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GWR Small tank loco on Autotrain duties crawls past the signalbox outside Quorn and Woodhouse station.
1420 Stretchford Hump 22-04-1999
Olympus OM4Ti (film)
Fujichrome colour slide scanned to digital
Steam Recreations charter
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2019/01/20 | 218 369, 218 341 | Klanxbüll | DE
It's around 10 minutes before sunrise, when 218 369 and 341 climbed the grade up to Hindenburg dam on icy cold morning of January 20th, 2019.
Northbound Auto-Train AT-2 meets southbound Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac intermodal train No. 175 at Doswell, VA in Sept., 1973. In the early years, the passenger cars were carried behind the auto racks. Problems with slack action resulted in the passenger cars being placed on the head, followed the racks and a caboose.
Breakfast is served? P052 running late into Lorton is crossing the James River Bridge in beautiful morning light
Amtrak 511 backs 53's loaded autoracks back toward the Auto Train terminal for unloading. The building in the back is the wash facility which Amtrak uses on a daily basis to keep the Autotrain's consist looking good.
This process normally occurs between 9 and 10 AM nowadays but on this day, it was happening at 2-3 PM due to 53 arriving over 5 hours late.
It's two minutes after sunset, when 218 480 and 218 490 had reached Sylt island. There are still some reflections on the locomotive from red glowing clouds behind my back.
Taken during a 30740 photo charter in June 2017 recreating the first steam locomotive to cross Stanway viaduct in preservation which was No1450 with an Autotrailer celebrating what was once known as the Coffee pot. A regular local service which ran between Cheltenham and Honeybourne.
Dans un cadre typique de l'Estérel qui sent bon les vacances, la BB22318 est vue en tête du défunt Auto-train 24501 reliant Paris-Bercy à Nice.
Quelques minutes plus tôt, elle laissait la tranche de Fréjus avant de se diriger vers son terminus qui sera son prochain arrêt. Depuis la suppression de ce service en décembre 2019, seules les BB22200 de la région PACA et quelques pèlerins circulent sur la ligne, diminuant encore l'espérance de croiser de la rame tractée pour le service voyageur...
Le Trayas - 01.07.2019.
It was around a half hour after sunset, when I took the last picture of that day at Hindenburg dam. This evening was somewhat special, what I never experienced before and after. In the dusk it could be clearly seen, when the train left the island, but the hard working locomotives could be heared even before, when they still were on Sylt island, which is 9 km away.
The photo was taken with Nikkor AIs 35/2 in combination with Metabones Speedbooster.
last knockings before the sun dips below the bank of cloud on the horizon.
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The northbound SCL No. 2, the "auto-train," blasts through Emporia, VA on April 29, 1972 with two U36Bs and 35 cars.
South bound Amtrak 'Auto Train' clears the small town of Ashland, VA as a bunch of railfans look on.
Dinner is served! Passengers are enjoying dinner while taking in the stunning scenery. The flagship has heritage 822 on point this evening
Shortly after Amtrak 51 arrived in Sanford, AMTK 511 got the duty of putting all the autoracks into the tracks so passengers can pick them up.
AMTK 511 B32-8WH
Le 25 Juillet 2018, l’auto train habituel reliant Paris Bercy à Nice Ville tracté par la BB 22348 passe dans les vignes de Cuers aux alentours de 8h après avoir effectué son arrêt en gare de Toulon.
This is obviously not the image, I originally wanted to take, since RE 11020 (Hamburg-Altona - Westerland) came to an unfavorable time. But nevertheless this image is still worth to be shown in my opinion.
We're still on duty at Western Ave tower, just a different day. We're going back out on the porch and point our camera in the opposite direction and what do we see? A Conrail SW9, the 9131, headed north on the Pennsy/CJ with a slightly unique train. Behind the EMD butt head is an odd assortment of slightly used passenger cars. I can make out a former GM&O coach and a full length dome, last used by AutoTrain, and there's a couple more that I can't make out. Behind the train you can see the Ryerson Steel plant. The train is seen here crossing the B&OCT.
GWR 1450 giving a little help to the auto-coaches trundling over Stanway Viaduct near Toddington in the Cotswolds 30 May 2010
Vectron 247 908 with a auto-train from Sylt island in tow, passes the entry signal of Klanxbüll station.
Passage à Sanry-sur-Nied du train n° 24577 Biarritz 20h37 - Strasbourg-Ville 11h07. Il achemine depuis St Pierre des Corps une tranche Quimper - Strasbourg. Les horaires :
- Train 24577 Biarritz 20h37 - Strasbourg 11h07
- Train 24572 Quimper 20h07 - SPC 02h20/03h00 - Strasbourg 11h07
- Sanry-sur-Nied, le 5 juillet 2009 Ã 09h58 -
A RDC auto train, coming from Sylt island, is waiting for a DB auto train to clear the single track line ahead.
