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19.11.2016.
BR Standard Class 7MT (Britannia) 4-6-2 No 70013 'Oliver Cromwell' makes a fine sight as steams along the Quorn straight with a mixed freight back in November 2016.
glyndyfrdwy station in 2016-former lancashire and yorkshire 0-6-0 , 12322 waits with a pick-up freight as the fireman trims coal in the tender
on the opposite platform pannier 6430 leaves with an auto train
I've driven between Albany and Syracuse a million times, and always loved driving past this spot. There are two big cliffs on either side, which I call "the twins." There's also a beautiful bend in the Mohawk river with a rail line right there, so I often find myself pacing the trains as I drive.
I finally made time to get a shot of this location, and I was lucky enough for a train to pass by just as I launched!
Shot on DJI Mini 3.
One for the freight car modelers: Pure Carbonic Company Dry Ice Reefer.
Duplicate slide in my collection, photographer unknown.
Freightliner Class 66/5 No. 66547 runs along Hunt Cliff and past the derelict fan house working 6F34, the 15:23 Boulby Mine – Tees Dock loaded potash hoppers on 24th October 2024.
G2000-32 passes Cervo whilst hauling a FuoriMuro freight train from Ventimiglia to Castelguelfo, 18 September 2015.
This train was only running in daylight hours due to overnight engineering work.
G2000-32 presso Cervo, 18 settembre 2015
Tula - 2TE25KM-0172 leads a mixed freight towards Tula Vyazemskaya on a very gloomy Russian winters day.
300 mm doesn't sound much but if you're shooting medium format you end up with four pounds (or 2 Kilos) of glass on your camera.
In this case it was a Meyer-Görlitz 4/300 custom-fitted for Mamiya. Wide open the DOF was shallow as a beer coaster. You'd better knew where to release.
One fine afternoon in summer 1997 I set up the gear at the Muggensturm station in the upper Rhine valley. I lived in the hills (beyond the ridge) in the background at that time but it was the first time I went to Muggensturm to shoot a few trains. Traffic is dense and runs like clockwork.
The milestone was my release point so I didn't need to look through the viewfinder, everything should be fine.
In the low afternoon sun 155 264 had a freight to Offenburg in tow with a high load right behind the locomotive.
Yes, sometimes I miss the old gear. But I don't miss film (and dust).
There really is no better place to capture photos of passing cars than this spot so here's a simple image for today's Freight Car Friday of some boxcars entrained on CSXT M436 (Selkirk to Worcester manifest) crossing the twin stone arch bridge over the Quaboag River at about MP 75.5 on modern day CSXT's Boston Subdivision. While I miss the classic Plate C 50 ft boxcars dressed in assorted railroad schemes that were so prevalent the last four decades it's nice to see that the all American boxcar is still alive. Nowadays the prevalent car type is 60 ft Plate F 286K cars like this string of double plug door TTX owned cars. TBOX 676209 is only a few years old having beenbuilt by FreightCar America as part of thousand car order number 140090 between Apr-Dec 2021.
The ancient twin stone arch bridge dates from the line's construction in 1839 as the Western Railroad, that when completed in 1842 formed the longest and most expensive railroad constructed in the United States up to that point. The Western merged with two other predecessors to form the Boston and Albany Railroad in 1870. Thirty years later the B&A was leased by the New York Central Railroad, and then the line would pass successively to the Penn Central in 1968, Conrail in 1976 and CSXT in 1999. To this day it remains as the preeminent freight route and the only Class 1 trunk line still serving New England...truly a testament to the forethought of those who laid out and built the line over 180 years ago.
Warren, Massachusetts
Friday October 25, 2024
A pair of former Santa Fe B40-8W's are the power for the BNCP transfer, BNSF train Y-NTW1501-08I, making its way east of Hoffman on the BNSF St. Paul Sub as an Ex-SOO SD60 on the point of CP train J36 waits to leave CP's Pig's Eye Yard in St. Paul. 11/8/22.
Pere Marquette 1225 leads its first ever photo freight south past the Carland elevator on Great Lakes Central rails back in the spring of 2007. This event marked the first time since its initial restoration that 1225 was returned to its late 1940s in-service appearance with no white striping, flying number boards and visor-less headlight. The white flags signifying "extra" were a cool touch, too!
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Electric Locomotive EF66
Located : Omi Nagaoka station on the Tokaido Main Line of Japan Railway.
Maibara city, Shiga pref.
東海道本線 / 近江長岡駅
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Ex LMS mogul no. 43106 approaches Damems on 12th October 2012 with a demonstration freight train during the KWVR Autumn Steam Gala.
With interchange traffic from CN at Kirk Yard, PF-10 has pulled to a stop just east Ogden Dunes to let this South Bend train pass by before continuing to Michigan City.
When I saw the City sets released for last year 2022, I fell in love with the cars on the Freight-Train... It looked sporty and updated... I have the Cargo-Train cars which were two smart cars... Quite happy to see them updated by Lego. But I can't afford the big set, so I set about buying the parts for the cars only. Built the two cars some time back, just gotten around to taking photos of them. :D
Single chimney BR Standard Class 9F 2-10-0 92134, visiting from the North Yorkshire Moors Railway for the Great Central Railway's autumn steam gala, passes a gang of track workers as it approaches Kinchley Lane with a lengthy mixed freight train during a Timeline Events photo charter.
On a cold winter morning, a NYC freight train is meeting another train in a double track section. TT scale models blended into a virtual environment made by Midjourney.
