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With a C30-7 and a SD40-2 as power, a short 9 car Turno Mexico-Huehuetoca passes by the Barrientos tunnel (the only one in FTVM territory) on their way to the Lecheria yard, where they'll drop off it's train so it's easier for the crew to do their first movements.
A caboose hitches a ride on the rear as this job now adventures into Ferrosur territory to Tula, Hidalgo on Linea A. FSRR requires all trains to indicate the rear of it, and since FTVM doesn't own any EOTD's, then cabooses are the choice, not a bad one at all!
Barrientos, EdoMex
M574 is east of North Vernon, Indiana with a variety of power in tow. The placement of the EOTD and shit-brown door still make me scratch my head, but with the limited traffic on the line, beggars can't be choosers.
It is late in the day after a cockpit windshield shattering resulted in what should have been a noon departure from Calgary into a more like 7:30pm departure. Hopes dashed that we would get to see anything this day, we still elected to follow the tracks instead of making a beeline for our destination of Lethbridge. It turned out to the the right move as we were able to catch this northbound freight passing the elevator in Brant, AB with a nice consist of CP, KCS Grey, KCSM Grey, and CPKC power. Sure would have been nice to be able to chase it all the way up from Kipp Yard. Especially with a cranky EOTD that limited them to 25mph...
A clear and quiet night lingers over the valley on the NS Roanoke District. The only sounds are barking dogs and some occasional rustling in the nearby bushes. The aspect of the signal changes from red to yellow, indicating a lineup for an oncoming train. A few minutes later, the silence of the landscape is broken by the sound of a distant horn. The yellow aspect turns green just before NS train 201 clears the north end of the siding at Solitude. 201's headlights begin to paint the landscape as it rushes around the curve to meet the facing signals of Arcadia. "NS 201 clear Arcadia" is called out over the radio by the conductor. Moments later, the green falls down to a red as 201 zips into the night. The EOTD flashes past, indicating the end of the train, and the silence is soon restored for the sleeping folks of Arcadia, Virginia.
Mixed freight, rolling away. Photographed along Norfolk Southern's heavily used Pittsburgh Line.
Nikkor 300mm f/4, wide open.
The cliché of all clichés... It will be the one and only here. Promise!
Somewhere in the Lakes District, England.
My aimless wandering landed me in Bement, where scanner traffic suggested that NS D17 would be departing towards Champaign relatively soon. The thought of chasing a northbound up even just a section of the Bloomington District was definitely an exciting thought - so wait I did.
The wait paid off, and with a 30mph restriction due to a faulty EOTD, they were off towards the Andersons grain facility. I sped off to the Bement intermediate, and after parking, promptly slipped on the ice almost directly beside the signal itself and hit the ground. Ow.
I'm just glad the train was far enough away so that the crew didn't see that...
NS D09s EOTD trails off into the Osman-Goembel siding on a freezing Saturday night. Beside the tracks at both CPs, as well as others like Lodge, new concrete bases are beginning to appear. The Bloomington Districts future is uncertain, some say the signals are coming down, others say it’s just PTC arriving in force, others a bit of both, and then some. Either way, change will be coming to the Bloomington District, and sooner than any of us really want, I imagine.
This is the second look i have tried from my new Urban Decay Naked palette. I applied...
'Smog' all over lids + on bottom lashline
'Dark Horse' in creases + on top lashline
'Sin' as highlight from crease to brow + in corners of eyes.
I generally dont like smokey/evening looks on me because im pale, but the shades in this palette go well with my skin color & hair color so i dont seem to be having a problem. It's pretty simply to use 3-4 shadows from this palette to create a full look, even a beginner would be at ease using Naked.
This look wont be one of my 'day' looks but i will probably use it mostly for date nights w/ my husband, or evenings out with the girls.
This is the first eye look i’ve tried from the UD Naked palette. I applied....
‘Virgin’ from crease to brow,
‘Sin’ all over lids,
‘Toasted’ in creases and along bottom lashline,
‘Hustle’ along top lashline as eyeliner.
I finished it off w/ deep plum liquid eyeliner on top & bottom and a thin coat of black mascara. This is alot more mauve/pink IRL and a nice alternative to regular nude shadows which are almost always various shades of bronze/brown. It will probably be one of my ‘day’ looks from the Naked palette.
Of all the Bloomington District searchlights in my immediate area, the Monticello intermediate has been on my bucket list since day one. Timing, losing the train, and just plain not knowing the right way to actually access the signal in the first place all kept me away from this spot. But, armed with the newfound knowledge that it is in fact much easier to get to than I realized, and also that D17 was restricted to just 30mph due to a faulty EOTD, it was high time to make a move.
