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2364D, 1601 and 1606 lead an empty Aurizon Thevenard to Kevin gypsum train through the suburbia of Ceduna.
This operation previously utilised 1960s-era 900, 830 and 1200 Class locomotives until the arrival of the two Aurizon 2300 class locos. The two NJ class locos, 1601 and 1606, remain in service with the 2300 class locos. At this time they were in use as 2332D was in the Thevenard Maintenance Centre.
Ceduna, SA.
Wednesday, 8 November 2023.
What appears to be a short local departs the extreme west end of the UP Bailey Yard in North Platte,NB with some freshly painted SD40N's and a BNSF GP60.
Occasionally when the Red-bellied Woodpecker left the nest after a feeding it carried a beak full of waste. I think with the amount and variety of meals they took into the nest it must have been getting pretty "deep" in there!
Explore #413, 24 July 2011
Vos Pathfinder outbound for sea, from James Watt Dock following a brief visit to Garvel Dry Dock, Greenock.
IMO: 9366079
MMSI: 235060799
Call Sign: 2ALO7
Flag: United Kingdom [GB]
Gross Tonnage: 1433
Deadweight: 952 t
Length Overall x Breadth Extreme: 55.2m × 13.1m
Draft: 4.6m
Year Built: 2008
St. Marys Challenger is clear of the Chicago & Western Indiana R.R. bridge and Torrence Ave. outbound from South Chicago.
Metra 154 leads an outbound UP-West Line train at Central Avenue in Chicago's west-side Austin neighborhood. The CNW-style signal bridge here spans both the UP Geneva Sub and the CTA Green Line.
An F Train bound for Coney Island makes its way along the elevated rail in the quiet of a late Sunday evening.
Brooklyn, NY
A westbound Metra service sprints through CP Edgeton in Bensenville, Illinois last fall. This was the only motor lead Metra service we caught.
An outbound MBCR/MBTA train is heading for Lowell on the former Boston and Maine New Hampshire Route mainline passing the intermediate signals at MP 1.8. The Boston skyline dominates the background in this view looking down from the Cross Street bridge. This location is known as Mystic Junction, and until 1974 there was a retarder hump here, the easternmost hump yard in the US, the crest of which was right around the corner to the right of the mainline. Known as Yard 8 in B&M parlance, all that is left in this photo is the weed grown lead at right used by the few freights that still venture near the city operated by B&M successor Pan Am. A decade later even that is gone as this area has been heavily rebuilt for the extension of the green line trolley network 4.3 miles into Somerville and Medford.
Leading the train is MBTA 1001 an EMD F40PH blt. in Sep. 1978. This was part of the MBTA's first order of locomotives as they began the long, slow, arduous and expensive task of modernizing the long neglected commuter rail network inherited from legacy operators Boston and Maine and Penn Central (ex B&A and NH). Known as "screamers" to railfans this was because these original F40PHs powered the HEP alternator (to generate electricity for lighting, heat, etc.) from the prime mover. From the head end to the train required a non-varaiable frequency, and the prime mover had to turn at a constant 893 RPM while supplying head end power (even standing still, with the throttle in idle). Power to the traction motors was controlled by varying the field excitation of the main (traction) generator. At just over 56 feet long they are 8 feet shorter than their newer MK built F40PH-2C cousins. And while the 2Cs survive and are being rebuilt again all 18 of these original F40PHs were retired around 2015 after the new MPI HSP46s arrived. And though a few of her siblings met the torch, 1001 seen here remains rusting away at the MBTA storage yard in Rochester.
I never shot many of these in service since all were retired before I moved back east.
But for whatever reason I found myself in Boston while home from Alaska on vacation and grabbed this shot and a few others while poking around. I never imagined that in 8 years I'd be working here for this railroad....
Somerville, Massachusetts
Friday September 10, 2010
With the crew calling signals and no time to find a better place to shoot I grab what I can. CSX K442 is outbound while grabbing a freight block to take to Cartersville before leaving Atlanta. The SD40-2 and CP GEs made this a decent catch.
I'm dedicating this shot to my great contact brendan ó, his photography is inspirational and he's a really awesome contact here on flickr! He has a love for all things blurred, so much so that he created a group called Blur will save the world. Often as I'm out photographing I find myself saying blur will save the world, because there are certain moments when you know... it's just got to be blurred :)
Thanks Brendan for rockin' the flickr world with your superosity!!
Waiting for the panstarrs comet to come out and play, we were treated to some pretty amazing colors at sundown. We had a small wager going to see if she'd hit the bridge as she passed under. No money was exchanged...
