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The Empire Builder on Main 1 approaching Red Rock. Although I'd rather see the Charger on the point, it's always nice to have a P-42 along for reliability.
Of all rail locomotives produced on planet earth nothing has ever touched the versatility and the staying power of the EMD SD40-2. The SD40 series was produced by Electro-Motive Diesel beginning in January of 1966, and lasting until the final Canadian Pacific order of SD40-2F's in late 1988. The two-decade long production run undergirded the reputation these engines had as the most reliable on the rails. As rival General Electric comparatively fumbled with their U Series, and Dash 7 series motors, EMD was raking in order after order for their easy to maintain SD40-2.
Even in 2025 it is still possible to find hundreds of examples of EMD SD, and GP series EMD's working daily in class one, and shortline service.
In this image CSX 8830, formerly Conrail 6435, is paced at 1/10th of a second through the woods in south Alabama. The 8830 was on the point of the then-daily Nashville, Tennessee, to Mobile, Alabama, road train Q519. This lazy spring afternoon 519 was rolling off the miles towards the final destination of Mobile. When viewing a moving train through a zoomed in lens you notice every bump in the rail as the flexicoil trucks that defined the way these motors looked do their best to absorb the impacts even after 45 years in continuous service. At every crossing the side mounted bell dings in the same manner it always has. Even though it's nearly 25 years into CSX ownership the long-since technologically outclassed 8830 continues to roll out the miles some 48 years after Conrail 6435 rolled off the shop floor in La Grange, Illinois.
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Just like in January of 2024, the Northern Division of PolRegio, with the base in Chojnice, is facing difficulties with the reliability of their railbusses, leading to an interesting situation on the unelectrified railway lines of Pomerania.
One of the services affected by the railbus shortage is the single pair "Szkolniak" service on the Ostbahn, delivering people from Chojnice to school and work in Tczew, and then returning in the afternoon. Usually this is done with one railbus and a coach attached to it, but desperate times call for desperate measures. Thus we see SU42-521 hauling the afternoon "Szkolniak" from Tczew to Chojnice (ROS 50785). It is 15:45 and the train has just departed from Rokitki Tczewskie, its first stop on the unelectrified section of the Ostbahn Berlin - Königsberg.
In Northern Poland, it already is very dark and gloomy at half past three in the afternoon, but I only think this adds to the atmosphere. In the background lurks the panorama of Tczew/Dirschau.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
The SM42 and SU42 locomotives of Chojnice depot are only supposed to be running on the weekends in May, June and September, aswell as full-time in July and August. However the reality is way different and they are also forced to work part-time in other months.
The recent decline in the reliability of railbusses forces the Pomeranian branch of PolRegio (previously Przewozy Regionalne; PR) to use two of their locomotives and one passenger coach each day to replace the broken down railbusses.
In fact, the situation on 21.01.2025 was even harder, because just recently one of the SM42 locomotives had been withdrawn from service, and one of the locomotives had to be dispatched to transport one EN57 and one EN71 unit from Chojnice to Gdynia for overhaul. This required for the retro-painted SM42-523, which was one of the least reliable locomotives in the depot, to be brought back into service after 4-5 months of a standstill.
Luckily the locomotive had no tech problems and could easily handle the ROS 50785 "Szkolniak" service on 21.01, which I photographed as it was starting its journey from Tczew towards Chojnice. Here the double track Ostbahn has to steeply climb up from the eastern part of the station in Tczew, in order to cut the line from Warsaw to Gdańsk.
The perspective makes it look like as if the locomotive was on the Marschbahn, due to the fact, that the lowlands between Tczew and the Baltic sea are almost completely flat, and partially submerged under sea level.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
Artistic framing of a perfect reflective symmetry.
Symmetry is nature's artwork that creates harmony and balance.
The search for symmetry, and the emotional pleasure we derive when we find it, must help us make sense of the world around us, just as we find satisfaction in the repetition of the seasons and the reliability of friendships.
Shot from the west bank riverside at Aswan nature reserve.
