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I've mentioned before how friendly train staff are in America. Look carefully and you can see the engineer / driver returning our wave when he saw photos being taken. As so often there were also a couple of 'hello' blasts on the horn : )
FURX 5520 leads BNSF 2020 as they haul a freight from LyondellBasell's Equistar chemical plant outside Matagorda, TX. It is probably heading for the docks at Corpus Christi.
For the rail aficionados - FURX 5520 is a rebuilt GP38-2 locomotive. The unit was originally built as Norfolk & Western 4140, a GP38AC, in September 1971. The "FU" stands for "First Union" though that company was taken over by Wells Fargo Rail late in 2015. That is a leasing company based in Illinois.
"Because they could." - Fat Tire Cowboys (Pilot[s], Engineers, Mechanics, and Private Financial Supporters, in/from Idaho) dreamed of designing an airworthy combination of two Yak-55s. After 14 months of joint efforts they succeeded in getting this novel aircraft certified. Since then this single jet airplane has been performing at various air shows and venues. This image is of one of the final successful maneuvers pilot Jeff Boerboon did at the Thunder Over the Bay Air Show, Travis Air Force Base, Fairfield, California.
56105 at Green Lane, Darlington on the 5th of March 2025 with a Doncaster to Millerhill Engineers train.
27th August 2008 and more rare moves at Chorley with an engineers train that was being shunted in the station. This was in conjunction with engineering works for the removal of the flying arches towards Preston
2018 Road Trip to Tuktoyaktuk, NWT via Dempster Highway and the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway or ITH (Tuk Highway).
On a day of fast moving clouds 70817 manages to pick up some brightness passing Potbridge with engineers train 6C03 1151 Eastleigh East Yard to Motspur Park, here running on the up fast after some of what I'd call poor regulating!
73213 & 73206 run through Cosham with a Eastleigh yard to Gatwick engineers on 22 April 2012. This was a lucky sun shot, a few minutes later the skies opened.
The sun starts to rise on an empty Cootes Industrial ballast train stabled in the engineers siding at Parkeston with 8049,8037,NA1874 on 30-9-09
Hey look, buddy, I'm an Engineer. That means I solve problems.
And the problem I solved, is that there wasn't a Engi in my collection!
everything you see is custum painted by me.
I gave him a batman utility belt, and a piece of paper for the top part of his overal.
I also gave him a custum build level 1 sentry.
And I believe that that's all folks!
so grabe your self a cool beer, and let your sentry do the job!
My 4 years old brother gives me idea to make pliers. When I customing my figures, my brother saw the BrickArms bipod, and said "It's pliers". I explained him there isn't pliers, there is bipod. After that I want make german engineer, and I use my brothers design, so here it is.
A few minutes later, the engineer brings the LVRM trio back past Eastern Engineered Wood in Hellertown.
A Saturday in the Warrington area. Red Bank for 66754 and 66760 on 1Z24. Got done by cloud. 66155 followed it and of course that was in full sun! Then a move to Winwick for the rest of the day. 66620 came on an engineers train, 56087 came light from Carnforth - Carnforth which terminated at Crewe. There was a 5Z07 Crewe Gresty Bridge - Kingmoor. Expected 68001. Came with 66429! Anyway, here is 66620 working the 11:42 Euxton Jn - Crewe Basford Hall past Winwick 30/7/16
20095 passes through Carstairs with a short Engineers.
Carstairs, Lanarkshire. 6 July 1984
Scottish Railrover
Class 66 , 66592 .From Bescot Engineers sidings to Bletchley. Taken at Whitacre 10.12.22. Velvia 50 pushed to 100.
Engineer (Young) Will Lovelace calls for permission through a work authority on the Philly Sub from the cab of Q032. Will's dad was an Erie, and later NJT conductor. Will was the first CSX-era hire on the former RF&P out of Richmond.
When I was occasionally cut back to conductor, I would go to the UPS train pool to work with the top-dog engineers; John Stone, Jim Stevens, and Will Lovelace. All great to work with.
Mr. Lovelace retired in late 2021.
The "Three Amigos" in engineer class. L to R: Mike Burbidge, Jeff Sessa (me), Jay Daravong. I believe Mike went to MBTA, I went to Amtrak in 2023, and Jay went to the Pan Am before leaving the industry entirely. We certainly had fun down in Atlanta.