I don't often shoot commuter trains, but while waiting for something else if one comes by I'll raise my camera for it. Here is outbound Greenbush Line train 079 on the MBTA/Keolis Middleboro Mainlin about to diverge 90 degrees to the east at GREEN interlocking to head toward Greenbush. This view looks down off the Elm Street bridge and the milepost in the distance denotes 10 miles from South Station. At left is the double track Red Line and the Pilgrim Highway / Route 3. The latter was opened in 1959 connecting to the new Southeast Expressway and at the same time the state ended the New Haven's passenger subsidy and all commuter ops on the Old Colony lines ended on June 30, 1959. The former opened in 1980 when the Red Line was extended to Braintree from Quincy Center.
Thirty eight years after the cessation of the New Haven's service the state brought back commuter rail when the lines to Middleboro and Plymouth/Kingston opened for business on November 29, 1997. It would be another decade before the Greenbush line would return (it had to be completely rebuilt account the line had been entirely abandoned and all trackage long removed) but now the sight of fast frequent passenger trains gracing the ancient right of way of the Old Colony Railroad is so common as to be little remarked....even by railfans like me.
But a classic EMD F40PH-2C in good early afternoon light is worth noting for a moment, don't you a agree?
Braintree, Massachusetts
Friday November 20, 2020
An outbound Metra Rock Island District train blurs across 18th Street, just south of 16th St Tower, on a cold night with sloppy snow all over the streets.
Tanker Mississippi Star outbound for Brodick Bay, in ballast, from Rothesay Dock at Clydebank.
IMO 9527623
(3000 x 2410)
0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperture: f/22.0
ISO : 100
-0.7 EV
Lens Type: Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* 16-80mm ZA (35 mm)
Two sails chasing the same horizon,
where the Baltic folds into the light.
Suomenlinna, October 2025.
I had no intention or doing any shooting this particular morning. I had to drop off my truck for some routine service so instead of sitting around I took a stroll around downtown and then had breakfast. But after breakfast it was so lovely out I figured I'd grab a few shots.
After my mediocre zoom pan results with Amtrak 2163 I went to look for CSXT but they hadn't arrived from Middleboro and I didn't want to wait so returned to the platform for two more trains since the light and sky were so nice. I took two nice simple conventional shots and then called it a day. Outbound Keolis/MBTA train 813 is slowing for their station stop as they approach MP 197 on Track 3 of Amtrak's New Haven Line with a 6/0 set trailing MPI HSP46 2002.
Obscured by the trees and catenary poles in the right center background, beyond the signal for BORO interlocking, stands the old wooden tower that was known as SS165 in NH days. Allegedly constructed in 1898, it was relocated here when the NH undertook their massive grade separation project through town and built their two new stations between 1903 and 1906. This tower also holds the distinction of being the last in service on the corridor in MA, not closing down until 1993. Amazingly it survives three decades later despite regular reports of its imminent demise.
Looking over the scene on the left side is the brick Second Congregational Church that was constructed on Park Street in 1904. The congregation dates from 1748 and is a daughter church of the First Congregational Church in the old town section of North Attleborough. This is actually the third structure in which congregants have gathered. Originally located in a meeting house on what is now the common, Second Congregational had a stately white clapboard building built in 1825 which was removed in the early 1950s to make way for the addition of a new Fellowship Hall and education rooms. The clock in the tower of this third building was owned originally by the city but now belongs to the church and seems to be keeping perfect time.
Attleboro, Massachusetts
Monday August 12, 2024
Providing a stark counterpoint to the beauty of 1030 was the next train through the interlocking, outbound Keolis/MBTA train 317 for Lowell has just departed North Station as crosses the drawbridge over the Charles River on Main 2 passing venerable Tower A with logo-less MPI HSP46 2034 leading the way.
For now the last relics from Boston and Maine days remain clustered here including the vintage dwarf signals, the drawbridges and the tower itself which was built during the B&M's 1926-1932 reconfiguration of the terminal and the then new Boston Engine Terminal. The two story steel frame and brick structure replaced an earlier tower located on the south side of the Charles. It was placed in service on September 27, 1931 with an original electrical board containing 211 levers! Until 2021 the drawbridge operator still worked out of it but today it serves no purpose at all.
The two bascule bridges also date from that same year when the navigable channel of the Charles River was shifted 300 feet to the north of its former route to allow the platforms at North Station to be extended. At the time of their construction two additional spans were built just to the west with a total of 8 tracks crossing the river serving 22 platform tracks vs only 10 today.
All of this is on borrowed time however, as the MBTA is embarking on a nearly one billion dollar project to replace the aging and failure prone spans and reconfigure Tower A. Ultimately these last vestiges of the Route of the Minuteman will fall to the wrecking ball and cutting torch and three new vertical lift spans are supposed to rise in their place allowing for six tracks to cross the river and the addition of two more platform tracks.
Rising above can be seen the obelisk towers and cable stays of the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial suspension bridge built in 2003 as part of the infamous Big Dig project that saw Interstate 93 removed from its elevated pathway through the heart of the city and buried beneath it.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Wednesday September 24, 2025