Working past the decrepit Dry Creek South yard is late running Aurizon Intermodal shuttle service 4114S from Spencer Jct to Gillman via Port Pirie as ageing units CLP16/ALF20 slow to take the Port line turnout on Monday the 27th of January 2025. This train conveys Adelaide bound loading off fellow Aurizon Intermodal service 7PS1 from the yard at Port Pirie once weekly before running to Port Adelaide for unloading later in the afternoon.
Hired power from Railfirst Asset Management previously dominated this train on most services however reliability issues with the GL and CM classes has seen Aurizon’s locomotives feature more regularly during 2025. It’s expected that further orders of ACD class units due to arrive during the year will enable the two GL class locomotives to be dehired while the CM’s will remain for grain traffic, further Aurizon locomotives from the Eastern Bulk business unit are rumoured to arrive during the new year for traffic such as the MX/XM services.
© Dom Quartuccio 2025.
The de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver is a rugged, single-engine, short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft introduced in 1947, designed for versatility in remote and challenging environments. Known for its reliability, it became a favorite for bush flying, capable of operating on wheels, skis, or floats, making it ideal for transporting passengers and cargo to isolated areas. With its robust construction and adaptability, the Beaver has earned legendary status in aviation history and remains in use worldwide for both civilian and military purposes.
Oisterwijk, 25 april 2017 - Sinds begin april 2017 rijdt de eind 2016 geïntroduceerde intercity tussen Breda en Den Haag over de HSL-Zuid, dan toch ook door naar Tilburg en Eindhoven. Daarmee is gelukkig een einde gekomen aan de overstap in Breda. De directe dienst wordt uitgevoerd met het nog maar eens gereviseerde ICRm en de door NS bij Bombardier aangeschafte TRAXX-locomotieven. Deze rijden steeds in koppels in trek-trek-formatie omdat de ombouw van de BDs-stuurrrijtuigen niet haalbaar bleek. Deze inzet zou in theorie de betrouwbaarheid van de snelle trein ten goede moeten komen... De praktijk is vaak echter weerbarstiger. Maar.... langzaam lijkt het gelukkig wel steeds een stukje beter te gaan. Op 25 april waren 186 114 en 186 ? in ieder geval strak op tijd toen ze met trein 1154 op weg naar Den Haag passeerden vlak voor Oisterwijk
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Oisterwijk, 25 april 2017 - In the beginning of april 2017 the intercity service introduced in December 2016 between Breda and The Hague via the HSL-zuid, was extended towards Tilburg and Eindhoven. Thereby cancelling the thusfar necessary interchange at Breda for through travellers between East Brabant and the Randstad Metropolitan region. The direct service is operated with sets of nine ICRm carriages, which are combined with TRAXX locomotives that NS acquired recently from Bombardier. These engines run in push-pull mode, as it turned out the revision of the previously used BDs control cars was not viable enough. Reliability was an important motivation in the eventual decision to go for the use of two locomotives. In practice though, even now still a lot can be gained in this field... Luckily, the reliability seems to be a little bit on the up side recently. At the end of april, things were running relatively smooth when 186 114 and 186 ? passed Oisterwijk right on time as train 1154 to The Hague.
Mouse's Tank Road.
This photo shows the road that runs north through the Valley of the Fire State Park in Nevada. This area is allegedly named after a large desert pothole used as a semi-permanent water source by a Paiute Indian renegade known as Little Mouse. The reliability of water allowed Little Mouse to hide out in the rugged sandstone terrain seen in the picture during the 1890’s.
老鼠水箱公路。(火焰峽谷州立公園)
這條南北向公路貫穿火焰峽谷一個叫做「老鼠水箱」的區域。
1890年代一個叫做「小老鼠」的印第安人在殺人越貨後躲藏此處，現今此區域便以他的名字來命名。
而之所以稱之為「水箱」，是因為周邊岩石有許多如洞窟的沙岩地形，這地形在下雨之後能蓄積沙漠裏珍貴的雨水。
The De Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter had good load-carrying ability, great reliability, and excellent short take-off-and-landing capabilities, all of which recommended it for both civil and military use.
