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I've got the freight train blues, lordy, lordy, lordy
Got 'em in the bottom of my ramblin' shoes, oh-oh
When the whistle blows, I've gotta go
Lordy, lordy, I think I'm never gonna lose the freight train blues.
Doc Watson
Southern Railways U Class No 31806 Rattles through the frosty Staffordshire moorlands countryside with a morning freight train during a Russ Hillier photo charter on the Churnet Valley railway.
GWR freight loco No3822 simmers away in the Loco works waiting for its next duties out on the mainline
I decaled and weathered this Penn Central SD45 and lent it to my friend Kyle (who took this photo) to enjoy for a while. He took this loco, along with his blue SD45, and some of his freight cars to another friend's railroad, that of Dave Weber.
This hobby is a lot more fun with good friends who can team up like this to share trains, railroad, tips, ideas, photos, etc.
La E652.125 in testa a un treno container percorre le tortuose curve della linea lenta dei Giovi in discesa verso Genova.
In foto il treno transita presso la fermata di Isola del Cantone e mescola i suoi colori con quelli delle case del paesino.
Crossing Frog Bayou for the 6th time of 11 on its southbound trip, Arkansas and Missouri's Fort Smith Turn weaves through the valley at the bottom of the Boston Mountains near Mountainburg, AR, soaking up the easy miles of level terrain on the southern portion of its route to the Arkansas River towns of Van Buren and Fort Smith. Normally a nocturnal operation, the Fort Smith Turn had temporarily resorted to daytime running south of Springdale in late 2021 due to ongoing capital track renewal on the northern half of railroad towards Monett, MO, allowing for sunlit sights of the railroad's three SD70ACe motors pulling freight on the scenically superior portion of the railroad over the Boston Mountains and along Frog Bayou. Near this location less than a month later, this same set of locomotives would be involved in a derailment on a northbound trip, toppling AM 71 onto its side and taking it out of commission for the time being.
BNSF H-BARSDG1-26A rolls along Torrey Pines State Beach and the Pacific Ocean in beautiful Del Mar, California. Daylight freight isn't on the regular schedule on this absurdly busy single-track commuter railroad. However, delays and recrews periodically will force the dispatchers to squeeze the "BarDiego" through in between all of the Amtrak, Metrolink, and Coaster traffic. Even during summer high sun, seeing this freight snake its way along the Coast is a wonderful sight.
Units for a southbound Delaware & Hudson freight train stop at the yard office in Oneonta, NY on Oct. 8, 1977.
Daily freight services hauled by classical East German diesel engines can be observed in Brandenburg. Here DB Cargo 232 005 in its "Polish" EWS livery crosses the Havel river south of Brandenburg-Altstadt station.
When the Lehigh Valley bought C628’s from Alco in 1965, they were delivered in a striking white, black and red paint scheme and were dubbed “snowbirds” by the local fans. Variants of the snowbird scheme were applied to several classes of freight cars, including this fifty foot covered hopper seen here at Enola, Pennsylvania two years after the LV ceased to exist.
Keighley and Worth Valley steam gala , 11th March 2023 . 45212 top and tailed with 45996 Bahamas. Early morning demonstration freight train passes top field.
The light was horrible and the loco LHF but freight was in short supply on this trip so you take what you can get. 2062 019 roars uphill with a hopper train.
With more letters in its name than miles in its route, the Lake Erie Franklin and Clarion Railroad joined the per-diem boxcar craze of the late 1970’s. Here one of those cars passes through Allentown, Pennsylvania.
A westbound Burlington Northern freight passes through the North Dakota Badlands at Sully Springs on August 9, 1991. The train is powered by EMD SD40-2 No. 6926, mated with one of BN’s unique GE B30-7A “B unit” No. 4043. BN originally had a fleet of 120 of these 3,000 h.p. cabless locomotives built between June 1982 and October 1983 and numbered 4000-4119.
Today I did something that I haven't done in a long time: take a day off to make photos of passenger trains. Passenger. Trains. Really.
The intercity trains between Schaarbeek and Kortrijk are still hauled by vintage 21 and 27 series locomotives. These machines are about my age and as such I've known them all my active railfanning life. They are being gradually withdrawn though, and this realizing was one of the factors deciding to spend a day chasing them. Another important factor being that I had found a lot of nice spot between Oudenaarde and Zottegem during my bicyle rides, but I didn't make photos there yet.
With the locomotives oriented on the Kortrijk-side of the trains, they would only show a sunny face in the afternoon. The morning I spent picturing 2 freight trains on locations I wanted to try out for a while.
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A usual sight in Ostrava: a local shunting train switching cars between the many facilities of the iron works crossing a busy road.
Recreation of the GWR in the days of steam. A photo charter organised by Matt Fielding on the Severn Valley Railway .
SBB Re 6/6 11622 swings an afternoon freight beside the terraced vineyards towards Geneva.
15 Jan 2020, St Saphorin, Lake Geneva, Switzerland.
After performing their daily customer work in Paterson and Clifton, NS H-55 runs west past Suscon Interlocking on NJ Transit's Main Line at Hawthorne, NJ. The regular pair of 5600 series GP38-2s takes their train past the interchange yard and connection to the NYS&W's Southern Division.
Pulling down the Wash into Milwaukee, CP 641 pulled length of mixed freight and empty ethanol cans as they roll west into downtown behind a pair of SD40s after a bad order gets set out in Muskego Yard.
ICE 6450
DME 6090
Easing across Main Track 3 of the KCT East- West Corridor on top of the KCT Sheffield Flyover is BNSF train U-SAPCPG1-66T with one of the ten CP Heritage SD70ACU's on the point.
These are oil empties from Stroud, OK returning north to CP in Canada via an interchange at Noyes, MN Today, this is train is being routed through Galesburg, IL and Minneapolis, MN instead of it's typical routing via Sioux City, IA and Wilmar, MN. 8/22/21.
T 53344 from Ylivieska to Äänekoski (left) and T 55455 from Pyhäsalmi to Ylivieska (right), meet in Nivala.
LMS Class 3F 47405 working bunker leading on a northbound fitted freight,photographed passing Woodhouse Road between Loughbrough and Quorn on 06/10/2013
Soo Line EMD SD60M No. 6058 leads a hot Soo westbound freight, heavy with auto parts cars destined for St. Paul, approaching Duplainville, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of April 4, 1993.
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ST44-1113 with local freight train no. TKPS 22481 from Kościerzyna to Gdynia Port, leaves Gdańsk Osowa station. December 29, 2000.
Photo by Jarek / Chester
ST44-1113 z pociągiem zbiorowym TKPS 22481 z Kościerzyny do Gdyni Portu opuszcza stację Gdańsk Osowa w mroźny poranek 29 grudnia 2000 roku.
Fot. Jarek / Chester
You gonna wait the long wait
(be patient, it's a matter of time)
It's been a good while since we last had a decent freight train along this section of the ex- Furness route, but hopefully this might become a regular flow, at least in the short term.
On a day when the majority of the country was blessed with unbroken sunshine, 68003 'Astute' traverses the Kent estuary over Arnside Viaduct with 6C15, the 10.00 Drigg BNF - Shap Summit Quarry empty stone on Thurs 6th February 2025.
The current flow of trains are moving stone from Shap Quarry into the Low Level Waste Repository at Drigg BNF for the capping of vaults.