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Ex BR 9F class No. 92214 pictured shortly after Woodthorpe on the Great Central railway, with a service to Leicester north.
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A Dayton, OH bound 20-car freight behind a single GP-9 pounds across the DT&I diamond at South Charleston, OH. The heritage of the former Pennsylvania line is evident from the keystone whistle board to the left of the engine. Today (2022) the double-tracked PC line west of the diamond is gone and the eastern segment stubs out after about a mile where it serves grain elevators to the east. The DT&I line is still in place.
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With a fresh crew aboard, UP's West Colton to North Platte mixed freight departs Cheyenne at sunset.
MWCNP 29
Clouds, clouds stay away!
Adelante 180106 in FGW livery departs from Malvern Link on 10-8-17
The working is the 1P40 09.54 Great Malvern to London Paddington Great Western Service
26 degree celsius, I was expeting thunder, but not:-) A 40 km ride after painting house = Reward! See note:-) One million of em. This playground is mine:-)
The sun hovers momentarily over a large bend in the Mississippi River at Ferryville, WI. It's hard to beat an evening along the river even when the BNSF is between trains. August 18, 2024.
LMS 4-6-0 5MT 'Black5' 45264 heads west at Fladbury in Worcestershire between Pershore and Evesham circa 1965.
The station closed in 1966.
If no one comes up with an answer I will post the solution tomorrow.
Withdrawn from 5B [Crewe South] on 30-9-67
Disposal at Cashmores, Great Bridge circa 31-1-68
Part of the Tom Derrington Collection
Amtrak F40PH 200 heads up a westbound 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.
Not the greatest grab shot, but it was one of the few times I caught a Lakes States Division train on the original SOO during the one and only summer of LSD's existence.
With SOO's 1986 takeover of the Milwaukee Road, all traffic shifted over to the doubletrack C&M Subdivision, leaving the Chicago Sub devoid of trains south of Duplainville, with the exception of the Schiller Park and Burlington locals.
As SOO continued to experiment with its Lake States Division, and its motley roster of GP9s, GP20s and GP30s, they briefly shifted the eastbound train #12 to Chicago onto the Chicago Sub straight into Schiller Park.
A difficult line to chase, we managed to catch up to it crossing US 45 in Vernon Hills, Illinois.
Part of my "30 years of slide film" series.
It was more than 23 years ago that I moved to the Upper Mississippi River Valley for a new job. The landscape and the railroading helped seal the deal. I would buy my first house along the river, eventually change jobs, eventually live elsewhere, but had kept the house where I could see the BNSF St. Croix Sub out the front windows. This day would be bittersweet as within the hour I would be closing on the sale of that house and my place along the river would be no more. I had a myriad of reasons to hang on to the old place but also the reasons to sell were piling up, it was time. Thankfully I still have family connections in this direction and don't live too far away. I'm looking forward to my future trips being for pleasure and not strictly work sessions.
The raw weather seemed appropriate for this day of farewell. I've made the drive hundreds of times but it never gets old. Skirting Lake Pepin I caught sight of an eastbound train a couple miles behind me on the other side of Maiden Rock. A brief pause here at Pepin allowed the BNSF 5926 to overtake me before we both continued down river. Even without a place to hang my hat along the river it retains a piece of my heart.
November 10, 2020.
As part of the massive double tracking project up Steelton Hill in Duluth, CN is building new bridge over 108th Ave West. The old bridge and track alignment can be seen in the background.
After getting a fresh crew and waiting for a couple westbounds, the CNXNA 16 pulls out of Cheyenne as it meets the Fresno, California bound MNPFR 16.
Train 109 waits to let Train 20 slide by after meeting at the location where double-track returns to single-track East of 11th St. Station. This is CP 33.3 on the South Shore Line in Michigan City Indiana.
October 30, 2023
2x 3-car Met Camm DMU's approach Kettlebeck Bridge in August 1982
The train is a Morecambe to Leeds working
Smoky skies create an interesting sunrise over Lake Pend Oreille at Sandpoint Idaho. With the plans to doubletrack this bridge...and all the fires we spent a few days here at the bridge.
