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A pair of Geeps whisk a train of MOW equipment east near Winona Jct. Winter was in full force so I can only presume the track gang was enroute to warmer southern climes or perhaps to the shop for off season repairs & tune ups. December 15, 2005.
The warbonnets were still looking pretty good back in 2000 as this pair hustles westbound through Fountain City, WI. March 18, 2000.
Southern Shorthaul Railroad's empty coal eventually arrived, and is seen decelerating across the Bargo River viaduct, between Tahmoor's township and the colliery.
Led by the only two members of the BRM class in their distinctive CRL livery, and a pair of preserved C Class. The BRM class were constructed at Bendigo Workshops in Victoria.
Eastbound Erie train #6, the "Lake Cities" approaches the County Line road overhead just east of Palmer, Indiana in March of 1959, C.L. Coates photo. This view is looking W/N/W towards Crown Point, Indiana. The small hamlet of Palmer would be about 1 mile ahead on the right. It looks as though there is an intermediate semaphore signal attached to the bridge Mr. Coates is standing on, as seen at the extreme right-hand side of the photo. The Erie's mainline was straight at this angle between Crown Point and Kouts.
Just another nutty '90s BNSF lashup. I wasn't fortunate enough to catch one of the SDF40-2s leading a train before the lack of ditch lights kept them off the point but they showed up trailing on the St. Croix Sub occasionally before their retirement. The leader has had the headlight dropped but otherwise just soldiers on as part of a decades long run on the mainline. September 11, 1999.
A monster 213 car Roseville, California to North Platte mixed freight grinds up Archer Hill on its trip east over the Overland Route. While it may look like the train has plenty of power, only the lead unit, UP 2727 is online, with the trailing four units, UP 6756, KCS 4828, UP 2686, & 6231 all dead, bad-ordered. UP 2727 wasn't alone in its struggle to power the train though, with UP 5692 & 5741 helping out mid-train. Still, an impressive feat for just three engines.
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GP38-2 511 lugs 920 northbound at Palm Bay, about to knock down one of just a few searchlights left on the FEC. At the time of writing, Bayard, Palm Bay, Bougard, Port Sewall, and Camp Murphy are still standing. This won't be the case much longer as doubletracking for Brightline fills in the last sections of single track that the searchlights guard.
L303 is about to knock down the Medium Clear indication as it moves from the Grand Rapids Terminal to the Plymouth Sub at Seymour.
A pair of U-30Cs bracket two cab-less units, a GP30 and a GP9 on the head end of a westbound freight I had been following since Grand Island. The units are working hard to keep its schedule into North Platte a few miles ahead.
The sun is just about to crest the horizon as UP's North Platte to Denver mixed freight enters the yard in Cheyenne. Waiting for it to clear is a Fountain, Colorado to North Antelope Mine coal empty.
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A BNSF coal empty is on its way back to the mines as it rolls through the Idaho mountains on a gloomy Fall day.
I'm not a fan of leaser power, but, provide a matched pair with a "real" paintscheme and I could be pursuaded now and then. The leader is an ex-CP unit (5505) along with another SD bearing a Penn Central pedigree (6254) speeding west out of Winona Jct. while the DPU of a waiting eastbounder can be seen in the distance.
May 3, 2006.
Seeing these helpers was one of the main goals of this trip. I had spotted this small pond of rainwater at Byron and couldn't pass up a beauty shot as they started back down the hill after getting U724 up the grade. The B&LE tunnel motors are awful neat but assigned very specifically, not straying far Byron Hill nor the Minnesota Iron Range. July 20, 2024.
With 27 loads behind them, the slug set assigned to power CSX A718-22 is working hard as the train accelerates up the hill past the 417.0C milepost outside of Wyvern Yard. Although this 3.4 mile stretch is rifle shot straight, it is up hill northbound.
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I have upgraded my tires to MAXXIS Ardent (front) and Minion (back) 29x2.4. The Bontrager Line XR3 29x2.4 tires was okay, but a bit slippery in mud and dirt. So I feel a bit excited to try out the new pair:-) OF150 28th of July 2018, follow that. A race over the Finnmark moor, I take the easy trip this year, next is OF300...
