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After having been anatomically "modified", the horse on the nose of Norfolk Southern Geep #5809 has been patched to a much simpler "NS", as they lug steel loads for train B09 on IHB Job 110 near CP100 in East Chicago, Indiana. "Horse anatomy modification enhancement" is most likely highly frowned upon by the NS Corporate Image folks.
An Indiana Harbor Belt 124 crew is onboard of this loaded CSX coke train bound for Ivanhoe Yard in Gary, IN where a CSX B419 crew would eventually take the train to Madisonville, KY. A pair of CSX GEVOs are at the helm, as they pass the tri-light fork signal at CP 100 and begin their quick run down the IHB Kankakee Line in East Chicago, IN. Taken: 6-9-22
Something different today... the ZG2LT that I see alot in Iowa in the afternoons, is normally a monster stack train that is DP-ed. Today ZG2LT is a short conventional hotshot that is seen here blasting thru CP100 at Watkins. Also along for the ride is a big block of mechanical ARMN type refers on the headend. The train is in central Iowa working across Iowa on the UP's East-West double main between Clinton and Missouri Valley. The train would blister across Iowa and into Nebraska this evening, and would be by Grand Island, NE, in 8 hours from now, 383 miles west.
WBD NS B09-28 brings the empty steel coils for loading at CP100, East Chicago Indiana. Some of the last of the Kankakee Line style "G" signals can be seen towering above the train, which resides in the Steel Mill region along Lake Michigan's lakefront. The Ex-BN LNG SD40-2 Demo turned-HLCX leaser is now NS 3528, leading the empties, and is easily identified by its' unique flared SD45-style angled radiator grills.
Indiana Harbor Belt in its element at East Chicago IN, with a transfer from Lake Front Yard down to Gibson led by NRE 3GS21C #2161. I thought this was going to be the NS bottle train, but this is just as good in my book.
I do like the new IHB station signs. Very Penn Central.
NS B09 passing the NYC fork at CP 100 in East Chicago, IN. This train used to have constant nice EMD power sets and then for the past handful of years it’s been typical GE power. This was nice to see!
Train B09 (New Carlisle, IN - IHB Michigan Ave) hops off the NS Chicago Line and onto the IHB Kankakee Line with a duo of NS SD40-2s, both former Burlington Northern. They’re seen here with their empty INLX coil train in tow, passing the NYC fork signal at CP 100 in East Chicago, IN. Taken: 5-29-21
For a train that used to be the “gem” of Northwest Indiana, this is the first time in over 3 years that it hasn’t had any NS road power such as GEs and ACes, for a train that commonly had High Hoods, SD40s, SD60s and 70s.
It's a snowy January morning in parts of the GTA, and CP 7038 is solo up front of train 100 as they pass the old mill at Kleinburg, just beginning to hit the brakes as they prepare to knock down the signal at Elder North and proceed into the Vaughan intermodal terminal.
The first image looks more like Jason. The second and third images look like Aaron. The files have Aaron written on them. My littlest two brothers did look a lot alike and were fairly close in age. I was sometimes asked if they were twins. They were a year apart.
Lake effect snow hits Northwest Indiana, as IHB train 115 returns from NS Burns Harbor Yard with the infamous pair of IHB GP40-3 rebuilds in the lead, seen here coming off the IHB Kankakee Line and heading into the Michigan Avenue Yard lead at the CP 100 fork signal in East Chicago, IN. Taken: 1-17-21
A pair of unique SD40's from the NS roster head for CP100 and IHB's Michigan Avenue Yard, as a CN train moves north on their Lakefront Line in the background. East Chicago, IN.
The first image looks more like Jason. The second and third images look like Aaron. The files have Aaron written on them. My littlest two brothers did look a lot alike and were fairly close in age. I was sometimes asked if they were twins. They were a year apart.
IHB #1516 brings B09's train into Michigan Avenue Yard passing the endangered Conrail-era bracket at CP 100.
Shortly after swinging off the NS Chicago Line at CP502, an NS job with loads of steel coils passes CP 100 on the Indiana Harbor Belt main near their Michigan Ave Yard. The style and font of the station sign is reminiscent of the Penn Central.
Three trains converge at CP100 on the clear blue sky morning of August 8, 2020. A geep takes bottles west while the IHB 118 job holds for NS 34J with a trio of GE's and two export EMD's for Russia.
Taken in July of 1986, here's "Miss Odette" on the slipway at the north side of the harbor. Cape St Marys is a small fishing village on a headland that borders the western end of Mavillette Beach in southern Digby County. We usually time our visits to arrive here early or late enough in the day that we can take advantage of good low-angle sunlight. In gloomy weather the light is great all day long. We usually like to shoot from half tide down to low, looking for boats sitting on keel blocks or resting on one of several several slipways around the harbor. Sometimes the boats are out and the harbor is empty, but on many occasions you'll fine the harbor nearly packed full.
This image is from a medium format Kodacolor CP 100 color negative, copied with a Nikon D3500 camera using a special negative / transparency copy rig I set up in my basement. A 5000k LED bulb in a goose-neck lamp was used to provide back-lighting for the negative, held in a Beseler 6cm x7cm negative carrier. The camera used to take the shot was my old 2 2/4 x 3 1/4 Century Graphic fitted with a Graphic 2x3 roll film holder (knob wind, not lever), using a 127mm f4.7 Kodak Ektar lens in a Supermatic Shutter. When shooting digital today, I rarely use a tripod, but back in my "Graphic" days I almost never photographed without one. The camera wasn't fitted with a range-finder or focusing scales, so all composing and focusing was done using the ground glass. I really enjoyed going slow and working with an upside-down and reversed image. My tripod was a fairly heavy Gitzo "twist lock" fitted with a Linhof ball head, the package weighing much more than I'm willing to haul around now... 35 years later.