Big Country's name not mine. "MisSI MiLleX"
A super Southern California scene was set along the Los Angeles Subdivision just west of CP Streeter, as the Palm and Citrus trees get blown around from a late spring Santa Ana Wind creating an almost fake looking sky (It's rarely or never this clear). All fitting for the Union Pacific's Extra-Autofest from Santa Teresa, New Mexico to Mira Loma, California running with seventy-five racks under the control of a pair of C45AHs. The train is ten miles from it's terminus in the Jurupa Valley, where the autos will be unloaded and distributed for the never ending hunger of the Southern California Car Market.
Packed to the gunwales with enthusiasts, former Great Western Railway 0-6-0 Pannier Tank No. 6430 with the Autocoach works the Kidderminster to Bewdley shuttle during Severn Valley Railway’s Spring Steam Gala on 17th March 2019. No. 6430 worked Autotrains in the South Wales valleys from 1940 until 1954, being based at Pontypool and Newport during this period.
P052, the daily northbound Autotrain, shoots across McGirts creek bridge into Jax right on schedule. While the sun is out and about at the bridge, less pleasant skies linger in the background.
MGBPX 12 with 3 EMD's----->>>UP 3275, UP 2434 and UP 2313. The leader was extremely rare, even in 2007, to lead a mainline train on the BNSF for UP. Today the leader has become UP 2007, SD40N (rebuilt SD40-2 at North Little Rock).
A pair of Siemens Chargers head out of the engine shops at Sanford to couple to the front of train P052, the northbound Auto Train, in preparation for its 4PM departure. On the left is an EMD GP38-3, which has just finished switching the yard. These engines have begun to replace the old Dash 8s that were assigned to the Auto Train terminals at Lorton, VA and Sanford, FL.
The current series is still characterized of my efforts to get familiar with the new camera. This includes the whole process from taking the picture to the processed result. Another aspect of the current series is the restriction to the area of Hamburg only, which is caused by the current pandemic.
Todays picture will break this series and should give a little bit more variety. Tomorrow the Hamburg series will be continued.
A trip to the DC area in the late 70's almost always included trying to catch the southbound Auto Train somewhere on the RF&P. Even then, DC area traffic could derail those plans but on this day we set up at the trestle over Neabsco Creek just north of Quantico Virginia. Auto Train was a popular private company that operated between Lorton, Virginia and Sanford, Florida over RF&P and SCL tracks between 1971 and 1981. Expansion, accidents, and costs eventually led to bankruptcy in 1981 and it ceased operation. Amtrak restarted a similar concept a couple of years later and continues to run that train. The original The original Auto Train had their own equipment including GE U36B's painted in an attractive white, red, and purple scheme.
In early morning sunshine and viewed along Bewdley's Westbourne Street, Collett '1P' 0-4-2 tank No.1450 is sandwiched between two auto coaches working across Bewdley viaduct with a Kidderminster to Highley autotrain service on 4th January 2026.
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the traditional great western/western region autotrain with the driver in the leading coach pannier 6430 in the middle manned by the fireman , seen at ty newydd
Amtrak's flagship Autotrain rolls south on the A-line over the James River Bridge on a dreary evening in Richmond
GWR Collet Small tank loco No1450 trundles toward Toddington with the autotrain as the sun drops low in the sky.
Amtrak’s Auto Train heads over Neabsco Creek Bridge near Woodbridge, Virginia, on April 23, 1996. The train is powered by a pair of GE P40DC (Nos. 831 and 833) locomotives.
Le train n° 13161 "Optima-Express" Villach - Thessaloniki marque l'arrêt en gare de Skopje.
- Gare de Skopje, le 3 août 2005 à 13h09 -
A propos d'Optima-Express :
En 2005, le transport des véhicules est assuré dans des portes-autos fermés, de la société Car Rail Logistics et immatriculés en Hongrie, au GySEV. Ce type de wagon particulier consiste en 2 wagons à 2 essieux accouplés, de type "Hccrrss" en désignation UIC, comportant deux niveaux de chargement sur 25 m de long
Optima-Express est un service ferroviaire international, affrété par la société de voyage allemande Optima-Tours. Depuis de nombreuses années, seul un service entre Villach (Autriche) et Edirne (Turquie) est exploité. L'opérateur a également exploité des services entre Villach et Thessalonique. Pour assurer son service, l'opérateur a loué des voitures à de nombreuses entreprises ferroviaires ou entreprises de location de voitures voyageurs. Dans les années 80, des voitures UIC SNCF B9c9x étaient également utilisées.