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Not long back in service following a lengthy spell out of service to repair significant damage sustained colliding with a tractor and trailer on a level-crossing in August 2021, Class 66, 66754 "Northampton Saints" powers through Hartford with 4D62 04:48 Seaforth Container Terminal to East Midlands Gateway Terminal.
Belt Railway of Chicago GP23-ECO BRC 233 (ex-GP40 NW/NS 1339, GSWR 4026, blt. EMD, La Grange, IL., 04/66)
Switching east end of BRC yard
BRC Clearing Yd, Chicago, Illinois
January 11th, 2019
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Re-numbered and re-geared into 9F mode (as per the cab side above the number) GBRf’s 66779 ‘Evening Star’ has been modified into Heavy Haul configuration at Progress Rail’s Longport workshop, becoming 66689 ‘Evening Star’. Seen sitting in the yard at Longport on Sunday 18th May 2025.
A quartet of BNSF DPU's push a loaded southbound Miller coal train past lease power at KC Junction in Memphis.
Sporting all three colours that have operated on their services currently, LDP005, SCT006 and LDP001 fly through Ourimbah on the Short North with 7MB9 from Laverton, Vic to Bromelton, QLD.
LDP005 sports the only Progress Rail livery whilst SCT006 still has the current SCT colours and LDP001 wears the old debadged Downer Rail colours.
56009 at Progress Rail in Longport, sitting on heavily stripped down Class 56 bogies and with roof and body side grills missing. As far as I am aware, this one is not yet in the Class 69 build program, though the donors for the last couple of machines (69015/16) have still to be identified. 08752 sits in the background. Sunday 4th December 2022.
Metrolink F125 922 leads an eastbound train out of Claremont on track 1, a rarity nowadays with directional running. This train would normally have used track 2, however crews are in the process of replacing the rail on this track, as can be seen by the strings of rail along the ROW and if you look closely, you can see shiny new tie clips on the far rail on track 2.
Aurizon's 2705 and 2310D arriving at Columboola for another load of export coal from the Cameby Downs Mine..
Look carefully and you will see 69013 in chalk on the cabside of what used to be 56312 as it is parked in the yard of Progress Rail in Longport. Seems to be neither one nor t’other as of Sunday 12th February 2023.
As the snow got heavier and heavier, CPKC 260 races out of Hastings down the River Sub with an eclectic lash up, kicking up fresh snow from the rails
Lash up consists of:
NS SD70ACU 7285
WFRX SD70MAC 8899 (ex BNSF)
CP ES44AC 8886
KCS GP38-2 1910
KCS AC4400CW 4618
CP SD70ACU 7044
The sun has all but gone on the afternoon of 19-6-15 as 4319,4404 pass 4483,5658 on empty ore trains in the Mooka yard
This afternoon, a friend and I took off to the La Junta Sub to catch the two Tier IV EMD's coming in on the H-PUEKCK. After overrunning the train near Cedar Point, KS, we got these shots of it pulling into the siding at Clements. The lighting certainly wasn't ideal, but I'll take what I can get.
These Black Eyed Susans are in bloom all over right now, and certainly add a nice touch of color to some otherwise drab photos.
Here is Queensland Railways new locomotive 2901 with 2472 attached arriving in Miles for the first time.
Another day, another motley collection of stripped out shells at Progress Rail, Longport (ex EMD). Today's line-up features 56128, 56077, 56038 & 56065, all stripped out and ready for the next stage of their transformation to Class 69s. Monday 21st October 2019.
On the outside these look virtually unchanged from their as delivered appearance other than a new paint scheme. Internally they have crew comfort improvements as well as mechanical and electrical upgrades. Maybe they will continue to earn their keep and help diversify the sea of GE's currently moving CSX trains.
