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I didn't have "NS SD40-2 leads a mainline train in Texas" on my 2023 bingo card, but here we are on a gorgeous winter afternoon, as NS 3281 brings UP's MAGSP 04 into Alvin on BNSF's Galveston Sub, heading into the wye with the Mykawa Sub for the run into Houston.
After the trailing unit's PTC crapped out, and apparently with no other power available in Angleton, this unit remained in the lead. This train is one of two daily manifests between Angleton and Lloyd Yard in Spring, TX, forwarding loads of various chemicals and plastic pellets to points further north on the UP system. 2/4/2023
Wisconsin and Southern (WAMX) 3893, 3895, and 3891 are towing the daily (on weekdays) L599 with freight from the Northern Division Horicon for interchange with the CN at Ackerville or forwarding to Milwaukee. The trio of GP38-2s have a good roll on the train here between Woodman and Rubicon, WI passing the classic barn scene at Lilac Road as the rolling terrain is coated in some recent February snow. L599 has typically been a reliable morning chase over the years out of Horicon, often with sets of nicely-painted WSOR GP units.
June 11, 2021 - North of Columbus Nebraska US
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Moderate risk for this section of Nebraska. As we packed our gear and left about 3:00am to intercept these forwarding storm cells. Yes I said 3:00 am.
6:30am ish....Once in position to intercept... They were moving extremely fast and once they moved over our location it was hard to keep in front of them. We tried. Though we eventually have to move south Close to Shelby Nebraska we got the last severe storm of the day!
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Two major players competing for traffic in the viable transportation corridor that is the Columbia River Gorge momentarily roll past one another on the river's Washington banks at Dallesport in a side-by-side appearance made possible by some unbelievable luck. The 11,249 foot snow-capped peak of Mt. Hood looks down at eastbound garbage traversing both their respective playing fields as a 60-car H INBROO1 26A, fresh out of the siding following a meet with a Pasco to Longview freight, hustles on rails above while a much slower "Crown Point" tug painstakingly pushes its short barge toward the locks at The Dalles Dam in this region's never-ending "Dash for Trash." BNSF collects garbage from terminals all throughout the Pacific Northwest via a handful of local jobs that shuttle the loaded containers of waste to yards at both Interbay and Everett where several of these unit trash trains per day are assembled for forwarding to a landfill site at Republic Services in Roosevelt, WA. These moves closely resemble your normal intermodal trains, however with a rather distinct and unpleasant odor attached with them. Upon arrival, the containers are removed from their railcars and loaded onto trucks where rubber wheels bring the garbage its last few miles uphill to Republic's large dump site, which has the capacity for over 120 million tons of trash, fourth largest of its kind in the United States. Empties are then loaded back onto a waiting train and promptly sent back west to the cities for another load of stinky cargo, continuing the cycle. Union Pacific runs almost an identical operation of their own for Waste Management on the Oregon side of the river to and from a dump site near the town Arlington.
Some of railroad's EMD SD75Ms that often run these trash trains would've been the icing on the cake for this shot, but hard to complain here.
Here's another I'm just adding to Flickr that was shared on FB long ago.
New England Central Railroad train 611 is Northbound on the Palmer Sub (ex Central Vermont Railway) mainline crossing the blue Connecticut River here near MP 109.2. This 705 ft long bridge was built in 1904 to replace a timber bridge on this site. After the southern Pratt deck trusses were destroyed in the flood of 1936, they were replaced by the present-day Warren deck truss spans. The 1904 spans destroyed in the 1936 flood remain at the bottom of the river.
I remember it being quite the scramble climbing up here from Caldwell Road that passes underneath, but the results were worth it. Upon arrival in Brattleboro this train will become 323 for forwarding north to Saint Albans.
East Northfield, Massachusetts
Friday October 19, 2018
In loving memory of Sheila 2004 - May 2nd, 2019
Happy Caturday 6.4.2019 "News"
The story: two days ago, several tons of fish and birds died in a nearby brook due to an incident at a forwarding agency.
www.stimme.de/heilbronn/nachrichten/region/Nach-Giftunfal...
Staverns Fortress
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Staverns Fortress
Stavern, Norway
Site information
Controlled byDenmark–Norway, Sweden
Site history
Built1677
In use1677–2002
MaterialsGranite, brick
The construction of Staverns Fortress began in 1677 when Ulrik Frederick Gyldenløve built a blockhouse with battery and palisades on a hill at Stavern, Norway as part of the overall development of Norwegian fortresses. The fort was first built on Karlsøy during the Gyldenløve War (1675–1679).