The sun is just starting to shine through the bare trees as GBSO crosses the Ford River at Hyde, MI. I can think of very few double track bridges in the UP, mostly a short over pass here and there. It does attest to how busy this line once was with traffic off the Metropolitan Branch merging in at nearby Narenta to combine with what came off the more westerly parts of the Menomonie Range and even Gogebic Ranges plus all the traffic from the south. WC had moved the trains off it's parallel ex-SOO route a handful of years before adding some more traffic back to this old C&NW route. In a couple minutes this train will reach Escanaba. February 6, 2000.
A pair of H1s kick up snow as they fly down the St. Croix Sub with a Z-train. Fountain City, WI, March 4, 2003.
The paint isn't so fresh anymore on UP 6664 as it leads a westbound manifest on UP's Houston Sub northeast of H-Town. UP is currently double-tracking the Sunset Route here between Crosby and Dayton, about a 9 mile stretch.
MNOEWB 09 (Manifest- New Orleans, LA to Englewood Yard [Houston], Second Train)
UP C44ACM #6664
Crosby, TX
August 11th, 2021
The sun had set but it had been a fine day and I was taking my time packing up. When I saw a green approach signal pop up for a westbound on main 2 I tolerated the emerging gnats a few more minutes to see what was coming. A couple minutes later the headlight popped over the horizon with just enough light to play with and try a few shots. 5565 lead a Wisconsin Public Service "double" unit coal empty on it's way back to Wyoming. All GE powered, it was set up 2x3x1. August 10, 2024.
It's my generally frowned upon DPU going away cheater shot. I do like the mild fall colors, the trailers and the pair of mileposts so I present it for your consideration. With this quick catch in the bag we resumed the trip downriver to Clinton, IA. October 18, 2025.
As soon as the previous train disappeared over the horizon another one showed up to the west, racing up the other main. The south side of the right-of-way has more brush and trees than does the north side at this location. That fall foliage is backlit by the light of the train and the classic water tower along with newfangled cellphone towers decorate the skyline of Grand Mound, IA.
October 18, 2025.
Some end of the day sun broke out just in time to illuminate a classic lashup of NorthWestern power on this westbound train. 6854 wouldn't last the year before falling to the Union Pacific paintbrush. Flagg, IL, February 17, 1996.
A nice SD70ACe-T4 leads a North Platte to Portland mixed freight across the plains of eastern Wyoming as it makes its way across the Overland Route.
MNPPD 01
UP 2754 & 8335 lead a Stockton, California to Chicago intermodal train around the curve at Archer as they meet a westbound grain train.
ILTG2 15
It's now 6:17am and the sun still hasn't quite risen as UP 6669 & 5655 lead the GSMFY6 28 en route from Milford, Utah to Central City, Nebraska up Archer Hill.
At 6:06 a.m. during a humid and hazy dawn on July 1, 1990, two Conrail trains meet at speed at Chesterton, Indiana. The westbound TV487 intermodal train meets an eastbound steel coil unit train on the busy double track.
I was digging through a lot of early 2000s slides recently, BNSF wasn't the subject of the search but it was a pretty interesting time on the RR. The old 7300 rebuilds are among the pre-ETTS power that kept popping up. I began to wonder if I had any shots of one that has since achieved a certain level of notoriety. The E&LS has a pretty dedicated cadre of fans these days who record nearly every move the shortline makes. ELS 503 still wears BNSF colors and gets a lot of attention. I looked up its first number on BNSF, 7303, and watched for that number amongst the slides. I was happy to find a shot of 7303 on the point of a train headed down the St. Croix Sub in 2004.
It turns out I like this shot enough that I've already posted it to my Photostream here, 14 years ago to this day! I normally don't repost the same shot but this rabbit hole proved too irresistible so here is a new (better) scan of BNSF 7303 approaching East Winona, WI. Back when I first posted this it hadn't gone to the E&LS yet (via Independent Locomotive Service), the shot itself was 7 years old at that time. It's baffling how the years accelerate with age but I guess that's why I take pictures. In time it would be renumbered out of the way of newer power to 6964 on BNSF. By the end of 2011 it would leave the roster.
