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In June of 2023, my conductor and I were scorching the iron on an eastbound priority intermodal train. Around Waterloo, Indiana, the dispatcher informed us that a Lake Division train was coming of the old Wabash at CP358. We would follow that train to Toledo.
Imagine my surprise to learn that the train we were behind was NS 256. the Kansas City to Detroit Roadrailer. For whatever reason, the train was being detoured over the Water Level Route this day.
Upon arrival in Toledo, we pulled up next to them at Nasby Tower. After joking with the crew briefly, they allowed me to take a few photos of our trains side by side. As it would turn out, this was my last experience with the Roadrailer.
It is the end of an era now. The Roadrailer concept was very innovative, but remained largely a niche on the railroad landscape. Several carriers attempted to establish service lanes, but just one railroad kept the idea alive.
What follows are some memories, comments, and opinions that I wish to share regarding this train and my history with it as a fan and professional.
MEMORY LANE:
My first interaction with the Roadrailer was at an interlocking tower in Milan, Michigan. The mainlines of Norfolk Southern and Ann Arbor crossed here, with interchange tracks present as well.
The NS line was double tracked through town with cross over switches on both tracks in either direction. The Annie was single track. Controlling all movements through the interlocking was the operator in the tower.
Milan Tower was a step back in time. Next to both lines were train order boards. The attractive red brick building was manned by friendly operators. These men would walk down the stairs each time a train approached, looking them over for defects and speaking with fans as the train rolled by.
In the early years of Triple Crown service, Milan was my go-to location to shoot this unique train. There was no better place to photograph the juxtaposition of railroad technologies at the time.
If the operator had trains lined straight through town, you didn't have much time to set up once a headlight glimmered over the horizon. Within a few minutes, the clamor of single axle trailers bouncing across the diamond broke the silence.
THE EQUIPMENT:
This cadence of sound was provided by first generation Triple Crown equipment referred to as Mark IV trailers. These unique semi trailers had split rear highway axles, with a retractable rail wheel in between. It was a brilliant concept.
However, the tare weight of an empty trailer was significantly higher than that of a normal 48ft trailer due to the added weight of the rail wheel and associated equipment.
Enter the Mark V trailer of today. Designers of this 53 footer eliminated the rail wheel, allowing for a much lower tare weight. This improvement alone allowed for more cargo to be loaded, hence more profit per trip. A modified rail truck, or bogie, would attach trailers together as a train.
For me, the Mark IV trailers, with their original paint scheme and unique wheel arrangement, were my favorite. The large Triple Crown billboard lettering, along with the three red crowns, looked fantastic on the trailers. Seeing a train of identically painted trailers in perfect tandem pass by was a sight to behold and a joy to photograph. While I have not seen one of the Mark IV trailers in years, they live on in 1/87 scale downstairs.
BEHIND THE THROTTLE:
My first trip behind the throttle of a Roadrailer took place in the latter part of the 90s while working the Toledo to Conway interdivisional pool. A new service lane between Willow Run, Michigan, and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was instituted as a joint venture between Conrail and NS.
Conrail symboled the eastbound train RR282. It would normally arrive Toledo around midnight, making for a nocturnal run to Conway. In the few first months of service, train sizes were relatively short. It was common to have 40-60 trailers in a train.
Other than the Office Car Specials, these were my all time favorite trains to operate.
Once the brakes were released and slack taken between the engine and bogie, the rear of the train was moving. It was as close to a passenger train as one could get in terms of slack and control.
If the leader was a SD40-2 or GP40-2, then I was in railroad heaven. Both were race horses and well suited for this type service. Either made running these trains through the hills on the ex-Pennsy between Cleveland and Beaver Falls a thrill.
The westbound train was Conrail symbol RR281. This was an even better train to catch because it ran in the morning. After getting the call and having a delicious breakfast in the hotel, it was off to Toledo on one of the best trains possible.
Eventually, traffic was rerouted and these train were annulled. Not long afterwards, Triple Crown opened a facility in Sandusky, Ohio. The crews working the Toledo to Conway run would now move these trains.
On several occasions, I was called for train 262, the eastbound Roadrailer out of Sandusky. Our day began with an hour limo ride from Toledo to the yard, where we would assemble and test the train.
The westbound counterpart to 262 was train 261. Like the older RR281, this train also operated out of Conway in the morning and was a great ride. Once we yarded the train in Sandusky, it was an hour limo ride home.
However, both of these trains were not like the shorter trains of before. Business grew on this pair of trains, which was good, but that meant they became longer and slower. It was very common towards the end to have 150 trailers on the head pin, which was the maximum limit per the rule book.
While no longer the short hotshots of a few years past, they were fun to run!
I am grateful for my trips on the Triple Crowns!
A triple-storey terrace that merges into a single high double-storey shophouse, then into a lower double-storey terrace.
USAGE
These terraces feature businesses on the ground floor with the family residence upper floors. The middle yellow shophouse has obviously got a tattoo parlour upstairs.
HISTORY
These terraces are mostly inhabited by descendents of those who migrated from Southern China and became known as Baba (male) and Nonya (female). The Nonya culture retains most of their ethnic and religious origins (such as ancestor worship), but with many assimilations from the Malays such as language, food, clothing, and customs.
ARCHITECTURE
Google informs me that the architecture is 19th Century Anglo-Chinese shophouse, View of similar to those in Southern China.
This photograph features Ljubljanica river in Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia.
There is mention of a wooden bridge in this location from 1280. It was at first called the Old Bridge (Stari most) and later the Lower Bridge (Spodnji most), in contrast to the Upper Bridge that was built in the location of the nowadays Cobblers' Bridge in the same century. It was also named the Špital Bridge (Špitalski most) after the nearby poorhouse, which was established in the early 14th century. It was built anew in 1657 after a fire.