The fortress was expanded in 1687 until 1689 to include three canon batteries and a blockhouse. The fortress served as an important base for Norwegian naval hero Tordenskiold and his fleet during the Great Northern War’s final Norwegian phase from 1709 until 1720 and as a central staging point for sea commerce from Denmark in this period. The fort was the homeport for the Danish–Norwegian Kattegat squadron. And not least, it served as a major chandelling and forwarding center for canon from the Norwegian ironworks and other equipment.
Fredriksvern and Fredriksvern Verft was established as the headquarters for the Norwegian Fleet from 1750 until 1758 so that the older fortification became part of the naval base. The oldest constructed building, ‘’Krutttårnet’’, has a distinctive architecture and today is a well known tourist attraction.
Tower Tuesday -3.
Another view from 3-9-2009 finds AVR-3 job getting ready to depart Glenwood Yard for Bruceton and Eighty-Four, PA. Closed up and abandoned WJ Tower sits off to the right alongside the P&W Sub of CSX. AVR-3 has 3003-3002-3001 and 2008 for power along with some freight and 50 empty coal hoppers. The 3 SD45's and 50 empty hoppers will be dropped off at Bruceton for the Wheeling & Lake Erie to take to the SWP at Owensdale for forwarding to Bullskin Mine/Loadout at Connellsville. 2008 and 5 freight cars will continue to Eighty-Four to service customers there.
Glenwood Jct (WJ) Tower was torn down on August 27, 2024.
This is a close up using the same camera and lens as my earlier shot of our local War Memorial. Using the Canon Extender made such a difference I am well pleased with it. And this is straight out of the camera, no cropping!
I'm hoping, after forwarding the photos to my local Council, they will consider a steam clean for this beautiful memorial. It will be 100 years next July since it was unveiled.
A nyitrai Jaguar/Land Rover gyárból indult autószállító vonat robog Elecske után nem sokkal. A vonat élén látható 041-es Pegazusnak talán nem megterhelő a vonat továbbítása, mindössze 30 kilométert kell dolgoznia a gyárnál található rakodó termináltól Lipótvár településig, ahol gépcsere után már villanymozdonnyal folytatja útját a vonat, Németország felé.
A vehicle train from the Jaguar/Land Rover factory in Nitra is rolling not far after Alekšince. No. 041 "Pegasus", which can be seen at the head of the train, may not have had a hard time forwarding the train, having to work only 30 kilometres from the loading terminal next to the factory to Leopoldov, then the train continued its journey by electric locomotive to Germany.
One of 10 GE ES44AC's honoring the BNSF Railway 25th Anniversary of the September 22, 1995 merger between Burlington Northern Railroad and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway leads BNSF Train C CAMKCL 110A eastward on the BNSF St. Joseph Sub. Far out of sight on the rear behind 134 loads of coal is DPU BNSF 9293. This train interchanges to the KCS at Kansas City for forwarding to the Evergy, formerly KCPL La Cygne, KS Power Station.
The logos of 8 predecessor railroads line the hood of the engine including CB&Q, GN, NP, BN, AT&SF, SLSF, C&S, and SP&S. This is the 3rd unit to enter regular service across the system with the anniversary lettering. This is the 6163's first round trip in revenue service on the point of a train since being released by the RELCO-Wabtec Shop in Albia, IA.
Locomotives: BNSF 6163, BNSF 8405
9-9-20
Rushville, MO
The cliché saying "the best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry" pretty much sums up this move last week. In a bit of irony though, the alternative was fairly efficient. The intended plan was to tack these JLTV loads onto the rear of Saturday's T004H and then have T004R take them as far west as they could on the Prairie.
However, L695 never made it down to Horicon that night. So on Saturday morning, Y501 was sent out to catch the train at Brandon. Instead of delaying T004H, the Saturday Janesville Y302 crew was sent to north to run the train as an extra behind the regular T004H as a T004X. Upon their arrival, they spun this set so the PTC GP38 was leading and a very quick power swap occurred near the north end of the wye.
Once at Milton, T004X would bring the PTC geep to the house and T004R would finish their shift forwarding the train to Madison. Finally, an evening Y303 crew would advance it to Boscobel that night. Not bad all things considered.
