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It's late afternoon on a brisk autumn day in November 33008 and a two train meet is taking place at Assembly Street in Columbia, Souh Carolina. The conductor for the outgoing train is ready to perform his run-by inspection of the incoming train. NS 8397 was a GE C40-8W built in 1993 for Conrail as CR 6191 and sold to Progress Rail in 2019.
Class 69 locomotives don't look like modern locomotives. Yet they are only build since the year 2020. But they are in fact rebuild class 56 locomotives, giving the old bodyshell a completely new inside. As the successful class 66 loco's were not complaint to the current safety standards and there was a need for affordable, powerful diesel locomotives, it was decided to rebuild old locomotives with basically the inside components of a class 66 locomotives. And that's how the 69's came to be.
On the 12th of november 2025 one of the class 69 loco's, the 69008, passed me with some concrete blocks, working the 6O47 to Tonbridge.
I've visited the Ulan line in New South wales on three previous occasions, but never had a drone with me. Access to the various bridges across the Goulburn River has never been straightforward, but a drone solves that problem!
Pacific National locos LDP004/TT08/LDP002 lead Moolarben bound empty coal MR985 across the second crossing of the Goulburn River just west of Coggan Creek on 31 October 2025.
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On President's Island in Memphis, BNSF 1555 SD38P (ex-SOU 3085 SD35), BNSF 1559 SD38P (ex-SOU 3099 SD35) and BNSF 2239 GP38 (ex-ATSF 3550) sit in the scrap yard at Progress Rail.
3DA2 intermodal from Darwin with GWB101,ALF23 passes 9102 ore train with locos GWA008,GWA010 loading in the siding at Rankin Dam on 21-12-22
After waiting for permission to enter the Macon Terminal, NS 27W is passing CP North Macon as it passes Rose Hill Cemetery. Leading the way is SD70ACe-T4 demonstrator unit 7208. 7-10-20
A loaded BHP Billiton ore train heading towards Port Hedland is hauled by 4420,4485 with mid unit bankers between Shaw and Garden on 21-6-15
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NS 7599 ES40DC (NS Horse Head)
Ns 5262 GP38-2 (NS Horse Head)
NS 9968 C44-9W (NS Horse head)
NS 7122 GP60 (NS thoroughbred)
NS 4249 AC44C6M (NS Horse Head)
NS 7569 ES40DC (NS Horse Head)
PRLX 2620 SD70M (NS Horse Head)
PRLX 2597 SD70M (NS Horse Head)
PRLX 2591 SD70M (NS Horse Head)
PRLX 2633 SD70M (NS Horse Head)
PRLX 2586 SD70M (NS Horse Head)
PRLX 2639 SD70M (NS Horse Head)
PRLX 2582 SD70M (NS thoroughbred)
PRLX 2592 SD70M (NS Horse Head)
PRLX 2614 SD70M (NS Horse Head)
The engineer of CP 5035 South accelerates his train back up to track speed after lifting a pair of gondolas from the house track. One of my goals this year was to shoot a train on CP's line from Lloydminster to Wilkie SK. The storm in the background coupled with an epic sized sucker hole made for some amazing light.
CP 7034 leads an empty Cargill grain train north along Union Pacific’s Valley Subdivision between Richvale, CA and Durham, CA, just south of Chico.
NS 911 West with 37A waits for clearance to proceed up the hill in some sweet golden hour lighting. Altoona, PA.
EMD F125 #927 sits at the station stop in Fullerton under a row of palm trees on its way to Los Angeles from Perris, CA.
TFM 1656 and KCS 3915 drag their transfer through Santa Fe JCT to BNSF's Argentine Yard in Kansas City.
KCS 3915 was sold to Progress Rail and is now PRLX 3915.
1656 was one of the few remaining TFM SD70MACS. Athearn had it as one of their HO SD70MAC models. It will now become part of Metra's fleet of SD70MACHs.
Photo taken 09/17/16.
A loaded export iron ore train has just departed Spencer Jct yard bound for Whyalla, South Australia, on Monday 4 September 2023. Aurizon's GWB104 leads the consist with GWB 102 and 105, seen in the distance, bringing up the rear in distributed power mode.
This is my 6000th upload on Flickr. At the time I posted my 5000th upload, not quite four years ago, I was averaging 450 uploads a year, but this has now dropped to around 250 a year since then.