This Otter, serial 9408, was built in 1960 and purchased by the Royal Canadian Air Force soon after. It served with reserve squadrons and two search-and-rescue units, one in Alberta and the other in Montreal, before the type was retired in 1982.
The aircraft is in RCAF Air Transport Command markings and is seen in the storage hangar at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Rockcliffe Airport, Ottawa.
Penn Central E40 electric #4977 poses in the yard at Morrisville, PA, January 23, 1976. Conrail is less than four months away from taking over the Penn Central's rail operations and thus inheriting this and it's unwanted brothers which originally came from the New Haven Railroad upon the NH's absorption into PC. The E40's were originally classed EP5s by the New Haven when they arrived in 1955 from GE. They were intended for high speed passenger operation between New York City and New Haven, CT. Teething problems from the outset were solved within a year of arrival from GE-mainly the large screened filters on the carbody sides which helped in cooling the electric motors along with the automatic blowers. What caused their downfall was the McGinnis/Alpert regime's greatly reduced maintenance on these and almost all other locomotives the NH had. The damage had been done and unfortunately they fared no better under Penn Central ownership. By the early '70s all were out of service and one even scrapped but someone at PC felt the road should rebuild three of them for freight service and so the 4977 became one of the lucky three to survive into Conrail ownership. Sadly the three never turned a revenue wheel for Conrail as that road had a lot more on it's plate to deal with than three oddball electrics of questionable reliability. The final three E40s were scrapped in 1979. This is an Ektachrome 6x6 color transparency originally marketed as a Super Slide. The film frame was mounted in a cardboard mount which allowed for projection with the proper slide carrier mounted to a projector. Unfortunately this also allowed for the image to be scratched badly.
John Stroup original.
The F-4 is in service with JASDF squadrons since 1973 was designated F-4EJ.Changes made for the F-4EJ included removal of ground attack control equipment such as weapons and bomb delivery systems and the addition of modern electronic equipment including a data link system and radar warning receiver. The F-4EJ came equipped with a 20mm Vulcan canon affixed under the nose, and AIM-7E Sparrow and AIM-9L Sidewinder missiles. In the late 80s the F-4EJ was refurbished with the latest electronic equipment and new radar. With the JASDF celebrating its 50th anniversary, the F-4EJ continues to serve on the front line maintaining its reputation for reliability.
Coastliner has added two of these 8 year old Volvo B9s into the fleet from Lancashire. They are in standard livery but ablaze with Whitby & moors branding. First up was 2780 seen here on York Rd heading East for the coast.
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Wartime in the Vale 2022 event. Ashdown Camp, at Ashdown Farm, off Badsey Road, Evesham, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, on Saturday 25th of June 2022.
About this photograph.
This is the American M3 half-truck.
The design and development of the M3 half-truck happens around 1940-41, and was designed to use many commercial components to help with the rate of the production, as well as reliability and ease of repairs.
Most of the standard versions used 148hp 6-cylinder petrol engines, with fuel capability of 60 US gallons / 230 litres, that would make it possible for 1 driver plus a squad of 12 soldiers to travel at least approximately 220 miles in one go.
They were built by different companies, including Autocar Company, Diamond T Motor Company, and White Motor Company.
At least about 53,0000 were built, including variations between 1941-1945.
In the photo above, you can see a rack placed on the side of the vehicle, just above the tracks. That was originally built for carrying land mines, however during the Second World War, many military units found it equally useful for carrying extra supplies such as more rations, rucksacks, ammo boxes, fuel cans, and even water cans.
The M3 half-truck was used by the US Army, US Marines, the British Commonwealth, and even the Soviet Red Army had some. The Germans were also known to used capture M3 trucks.
About the event.
Wartime in the Vale is an annual re-enactment event, held at the former Second World War camp, next to the town of Evesham, during the summer. The event is organised by the Military Vehicle Trust – South Midlands Area.