Racing ahead to one last spot I where got my final shots of this bonus final South Shore Freight of the trip. This little 7 car AF1 freight crew is headed east for Carroll Ave. behind GP38-2s 2004 and 2007 both bought new by the South Shore in 1981 during the Chessie ownership era.
Taken half mile east of this shot: flic.kr/p/2mc7abj but still in the middle of 11th Street, we see them climbing up the grade from the Cedar St. curve here at the 11th and York Street intersection near MP 33.6 on the South Shore mainline.
Alas scenes like this are on borrowed time which was my impetus for returning so soon. If you want these iconic shots you better come quick because a massive nearly half billion dollar project to double track the line all the way to Michigan City in order to shave 30 or more minutes off transit times and allow greater train frequencies is supposed to start construction soon. This will lamentably lead to the end of street running and the removal of nearly all the homes and structures on the south side of 11th street and the straightening of this curve. In fact, many more than last year were already bought up and either already demolished or boarded up with big no trespassing project signs on them. And of course the downtown midstreet passenger stop on 11th street has already closed so the line already felt different than 11 months prior. To learn more check out the project web site and the detailed PPT presentation on the project: www.doubletrack-nwi.com/images/DT_PRS_DTVirtualOpenHouse_...
But change is the only constant in life, and the CSSB has been modernizing and rebuilding since the Insull era. In fact in 1956 the long section of street running in East Chicago was bypassed and in 1970 the street running into downtown South Bend was abandoned...so I suppose this is just a continuation of what has come before.
Michigan City, Indiana
Tuesday July 6, 2021
66428 heads 4D47 1307 Inverness to Mossend intermodal across a short stone viaduct beside the village of Luncarty on the former CR Strathmore doubletrack section of the current Highland mainline.
6th October 2018
A crusty EMD with a burnt off flag on the flank cuts across this gravel road protected by modern lights and gates. The intense splash of red LEDs is probably more flattering on this old horse than the cold light of day. October 18, 2025.
If you're familiar with the Q's old slogan for its route along the Upper Mississippi River to St. Paul you'll get the joke. This stack train is just wrapping up a 300 mile trip along the Upper Mississippi and will turn east at Savanna for the run across northern Illinois to Chicago.
We had seen this eastbounder pass through East Dubuque earlier and now again after it got held up by the blockage of the diamond with CPKC. The leader is well-worn in the way that most BNSF DASH 9s are these days. The weathered orange along with the dull yellow containers complement the fall bluffs even if they don't dazzle. October 18, 2025.
During Covid, passengers with masks board their westbound South Shore train in 11th St. in Michigan City. Now streetrunning is gone and new doubletrack right of way and highlevel platforms have replaced this scene.
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Before they went on to a second career on CN the old Oakways were regulars on the BNSF all-rail ore trains. Three '60s bring an empty up the St. Croix Sub at Alma, WI. January 15, 2000.
BR Cravens DMU - Class 105 - at Beccles station in 1980, with a service to Ipswich. The latticework of the overbridge is reflected in the front cab windows..
Almost all of the goods yard track has gone, but the loading guage is still there, surrounded by grass and bushes, and the disused engine shed - with green doors - can still be seen in the distance..
The line through here later became single-track, and the old 'up' platform - where the DMU is - was disused, and became overgrown.
In 2012 a passing loop was laid, and the old platform and trackbed was refurbished - with the usual 'bus shelter' accommodation.
The last Class 105 was withdrawn from BR service in 1988, and today (2017) only one two-car unit and a trailer have survived into preservation.
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MRL local 841 departs Livingston, MT for Bozeman and Manhattan, passing the west end of the doubletrack as it starts up the pass. March 2019.
Waiting on a westbound train just outside of Battle Creek a few weeks ago, I wondered what I was hearing in the distance with a rather sickly-sounding K3L horn. Then, this thing pops into view! A battle-weary GP38-2W leading 2 boxcars of track inspection instruments along with their accompanying support coach. I think this was the first time I ever saw a GP38-2W, since they seem to largely stick to Canada.
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At 4135 hp, UP's C41-8W's had a little more giddy-up than the average Dash 8. Though by the mid-2010's their fate was the same as any other. And while most Dash 8's were in storage or being sold, a handful still ran the system. Here, a pair of more powerful Dash 8's bring the Eagle Lake Local westward on the Glidden Sub as it makes its way out of greater Houston. At the time UP was double-tracking the Sunset Route west of Houston, as evidenced by the rail and ties to the right of the train.
