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Approaching a level crossing at Gillam North is a loaded BHP Billiton ore train heading for Port Hedland with 4381,4416 and mid train units 4460,4387 on 20-6-15.
4831 which hasnt been named entered traffic in 2012 built by Progress Rail
Running as a trailing banker between Garden and Shaw on an empty ore train heading to Newman behind 4321 and 4410, 4439 is named Renegade and was built by Progress Rail in 2013
A Kansas City Southern de Mexico ES44AC and a Union Pacific SD70ACe-T4 are nose to nose at North Yard in Salt Lake City, Utah on June 3, 2018.
An empty ore train with locos 4391,4463 and mid train units 4437,5664 head through the Coonarie siding at the 194km on the Newman line on 20-6-15.
4391 was built by Progress Rail in 2013 and is not named.
Am 22./23.12.2018 erreichten die ersten 10 der 20 von der SNCFT bestellten EMD GT42AC Lokomotiven per Schiff Tunesien. Die 3.250 HP starken Lokomotiven sollen künftig im Phosphatverkehr ab Gafsa eingesetzt werden. Im März 2019 absolvierten die bei der SNCFT als Baureihe 060-DS eingestuften Lokomotiven erste Abnahme- und Schulungsfahrten zwischen Sfax, Gabès, Gafsa und Métlaoui. In der Einfahrt von Ghraiba konnten wir am 07.03.2019 die 060-DS-659 von Gabès kommend ablichten.
At December 22th and 23th 2018 the first ten of 20 ordered EMD GT42AC locomotives arrived at Tunisia in the harbor of Sfax. SNCFT will use the locomotives with 3.250 HP in transporting phosphate from the Gafsa area to the harbors and chemical plants. In March 2019 the locomotives which are numbered as class "060-DS" can be observed with test runs between Sfax, Gabès, Gafsa and Métlaoui. At March 07th 2019 we can take a picture of SNCFT 060-DS-659 south of Ghraiba coming as a light run from Gabès.
October 8, 2018: Norfolk Southern manifest train NS 175 (Bellevue, OH-Macon, GA) powers around the bend heading upgrade near Braswell, GA with a leased PRLX (Progress Rail) SD70ACe EMD (EX CSX) sandwiched between two company D9-44CW engines.
CSX G437-06 is northbound behind a very ill sounding CSX 8902 as the ST70AH tries to lead the loaded grain train away from Wyvern.
Not the coal train I wanted but this will do in my book just as well.
GB Railfreight's Class 66, 66304 - still sporting the colours of previous operator DRS - trundles through Hartford with 6X77 1358 Dagenham Dock Reception to Mossend Down Yard.
To any fan of the great Southern Pacific Railroad, Norden holds great reverence. It was a place where massive cab forwards roamed. It was where snow clearing operations were once based out of. It housed many clerks, operators, and maintenance personnel who were charged with keeping this mountain pass open during the worst of pacific storms.
Today, Norden is no more than a single shed, protecting a crossover track, and two spur tracks. Traces of Norden's past are wiped away. The random spike, nail, and rotted wooden beam mark where massive wooden snowsheds once wtood. Where houses once protected workers. Where a massive turntable once turned steam engines day and night.
As we enter the winter of 2017-2018, I often fanticize about this place, wondering silently about what life was like. What the sounds were like within it's wooden walkways. What odors would come from passing trains. What the food from the cookhouse tasted like. What stories hogheads would share about their journeys across the Sierra.
Alas, in this generic, standardized, sterile world of modern railroading, one will never get the pleasure of experiencing those thoughts. Yes, the stories will go on, but will not have the drama and panache of those from the grand days of railroading. But, the railroad lives, and goes on. The one constant at this grand place.
The passage of UP 8907 east with an empty grain train will not be as dramatic as the passage of a cab forward with a long string of orange PFE reefers. But, at least the railroad lives, and one remnant of Norden's glory days still stands, the snowshed.
Even a cold day can't cure a sense of humor! The conductor on the UP 9015 east, an empty grain train, sticks a hand fan out the cab window with a big orange frown face. Funny, funny, funny! The train is passing through Casa Loma, CA, along UP's Roseville Subdivision.
Late in the afternoon of 6-11-22, 7DA2 intermodal from Darwin to Adelaide with GWB101,FQ03 wait in the Burando crossing loop to cross the Northbound Ghan.