4387 is a mid train unit on a loaded ore train to Port Hedland with locos 4381,4416 up the front and 4460 as the other mid train unit heading through Gillam North on 20-6-15. 4387 was built by Progress Rail in 2012, and hasn't been named
One of the 21 SD70ACE locos delivered for the Fortescue Metals Group in 2012, 720 shunts outside the Port Hedland depot on 19-6-15
A ballast siding and quarry is situated at the 225km mark on the Newman line near Shaw. On 20-6-15 near loco 4474 is stabled on a ballast train with CM40-8M loco 5638 on the other end if the consist
A roster shot of Metra's "newest" locomotive- F40PH-3 #175- fresh out of rehab from Progress Rail in Patterson, GA.
GB Railfreight Class 66766 "Gail Richardson" sporting significant front-end grime from its recent stint on the Euston-Kings Norton RHTT circuit leads classmate 66744 "Crossrail" through a wet Hartford on 4S57 1058 Hams Hall to Mossend Euroterminal.
66766 was topping the incumbent on the 4M57/4S57 flow in order to get it north to pilot the Caledonian Sleeper Highlander service from Edinburgh to Inverness the following morning (1S25).
A Lancaster and Chester Railway dinner train dinner train approaches Memorial Park Road in Lancaster in April, 2004. Tje train was run by the railroad as a charity event for Andrew Jackson State Park. The consist that day was two EMD SW1200s numbered 93 and 98, the Golden Tower, the J. Pinckney Henderson, both of which were in the L&C fleet, and two Aberdeen, Carolina & Western Railway dinner cars. The SW1200s have been sold off in favor of larger motors as have the two L&C passenger cars.
L&C 93 was built in November 1957 as Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) 7900, to Penn Central, number unknown, to Conrail (CR) 9354, to LC 93, to Progress Rail (PRLX) 93.
One Rails 5AD1 service to Darwin on 27-11-20 has just pulled into the loop at Wirrida to cross opposing movement 5DA2.
Locos GWB101,CLF5 on 5AD1 await further instructions as the GWB had just failed and needed to be swapped out
The EMD / GE powered combination of 4438,5653 are the mid train banking locos behind 4454,4403 as they work an empty ore train nearing Shaw on 20-6-15
The Ulan line between Muswellbrook and Ulan in New South Wales passes through some magnificent scenery, carved out over the years by the Goulburn River.
On 30 October 2025, three model GT46ACe locos TT202/ TT201/ TT203, operated by Pacific National, head an empty coal train bound for Moolarben mine, seen near Kerrabee.
The locos are from a batch of 12 built in the USA by Progress Rail for QUBE Logistics. QUBE deemed surplus to requirements and sold them to Pacific National in 2025.
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A Canadian Pacific ethanol train led by a a CSXT Dash-8 locomotive runs thru the "High and Wide" detector at Walker Rd in rural Hampshire, IL This detector appears to be manufactured by Progress Rail Services. It was installed to detect shifted loads, leaning cars etc after an incident when a shifted lumber load smashed the windows of some Metra coaches as a freight passed thru the Elgin Metra coach yard ,many years ago. I just about got frostbite from waiting probably no more than 15 min for this train. Amazingly cold out tonight
Getting put through their paces as part of the transfer from Direct Rail Services to GB Railfreight, debranded Beacon Rail Leasing-owned Class 66s 66304 + 66305 (in multi) get 6E17 12:58 Liverpool Biomass Terminal to Drax Power Station underway from the peg at Plumley West.
GBRf's Class 60, 60056 (DIT) - also Beacon-owned and wearing its previous operator's colours - keeps a close eye on proceedings.
On the second day of June 2019, Metrolink F125 916 leads test train #501X past signal 1081 in La Verne, CA. This is on the Pasadena Sub, the former Santa Fe Second District. Normally only traversed by the BNSF Pasadena Local, M-F, the test train was checking out new signal/grade crossing protection circuits. Starting early in 2020, construction will start on the Covina-Pomona extension of the Gold line, which will utilize this right of way. When completed,expected sometime in 2026, there will be three new tracks here, two under wires, and this "old time feel" former mainline will be but a memory.
Aurizon's 2703 and 2335 lead an empty westbound grain train west through Ulimaroa, bound for Roma West. Trains no longer load here.