One last little tidbit I found interesting: in Jeff Hamptons post he estimated the value of this train to be roughly $50M. Quite the high dollar move for the little WSOR!
Bei Niederaudorf im Inntal konnte ich am 12. Februar 2021 den DGS 43139 von Wuppertal nach Verona Q.E. fotografieren. Dieser Zug ist einheitlich mit Aufliegern und Wechselbrücken der Spedition Winner beladen. Etliche Jahre oblag die Beförderung dieser Leistung dem EVU Lokomotion. Im Herbst 2020 gewannen jedoch die ÖBB den Auftrag und übernahmen die Verbindung. Eingesetzt werden von und bis zum Brenner zumeist Tauri, wie hier die 1116.067.
Near Niederaudorf in the Inn valley I could photograph the intermodal train DGS 43139 from Wuppertal to Verona Q.E. on 12 February 2021. This train is uniformly loaded with trailers and swap bodies of the forwarding company Winner. For several years, the transport of this service was the responsibility of the Lokomotion. In the fall of 2020, however, ÖBB won the contract and took over the connection. Mostly Tauri locomotives, such as the 1116.067 shown here, are used to and from the Brenner Pass.
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Moderate risk for this section of Nebraska. As we packed our gear and left about 3:00am to intercept these forwarding storm cells. Yes I said 3:00 am.
6:30am ish....Once in position to intercept... They were moving extremely fast and once they moved over our location it was hard to keep in front of them. We tried. Though we eventually have to move south Close to Shelby Nebraska we got the last severe storm of the day!
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A solo Belle brings empty autoracks westbound on UP's Houston Sub, coming into Crosby in prime golden hour. CPKC has added new trains to handle their growing auto traffic across the tri-country system; I believe this was I184-13, forwarding empty racks from Wylie, TX to Mexico for loading.
Yesterday I uploaded the first photo taken on the last trip, fast forwarding, this was the last one, Maria Gern church and Watzmann peak, the highest mountain located entirely in Germany. I wish there was more fresh snow, but it's been a warm winter in the Alps. I used a flashlight to illuminate the church and the foreground.
DA 1008 a Express Forwarding (ex. CFR Marfa depoul Simeria) in Brasov Triaj, fiind la coada unui marfar de la Curtici pentru Moacsa hvm.
DA 1008 of Express Forwarding (ex. CFR Marfa Simeria depot) in Brasov Triaj, being at the rear of a freight train from Curtici for Moacsa hvm.
Brasov Triaj, 13.04.2025.
I'm getting ready to head to Florida next week and soon hope to have lots of new material but that made me think about the last time I was there a half dozen years ago. So here are a few from that last trip.
A CSXT yard job with a lone SD70MAC works the big Tropicana Products yard at MP AZA917.8 on the Palmetto Subdivision. While most of the line down from Tampa is ex ACL this yard and the trackage the plant is situated on is former SAL. In fact in days of old there would have been a diamond right about here as the ACL (the trackage curving in from the left) crossed the SAL on a diamond.
However after the 1967 merger that created the Seaboard Coast Line the two routes were cobbled together eliminating the SAL's Manatee River bridge in favor of the still in use ACL bridge but retaining the SAL route down to Venice excepting through downtown Sarasota where once again the SAL was retained. The tracks through here saw regularly daily passenger service to Venice right up until the start of Amtrak in 1971 and the seasonal passage of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey circus trains to and from their winter headquarters in Venice until 1990. Today CSXT's ownership ends just south of here and shortline Seminole Gulf Railway provides service in the Sarasota are, but from there south to Venice is abandoned and now a rail trail.
This plant is the reason CSXT has retained the line this far south as Tropicana still generates a daily train of orange juice reefers that move to Tampa for forwarding on on connecting trains to distribution centers in New Jersey, Cincinnati, and Southern California. This movement of orange juice by rail was pioneered by the company in 1970 by founder Anthony Rossi and for decades it ran as a twice weekly dedicated unit train. To read a bit about this massive plant and its history check out these links:
www.businessobserverfl.com/article/tropicana-plant-braden...
citrusindustry.net/2018/10/23/pieces-of-the-past-juice-tr...
Bradenton, Florida
Sunday April 24, 2016
37797 opens up with a load of recovered coal from Pontycymmer in the Garw valley as it heads onto the Margam Moors line.