Lake Hart can be seen on the horizon
A modern Norfolk Southern locomotive is running long hood forward out of Columbia, South Carolina with a short train n 2007. This SD70-2 locomotive had a short shelf life on Norfolk Southern. She was built in 2005 and sold to Progress Rail in 2021.
Metrolink train 686 (left) bound for Irvine, occupies the platform for Track 3 while Los Angeles bound train 709 from Perris–South pushes away from the platform for Track 1. A westbound stack train holds on Main 2 without a crew until the next day.
Mambray Creek doesn't often flow, but with heavy unseasonal rains the creek flowed from the Flinders Ranges out to sea for a short time in November.
On 10-11-22, a very late 4AD1 service with GWB101,FQ03,GM46 (behind the crew van) has stopped there while it awaits an opposing movement to take the crossing loop
Under the watchful eye of Wind Mountain, looming in the distance, a Roberts Bank, BC bound BNSF coal train passes through the old station of Carson, WA.
A brief patch of sun after a storm catches GWB103 and FQ01 as they wait on the crossing loop at Rocky River with 4DA2 on 27th May 2021.
Progressive Rail subsidiary Chicago Junction (CJR) took over operations of Union Pacific's Elk Grove Village industrial park maze of tracks in 2018 from Chicago Terminal. The car being removed belonged to EJ&E spinoff Gary Railway.
The Albina Yard to Lake Yard transfer train in Portland, OR had a slight problem yesterday. As the train approached the Steel Bridge, the second unit got caught on the switch, and derailed. Other than a disabled Canadian Pacific locomotive, the remainder of the train stayed on the rails.
4355,4419 with mid train units 4344,4345 on a loaded BHP Billiton ore train to Port Hedland pass through Gidgi on 20-6-15.
Un named 4355 was built by EMD Ontario in 2009
While out for one train and finishing that chase, I head over to Pig's Eye, only to hear J42 getting ready to leave for Humboldt with CP 7015 leading. They show up as they pass the locomotive facility, with an eclectic lash up, consisting of CP Heritage 7015, 5024, 8819 & KCSM Gray Ghost 4531. I decided to give chase to Humboldt, something that turned easier than expected. Here they are as they roar through St Anthony
Dark Canyon is one of those places along Union Pacific's Canyon Subdivision that's out of the way, and requires a special trip. Dark Canyon is a 100 yard gap between two tunnels near Yankee Hill, CA. In this isolated spot, you feel worlds away from civilization. It's a place where the senses explode. Westbound trains traversing the tunnel growl loud and hard as they approach the canyon. Sounds echo off the canyon walls. Cool air swiftly evacuates the tunnel, giving it's visitors a chill on a hot summer's day. Diesel exhaust and brake shoe smoke quickly replace the forest floor smell. For a railfan, it's pre excitement.
Sadly, the area was recently incinerated in the Camp Fire. The 130,000 acre fire destroyed the wooded foothills surrounding the Feather River Canyon, and decimated the communities of Paradise, Magalia, Concow, Yankee Hill, and Pulga. Countless lives have been shattered by this blaze. It will take decades for these communities to fully recover. I would encourage you to make a donation to the Salvation Army of Butte County.
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4440 and 4457 are the mid train bankers on a loaded ore train between Shaw and Garden on 21-6-15. Built 2013, and named Majestic Ore, 4440 was destroyed in turner runaway derailment on 5-11-18 with 4472
These two old warriors used to be the pride of the Super Fleet, and are now batter, bruised and patched, leading transfers around Kansas City for a new owner. The 239 and 207 are now PRLX units and (I believe) leased to the Kansas City Southern. Here, they're shoving back into the Knoche Yard fuel pad after having lead a transfer into the yard's east end.
Named Brian Derschow, SD70ACE locos 4466,4428 are at the head of an empty iron ore train heading towards Newman between Garden and Shaw on 21-6-15
KCS took delivery of 10 SD70Ace-T4 from Progress Rail via a lease arrangement in the end of October 2019. The MVNKC (Venice, IL to Kansas City) was the ferry move of choice as the new motors went west in 2 groups of 5. On a rainy Saturday, we caught the 2nd group being moved west with KCS 4006 (Veterans unit) mixed in. Shown from I-270 at Lenox Tower in Mitchell, IL.
