is shoreline railroading, whatever it takes to serve the customers.
Westbound NS 797 empty coal gons headed back to Illinois for loading. Coal trains are not quite dead on the NS Wabash line.
Hi everybody! Well I still don't have my new camera. The story of my life, right?! Anyways, I miss you all and being on Flickr so I'm posting something from the archives in the meantime. I'll try to be more active on here. And since I start school in 3 weeks, I'll be on my computer daily.
Thanks so much for stopping by my Flickr friends!
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37222 and one of its pals (thought to be 37375) descend from Chalmerston with blending coal for Killoch, near Laight's Farm crossing. Early 1990s.
! BOSS ENCOUNTER !
Adventurer, you must demonstrate your VALOR by conquering the ARBITER!
My take on a MOC using the #bignicle frame. It was loads of fun to build in a different style around a frame! And the frame is impressively sturdy and posable, so I took some more varied poses here, visible in the full album.
With a fresh crew on board a trio of IC SD70s pass the searchlight at Fredonia, PA en route to XB with ore loads.
MRIX 8344/8334/8317 have seventeen empty hoppers in the siding to start the loading in Wapella Illinois on October 16,2023. Copyright © Revenge Photography. All Rights Reserved.
The classic Laker John D. Leitch is at the CSX coal dock in Toledo on a sunny September evening for a load of coal. Toledo, OH 9/19/2022
CPKC's Fording River Sub is a 33 mile-long branch line serving 4 coal mines on the west side of Crowsnest Pass. The line was built in the early 1970's and features a steady stream of coal trains carrying Canadian carbon to the Pacific for export.
Here, at the far northern end of the line, CP 9354 slowly & steadily loads a coal train at the EVR Fording River Mine. The train is sized to match the length of the loading loop almost exactly, as the DPU has cleared the switch only a few car lengths before the head-end completes its circuit through the load-out.
Sharp eyes will note that's a spring switch, lined to the right for the inbound train but posing no issue for the outbound train to run through the switch against the points.
CPKC Coal Train
CP DRF-44 / ES44AC #9354
CP DRF-43 / AC4400 #9755
(DPU) CP DRF-44 / ES44AC #8949
Fording, BC
August 25th, 2025
Getting 'the bird' from guitarist, Bow Campbell at Front End Loader's gig at The Republic Bar 27th April, 2018.
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Thirty minutes behind A439 we see CN train U716, an empty ore train headed to UTAC's Fairlane plant to load pellets and turn back to Proctor. The all EMD consist consisting of CN SD40-2W 5349 and repainted DMIR 'tunnel motors' 404 and 405 is approaching the Munger Shaw Rd. crossing at MP 14 on CN's North Division Missabe Sub mainline. Modern day CN's designation for this route pays homage to the historic former Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railroad which was incorporated in 1891, ran its first train in 1892 and built into Duluth proper in 1893. In 1938 the road was merged into the Duluth and Iron Range both long owned by US Steel to officially create the legendary Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway.
Passing overhead is MP 18.9 on CN's Rainy Sub, the former Duluth, Winnipeg and Pacific Railway mainline. Today the CN uses the two lines as a directional mainline for all their 'core' traffic which is how they refer to their non iron ore related thru trains to and from Canada. All southbound trains (manifest, grain, oil, intermodal etc.) take the Rainy while all northbound counterpartsuse the Missabe for a distance of about 60 miles between Nopeming Jct. on the south and Shelton Jct. on the north. But with both north and southbound ore and limestone trains using this lower line it sees far more traffic than it's counterpart overhead.
Unincorporated Munger
Solway Township
St. Louis County, Minnesota
Sunday September 15, 2024