There are several reason for this. I rarely go out with the camera these days. the local scene no longer appeals and I've not done much travelling of late, so there's little 'new' material. Plenty of slides and negs still to scan, but I've been slack in that department.
I think also that Flickr has lost a lot of its appeal and is losing the fight against other social media platforms. I can generate a hundred times the interest and comments from posting an image on Facebook. It also appears that Flickr's algorithms and counters are totally stuffed these days.
Of course on FB it quickly gets lost in the sands of time and a deluge of other pixels, whereas Flickr still does a pretty good job as an archive, especially from a personal point of view.
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GWB102,ALF22 have stopped on the main line at Cadney Park with 3AD1 Intermodal to Darwin to allow the opposing movement to enter the crossing loop on 26-5-21
The engineer notches out the throttle on SD70ACU #7019 after clearing a slow order on CP's Red Deer Subdivision.
When the wild pea blossoms arrive in Northern California, I know summer has officially arrived. The beautiful wildflowers are commonplace along the sides of many roads, and some rail lines. At Alta, the brilliant flowers add some beauty to this scene of UP 9049 hauling an eastbound empty grain train.
As the summer sun sets, Ex- CSX, PRLX 627 along with other CW46AC’s sits awaiting departure for PRLX eventually; Ex- CN, ACWR 5521 sits coupled with 2 other SD60F’s waiting for ACW to begin major interior cab work and as-needed engine repair before starting service.
UP 9927 guides the Canyon Crawler west over Rock Creek Trestle, deep within California's Feather River Canyon.
Had a great day bouncing around the STL Metro area and the icing on the cake was a rare CN daytime local. CN locals are generally nighttime movements Sun-Fri making a Saturday afternoon almost unheard of. Right at the end of the day, we ended up at the south end of the KCS East St Louis Yard and found a new string of stored power. The KCS SD70Ace's had been in storage for quite some time but the yellow Progress Rail SD70AceT-4 are new additions. Odd to see this "modern" power sidelined while the older SD70 - especially in Illinois Central paint(!) - continues to soldier on.
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A pair of ACes tow a long string of black diamonds through Kansas City's West Bottoms and will soon roll down the Ft. Scott Sub.
Photo taken 01/16/15.
On February 12, 2012, I grabbed a blue hour shot of a crew change on Norfolk Southern Railway in the capitol city of South Carolina. They were kind enough to perform the crew change right beside a soccer field at the University of South Carolina health center where the light helped light up the train.
Norfolk Southern 2630 was an EMD SD70M built for NS in 2004. It was sold to Progress Rail in 2020 as PRLX 2630.
On New Year’s Day 2020, the old and new came together for a brief moment in Pomona, CA. On the left, new EMD F125 933 leads an eastbound Metrolink train towards San Bernardino. The 933 had just entered service, having completed its break-in period the month prior. Meanwhile on the right, Metrolink veteran F59PHR 873 pushes its train to Los Angeles, having traversed this route countless times. 873 was built in 1993 as an F59PH, and was rebuilt in the late 2000s as an F59PHR. Today, the 933 powers on while the 873 sits in a yard outside Los Angeles Union Station, stored and awaiting its fate. It was hard to see that future at the time the photo was taken as the F59s were the workhorses of Metrolink for decades, but all things must come to an end and I’m glad to have been able to capture moments like this before it was too late.
After spending the day out, I decided to check Pig's Eye to see what could be in store for the evening CP trains, and saw CP 7018 & 7019 paired by the fuel racks, and heard they were for 243. After waiting for them to build their train, the chase began. Here they are as they pass over the New Brighton diamond with the MNNR, in pure perfect golden hour
The sun is bright on this early spring morning at Yuba Gap. Bathed in the beautiful morning light, UP 8645 leads the eastbound ZLTG2 (Lathrop, CA to Global Two, Chicago).
October 6, 2018: An EMD SD70MAC leased from Progress Rail Services (PRLX), still sporting it's BNSF Executive "Grinstein" paint scheme, leads Norfolk Southern freight train NS 127 (Danville, KY-Macon, GA) Southbound at Dallas, GA just after sunrise. **This train symbol has since been abolished.