The event is held during the weekend, and believed to have at least more than 500 military vehicles of various eras, but mostly of First and Second World Wars, on display as well as re-enactment events in the main arena, including blank firing of weapons. They even have a flypast over the area.
The Ashdown Camp is a 40 acres site, with some old WWII era buildings, mainly huts, located near the Ashdown Farm, just to the east of Evesham.
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The West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive was the only taker for the Class 141, developed from the experimental BREL-Leyland Class 140 lightweight DMU. 20 two-car sets entered in service in 1984. The first few were delivered in a loose interpretation of the then-standard BR blue and grey livery (using Barrow Corporation blue) but were quickly painted into WYPTE Verona Green and Buttermilk livery. After various mechanical issues became apparent, the 20 units were reworked by Hunslet Barclay of Kilmarnock, emerging in a new deep red and ivory livery and re-numbered in the 1411xx series. They also lost the prominent front-end plumbing at this point. Whilst performance and reliability were undoubtedly improved, the units remained beset by their narrow bodies and centrally-located passenger doors - issues that were addressed in the subsequent Class 142/3/4 units. They soldiered on until displaced by more suitable modern stock in the mid-1990s. 141003 depicted here (but in its rebuilt form as 141103) spent some time in preservation on the Weardale Railway before meeting its demise (16-Feb-23).
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I've been going through some really rough times for the past few weeks. I've dealt with one of my biggest nightmares and I think I am going to conquer it.
I just don't think I would have been able to do that without the help and support of some of my old friends. Always remember who your friends are... In the end, its kindness of others that makes you happy. And kids, of course :}
I took this shot last Saturday at the Lake Burley Griffin in Canberra. I recently bought a Cokin landscape filter set, so I used the Cokin P153 (ND4) for an extra long exposure and Cokin P037 warming filter to get some rich reds in the sky.
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HMCR #9554 is a GE U23B originally built as L&N #2800 in December of 1974. The Louisville and Nashville picked up 90 U23Bs between 1973 and 1975 making it the largest owner of the model. The engine changed owners twice in the 1980s as the L&N merged into the Seaboard System 1982 and reorganized into CSX Transportation in 1986. By the mid-1990s, it was relegated to MOW service and renumbered #9554, a number it would keep for the rest of its career.
In 2000, CSX sold five of its MOW U23Bs, including #9554, to the Tishomingo Railway in Mississippi. The TISH sold #9553 and #9554 to Vintage Locomotives (VLIX) in 2008 and were sent up to the SARM at Oak Ridge; the remaining three TISH U23Bs were scrapped. The HMCR picked up the #9554 in 2015 making it the sixth owner of #9554 since it was built in 1974. It is one of the last GE U23Bs in revenue service anywhere.
I am fairly confident that this is the only occasion I saw a pair of Virgin Trains class 47/8s despite their less than stellar reliability. Located mid-way between Widney Manor and Dorridge the level crossing here was still controlled by the 1932 GWR signal box.
Royal Enfield Continental GT250 (circa 1966) Engine 250cc
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Introduced for the 1965 model year, in an effort to hit back at back at the surge of imported Japanese machine. he Continental 250GT looked stylish with its bright red fibreglass tank, polychrome-silver frame, grey handlebar grips, hump-backed, two-tone seat, and the natty flyscreen. based on existing mechanicals. Prior to the 1964 Earls Court UK national motorcycle exhibition in November, the factory arranged a long-distance run to demonstrate the reliability of the machine from John o' Groats to Lands End via Silverstone, where John ‘Moon Eyes’ Cooper gave it numerous full-bore laps around the snow-bound track. He completed the session at an average speed of 70.29mph, with a fastest lap of 73mph, the bike arrived in Lands End after covering the route in 22 hours 20 minutes.
Enfield did not take out full-page ads like Honda but ran a half page piece stating that the GT was Britain’s fastest 250 and positively dripped with goodies.
The GT went on sale in 1966 priced at £ 179, by contrast a only £ 11 more than Honda’s super-fast CB72SS 250, and £ 65 less than a Bonneville, though of course the Bonneville was not road legal for a learner, and the not so sexy but leaner friendly Jawa 250 Favorit retailed at just South of £ 120.
