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Sparrowbush, NY. Minolta SRT-201 (wide angle rokkor lens w/ yellow filter). Kodak Tri-X 400 (expired). Xtol (1:1).
Amtrak P32 505 brings up the rear of a eastbound BNSF intermodal in Westmont, IL. It is being moved dead in consist to Chicago and then to Beech Grove for repairs.
We're living through the last years of interesting topics regarding classic traction in freight traffic on Hungarian rails. Most recently, the Békéscsaba hub of Rail Cargo Hungaria (RCH) got a BR285, which has already started working on the nearby servicing trains starting the 22nd of July.
Yet – very rarely – you can bump into crazy things, mostly thanks to the general bad shape of vehicle maintenance and planning at MÁV-Start. On a slow May afternoon a friend of a friend, working as a dispatcher was scrolling through the planned trains for Line 50 in the system when he noticed that the freight service from Baja-Dunapart was not showing a Class M62, nor the grey diesel TRAXX in the traction box, but a Class M44 shunter.
Could be a typo... But what if... Well, after phoning around half the loc inspectors and RCH dispatchers of Transdanubia, the info was pieced together, that if one of the Sergeis won't be passed back up by early morning to Dombóvár from Pécs, then yes, the little shunter will have to do instead. Not as it stood in the system; sending the M44 out as far as Baja, to return with an – even if empty –, longer train on the hilly Line 50 would be risky.
So RCH tasked its shiny and boring diesel with that job, and sent the Bobó to take care of the other task of the day; bringing nine empty wagons to Komló next to the three already there, and returning with as many as they could load by afternoon. Armed with this knowledge, we set alarms for around three o'clock and checked to see on the mapper if any of the M62s moved.
By 5:30 we were already through the shittiest gas station coffee I've had in a while, and soon enough we were each waiting eagerly near Mecsekjánosi after choosing our locations for the first pics. The rest is history! More pictures from this day here and here.
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) Silverliner IV no. 304 is the lead unit on an inbound Manayunk / Norristown Line train seen arriving at East Falls Station.
Soviet UB-32 rocket launcher mounted under a former GDR airforce MIG-23 at Flugplatzmuseum Cottbus, Germany
A call in to South Mimms Services on the M25/A1(M) junction today (11/03/2022) and to check on the 'Hair Bus' which is still trading. Former Crosville Leyland National NFM853M has been in situ since 1991.