10-26-2019
4460 and 4387 are the mid train locos behind 4381,4416 on a loaded ore train to Port Hedland heading through Gillam North on 20-6-15. Built in 2014 by Progress Rail 4460 was named Sam Arif
After receiving word of CP 7022 leading 243, I raced up, picked up a friend and headed for the Paynesville, with the chase beginning in New Brighton. It was actually quite an easy chase due to the slower speed of 243. Here they are as the rolling on over the Crow River in Rockford
Mid train units 4438,5653 on an empty ore to Newman run through the location of Sandhill on the afternoon of 20-6-15
It's a bright, hot morning in the Sierra foothills. UP 8923 leads an equally hot train, the eastbound ZLTG2 (Lathrop, CA to Global Two, Proviso Yard, Chicago Expedited Intermodal). It's one of the hottest trains on the Overland Route, carrying goods from Northern and Central California east. The train is approaching Long Ravine, just east of Colfax, CA.
Bought by GBRf from Nottingham Heritage Railway (formerly Great Central Railway (Nottingham)) for insertion to the Class 69 conversion program, 56097 arrived at Progress Rail in Longport at the start of November 2022. I have not as yet seen details of when this will be stripped and which Class 69 this will become as the donors for the last couple of machines (69015/16) have still to be identified. If it is converted, could it retain it Trainload Coal livery?
A super long QRVNP (Roseville, CA to North Platte, NE Manifest) crawls up the grade at Casa Loma.
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During most of November, Union Pacific sent UP 1943 on a tour of mid-western cities. On November 29, 2017, UP 1943 was formally introduced to California at the California State Railroad Museum. Veterans, elected officials, and railfans gathered at the museum for a short ceremony, and to admire the locomotive. Immediately after the ceremony, UP 1943 left town for it's next tour stop, Las Vegas.
Aurizon's 2304D and 2701 passing the location of Goombi with a loaded export coal train. The train had loaded at the Cameby Downs Mine at Columboola, and the Goombi railway crossing is the next one approximately eight kilometers east.
On this overcast July afternoon, the eastbound QRVNP (Roseville, CA to North Platte, NE Priority Manifest) passes through the small Gold Country community of Dutch Flat, CA. The sight is an everyday occurrence, repeated twenty or more times a day. This spot on the original transcontinental railroad was once the epicenter of an overblown controversy, fueled by rumor and libel.
Before construction of the Central Pacific's crossing of the Sierra Nevada, transporting people and machinery to the Comstock Mines was a challenge. Numerous toll roads were constructed across the Sierra Nevada, including the Dutch Flat and Donner Lake Wagon Road. Critics of the Big Four, including Central Pacific's main competitor, the Sacramento Valley Railroad, questioned the connection between the new railroad and the Dutch Flat wagon road. Many argued that the Big Four would only build as far as Dutch Flat, and that the new railroad would only service the wagon road. Fuel was added to the libelous fire when critics convinced local newspapers to run the story about the Big Four's questionable tactics.
Of course, the allegations became moot when the Central Pacific pushed their new railroad past Dutch Flat in 1866. The Dutch Flat and Donner Lake wagon road became an important transportation lifeline for the new railroad, bringing supplies and manpower to remote locations. The wagon road was terminated shortly after the completion of the railroad. Parts of the old wagon road were used for the Lincoln Highway and old US 40.
Today, the trains roll by, just as they have done for over 150 years.
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Queensland Railway's new locomotive, 2902, leads 2410 and the ballast train eastbound around Eaglehawk Creek curve at 0940 this monring.
Five years after the first F125 locomotive was delivered to Metrolink, the 40th and final unit (though lowest numbered), #903, made its inaugural run on train 410 from LA to Riverside on July 1, 2021.
An ex-BNSF/ATSF SD75M and a KCSM SD70ACe lead a northbound unit train through Millington, Tennessee, on the CN Fulton Subdivision. They've made the 25 mile journey from CN Harrison Yard in Memphis in a record breaking four hours. Issues on the main with other train breakdowns have kept this train bogged down in Shelby County.
Aurizon's three newest locos built by Progress Rail in America are in thier first week of revenue service as GWB105,GWB106,GWB104 load grain at Wolseley on 8-4-23
The first eastbound Metrolink in the San Bernardino Line Sunday schedule approaches the Claremont station, passing through a section of track lined by trees and other greenery. In the background, the Pasadena Sub (former Santa Fe 2nd District) splits off to the right. This track is still used by BNSF's Pasadena Local on weekdays.
Waiting for departure from Penfield with 2PM9 on 6-2-2018 is LDP005,SCT010,CSR010.
SCT has hired 5 x LDP locos from progress rail , to date only LDP005 has been painted in the Progress Rail scheme
Here was Queensland Railways new locomotive 2901 stopped at Dulacca on it's first ever run out west.