Queensland Railways locomotives 2901, 2902 and 2410 were undergoing electronic test runs between Drillham and Eulimarao this morning.
GB Railfreight Class 66/6, 66793 heads through Hartford as it makes its long way back from Prestwick Airport to Grain with a rake of 20 discharged aviation fuel tanks as 6O68 1200 Prestwick BP Oil to Grain Oil Terminal.
This is understood to be the start of a monthly flow to replace what the airport previously had delivered from the Grangemouth refinery.
The switch to moving fuel hundreds of miles from Kent is a result of INEOS closing Grangemouth as a refinery, as it was losing hundreds of millions per year due to being old and inefficient.
No one (private owners nor government) could justify spending billions over many years upgrading it when the world is moving away from oil/fossil fuel, so instead Grangemouth is becoming an import terminal only.
The fuel they’re now importing at Grangemouth isn’t of the type/quality BP need at Prestwick for the aeroplanes, though, hence why the fuel is now being sent from Grain - which itself is an import terminal these days.
Nope. UP's MNPAL passes through Farmington, MN with 6 NS units. Most were returning to the NS from across the UP system to return Horsepower Hours
Consist:
NS AC44C6M 4046
NS C44-9W 9915
NS C44-9W 9703
NS ES44DC 7671
NS SD70ACC 1820
NS AC44C6M 4363
Working late at an engineering firm? Seen at 6.20 pm on 31st July 23019, 08220, the resident shunter for Progress Rail (ex-EMD) Longport pulls 66726 and attached mobile load bank (?) from the right hand road of the shed, and will deposit it into the left hand road, complete with what I presume is a mobile load bank.
They must be getting good overtime rates.
Progress Rail Ballast Cleaner on the tail end of CSX Q409 as it rolls west through Yardley PA.
MP QA30.6 on the CSX Trenton Subdivision.
CP 7041 and KCS 4772 lead CP 234 Through Tilbury Ontario on March 3rd 2023 a month before the merger.
Aurizon's 2339D & 2706 lead train 9811 through Chinchilla. 9811 had departed from the Cameby Downs Mine at Columboola around an hour before, with a full load of export coal.
While remembering there were 2 more SD70ACU leaders on the way, I decided to stick around. Here was the 1st one, CP 7042 leading a 647 along with 3 other GEs (2 on the rear), roaring up the grade out of Soo Line Jct and through Little Canada. An interesting note about CP 7042 is, normally there'd be a reflective white stripe on the front anti-climber, but in this case, it seems to be missing
Queensland Railways new locomotive 2902 westbound through Chinchilla today with 2410 and a rake of ballast hoppers. 2902 and 2410 are joining 2901 at Drillham for locomotive testing between Drillham and Eulimaroa tomorrow, Monday. Drillham is roughly 20 k west of Miles, while Eulimarao is about another 10 k further west. The photo was taken in almost dark conditions in light rain.
4480 is one of the mid train bankers along with 4354 while working with 4473,4480 on a loaded ore train through the Chichester Ranges on 21-6-15.
4480 was introduced to traffic in 2015 and named Mile Nikolovski
4384 is the second loco as a mid train banker on an empty ore train passing the stored CM40-8M loco 5662 at Gidgi on 20-6-15.
Built by Progress Rail at Muncie in 2012, 4384 has not been named
Three old locomotives sit at the Progress Rails shot in Waycross back in 2007. Nearest us is LOSX #2489, a SW1500 buillt for the St. Louis Southwestern Railway in 1968.
Then there is the former Chicago Central & Pacific EMD GP10 #8190. She was built in 1956 as Illinois Central GP9 #9190. The last shot I have found off it was taken in 2016.
Next up is LOSX EMD NW2 #20. I cannot find much information on it online, but it is in the same 2016 shot that I found of the CC #8190.
Three GEs and an SD70AC3 help lift intermodal ZLACMEM7 upgrade from the Colorado River at the California-Arizona state line. 2020-12-15.