The train is heading for Jersey Marine Steel Supply near Neath, where the recovered coal was blended with coal from other sources before forwarding to Aberthaw power station.
Train NR-3 is seen southbound along the shores of the French River at Bartons in Webster, MA on the fall afternoon of November 4, 2013 powered by B40-8W 4006 and B39-8 3901. Paducah and Louisville GP40 slug set 2108/2103 is dead in tow for forwarding to New Haven, CT to be tested on P&W Train CHFP/FPCH.
Another one from 1993. After chasing #505 to London we found the Hamilton Turn (commonly known as the Ham Turn) waiting the leave the yard heading east with an RS-18u - C-424 - GP38-2 consist.
The Ham Turn forwarded Buffalo-bound traffic to Hamilton where it was picked up by Toronto - Buffalo trains for forwarding to Buffalo and of course the reverse. Today this work is done by London - Buffalo trains 254/255 which between London and Buffalo every second day.
While sitting on the back patio at our hotel on the riverfront one evening, I heard horns in the distance on the Shellpot Secondary. So I made quick run up to my room to grab the camera and a short walk up the riverfront trail to the Ward bridge brought me a local crew forwarding 37A out of Edgemoor Yard with a freshly rebuilt AC44C6M leading the way.
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The CPKC's intermodal train 133 arrives at the Buffalo ICTF facility in Lackawanna, New York where is will be handed off to CSX for forwarding to Chicago. In the lead is one of CPKC's recently acquired ET44AC's, wearing the railroad's new paint scheme. This locomotive was built as one of GE's Tier 4 demonstrators and was slated to go to the unbuilt Baffinland Iron Mines Railway before being purchased by CPKC and being converted to their specifications.
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Convoglio intermodale per conto dello spedizioniere "Arcese" dall'Interporto d'Abruzzo di Manoppello (PE) a Mošnov (Repubblica Ceca) per la 483 015 in uso a Captrain Italia, in transito a Stanghella come TEC 66506.
Intermodal convoy on behalf of the forwarding agent "Arcese" from the Interporto d'Abruzzo of Manoppello (PE) to Mošnov (Czech Republic) for the 483 015 in use at Captrain Italia, in transit at Stanghella as TEC 66506.
We're at West Clarksfield Ohio on day 2 of the spring trip which to my surprise was 765 day on the Wheeling that also featured a westbound with Wheeling's Rio Grande tunnel motors.
Oh before I forget Thanks Terry Chicwak and Zane Smith and Dave Beach who I'm sure was forwarding locations!
A few years back, the Wheeling still required four-axle locomotives on the Matt Branch in PA, so it was common to see trios of geeps on the 214 out of Brewster for forwarding to the east end. On the evening of March 23, 2018, I caught two GP35-3's and a GP40-3 leading the 214 east into Bolivar at the Rocket defect detector with tanks for Hanna. They would then grab eastbound loaded tanks from Hanna and head for Rook, where another crew would take the geeps down the Matt Branch the next day when grabbing coke loads from Monessen. The restriction on the branch has since been lifted, and four axles are no longer necessary east of Mingo Junction.
In May 2020 I found myself trackside on a gloomy day in Jacksonville, Florida, at the CSX Trout River Bridge, capturing what was one of the final A794, Fernandina Rocket, trains on CSX. The rocket was an old Seaboard Coast Line train that ran daily to the large paper mill on Amelia Island, north of Jacksonville, from Waycross, Georgia. The "Rocket" was one of the usual early morning southbound trains into Jacksonville terminal that often included hot intermodal trains and Amtrak. Rarely running less than track speed this train would make it onto the former Seaboard Air Line main at Grand Junction as fast as it could to clear ahead of any following trains. This particular morning they ran 794 ahead of the inbound Q031 and this crew had no issues keeping the train ahead of the priority intermodal. When the "Rocket" turned onto the former SAL mainline they would run out to Amelia Island and turn back for Waycross later in the day. Fast forward to 2020 and this train was only running as far as Busch Yard a few miles out of town, and turning back. Another local was forwarding traffic up to Yulee, and the interchange with the First Coast Railroad which leased the line from CSX back in 2005. I shot this train and one other that mid-pandemic week, and the following week CSX abolished the symbol. The 794 job was a popular target for its use of older CSX motive power up to its final runs. I was glad to shoot it here at the Trout River crossing before it went away.