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Shot 10.10.2021 at Bicester Scramble, Bicester, Oxon. Ref. 122-364
Great Rocks signal box houses one of the Tyer type of electric token machines for the single line to Buxton.
Fascinating Victorian pieces of kit that just keep going and going with few reliability problems.
Even thought the curvature of the earth has been enhanced very slightly in this birds eye view, the Ford grain truck and the silver tile elevator are what makes this image so cool. Having only 90 seconds to deploy the drone and elevate to 100 feet, BNSF 8532 won’t slack up on its 50 mph speed for me with westbound grain loads here at Danville, KS. on 10-07-2020. Compare the painted silver tile grain elevator with almost hidden steel annex bins to the mega bushel white concrete elevators built 50 years later. Today the Danville Co-op elevators only ship grain out by truck, not in covered railroad hoppers. And as best I can find, the Ford C is 57 years old………..good old Ford reliability!
Translated to English, the Mitsubishi-Kigarashi Heavy Industries 'Snow Wolf Spider' Think Tank is a small, artificially-intelligent mech designed for cold-weather and urban combat.
Seating one pilot in the rear in manned mode, and armed with a 6-shot MLRS pod and internally suppressed nose gun, the tank is quite popular in East Asia and North America among police forces for its reliability over time.
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A small contribution to Marchikoma while I had a chance to build over Spring Break. Now that I'm back in college, it's gonna be a while before I can have anything new to post, sadly.
Norfolk Southern's SD70s show a good workhorse a few class 1s would frown upon using with their age and reliability (coughs, CP), but the NS is proud to display a great array of motive power on all their trains and a manifest coming through Chesterton gets to sport one of these amazing units leading!
Riley's Railhouse
Chesterton, IN
June 2nd, 2017
27066 stands in the yard at Barrow Hill, 8th October 2017
Locomotive History
27066 was originally D5386 and is one of sixty nine class 27 locomotives built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company (BRCW) during 1961 and 1962. D5386 was delivered in May 1962 and was one of a batch of thirty five class 27’s delivered for Midland Main Line duties. In October 1969 it was transferred to Eastfield initially as part of the plan to allow the withdrawal of the poorly performing Clayton class 17 locomotives from traffic. However in late 1970 it returned south, entering Derby works to be modified for Glasgow-Edinburgh push/pull duties. By the late 1960s, the class 126 DMU’s operating the Edinburgh – Glasgow Queen Street service were becoming unreliable and they were replaced in 1971 rakes of six Mark IIa carriages powered by two class 27 locomotives fitted with push-pull equipment. Twenty four class 27 locomotives were fitted with push – pull equipment and dual brakes and D5386 became 27103 under the 1973 TOPS renumbering scheme. Twelve of push/pull fitted class 27’s were subsequently fitted with electric train heating capability via an auxiliary engine/alternator set in 1975/76. The plan was to fit 27113 – 27124 however 27118 was deemed unsuitable and 27103 substituted. On fitting ETH 27103 became 27212 and 27118 was then renumbered to the now vacant 27103. The very intensive 90 mph service was demanding on the class 27 locomotives and reliability was an issue never fully resolved. Eventually in 1980 the Glasgow-Edinburgh push/pull duties were taken over by class 47/7 locomotives and the push – pull and ETH was removed from 27212 and it was renumbered to 27066 in November 1982. It was withdrawn in July 1987 and eventually entered preservation.
The London Euston to Inverness Caledonian Sleeper service pauses to drop off passengers at Kingussie station in the Highlands of Scotland. Initially it was planned for pairs of the re-engined 73/9s to operate the train over the Highland Main Line, but there were reliability and power issues. A 73/9 is still required in the consist to provide power supply for the coaching stock.
Locomotives: GBRf Class 66/7 66760 "David Gordon Harris" and Class 73/9 73969.
Location: Kingussie station, Badenoch and Strathspey, Highland Region, Scotland.
Song Reference: "Caledonia", Dougie MacLean.