Colas Railfreight "Grid" Class 56 56113 powers past Bennerley Viaduct near Ilkeston Station working 6C56 Tinsley South Jn to Toton North Yard in the lovely morning sun
Of interesting note, the footbridge in the background i understand is soon to be gone, , opening this scene up possibly more, but will be a sat sight to loose something of LMS heritage
Who can say whether every dimple and pattern is necessary, but the internals of a washing machine can be art.
As he was arriving at the station, Eric gives me a huge wave and smile. It's nice to catch him at the throttle doing what he does best. He's a great friend, mentor, and overall nice guy that loves what he does. Ottumwa, IA 2/2/2016.
It's a summer Friday, and McCloud Railway is running its weekly train east to the BNSF interchange at Lookout, California. The train runs with just engineer Malen Johnson; a helper will drive to Lookout and assist him with the switching moves there. The last 34 miles into Lookout are over BNSF-owned track that is operated and maintained by MR.
When this image was exposed at Bartle siding in August 2001, the future was looking bleak. In a couple of years, BNSF would enter into a haulage agreement with Union Pacific that enabled abandonment of the old Great Northern from Lookout west to Hambone. Traffic off MR for BNSF would go to UP at Mount Shasta, and UP would then turn it over to BNSF at Klamath Falls, Oregon. The last McCloud Railway train to Lookout ran in December 2003.
Ultimately, MR stopped hauling freight entirely in mid-2006. All its trackage east of McCloud is now abandoned and dismantled. For now, BNSF has left a couple miles of the line west of Lookout in place. This spur to nowhere is used periodically for car storage.
Hero Fortress 2
(Team Fortress 2 meets Hero Factory)
To see the classes in all their glory you can check out the Imgur or MOCpages gallery
SERIES:
New series continuing from last week's post. If you guessed a train station, you were absolutely correct. There's a lot more on the property than just the train. There is the old plantation house, the museum as well as the distillery. On this occasion, we are only dealing with the newest attraction, which is the train.
While I was listening to the engineers and tour guides talking, I couldn't resist taking a shot of the main driver here. They are making sure we have enough fuel for the trip to the top of the hill and back. We are standing on the platform as you may have guessed but we're getting ready to leave soon.
To know a bit more about the history of St. Nicholas Abbey and the attractions on the property, you can go here: https://www.stnicholasabbey.com/
To all of you, hope you enjoy the weekend and have an awesome week ahead, wherever you are! Let me know what you think!
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"No, no, no... this train is at PROMONTORY, we're the Central Pacific. You need to have been on the Santa Fe if you wanted to get to Albuquerque!"
37248"Midland Railway Centre" +58020"Doncaster Works" pass Didcot on 23/April/2002 working 6O26 Didcot Yard to Eastleigh yard engineers.
As requested...pics with light!! :) Like I said before, a little bigger than I am used to, but we still like it.
Credit to Mr.Jens for the original 251.
Credit to Panzerbricks for the original concept.
Album : DuaKosongSatuEmpat
Foto ini terinspirasi dari perkataan dosen saya. Beliau mengatakan bahwa bedanya seorang Engineer dengan yang bukan engineer adalah pada pola pikir. Seorang Engineer selalu memperhitungkan sesuatu sebelum mengambil tindakan, ketika dia yakin bisa, maka akan dilakukan. Dan jika tidak, dia akan mencari solusi bagaimana pemecahannya.
May 23, 2015 was 'At the Throttle' day at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC.. I was lucky enough to get a stint operating this fascinating and historic locomotive. One of the 10 happy engineers waving at his friends while operating this wonderful piece of history.
The view of a rural grade crossing near Mattoon, Illinois, on the former Illinois Central Railroad mainline. The view is from a southbound Illinois Central Gulf intermodal train. (Scanned from Kodak Tri-X negative film)
An enthusiastic engineer has his Twin Ports-bound manifest at track speed as it kicks up a ground blizzard while passing the 1 x 1 vehicle train.
For more of my street photographs:
the RICOH GR album
the MONOCHROM album
the STREET PHOTOGRAPHY album