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And here is the second uninspiring wedge of the other TPW EB. This crew was tasked with forwarding the MEPEF from Gilman to Effner and then dropping stone mtys at Newton. Here at Crescent City they've stopped to pick up UP interchange from Watseka. Busy times on the TPW with traffic seeming to be on the up-and-up. Especially with the massive Incobrasa expansion at Gilman.
We were hoping this second EB would be a bit further along when we doubled back. At the very least waiting at Wateska to cross the UP. Sadly, that was not the case and we pulled up to Crescent City just as they were starting their pickup. The light wasn't too bad at this point. But it only got higher, less on the nose, and the midday poofers rolled in. We got our wedges, rejoiced, and moved on. Hard to complain too much about shooting a tunnel motor in 2025 though.
A very, very long time ago I posted a shot entitled Emergence (flic.kr/p/2hWPoqh). In it I gave a brief overview of the South Chicago and Indiana Harbor Railway. I haven't paid hardly any attention to the Short Line since then, inflicted with yet another case of "don't pay attention to what's in my backyard" syndrome. But recently I've been realizing how much I've missed out on by not paying much attention to the railroad.
Flash forward to about a month ago, I heard the strangest claim that these guys had stored all their power with little chance of taking them out, which led me to investigate them around the same time I started looking for B09, another recent way-late-to-the-party instance.
Thankfully, it didn't take very long to realize that my assumption was correct in this certainly NOT being the case.
These guys are the absolute last thing I'd expect to see moving around on a Saturday morning, but to prove me wrong, here is the railroad's own #31 dropping down to street level with three coil cars for eventual forwarding to the BRC right across the NS from here. It goes without saying that the lead pictured here, which heads west into the railroad's dinky yard and shops in the East Side neighborhood of South Chicago, has become quite jungly as of late.
With all of that being said, I've began looking for these guys as much as I humanly can with daylight rapidly dwindling day to day. Expect much much more of them, along with some very long descriptions of the history and operations of this fascinating railroad.
A calm fall evening gently winds down in the lonely streets of Two Harbors Minnesota.
At street level fall colors are abundant in this mid-October view. Today Two Harbors serves primarily as a port for Minnesota-mined iron ore to be transferred to the ships of the Great Lakes Fleet for forwarding to various US Steel mills.
Two Harbors, and towns like it up and down the expansive Lake Superior shoreline, have a tucked away feeling compared to the rest of the state... At just over 3600 people in population Two Harbors is one of the smallest county seats anywhere, presiding over Lake County, Mn. It made for a beautiful photo though at the intersection of 4th street and 1st avenue on a blustery fall day...
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If this were 1946, it would be double track, and the Pennsylvania Railroad's "Buffalo Day Express" would have been just ahead of the train you see here. It's station stop was 630pm. If this were a PRR freight. those tank cars would have been from the Quaker State refinery at Farmers Valley, PA, making their way to Buffalo.
Fast forwarding many years, and the Buffalo line is not what it used to be. Long gone are the Buffalo Day Express and the Dominion Express. It's been single track for many years, and only a few freights ply the route on a daily basis. The railroad here now is the Western New York and Pennsylvania, named after a PRR predecessor road, and those tank cars may not have oil in them, but they still come from a refinery at Farmers Valley. This is WNY&P job OL-2, that operates from Olean to the International Wax refinery at Farmers Valley and return. Having just crossed Olean creek, OL2 will pass the former PRR station located just behind me and be done for the day a few minutes after that.
Rovigo - Adria (RO), con inoltro su Cavanella Po, per la D.345.1082 di Mercitalia Rail, in transito poco fuori Rovigo al traino dell'MRS 55317 proveniente da Venezia Marghera Scalo.
Rovigo - Adria (RO), with forwarding to Cavanella Po, for the D.345.1082 of Mercitalia Rail, in transit just outside of Rovigo at towed of the MRS 55317 coming from Venezia Marghera Scalo.
Looking back at my childhood through my recently turned sixty-three-year-old eyes, there is so much to thank God for. Each and everyone of us were created, designed and wired to be different…it is part of Gods plan. And it is somewhere in that three-part recipe that our gifts, those tools that we are to use here on earth are derived. As far back as I can remember, I have been blessed with the highest levels of gullibility, immaturity and imagination…an awesome combination that allows me to constantly entertain myself in the void between my ears.