LHT43 29 (Local- Houston to Eagle Lake, TX)
UP C41-8W #9438​
UP C41-8W #9433
Stafford, TX
May 29th, 2015
An unidentified class47 heads away from Shrewsbury and approaches Bayston Hill with a load of steel coil circa 1982.
Part of the Tom Derrington Collection taken by Jerry Turner
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One more from the dip back into the year 2000 archives. Back home in Fountain City the snow is gone and the sun is shining. Mornings like this called for a walk with the camera to nab eastbounds in good light as they swept through town.
March 11, 2000.
Intermodal was the name of the game this morning, as it often is on the St. Croix Sub. Without any intel I was happy to nab another eastbound near Diamond Bluff, WI. October 15, 2022.
LMS 8F No. 48624 heads through Kinchley lane at the Great central railway hauling a local service to Rothley.
Super Sprinter 158959 which looks like it has just been repainted into GWR 'Green' looks stunning as it departs Malvern Link on 11-1-19
The working is the on-time
1O98 1048 Great Malvern to Brighton Great Western Railway service
Sadly by the time it reached Worcester Foregate Street it was 6 minutes late but thankfully by the time it reached Brighton it was only 1 minute down on the booked time.
The Malvern hills yet again form the backdrop, what had been a beautiful start to the day was already heading towards thick cloud which arrived before the HST which arrived late some 15 minutes later
Just as soon as the 5023 passed and ducked under the coaling tower this V train came racing up on main 2. I was in the process of repositioning myself and was caught short. At first I was frustrated that I couldn't pull in more of the coaling tower but I rather like this version, particularly the brick warehouse (Nehring Electrical Works). August 10, 2024.
Prior to UP double-tracking the Sunset Route west of Houston, Heacker in southwest Houston was the end of 2MT for several years. Here, shortly before the completion of the second main line to Missouri City, UP 8627 waits for traffic ahead at the end of Track 1.
Westbound Manifest
UP SD70ACe #8627
UP C45ACCTE #7?54
UP C45ACCTE #????
Houston, TX
February 16th, 2013
Amtrak F40PH 203 heads up train 170 'Mayflower' from Washington DC to Boston. This is an eastbound Northeast Corridor train whose passengers have a nice view of Long Island Sound near Niantic, Connecticut. This route between New Haven and Boston, along with Amtrak's New Haven-Springfield, MA line, were the last routes where F40PH locomotives were used in regular service. And the line is doubletrack and under wires now.
As the shadow of "railfan rock" steadily stretched toward the tracks the wait got a little tense. As if on cue the tailings shuttle drifts downhill through the peak color at the end of the day.
October 9, 1998.
Evidently this was an opportunity shot taken on my way into work. Tough light angle but I couldn't pass it up. SD40-2s were still very common on the mainline but I had a soft spot for these fresh rebuilds, they sure didn't stick around for long. This was before the St. Croix Sub was redone into double track, bi-directional CTC. Back then it was fairly unusual to see eastbounds running down track 1 against the signals (49 mph max). Usually when a train was run wrong main it was to allow a Z train to pass it between Trevino and Winona Jct. as though the wrong main was a 30 mile long siding. February 7, 2002.
Headed back towards Fort Pierce, 511 leads train 920 past the searchlights and depot at Palm Bay South. The doubletrack in the far foreground spells the end for the signals here.
UP 3022 & CSXT 118 lead a Chicago to Seattle intermodal train through Speer on an overcast Wyoming day.
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Another view from Park Jct. Once I had a truck at school for my 3rd and 4th years this became a favorite hang out of mine. I could drive there in a few minutes and spend some hours doing homework in the truck and pausing to nab a photo of each train that rolled down the St. Paul Sub. A pair of ex-GN SD9s run "nose to nose" on a transfer back to Northtown from St. Paul. March 10, 1994.
BR Standard 2 No. 78018 heads through Kinchley lane hauling a rake of box wagons on the Great Central railway.
There were some interesting effects on this evening as the setting sun lit up the fog along the bluffs in pink. A solid train of double stacks heads east under the mixed up skies. October 7, 2017.