That move, of course, was soaking my foot in icy water climbing down the embankment behind the motel to get to the tracks. Also sitting in the snow and getting my pant legs wet. There's a theme here. Oh, yeah, I also shot the signal and D17, so that made it worth it. The train had slowed in town dramatically, which I was glad for as it was a very close race from Bement thanks to an impassable car ahead of me that was paaainfully slow. Initially I thought the trains reduced speed was also going to make racing the train to Lodge easier, which it would have (although it took ages for the train to actually pass to let me get back to my car) had they not throttled up hard at CP Mills. So, it was time to race straight to Mansfield instead!
While driving home from work, I looked around at all the hoarfrost the fog from the previous few days had left clinging to the trees. I had the next day off, so I knew I’d have to go out and see some trains. I soon found out 4646 was planned to lead 418 the next day, with an early departure from Smith. I set my alarm for 5:45, and went to bed dreaming of blue BC Rails. When I woke up, I found out that 4646 wasn’t the only BC Rail leader on the Westlock Subdivision. 419 had left Walker earlier with 4653 on the point, and the two fallen flags were planned to meet at Kilsyth. Through the darkness and another morning of fog, I ventured toward Kilsyth with the hopes of catching the meet. I couldn’t see much - only the image of two classic BC Rails in original paint meeting each other! Once at Kilsyth, seemingly in the nick of time, chaos began to unfold. I traced 4646 to find that it had supposedly just left Smith roughly half an hour earlier. I didn’t know where either of the trains were, nor where the siding was. There was a red light, but it wasn’t flashing like an EOTD, and it was too foggy to tell if that’s where the siding was. After driving north to try and find any sign of a train, I discovered that the red light was an air car, and 419 was on the move! I rushed ahead and got them in Flatbush, just as blue hour began to take over the darkness. 418 couldn’t have passed yet, right? I began to make my way back towards Westlock just in case. At the Jarvie turnoff, the scanner came alive. Part 2 coming soon!
Train ID:
CN A41951 (Mixed Freight)
Canadian National Westlock Subdivision
Locomotives:
BCOL C44-9W 4653
CN SD75I 5758
Canon EOS 90D | 24mm
January 5th, 2024 - 8:49 AM MT
The “ETD Wall” on the side of the Amtrak Station in Shelby makes for a pretty interesting photo. On this wall you will find a collection of ETD’s (End of Train Device), also known as FRED’s, depending on who you ask. These are the little machines that replaced the famous red caboose seen on the rear of trains in years past. These are mounted on the rear coupler of a train and tied into the brake pipe. Through communication with the HTD (Head of Train Device), they can tell the engineer the rear end air pressure, movement info, and can even be used to make an emergency brake application from the rear end. While they are not as glamorous as the caboose of the past, they are a truly revolutionary piece of railroad tech.
The light power has made its run from Fairfield to Choteau to pick up two loaded grain hoppers bound for Great Falls. After tying on, mounting the EOTD, and making an air test, they will be ready to depart back south for Eastham Junction, and then turn east for Power.
Subdivision: Choteau Subdivision
Train Name: Lost Local
Train Symbol: L-MON866
Shooting into the setting sun this evening, NS D93 local with one car heads westbound past Buck Creek on its way back to Lafayette, IN after working industries in Logansport and Clymers, IN. The EOTD flashed me as the train passed by.
A former Chessie System/C&O bay-window caboose is looking a bit forlorn as it heads up the "VACO" connection track at Deep Water, West Virginia on CSX H701. This caboose will be used for the conductor to ride and watch the reverse move as the train will reverse to a yard in Alloy, WV on Watco's Kanawha River Railroad.
"VACO" stands for "Virginian-Chesapeake and Ohio" as this track was originally built as an interchange between the Virginian Railway and the C&O.
The irony here is the EOTD (End of Train Device) attached to the caboose as it was the device that caused an icon of North American railroading to disappear from almost every freight train.
On the shelf high above the deep valley cut through Réserve Faunique de Port-Cartier-Sept-Îles by the Rivière MacDonald, the DPU brings up the markers on iron ore loads. The head end is already well into Tunnel No. 1, and an evening storm well under way on the Chemin De Fer Cartier, an isolated and neglected paradise of railroading.
Mile 30 Cut, Chemin de fer Cartier
Réserve faunique de Port-Cartier-Sept-Îles.
Lac-Walker, Quebec
Monday, September 19, 2016
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By the end of our Virginia trip, we'd gotten a pretty decent haul of shots and signals, but one had eluded us for a while. Vesuvius, a signal in a phone-signal-less valley with a very, very narrow margin in which light works with the signal. We'd started with three of us in the car, one leaving us the day before, and today, the other would be heading home. He had a train to catch in Roanoke, but both of us had a train to catch on the H-Line - NS 14Z. We shot him at Lithia and Arcadia, and the math seemed to line up for good enough light at Vesuvius... which was almost an hour away.
