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NM-1 rolls westbound through Enfield with two loaded gondolas filled with old scrap rail. Evidence of what is filling the cars is alongside the train, one of the many massive piles along the line. Also note the brand new CWR that the train is riding on.
On 3rd May 2006, Hunslet 0-6-0 diesel-hydraulic (W/No.8976 built in 1979) positions Corus rails brought from the Moss Bay works along the private railway and across the Derwent river bridge, for shipping to Waterford. The British Nuclear Fuels' Atlantic Osprey' is berthed in the dock behind, and has just brought in a consignment of naturally occurring radioactive material in ISOs for transfer by rail and for storage at the Drigg low level radioactive waste repository. The rail-making plant sadly closed just 3 months later, with the loss of 250 jobs, and this regular rail transfer operation ceased. This closure brought to an end around 130 years of steel-making in Workington. I have a family connection with the port (as well as at the former Cumbrian collieries and steelworks), for a paternal Great Grandfather was employed on a dredger based at this port in the early-20th century, and I took this photo during the course of some commercial and operational business there, rather than just pleasure, by way of a change!
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Narrow Gauge was the way to the mountains in the early days of the Southwester U.S. Able to make tighter turns, and the narrow gauge itself helped opened up the mountain towns to commerce and tourists.
11/01/2012. After starting an overnight shift at work, I received word that the Monongahela Railway heritage unit went to load at the Loveridge Mine that night. The next morning, I monitored the scanner to listed for the NS N10 with the NS 8025 leading. A quick drive down towards Grant Town, WV found the N10 already departing the mine. A brief run ahead of the train found me at an overpass as the N10 passed the remains of the area's fall foliage and then the chase was on!
Repainted IC SD40-3 6254 leads a ballast train South past the IC depot in Peotone, IL. There units are usually held captive on the iron range, so to see one leading on IC rails is very rare.
Idling on a string of tank cars on 07-12-2021, this Western Rails Inc. SD9 isn’t the prettiest diesel in Warden, Washington. Built for the Southern Pacific in 1955 she has been through a list of owners. She sorts tanks cars at Viterra USA at the largest commercial canola processing facility west of the Rocky Mountains.