British Export Trains
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Former Southern Region locomotive 09013, but now carrying Railfreight coal livery, hauls a rake of loaded coal containers out of Swansea Burrows yard into Swansea Docks.
The coal was anthracite, having been railed from the opencast disposal point at Cwmmawr to Coedbach, washed and then hauled to Swansea Burrows. The coal was exported to Northern Ireland.
An East bound Coal train on the James River Viaduct at Richmond , VA heading towards Newport News from where it will be shipped for exports. On the left side can be seen the famous Jefferson Hotel where the movie 'Gone with the Wind' was shot. The two Units in YN2 Paint scheme were still fairly common.
Class units of Conrail’s C32-8 and C30-7A classes, joined by another C32-8, have dropped their westbound train on a hump lead, and are now proceeding to the west end of Allentown yard. All three units are now in South America.
I'm on a mission, perhaps not attainable, to shoot all of the SD70s before they are rebuilt into those wide cab abominations. I'm not sure I'll get it done but we'll see.
Here's one of those spartan cab 70s, of the ex-Conrail variety, pulling mixer 10G into Enola Yard with a cut of Camrail exports fresh out of the GE plant in Erie.
Both of these, the standard cab and the Erie exports are on borrowed time. A two for one!
Another round of Pakistan GE locomotive exports round the bend into Enola, along with a British Rail Class 70 for Colas Rail. Pulling the high and wide load is SD70M-2 No. 2693.
WWRFP 1/31/16
Under a crazy sky, exports bound for Egypt make their way east under the old N&W coaling tower in Vicker, VA behind an ES44AC.
4-14-2023
During 2015 I was able to visit GE's Erie facility twice for tours and while photography was very limited I was able to take photos of the deadlines, and the yard were allowed. Here two export D9-40BBW's for CLN sit next to the GECX deadline waiting to be shoved out to the NS interchange. The ex-BN 5498 has long since been scrapped.
Along the tracks at the border of Colorado and Kansas. This view, looking west, is of Colorado. The monument, with "KANSAS" painted on it the side, has "COLORADO" on the other.
I'm not fully sure I understand the purpose here. There are two identical pillars on each side of the tracks. They do not announce which state the train is entering. Instead, "KANSAS" is on the Kansas side of the line. "COLORADO" is on the Colorado side.
It's a bit confusing if you don't know where you are. Thankfully, that wasn't a problem for me.
I shot a few of this scene - two color and one b&w. I'm not overly jazzed about any of them and would love a second attempt. Maybe someday.
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'Export'
Camera: Mamiya RB67
Film: Harman Phoenix 200
Process: DIY ENC-2
Kansas
July 2025
On what may very well be the last export coal train on the Alaska Railroad the rear DPs cross Upper Trail Lake at Moose Pass, AK
An interesting slice of history as cigarette advertising is now banned.
Same junk yard as where I found the two trucks. Reminds me of tv shows like American Pickers.
Leica M6 Classic
Voigtlander 35mm Nokton Classic
Kodak Gold
A GE C40-8 and two GE C36-7s pull a Skyline, Utah - Los Angeles, California export coal train through Springville, Utah the afternoon of Feb. 23, 1992. It appears the Wasatch Mountains have received a dusting of new snow, including 11,753 Mt. Timpanogos, on the left.
Another batch of General Electric ES58ACi locomotives for VALE Mining in Brazil head down the Norfolk Southern Lurgan Branch. Train 098 is heading for Norfolk, VA where the locomotives will continue on to South America by ship.
DiB 03/14/2015
A Southbound BNSF freight, heavy with Canadian exports treads across the Mud Bay Trestle in Surrey, B.C.
Following on from the last two uploads, there seems to be a common theme occurring, it’s not worth going out the house these days there’s nothing left!
86608 & 86632 cruse past Mill Meece with 4M87 on Friday 5th June 2020, I’d wanted this shot for a number of years and had set my stall out to give it ago regardless of the poor forecast knowing time was running out for the AL6’s. Sometimes, not very often admittedly everything just drops into place, the sun wouldn’t have been on the front had it turned up on time but with issues at Northampton the train ended up running 30 late…
DB oil-burning 'Jumbo' 043 636-0 (running as 43 636) thunders through the drizzle at Salzbergen, with a heavy coke train for Emden Docks, on Saturday 20th August 1977.
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Turning the clock back half a century and more when diminutive saddle tanks busied themselves around the dockside at Workington, on 31st March 2001, 1885-built Robert Heath 0-4-0 saddle tank 'No.6' moves a consignment of rail brought by the private railway from Corus' works to the dockside, to be loaded and shipped to Waterford in the Republic of Ireland. The locomotive and crew were on loan for a photographic charter, the rail transfer between steelworks and port normally undertaken by a diesel loco.
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A Borgward B1500 Pick Up in Bremen.
Special "Pick Up" export version of the B1500 only for the USA.
The B1500 was also sold in germany, but it had a different bed.
NS 098 is seen wasting no time getting out of Chattanooga. The consist is a pair of export EMDs heading to Egypt. 11-1-22
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A heavy loaded export ore train (CN U724) dips at the Amnicon River at Rockmont on the CN Superior Subdivision mainline. The train is starting to grind up the grade that crests at Hines. Good thing CN double-tracked the mainline here - it certainly makes a big difference with getting trains out of the Lake Superior Basin. For reference, the original mainline is on the left while the newer is to the right with a slight jog.
While the Export Coal train runs no more I pulled this shot from the archives from a couple of summers ago. The three MAC are the DP units on this southbound coal train with three more up front. While it certainly doesn't look like all this horsepower is necessary it will be before long as to get to Seward the railroad must climb Grandview & Divide Hills both with grades around 3%. That is pretty steep even for a short 70 car coal train.
The car is on export license plates. I was just in time to spot this Acadiane in the Netherlands, as it was driving to its new owner in the UK.
A4, Rijsenhout, the Netherlands.