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100-28 rounds the curve into Barlow with the city skyline of Calgary, AB in the background.
May 29, 2022
Gatwick in the 80s - a view from the Roof Terrace of 1982 vintage Dan Air Boeing 737 G-BJXJ - one of just eight of the type operated by Dan Air and, unusually for the airline, leased brand-new from ILFC leasing company (the aircraft had been intended for Air New Zealand as ZK-NAT but the airline cancelled the order.
Quite a number of pallet trollies line the apron, along with the usual airport clutter from the period.
G-BJXJ c/n 22657 - Boeing 737-219 was intended for Air New Zealand in Feb 1982 as ZK-NAT but the order was cancelled and the aircraft went to ILFC as N851L, then leased to Dan Air in Mar 1982 as G-BJXJ. After just five years with the airline it was sold on to Britannia Airways who flew it for another five years. The aircraft then went to Europe Aero Service (EAS) as F-GLXF, then to Air Toulouse in 1995, Eco Air in 1999 and Aigle Azur in 2000. Stored in 2002, the aircraft was returned to ILFC as N851L and eventually broken up.
Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL camera and 300mm lens, using Kodacolor CP100 print film. Scanned from the original negative without restoration.
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Gatwick Memories
Delta Air Lines leased a couple of standard bodied TriStars to inaugurate their Atlanta-Gatwick flights in 1978. By 1979, they had their own fleet of three L-1011-500s delivered to operate the service. However, they also sometimes used this converted L-1011-200 N724DA, seen here at London Gatwick on the daily flight DL011 to Atlanta.
Spot the British Caledonian (Commuter Services) Shorts Skyvan on the runway :) Possibly G-OCAS leased from Genair? (see photo below)
N724DA c/n 1151 Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar - delivered new to Delta Air Lines in May 1978. After conversion to a longer-range series 200, the aircraft flew with Delta well into the 1990s, and was only withdrawn around Oct 1998. Stored at Mojave Air and Space Port, the aircraft was finally broken up in Mar 2002.
Apparently, the last commercial TriStar flight was operated on January 7, 2019. More info on the Aircraft design here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_L-1011_TriStar
Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL camera and 300mm lens, using Kodacolor CP100 print film. Scanned from the original negative without restoration.
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Flashback to July 1986
My grandfather made this Bookshelf
Of course I had to try converting this one to B&W.
Looking back at simpler times of 2018, CP train 147 from Toronto, Ontario heads west through the first interlocking on the IHB Kankakee Line of CP 100, while passing the vintage Conrail fork signal. CP 6223, a former SOO Line SD60 is at the helm, as it begins its final trek of the journey to Indiana Harbor Belt’s Gibson autorack facility in Hammond, IN. Taken: 3-4-18
CP SD60s are some of the hardest units to get leading road trains on the CP roster, unless you’re a resident of the Twin Cities were it’s a common occurrence. Even in 2018, 60s were starting to get hard to come by on foreign rail or in the Chicagoland area.
An NS stacker has just got the light at CP100 and will soon be turning the corner on the Chicago Line eastward at CP502. Light engines of the IHB waits their turn to follow.
Gatwick in the 80s - a view from the Roof Terrace as a fine pair of vintage planes race to the runway at London Gatwick. It looks like the Arrow Air Douglas DC-8-62 N8968U has the edge over Air Atlantis Boeing 707 CS-TBA 😎:)
I can't make out the reg of the Arrow Air but it appears to be in passenger service rather than a freighter. According to my JP Airline Fleets of 1985, I had seen N8968U as passenger configuration DC-8-62. The aircraft was only later converted to a freighter. There's a nose-wheel number - possibly 691? I'm assuming the Air Atlantis to be CS-TBA as CS-TBB apparently only joined the fleet of the TAP subsidiary in October 1986.
I still can't quite believe that both of these once ubiquitous aircraft types have largely been eradicated from the aviation scene!
Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL camera and 300mm lens, using Kodacolor CP100 print film. Scanned from the original negative without restoration.
You can see a random selection of my aviation memories here: www.flickriver.com/photos/heathrowjunkie/random/
Gatwick in the 80s - a view from the Roof Terrace of 4R-ULC (ex 4R-ALF) - one of Air Lanka's good-looking Lockheed L-1011 TriStars, which replaced the old Boeing 707s on flights from Columbo to London Gatwick in the 1980s. This aircraft was originally JA8501 - the first in the fleet of All Nippon Airways.
4R-ULC c/n 1053 Lockheed L-1011-1 TriStar - delivered new to All Nippon Airways as JA8501 on 18th Dec 1973 - flew with the airline for just seven years before being sold to Air Lanka as 4R-ALF on 24th Jan 1981. Re-registered as 4R-ULC in Feb 1983. Converted to a model 100 in Nov 1983. Flew with the airline for another 17 years before being withdrawn, Seen at Abu Dhabi WFU on 16th Nov 2000 with many parts missing and presumed scrapped soon afterwards. Officially broken up Aug 2000.
Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL camera and 300mm lens, using Kodacolor CP100 print film. Scanned from the original negative without restoration.
You can see a random selection of my aviation memories here: www.flickriver.com/photos/heathrowjunkie/random/