ILS renumbered this unit to 1338 and it ran for quite a while on E&LS with the leaser marks until E&LS purchased it:
www.flickr.com/photos/view2share/32681966120
Finally, after E&LS purchased it, it was renumbered into their SD40-2 number series as ELS 503:
www.flickr.com/photos/view2share/51637319780
With the steady contraction of the E&LS in 2025 it almost exclusively works the route between Channing, MI and Green Bay, WI.
April 28, 2004.
About mid-way between Morocco and Ade, Indiana was Shuey Ditch bridge, located at MP IH 52.95. This photo is looking north and shows the southbound main track abandoned in place. The northbound track had been removed long ago. Between Morocco and Kentland, all the bridges look similar to this, with the southbound main still in place. However, south of Kentland, the northbound main was favored when they single-tracked this in the 50's, so the northbound track would be left in place abandoned. Photo taken March 20th, 2013. This one was a little bit of a walk.
NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD
Shuey Ditch Bridge
Ade, rural Newton County, Indiana
MP IH 52.95
March 20th, 2013
Status-Abandoned
Fast freight Q540 (Etowah, TN - Cincinnati, OH) enters single track at Frantz, Kentucky on the L&N CC Subdivision on the hazy afternoon of May 2, 2021.
We went a couple miles north of Savanna and paused for a few minutes to see if there was anything else in the works on BNSF. This westbound intermodal was perhaps stuck on the other side of the diamonds. Green signals had them starting the trip along the Mississippi amid some developing fall color. October 18, 2025.
Weird to think that there was a period where we saw more lease units on locals than actual yellow ones. Here's such a duo of leased Geeps on the Eagle Lake Local as it heads for the Hines Industrial Lead off the Glidden Sub in Sugar Land.
This was taken during the double tracking of the Glidden Sub through southwest Houston. The little red board in front of the HLCX unit is there to protect MOW equipment parked on the new main.
LHT47 04 (Local- Eagle Lake to Sugar Land, TX and back)
GMTX GP38-2 #2617
HLCX GP38-2 #1029
Sugar Land, TX
August 4th, 2015
Train 505 waits for 608 to clear the bottleneck switch at the far East end of the Double-Track mainline near 11th Street Station. Car #1 is looking sharp (compared to #13) on the rear of 505 while waiting near the Lafayette Street grade crossing before proceeding East. This is CP 33.3 on the South Shore Line in Michigan City Indiana.
April 3, 2024
3rd try's the charm, they say. I('m still) pretty unfamiliar with BNSF ops out of the Twin Ports, and that showed when I missed the Grand Rapids turn with a BN duo because I was confused on which direction they came from (it was from Superior, for those keeping score at home).
So, a few days later, I went out to try again and waited at Boylston for them to roll south. As they get close, I reach for my camera, turn it on - no SD card. Out of literally three I have, I brought none. That's me. Luckily, the BN pair was split, and there was only 1832 leading. And, as the next day would demonstrate, the conditions (cloudy, dark) weren't the greatest.
Onto the 3rd try. The next day, with the night off of work and sunny skies, I set up at the end of the doubletrack at Irondale, Wi. Armed with two failures and a few friends talking me through this, I was ready to not mess this one up. A call time half an hour early of 1430 meant that they could go that much further before the reality of December daylight hours (future name drop, remind myself) humbled everyone.
HSUPNTW left superior around 1515, and the Grand Rapids Job, wasting no time OD, quickly followed them out. Just before 1530, they advised the dispatcher that their TGBOs had been issued to the wrong engine number, but with that fixed, west they went. However, the sun was quickly setting behind a line of very strategically planted pine trees behind me, and the shadows grew quite obviously longer across the rail as mere minutes went by. At 1536, the train was clear of Boylston, and a minute or so later I saw their headlights a few miles down the straightaway. It was my last chance to move to the wide open road a few hundred feet closer. I took my chances. Just a minute or two after their headlights appeared, the train rocketed through Irondale, and I got off a single shot of the headend not obscured by shadows, and flew after them.