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The sun is finally out in Sydney and it's easy to become obsessed with shadows. This one from a concrete batching plant.
John F. Bjorklund Photo • Doug Harrop Collection • April 10, 1982
Ann Arbor Railroad RS-2 No. 301 burbles past the Master Mix concrete batch plant in the tiny township of Cohoctah in Livingston County, Michigan.
As the last colors of sunset fall over the horizon, some sunset colors still last into the evening hours thanks to the presence of UP's Southern Pacific heritage unit.
The train is sitting in the Vulcan Materials concrete batch plant at Stafford, off the Sunset Route in southwest Houston. A new crew will come overnight and take the train back to a rock quarry west of San Antonio.
RS1VRQ 19 (Rock Empties- Stafford to Quihi, TX)
UP SD70ACe #1996
UP SD70AH #3033
Stafford, TX
July 18th, 2025
Running eight hours and 15 minutes behind schedule, Amtrak's California Zephyr train No. 6 glides along UP's Provo Subdivision past the Staker Parson gravel pit and batch plant in Lehi, Utah. Below that, the pea soup, murky waters of Jordan River, which will soon increase and drown the riverbank during spring runoff.
In the background at left is Lone Peak of the Wasatch Range. Below that, rampant housing developments have sprung up on the sand hills that populate Point of the Mountain in outer Lehi.
The photographer is standing on the Salt Lake & Utah Railroad grade, an interurban line built between Salt Lake City and Payson, abandoned in 1946.
You gotta love those big midwestern skies. We don't have anything like this back in New England!
Here is another frame I liked from around Hawarden when we showed up in the morning. This is the location of an LG Everist (the D&I Railroad's parent) pit and batch plant as well as the railroad's yard and operations base. We were here just after sunrise and would get a chance to see three different jobs moving about while we watched the northbound train get assembled that we would follow up to Sioux Falls.
Here is the road train doing some switching by the north end of the yard and pit area at about MP 27.6 on what was historically the thirty-seventh sub of the Milwaukee Road's Minnesota-Dakota Division in the road's last years.
Leading the train are DAIR 3026, 3030, and 3031 (EMD SD40-2s blt. Mar. 1980 as BN 7285, Jun. 1979 as MP 6052, and Mar. 1975 as MP 3172 respectively.
To read more check out the first post in the series: flic.kr/p/2mmzSW3
Hawarden, Iowa
Monday August 30, 2021
This concrete batch plant is right on the edge of the Mississippi River behind the mural mile flood wall just south of downtown Saint Louis, MO. USA. The taggers have figured out how to reach most of it. The Gateway Arch can be seen to the left of the MacArthur railroad bridge. Also just behind this plant a bit downriver lies the wreck of the World War II minesweeper USS Inaugural which can be viewed elsewhere in this stream.
Here is another frame I liked from around Hawarden when we showed up in the morning. This is the location of an LG Everist (the D&I Railroad's parent) pit and batch plant as well as the railroad's yard and operations base. We were here just after sunrise and would get a chance to see three different jobs moving about while we watched the northbound train get assembled that we would follow up to Sioux Falls.
Here is the road train doing some switching by the north end of the yard and pit area at about MP 27.6 on what was historically the thirty-seventh sub of the Milwaukee Road's Minnesota-Dakota Division in the road's last years.
Leading the train are DAIR 3026, 3030, and 3031 (EMD SD40-2s blt. Mar. 1980 as BN 7285, Jun. 1979 as MP 6052, and Mar. 1975 as MP 3172 respectively seen framed up by a farm implement left out in the field that is speckled with wild sunflowers.
To read more check out the first post in the series: flic.kr/p/2mmzSW3
Hawarden, Iowa
Monday August 30, 2021
This older Cat excavator was blocking the entrance to a seemingly closed cement plant in Wheatland, Pa.
