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Some 'execrated' rails on the grounds of the former coal-mining complex Zeche Zollverein - Essen, Germany
This image, in sepia, is the CSX rail line that runs alongside the historic James River and in fact replaced the Kanawha Canal system which, in conjunction with the James River, was the main mode of shipping and transportation to Richmond and Norfolk from the western part of the state pre-Civil War.
Railway material photographed in foggy weather in the station of Mouscron circa 1980.
Gros plan sur du matériel ferroviaire photographié par temps de brouillard aux alentours de 1980 à la gare de Mouscron.
Ilford PanF
DRR RB-1 treks northbound through soon-to-be mothballed section of the Southern Secondary in Tinton Falls with BDRV GP9 752 and DRRV GP38-2 2005. With the F&S Connection officially opened all interchange traffic for the Southern will be handled via Conrail at Jamesburg, thus avoiding the need for Red Bank as an interchange point. This wound up being the second to last train to traverse the north end of the Southern as of October 2023.
90019 'Multimodal' leads 3 class 325 EMUs past Lower Hatton while working 1s96, the 1605 Willesden (London) to Shieldmuir (Glasgow).
During the summer of 2019 mail trains were diverted from the west coast route to avoid engineering work at Acton Grange Junction. Although the diversionary route via Manchester's Castlefield corridor and the Chat Moss line was electrified, paperwork issues prevented the mail units from operating under their own power, requiring them to be dragged by class 90 locomotives.
Mail trains operated on the west coast route from its opening. As has been well documented, dedicated mail trains in the UK ceased in September 2024.
Photograph taken using a camera mounted pole.
Reading and Northern train PNPV (Port Clinton to Pottsville) is doing a bit of switching on the west end of West Cressona Yard at about MP 1.1 on what is now known as the RBMN's Minersville Branch.
The rails through here are among the oldest in the country having opened around 1831 as the Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad. Built to haul caul from above Minersville to a connection with the Schuylkill Canal it was animal powered until 1847 and then ultimately fell into the fold of the expanding Philadelphia and Reading in 1864. For the next 112 years this was the property of the Reading until that bankrupt road was folded into Conrail which operated this trackage for 14 years until selling it to the expanding Reading Blue, Mountain and Northern Railroad in 1990.
The town of Cressona was laid out as a railroad town in the 1840s and remains an important hub of operations for the RBMN to this day. The brick depot in the background was built by the RDG around 1911 and remains in railroad use as an office for the railroad's signal department, though I'm not sure when the last regular passenger train called here, but my guess would be sometime in the early 1930s.
Leading the train are two EMD end cab switchers from decidedly different eras, RBMN 1542 (MP15DC blt. Apr. 1982 as Southern 2426) and 803 (SW8 blt. Sep. 1951 as Lehigh Valley 270)
Cressona, Pennsylvania
Monday July 3, 2023