With an eye on the clock, we raced north, arriving at CP Vesuvius to find it red. We waited and waited, and just as it seemed like we were gonna have to call it to get back to Roanoke in time for Audie's train home, the signal upgraded to yellow. A minute later, the railfan we met at Arcadia pulled up and told us 14Z was real close. We made the choice to grab our shot here and then book it south afterwards.
Lo and behold, 14Z was on us within ten minutes and blasted through into the only technically doubled tracked portion of the H-Line. NS4275 is in fact the DPU on 14Z, making this shot an incredibly cheeky going-away shot. Considering how difficult traffic is on this line though, and the lack of EOTD, I'm okay with it.
This wound up being the last shot of the trip. We returned to Roanoke in time for Amtrak, then I was on my own. No more trains rolled up or down the Roanoke District until the next morning, but by then I was on my way back home.
Vesuvius and the rest of the H-Line and even the other nearby lines that retain some of these classic CPLs are on the chopping block for replacement with new signals. I don't expect to be able to make it back far enough that way in time to shoot them again, making this probably the last photo I'll get of a train at a CPL. Even if NS doesn't cut them down as soon as is expected, I'll be losing my job by the end of the year. It's not likely I'll find a place as generous with time off as this, and seeing as my newly-married wife and I live in different countries and need time off work to see each other... well, suffice to say, trains are gonna have to be a little more on the backburner, hah. You never know, but time will tell.
If this was indeed my last chance to see these signals, I think it ended pretty well.
today's short trip to the christie road area at the western end of franklin canyon had more to do with me seeing if i know how to properly operate my new scanner and giving the volvo some sustained 75-80 mph time on the freeway rather than watching trains--thus, i was mildly surprised to get a just-in-time shot of this richmond bound local out of stockton which arrived unaccompanied by a EOTD squawk on the scanner.
fortunately, there is a signal a CP christie which was green when i drove 'round to check it giving me time to drive to this spot and quickly click a few shots with the camera on the settings from the last time i used it.
sharp eyes will see the third unit in the consist is ferromex.
NS was flat-switching a cut of cars in Enola's yard and this worker rode the cars out to throw a turnout.
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DM&IR 416 and 411 pass Iron Junction West Wye back in January 2004, the last winter of the Missabe's independence. The 416 was one of the two ex-SD45-2s rebuilt just like the other 400s to work alongside the tunnel motors. Always liked catching the 416 and 418 as that was the variety back in the day. Only caught the 416/418 together on a train once.
The winter of 2003-2004 was great for shooting with lots of snow and cold, clear days. I was out there as much as I could hoping I would not run out of the Provia 100F in the camera.
This steaming Minntac load was closely following another load (DMIR 403 S.) towards Two Harbors. The trains got bunched up as the plant was having problems dealing with the below zero temps. A far cry from this winter with the mild temps. including 48 F here in Superior the day after Christmas. According to my notes about -15F when we took this shot at Iron Jct. West Wye.
This Photograph shows several Covered Hoppers at the End of the Train. On the Left Top of the Photograph is the Mercedes Benz Stadium and at the Top Right is the Philips Arena. If you enlarge the Photograph you can see the Philips Arena Sign. Also, if you look carefully at the last Hopper Car in the enlarged picture, you can see the End of Train Device (Flashing Red Light) on the back of the Hopper Car on the Coupler.
This Photograph shows a NS Train passing Control Point Spring near the Mercedes Benz Stadium, not far from Centennial Olympic Park in Downtown Atlanta. I took this Photograph from the top of the Martin Luther King Jr. Drive SW Bridge, of a Norfolk Southern Train passing under the M L K Jr Drive Bridge going away from me, passing Switch/Signal Control Box "SPRING".
Since I was in Atlanta for a Family Wedding and was unfamiliar with the area (in lieu of the Train Number), I will supply the Roster Numbers of the three Norfolk Southern Locomotives to Identify the Train. The Locomotive Numbers were as follows: the Lead Locomotive was Number 9453, a GE Dash 9-44CW (Norfolk Southern Designation D9-44CW), the second Locomotive was Number 4056 a GE AC44C6M (Rebuilt from a NS Dash 9-40C with AC traction and GE widenose & cab) and the third Locomotive was Number 3677 a GE ET44AC. All three Locomotives were rated at 4,400 Horse Power.
Photographs of the three Locomotives appear (in my Photostream) in several preceding Photos (click on the Right Arrow to go back several Photos to see the Locomotives