The Triple Bridge is a group of three bridges across the Ljubljanica River. It connects the Ljubljana's historical, medieval, town on one bank, and the modern city of Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia, on the other.
In 1842, the Lower Bridge was replaced by a new bridge designed by Giovanni Picco, an Italian architect from Villach, and named Franz's Bridge, (Frančev most) in honor of Archduke Franz Karl of Austria. It also became known as the Franciscan Bridge (Frančiškanski most). This bridge, opened on 25 September 1842, had two arches and a metal fence. The essentials of the bridge have been preserved until today, which is evidenced by the inscribed dedication to the archduke above its central pier, reading in Latin "ARCHIDVCI. FRANCISCO. CAROLO. MDCCCXLII. CIVITAS.", which means "To Archduke Franz Karl in 1842 by the Town."
In order to prevent the 1842 stone arch bridge from being a bottleneck, the architect Jože Plečnik designed in 1929 the extension of the bridge with two footbridges at a sligh angle on each side of it. In collaboration with his student Ciril Tavčar, who drew the plans, he published the proposal in the same year in the journal Ljubljanski Zvon. Construction started in 1931 and continued until spring 1932. The bridge was opened for traffic in April 1932. The bridge was renovated in 1992. Since 2007, all the three bridges have been part of the Ljubljana pedestrian-only zone.
I go through lots of glasses all bought from Walmart. It would be a good time to buy stock in stemware. Each shot takes about 4 hours, including clean up.
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Triples
These racing spaceships were given their confusing names because of the geometry of their fins. Two ships were built, number 25 and number 52.
I built this ship as an experiment with Pythagorean Triples. the fins are 7, 24, 25 triangles. However, in Lego it is necessary to add one to each side to allow for the stud on the SNOT brick on each corner being halfway along it. This makes the triangles 8, 25, 26, which is a nice ratio to build in Lego.
There are couple of images of the internal structure and the detachable cockpit pod here:
at last I have managed to get a few rolls of film developed :-)
This was taken last week as I enjoyed one of my fav walks along the thames.
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Morning twilight and a rising moon over Glacier National Park's Triple Falls.
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The famous Triple XXX Family Restaurant in West Lafayette, Indiana. This place is pretty great. It's been on Food Network a few times.
CN 5704 leads train 144 by Powerline Road West outside of Brantford on their way to Toronto.
Triple crown service has since come to an end which was why I chose to post this shot.
Not my best work admittedly and had I known how little time I had left with 144 I would have went for a better angle but I was more interested in a solo BNSF executive Mac coming from behind me.
Indianapolis Sub local J784 is northbound out of Queensgate Yard on the triple track section in the Mill Creek Valley between RH Tower and Winton Place. They will take the B&O north to Hamilton before heading to Connersville for work.
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A different perspective of this marvelous view of Triple Falls.
This was the first stop of the trail what we saw. We did make it a closer as the previous photo indicates.
Note: The Hunger Games movie was filmed here and used Dupont State Forest part of the movie.
CN 5664 crosses west over the Flambeau River on CN’s Bradley Sub. in Ladysmith, WI on the afternoon of June 25, 2019. The 5664 is train L555 and has 16 pulpwood loads from Tony. Once L555 gets to Ladysmith, they’ll head north on the Superior Sub. to tie up at the Triple Nickel’s base of Stone Lake.
After about a decade of not using the Bradley Sub. out of Ladysmith, CN started running east about 5 miles east to Tony for pulpwood in last couple of years. My first time getting a shot on this bridge since a Minorca ore train in January 2007, the last year the Bradley Sub. was used as a through route. Good seeing this bridge used again.
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Mid afternoon, cumuli rising due to the severe heat. Later it rained, but of course not on us. It threatened all the way through sunset, but rained a bit further east.
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Bloom, berries, branches - aka Barb's birthday bouquet.
I was trying to avoid chores, so I started playing around and tried a Jixipix filter I'd never used before - Artista Haiku. I didn't like the image that popped up originally at all, but there were lot of sliders that made a lot difference in the image (more difference than in other filters I've used). I ended up with this, but did too much back and forth to remember exactly which sliders I used.
Three Sugar Bomb cherry tomatoes and shadows from a Windsor chair in our kitchen during the midday sun.
Paper Glass/Can Recycle vehicle - Bradford Council
27 Tonne
2007 Mercedes 2629 chassis and cab, with mid-steer.
Semat 70/30 body.
Unlike normal domestic lorries which are fitted with twin bin-lifts, this one is fitted with triple lifts. The two on the right are for collecting paper, whilst the single on the left is for mixed glass and cans. The inside of the body is divided into 2 sections with 30% on the left and 70% on the right.
Fleet number 2254 (Rec 3)
Three young Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia) in the entrance of threir burrow nest. I'm not used to edit in Black and White so critics and suggestions are Welcome!
Krasnoflotsky Bridge connects the Kazan and the 2nd Admiralty islands through the Moyka River in the Admiralteysky district in St. Petersburg.
The first waftage in this place across the Moyka River was made specifically for the construction of a horse-drawn railway line (horse trail) in 1876. Pedestrian traffic across the bridge was forbidden, pedestrians and carriages used the nearest Kisses bridge. In the XIX century the bridge was nameless, at the beginning of the XX century the names Pontonny and Staro-Konochny were mentioned. In the 1910s, after the tram line was laid along the Kisses bridge, the bridge lost it's transport significance and was broken in the 1930's. The existing bridge was built in 1959-1960 to transfer the heat pipes through the Moyka river. The authors of the design of the pedestrian heating bridge were engineer A.A. Kulikov and architect L.A. Socks. The bridge was called Krasnoflotsky because of the nearby of the Navy crew (Kryukovsky barracks).