As a child, my father would play with my wiring by telling me made up tales of Indians, horses and one of his most memorable, where King Kong lives. They were never set in meanness, always in play. I am sure when he stopped telling me these stories, it wasn’t because I started catching on, I’m sure it was that it became boring or just too easy.
As a child, we almost always had a boat and our favorite (looking back now, it was our only) location to cruise was the Ohio River. We would launch at The Rubaiyat Boat Harbor, our family’s business and travel upstream. If you were out in the river, it was easy to look to the Indiana shore in Utica and see a large, rough-cut opening in the hills that paralleled the river.
I’m not sure if someone asked about it, or if he just threw it out there but I still remember that exact moment. The sound and gentle rocking of the boat, the green of the surrounding trees, the partially clouded sky, the way the sun glistened off of the somewhat newly cut stone, when my father said with authority “That is where King Kong lives!” Little did he know, I instantly believed and could not take my eyes off of it in hopes of getting a glimpse of the giant, misunderstood gorilla. A few times per summer, for years we would pass that place…now known to just be a rock quarry, and I would just get quiet and stare in hopeful wonderment.
Fast forwarding from the 1960’s to January of 2024 and we are fishing in Costa Rica on Lake Arenal. As our guide headed in towards shore so I could photograph some Caimans, this view of Arenal Volcano came into view. Instantly, I felt the warmth of my father’s love, took this photo and said to my adult self “Now that looks like where King Kong lives!”
Note of truth: In an attempt to pass on our finer family traditions, I have taken my two oldest grandchildren in our boat out past the old Utica rock quarry to show them where King Kong lives. Unfortunately, the area has now been heavily developed with houses and I’m not sure if either know who King Kong is. An effort that made me, and I am sure my father smile down from heaven.
Here is another from the same NECR 611 chase as the previous photo. This was earlier in the day as they were headed southbound (the crew is a turn based in Brattleboro forwarding train 323's traffic to Palmer and returning with traffic to go north as 324) near MP 69.2 on the Palmer Sub mainline.
Now this is very historic. Just south of the prior photo the train passes under these stone piers of the "Greatest Railroad that Never Ran". The Hampden Railroad built an 85 ft high and 1100 ft long bridge here over the Swift River valley and the Central Vermont. Completed in 1913 the only trains to ever run over it were two inspection trains before it was sold for scrap in 1921. It was a superbly engineered super railroad built at the wrong time and for reasons that were made irrelevant by the politics of the day. These crumbling concrete piers are ghostly reminders of a railroad that almost was....
Belchertown, Massachusetts
Friday October 19, 2018.
While waiting for hours here for Pan Am to turn so much as a wheel I suddenly got a ray of hope for some sort of photographic redemption to my day when Canadian Pacific's local G13 unexpectedly showed up from the south with their standard pair of GP20-ECOs.
They pulled up on the bridge right over Pan Am's freight main and sat at what is about MP 29.6 on CP's (ex CMQ, MMA, nee BAR) Bangor Subdivision mainline. It seemed fitting to frame them up in this mailbox sitting beside Route 2 because both were waiting on a delivery. The twin of red EMDs were waiting for the PAR crew on WANM beneath them to shove off a large cut of interchange for them to take back to the Farm Yard for forwarding on to Brownville Junction. The light was only getting better as the minutes ticked by for the perfect broadside when they crossed the road still adorned with the big green sign still proudly proclaiming 'Bangor and Aroostook R.R.'
A shot of a train crossing this bridge had long been on my New England bucket list so I dared not move from the shoulder of the road despite the baking sun...because just like an anxious child waiting for the postman to bring a package I was only needed Pan Am to make that delivery...and they were oh so close!
Northern Maine Junction
Hermon, Maine
Friday May 13, 2022
Seguimento de Material 31300
Contumil - Lisboa Santa Apolónia
CP - Comboios de Portugal
Comboio de seguimento de material traccionado pela locomotiva CP 2607 à passagem por Silvalde (um pouco a sul de Espinho), encaminhando 2 carruagens Schindler e 3 carruagens Arco até Santa Apolónia. As carruagens seguiriam depois para Alcântara-Terra e ficariam alguns dias expostas na zona das docas de Lisboa numa exposição integrada no evento 'Transport Research Arena'.