In case you wondered why the D&I Railroad chose the color scheme they did, this should answer the question. Their sharp looking units mirror the native wild sunflowers that cluster the right of way seemingly along the length of the railroad.
Here is another frame from Hawarden when we first showed up in the morning. This is the location of an LG Everist (the D&I Railroad's parent) pit (the pond in the background) and batch plant as well as the railroad's yard and operations base.
This spot is just north of the 425th Street crossing at the north entrance to the pit at about MP 27.6 on what was historically the thirty-seventh sub of the Milwaukee Road's Minnesota-Dakota Division in the road's last years. DAIR 3026 is EMD SD40-2 blt. Mar. 1980 as BN 7285) which would lead our train north to Sioux Falls on a picture perfect day.
To read more check out the first post in the series: flic.kr/p/2mmzSW3
Hawarden, Iowa
Monday August 30, 2021
1979 International SF1954, DT-466 diesel, Rocket 7 cubic yard mixer. Batch plant much modified since 1955 original. About 1984
Here is another frame of the scene that greeted around Hawarden just after sunrise when we showed up in the morning last summer. This is the location of an LG Everist (the D&I Railroad's parent) pit and batch plant as well as the railroad's yard and operations base. We were here just after sunrise and would get a chance to see three different jobs moving about while we watched the northbound train get assembled that we would follow up to Sioux Falls.
This was the first shot of the day as our train gets started switching seen here pulling up to the 425th Street crossing at the north entrance to the pit at about MP 27.6 on what was historically the thirty-seventh sub of the Milwaukee Road's Minnesota-Dakota Division in the road's last years.
Leading the train are DAIR 3026, 3030, and 3031 (EMD SD40-2s blt. Mar. 1980 as BN 7285, Jun. 1979 as MP 6052, and Mar. 1975 as MP 3172 respectively.
Off to the left in the distance can be seen the cement silos with another train to the right. Sharp eyes will not that that unit is DAIR 2501, which was originally numbered DAIR 1 and has been on the roster since the railroad's beginning. It is a chop nosed EMD GP9 originally blt. Feb. 1954 as UP 148.
And to the right is DAIR 2504 a chop nosed EMD GP9 blt. Jun. 1954 as Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 278. The classic geep was renumbered by Burlington Northern to BN 1963 and retired in 1985 coming to the D&I at the road's start up that year. Once a stalwart on the mainline road jobs she now stays close to the yard as a remote control switcher and amazingly has now served longer here than she did for the Q and BN combined!
To read more check out the first post in the series: flic.kr/p/2mmzSW3
Hawarden, Iowa
Monday August 30, 2021
Re edit of the previous image to correct the slightly wonky level.
Unique liveried 66413 (a lighter shade of orange to the corporate Genesee and Wyoming colour employed on other locos) powers the 6M20 Whatley quarry to St.Pancras (Churchyard sidings) stone through Edington; Wilshire on the northern most edge of Salisbury plain on a glorious 26 April 2022, passing a field of rape. This conveys crushed limestone for the concrete batching plant located in northern London.
In case you wondered why the D&I Railroad chose the color scheme they did, this should answer the question. Their sharp looking units mirror the native wild sunflowers that cluster the right of way along seemingly the length of the railroad.
Here is another frame from Hawarden when we first showed up in the morning. This is the location of an LG Everist (the D&I Railroad's parent) pit (the pond in the background) and batch plant as well as the railroad's yard and operations base.
This spot is just north of the 425th Street crossing at the north entrance to the pit at about MP 27.6 on what was historically the thirty-seventh sub of the Milwaukee Road's Minnesota-Dakota Division in the road's last years. Posing in the morning light is DAIR 2504 a chop nosed EMD GP9 blt. Jun. 1954 as Chicago, Burlington and Quincy 278. The classic geep was renumbered by Burlington Northern to BN 1963 and retired in 1985 coming to the D&I at the road's start up that year. Once a stalwart on the mainline road jobs she now stays close to the yard as a remote control switcher and amazingly has now served longer here than she did for the Q and BN combined!