Watch video of the train here:
Am 25. Mai 2019, kurz nach der Ankunft an der Fotostelle in Nowy Bieruń, war ein wummern zu hören. Es folgte das bekannte "yiep-yiep-yiep..." bevor ein Spitzenlicht hinter den Bäumen auftauchte. Es folgte ein poltern und eine noch in EWS-Farben lackierte Class 66 von DB Cargo Polska rollte mit einem Bunkerwagenganzzug über die grüne Stahlbrücke am Fotografen vorrüber. Das war zu diesem Zeitpunkt schon die zweite Lok dieser Baureihe im Licht. Leider beide noch in "English Welsh & Scottish Railway"-Lackierung. Es folgte später an diesem Tag sogar noch eine weitere dieser Lokomotiven. Diese aber schon in verkehrsrot aber leider als Lz. Mir wäre jetzt eine verkehrsrote Vertreterin vor einem Zug lieber gewesen anstatt zwei EWS-farbende...
I'm not a fan of high light, but at Wirrappa last weekend some high cloud was doing a good job of diffusing the harsh sun.
At 1156hrs on Saturday 13 December 2025, Aurizon locos GWB104/ GWB102 with GWU015 out of sight assisting at the rear haul 6911S empty iron ore service from Whyalla to Wirrida.
The GWB class locos are model GT46ACe built in the US by Progress Rail.
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Loaded ore containers from Rankin Dam wait to be shunted into the Berth 29 siding at Port Flat yard in Port Adelaide with GWB103,FQ01,CLF6 on 11-12-21
NS SD70ACe 1072, painted in the eye-catching Illinois Terminal livery and lovingly dubbed the "Glow Worm," pushes on the rear of NS manifest 120 as it slowly crawls eastbound down the NS Kansas City District just over a month after NS 1072's debut from Norfolk Southern's Juniata Shops in fresh paint.
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Kansas City, Missouri, USA
September 7, 2025
Canon EOS 60D
Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4.0-5.6 IS
More BNSF units for the scrap yard at Progress Rail in Memphis. BNSF 579 GE B40-8 (ex-ATSF 7429) and BN 51 EMD TEBC6 (ex-CBQ 341 SD9).
4393,4353 with mid rain units 4342,4346 on a loaded ore train at the 245km at Hesta waits for line clearance before following a loaded ore over the Chichester Ranges deviation line on 20-6-15
4434,4448 with 4321,4410 as they mid train units have just arrived at Bing on a loaded ore, just east of Port Hedland. The train will split from the mid train units here and take into Port Hedland to unload on 19-6-15.
4434 is named Koombana and entered service in 2013
UP 8558 leads a long intermodal train west past the old station of Stoddard, just west of Morgan, UT.
To Viejo.
A San Bernardino to Mission Viejo train 807 rolls through Yorba Linda with SCAX 941 providing the power for the five car mixed equipment train. This Metrolink was the only train that had the locomotive on the correct end, on my morning expedition above the tracks of the San Bernardino Subdivision.
Smoke from the August lightning fires still hug the Central Valley and Foothills. A light blanket of haze covers the area surrounding the Gold Run area, allowing for the morning sunlight to cover the area, including UP 8846, climbing eastward through the community.
One Rail intermodal from Darwin 2DA2, Makes its way through the Marryat crossing loop past the old cattle yards with GWB102,FQ04 up the front on 3-11-20
The Canyon Crawler is a fascinating operation to catch. The crawler travels from Roseville to Portola, where the crew overnights, and returns to Roseville the next day. The train switches Sierra Pacific at Quincy Junction. and any cars at Portola. Here, a loaded crawler returns to Roseville, as it passes through Pulga, CA.
The secret is out, and the Canadian internet groups imploded after the release of five SD70ACU's painted to honor the Canadian and United States Armed Forces. Thanks to the team at CP for making this possible, as well as putting on a great ceremony at the Calgary headquarters on Remembrance Day 2019. The 5 meter barrier around the units was a nice touch, as every fan managed to get lots of sunny shots without having to use a people filter.
It's going to be interesting to shoot these units on the road, with the variations in dark and light paint each one will present challenges to the photographer, but its bette rthen dirty red!
Progress Rail/Electro-Motive Diesel EMDX 7218 SD70ACe-T4 in storage at KCS A yard with the city and the arch in the background on a rainy day in East St. Louis, Illinois on May 21, 2022.
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