Forwarding rolling stock train moving two Schindler and three Arco coaches from Contumil to Lisboa Santa Apolónia. The coaches were displayed at Docas de Lisboa for the event 'Transport Research Arena'.
BNSF 8001 pulls an empty 'X' train of empty grain hoppers east through the Yakima River Canyon. Out of frame to the left is the Umtanum Ridge, the hill with the highest elevation in the Canyon, with summit of 3,480ft. Behind my position is a campground popular with hikers and at this time of year fisherman, who flock to the area for rainbow trout fishing.
This train is returning from the Port of Grays Harbour in Hoquiam, WA. The BNSF hands the loaded trains off to PSAP at Centralia, WA, where a PSAP crew handles the train for the 71 miles to the port for unloading. It is not unusual to see multiple 'PSA' trains per day during harvest season.
The loaded trains travel west down the Lakeside, and Fallbridge Subdivisions to Vancouver WA, before heading north on the Seattle Subdivision to Centralia. Often, the empty trains will be sent east via Stampede Pass and the Yakima Valley Subdivision to Pasco, where they rejoin the Lakeside Sub for forwarding back to the prairies to reload. In these instances, as with the train above, the train would have taken an almost entirely ex-Northern Pacific routing, with the exception of the former Spokane Portland and Seattle Fallbridge Sub.
It was a pleasantly warm Saturday Feb. 23, 1985 on the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac at Milford, VA. With an early quit in mind, the Acca Local has already turned and the next stop is Acca Yard in Richmond. GP40 No. 127 will make quick work of that 36 miles.. A note about those cars on the right. At the time, RF&P was using the yard at Milford to store cars that are waiting to be scrapped. When the price was right, they would be moved to Richmond for forwarding via SBD to Peck Iron and Metal in South Richmond. Many of the boxcars stopped at Bryan Park Terminal in Richmond to have the roller bearing trucks switched out with friction bearing trucks from RF&P MofW and sand service cars. RF&P's old equipment got roller bearing trucks and the friction bearing ones went to the scrapper.
Fast forwarding a bit to a scene from a future series from my recent trip to St. Simons Island, Georgia. Here, I came across a tall man made of silver. He is known in the Flickrland as the littletinperson (not "little in person" as once believed). The clouds were perilous and the sun was threatening to drown. As soon as he pulled out his mysterios black box of Nikon, the sun split through the clouds and shined tall and wide. As tall and wide as the breadth of his experiences. He is the tallest man up in front of the scene (with the help of a bit of perspective exageration). I decided to go free of tripod along with him on this shot. It was a wonderful vacation and great meetup. His stories can be found at:
So swing over and give him a visit. Listen to the stories and learn.
CN Geometry train rolling Westbound between Jesup and Raymond, Iowa on the old IC line across Iowa, now owned by the Canadian National. Shot back in April, I frankly forgot I had not posted it. The landscape out here is fast forwarding to look like this again with all the crops being harvested, and the leaves fast falling off the trees here in Iowa
Evolution. Somethings have got worse and some things better. This is definitely better. I can remember having about having 8 tracks on each side of my tape. Fast forwarding trying to find the track I want. Now, any album, Any artist, any song. Having said that it did force you to listen to the whole album and pick up on the more obscure tracks. Hmmmmm, maybe it wasn’t that bad after all 😊
An Alaska Railroad crew is pulling and spotting the Surbuban Propane spur in Whittier yard with a pair of SD70MACs before doubling up a big 120N freight of mixed manifest and intermodal traffic off the AML barge up from Seattle that they will take north to Anchorage a little later.
Of note is the unique grey and red HWCX car in the foreground. These specialized cars were owned by Halliburtun Services and were fixtures on the interline barge service for decades transporting drilling mud components to the Fairbanks areas for blending and forwarding by truck up the haul road to the North Slope oil fields.
The AAR code for this type of car is LM, which is defined as “A car equipped with one or more permanently enclosed tanks or containers, provided with one or more openings for loading and equipped for pneumatic or gravity unloading. Car is suitable for handling certain dry powder or granular commodities, and also low viscosity, non-dangerous liquid commodities.” Some of the earlier 75 ton cars have already reached their 50 year revenue service limit while others age out in 2024 so if you want to shoot these unique freight cars you need to hunt them down soon!
Whittier, Alaska
Wednesday June 21, 2017