To read more check out the first post in the series: flic.kr/p/2mmzSW3
Hawarden, Iowa
Monday August 30, 2021
66010 cautiously edges forward with the 6G75 Tunstead quarry to Washwood Health with crushed limestone for the concrete batching plant, supplying materials for HS2, seen passing through the upper yard at Tunstead quarry, Derbyshire, where a public footbridge is provided over the sidings.
This is the only DBC loaded working out Tunstead, following the demise of the Northwich (Tata specialty chemicals) hoppers for the production of Soda ash.
The track to the left is dedicated to the cement loading silo,
Thursday 24 July 2025
Sand....mountains of sand....it's literally this giant natural sandbox that saved 40 miles of the old Boston and Maine Conway Branch when it would otherwise have been given up for dead. And despite some other customers over the years including a few other general freight consignees this day, it's still the sand that is the main reason for this independent shortline's continued existence.
The New Hampshire Northcoast Railroad is a wholly owned subsidiary of Boston Sand and Gravel Company and was formed to transport this basic commodity of cement production from the Ossipee Aggregates pit here (it too a whole owned subsidiary of Boston Sand) to their parent company's busy batch plant located right across the Charles from North Station in the shadow of the Zakim Bridge. As the city constantly tears itself down to rebuild in new form generation after generation the need for cement for that never ending construction is simply insatiable.
When the new owners of the Boston and Maine petitioned to abandon the branch more than 35 years ago Boston Sand stepped in to buy the railroad and slowly rebuild it into the first class outfit it is today to keep alive this link between the two key halves of their operation and to keep countless trucks off the highway as they move up to a half million tons of product to Boston every year.
Here they are after another busy week running light engine out of the pit. Having spotter up the string of empties they led north from Boston their work week is done as they head back west toward the shop located where the pit spur meets the Conway Branch main.
Three quarters of the railroad's roster is seen here, EMD GP38-2s NHN 3823 (blt. Sept. 1978 as CR 8242), leased FURX 5509 (blt. Mar. 1970 as high nosed straight GP38 SOU 2801) and NHN 3825 (blt. Sept. 1978 as CR 8244).
If you care to learn more refer to the detailed caption with this image: flic.kr/p/2mfWoig
Ossipee, New Hampshire
Friday August 6, 2021
Foden 4300 8w concrete mixer DAI994, seen outside its owners batching plant at Ghajnsielem, Gozo in November 2019.
### ........must view as slide show.......##
Transit Mixer
Transit mixer is one of the most popular equipments for transporting concrete over a long distance particularly in Ready Mixed Concrete plant (RMC). In India, today there are about more than 35 RMC plants and a number of central batching plants are working. It is a fair estimate that there are over 600 transit mixer in operation in India.
Leica M3, single stroke (IGEMO), 1966
Dual Range Leitz Summicron f= 5 cm 1:2 (M+DR-rigid-chrom, 11318), 1960 with yellow filter
Kodak 400 Tx professional grade black&white negative film
Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de
Sand....mountains of sand....it's literally this giant natural sandbox that saved 40 miles of the old Boston and Maine Conway Branch when it would otherwise have been given up for dead. And despite some other customers over the years including a few other general freight consignees this day, it's still the sand that is the main reason for this independent shortline's continued existence.
The New Hampshire Northcoast Railroad is a wholly owned subsidiary of Boston Sand and Gravel Company and was formed to transport this basic commodity of cement production from the Ossipee Aggregates pit here (it too a whole owned subsidiary of Boston Sand) to their parent company's busy batch plant located right across the Charles from North Station in the shadow of the Zakim Bridge. As the city constantly tears itself down to rebuild in new form generation after generation the need for cement for that never ending construction is simply insatiable.
