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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.
Ex BR 9F class No. 92214 pictured shortly after Woodthorpe on the Great Central railway, with a service to Leicester north.
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.
Moduverse+
32x32 Double track module with gravel between tracks.
160 parts (frame only)
Very high setting rendering using Stud.io.
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Free building instructions:
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Clinton can be a gritty town on a sunny summer day. Under thick overcast in the failing light of an October evening it naturally propelled us west along the UP mainline. The Clinton Sub was quiet overall but as we approached DeWitt we were paralleling a westbound intermodal. We got close to catching it but the zig-zag of US 30 around the west side of DeWitt put us behind and once on the two-lane with small town speed restrictions there would be no catching up. An effort was made to pull even with the DPU once we identified it as UP 1989. It would be my 3rd special paint scheme of the day, a lot as I normally go years between sightings.
The Rio Grande heritage unit pushes hard on the rear of the train passing through Grand Mound, IA. Passing the opposite direction at speed a Dodge Ram 4x4 blurs past. All happening on and along US 30, east-west companion to old C&NW across Illinois and Iowa, then the UP west from there across Nebraska, Wyoming etc. Bigger picture it's one of the great transcontinental highways from Atlantic City, NJ to Astoria, OR. October 18, 2025.
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.
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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
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
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:-)
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.
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
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.
A westbound intermodal train has just crossed Lake Pend Oreille as it meets an eastbound intermodal on a nice fall day in the Idaho Rockies.
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.
2x 3-car Met Camm DMU's approach Kettlebeck Bridge in August 1982
The train is a Morecambe to Leeds working
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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