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Tanker Mississippi Star outbound for Brodick Bay, in ballast, from Rothesay Dock at Clydebank.
IMO 9527623
An outbound Metra sits at the crossing just West of the LaGrange, Illinois Station after hauling passengers home from downtown on this Warm, Bustling Friday evening. The smell of Diesel exhaust is present and the roar of the engine drowns the streets
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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
Having cleared the NS swing bridge, the M/V Saginaw continues down the Maumee River towards Lake Erie in the late evening.
Toledo, OH 6/12/15
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
Outbound Darwin Harbour 240922 ANL HEDLAND TRADER (IMO: 9383493) is a General Cargo that was built in 2008 (16 years ago) and is sailing under the flag of Cyprus. Her carrying capacity is 7,665 tonnes and her current draught is reported to be 5.7 meters. Her length overall (LOA) is 117 meters and her width is 19.7 meters. Destination Singapore
Spanning the famed Chattahoochee River, NS 188 crosses the river on track one as the rack train begins its daily trip north.
Metra F59 pulls out of Bensenville with train 2217 on a nice sunny afternoon in Chicagoland. The bugs have apparently been eradicated from the second hand Canucks by the capable folks at Western Avenue and these things are now running amuck unassisted.
Thanks to ol' Muffin Top for the Heads Up that this thing was coming.
After spending the night at Red Hill, RJ Corman power and crew take the train north towards Mullins, SC.
The depot is a former ACL structure, bought and restored by the owners of the Carolina Southern. This piece of property, along with a quarter-mile stretch of RoW is still owned by the former owners, with trackage rights through it to allow for Corman trains to pass.
Permission to be on this platform. Please don't trespass!
Running right on time Amtrak 29 has just arrived into Pittsburgh and the outbound Engineer waits for the inbound engineer to step down and brief before taking over. Amtrak 184 was third out on this train and Bennett Levin's E8's were to the left of the train.
Burlington Northern E9M 9924 was outbound as it passed underneath a classic CB&Q signal bridge in 1991. The E-unit fleet only had a year to live as Metra replacements in the form of EMD F40PH-2s were being delivered.
The 9920 was built by EMD in 1954 as CB&Q 9994 and is no longer with us.
NS 243 passes the Columbia Amtrak station on its way out of town, first to Spartanburg and then to Atlanta.
On the 6th July 2021 the Chinese 'Tian Qi' (2016, 37,940DWT) passes Calshot outbound from Southampton for Gothenburg with a cargo of wind turbines.
Here was Arriva Yorkshire VDL SB200 Wright Pulsar 2 1479 YJ62 JUC was seen pictured leaving Wakefield bus station working on route 187 to Pontefract. 27/07/21
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Keolis/MBTA train 007 is outbound for Middleboro/Lakeville with an HSP46 leading a 4 car set. They are seen here passing the old mill in the center of town as they approach the Broad Street crossing at MP 27 on the Middleboro Mainline that like all of southeastern Mass railroads traces its history back to the New Haven and Old Colony Railroads.
Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Friday April 9, 2021
FA18 over goodwill bridge. I had the wrong lens at the wrong time. But I don’t mind the silhouette despite the lousy weather
At daybreak, the tugboat Ocean Tower pulls a barge across upper New York Bay. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is in the background.
I decided to go out on 'eclipse day' to see what it was like. Since Rhode Island wasn't in the zone of totality it wasn't that impressive with about 8% of the sun remaining visible.
Basically it looked like the world just suddenly became underexposed! The light was similar to a cloud covered day but felt a bit different because the flatness was perfectly uniform for a few brief minutes.
About 20 min after peak coverage the light was already substantially brighter as outbound Keolis/MBTA train 819 for Wickford Junction rumbled railroad west over Apponaug Cove at MP 174.5 on Amtrak's New Haven Line main behind MPI HSP46 2024.
Warwick, Rhode Island
Monday April 8, 2024
Metra 175 freshly rebuilt leads a evening outbound on the CNW out of Chicago. Railfanning in the big cities, especially Chicago offers so many angles, buildings and interesting art work.
Downers Grove IL / Fairview Ave
BNSF w/b piggyback
Passing Pepperidge Farm
BNSF 8225ES44C4
BNSF 4902Dash 9-44CW
BNSF 5776ES44AC
BNSF 7365ES44DC
BNSF 722Dash 9-44CW (BNSF red bonnet)
BNSF 5251Dash 9-44CW
After being stopped at this signal gantry for a short period (waiting for a foreman to clear up ahead), detour SLR 394 is on the move again with SLR 3004 leading four more G&W units as it approaches the platforms at Lasalle Station. At right is the mostly empty Lasalle Yard, with four multimarked hoppers sitting there going back a number of months now. These detour moves have been running every other day up till now, but today light power came up to help empty the backlog of cars in Taschereau Yard, the day after a detour ran.