When the new owners of the Boston and Maine petitioned to abandon the branch more than 35 years ago Boston Sand stepped in to buy the railroad and slowly rebuild it into the first class outfit it is today to keep alive this link between the two key halves of their operation and to keep countless trucks off the highway as they move up to a half million tons of product to Boston every year.
Here they are after another busy week running light engine out of the pit. Having spotter up the string of empties they led north from Boston their work week is done as they head back west toward the shop located where the pit spur meets the Conway Branch main.
Three quarters of the railroad's roster is seen here, EMD GP38-2s NHN 3823 (blt. Sept. 1978 as CR 8242), leased FURX 5509 (blt. Mar. 1970 as high nosed straight GP38 SOU 2801) and NHN 3825 (blt. Sept. 1978 as CR 8244).
If you care to learn more refer to the detailed caption with this image: flic.kr/p/2mfWoig
Ossipee, New Hampshire
Friday August 6, 2021
Van Laere of Burcht, Belgium bonnetted MAN 22-230 6x6 transit mixer- quite a beast of a lorry by the looks of it!
I saw this back in early 1985, at I think the Burcht batching plant, but as I study a map of the area as I write this caption I'm not too sure after all these years!
Exposure: around 120 seconds, about f/8
Camera: Holga 120N rigged for long exposures
Film: Cross processed 120 Ektachrome 160T (scan of print)
Date: 13 Feb. 2006
Location: Concrete Batching Plant, East providence, RI
Notes:
This time out it was Judyboy, Rizzolo, LaRizzoloca, Douglass and a few new friends from the Boston area: Skyephoto, Katherine and Christian.
The night started out crisp and clear with a haze rolling in later resulting in some pretty dramatically lit skies.
You can see a group pool here of all our shots on Flickr from the night or a slick slideshow here. It may take a week or so for all the shots to be posted.
Exposure: around 120 seconds, about f/8
Camera: Holga 120N rigged for long exposures
Film: Cross processed 120 Ektachrome 160T (scan of print)
Date: 13 Feb. 2006
Location: Concrete Batching Plant, East providence, RI
Notes:
This time out it was Judyboy, Rizzolo, LaRizzoloca, Douglass and a few new friends from the Boston area: Skyephoto, Katherine and Christian.
The night started out crisp and clear with a haze rolling in later resulting in some pretty dramatically lit skies.
You can see a group pool here of all our shots on Flickr from the night or a slick slideshow here. It may take a week or so for all the shots to be posted.
Reposted due to a technical error. ME!
Two Peterbilt 389's, part of a three truck convoy, transport components of a portable cement batch plant, south on US 231.
This ex Pioneer Lorry i believe was owned and operated by the Stockport batching plant and was restored and showed in the 90s and often did road runs as well but has since been sat in Scotland and recently in a welsh quarry.
But this week it was up for auction in Doncaster.
If anyone knows any more about its history then please comment.
Familiar to local enthusiasts and visitors alike is the railway vantage from B3000 New Pond Road near Peasmarsh.
Compared to topically discussed somewhat marred views of today is one reaching back to 1975 seeing Class47 47135 on a down excursion passing the established tree management premises and large government storage facility. Marley's concrete batching plant is discernible above the coaches.
This is a concrete mix making facility in Horseheads, NY. This is my first hypercolor photo. It was fun and challenging to follow the tutorial. I enjoyed learning a new editing technique.
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56098 + 56103 6Z60 Willesden DCR to Merehead to collect materials for the Express Concrete batching plant at Willesden F Sidings slow for Towney Loop at Ufton Nervet 17.05.2024
18528 had been treated to a midlife repaint - I think we had been doing the batching plants [ Balfour Beatty ] for the M25 at Chertsey and Byfleet and / or supplying CEMCOS for the M25/M4 junction in the previous couple of years but VPM828S is heading for pastures new .
CPE263T was last taxed in May 89 [ new May 79 ]
VPM828S was last taxed in June 86 [ new May 78 ]