Here's a Freight Car Friday offering featuring not some cool fallen flag boxcar but rather the modern railroading equivalent, the double stack intermodal train. While the names and logos aren't usually as cool (though some aren't bad) these trains are no less colorfol than their predecessors of yore.
Providing a striking contrast to the white blanket of snow shrouding the Sierra Nevadas is this eastbound priority stack train seen here on Main 1 at about MP 184.6 on modern day Union Pacific's Roseville Sub. This is the legendary Southern Pacific mainline, the orignal transcontinental route, and this loction is known as Troy where until about 1975 Tunnel 40 cut through the hill at left and what today is Main 2 was back then the center siding.
Donner Pass, California
Saturday February 25, 2017
The fastest freight train I have ever seen! The driver was bobbing from side to side as the train motored through and must have been doing every bit of 65 mph I reckon. 70806 working the 6M51 Baglan Bay – Chirk logs train passing through Abergavenny.
For Freight Car Friday here's a look at a historic freight car being reborn by the talented and dedicated folks at the Railroad Museum of New England. Inside the museum's modern Thomaston Shops Bangor and Aroostook 2569 is being repainted into its iconic as delivered red white and blue 'State of Maine Products' scheme.
The flashy image debuted in 1950 on 300 XIH insulated heated plug door box cars ordered from Magor Car Company primarily to haul two od the railroad's primary commodities, paper and potatoes. In 1953 they ordered 150 more identical cars from Pacific Car and Foundry of which order this car was a part of. The scheme was used on other boxcars including rebuilt cars from the 1930s and 40s and new 50 ft cars with sliding doors used newsprint service. Overall some 2500 cars were painted in this scheme (according to online sources) until it was and phased out in favor of a cheaper and simpler scheme in the mid 1960s. Of particular interest, the New Haven also had 100 identical cars that were tacked onto the PC&F order but had New Haven lettering and the script logo inside the white band.
Arguably the most famous freight cars ever built, they were the boxcar equivalent of Santa Fe's warbonnet F7s because they were mass produced in the post war years by both Lionel and American Flyer for their O and S scale trains that so many American boys of that era owned. While the Santa Fe was a giant western carrier with famous flashy streamliners the little B&A (as the locals referred to it) would most certainly have lived out its years in obscurity were it not for these boxcars.
It sure will be nice to see this back on the road and I for one look forward to shooting it on a photo freight in the future. Also worth noting is that this is a sister car from the same order as another restored survivor owned by the 470 Club that occasionally still operates on specials over the Conway Scenic Railroad where it resides.
To learn more about the Bangor and Aroostook check out this link:
www.trains.com/ctr/railroads/fallen-flags/bangor-aroostoo...
And to learn more or about the Railroad Museum of New England click here:
Thomaston, Connecticut
Saturday July 27, 2024
WD 2-8-0 No 90733 with an engineers freight consist works across the Bewdly by-pass bridge. SVR. 30742 charters. 27th March 2015.
Drove up to the old Santa Fe grade crossing at Rt 26, got out of the vehicle, and was just in time to see two FAST moving freights go by, one eastbound, one west. The blue & white diesel in this photo is a leased unit, heading up a fast moving westbound stack train.
Interesting note: I intentionally set my Olympus zoom on 25mm, which is the exact same as a 50mm in 35mm SLR photography. No telephoto or wide-angle, just a nice, boring straght-forward wedge shot of a passing train, just as you would have seen it had you been standing next to me.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Rt 26 grade crossing
BNSF Railroad
Marshall County, Illinois
Olympus E-510 DSLR
Olympus ED 14-42mm f3.5-5.6 zoom
Quantaray Pro polarizer filter
ISO 400 RAW
It's been a while since a Colas Rail shed has worked a freight train in Scotland but due some of the regular class 70s being needed on extra engineers trains, 66849 'Wylam Dilly' was sent up to Oxwellmains for a short time to cover.
The loco ended up only working one service while based at Oxwellmains, which was the 6A65/6B36 Aberdeen cement, and it's seen passing through Edinburgh Waverley on the returning 6B36 empties back to Oxwellmains.
Of note at the front of consist, standing out from the usual JPAs, are two KVA 'Cargowagons', which are used to convey bagged cement when needed.
For Freight Car Friday here is an overview of one of New England's largest and most famous facilities, Rigby Yard. With no locomotives in sight the eye is draw to the multitude of colorful freight cars still dominated by boxcars as is traditon in the Pine Tree State. Also noteworthy is the cut of spine cars loaded with blue Eimskip containers and used to transport Poland Spring water from Waterville to Ayer, a rare shorthaul intraline move that was one of Pan Am's rare innovative successes in recent years.
The more than 200 acre yard complex was built by the Portland Terminal Company in 1923 on the grounds of the old Rigby Park, a harness tracing track that operated from 1893 to 1899 then sat unused until 1922 when it was sold to the PT which was looking to consolidate multiple smaller and older legacy yards around the Portland area.
New owner CSXT is pouring a lot of money into this yard which was once a massive joint facility serving the PT and its two Class 1 owners the Boston and Maine and the Maine Central Railroads. I'm not sure what the future holds but its nice to see track work, site cleanup, and building repairs after decades of neglect by owner Guilford Transportation (later Pan Am Railways).
This telephoto view was taken from the Pleasant Hill Road overpass technically in the town Scarborough near MP 200 on CSXT's ex Pan Am Freight Main, the north end of the former Boston and Maine Portland Division.
South Portland, Maine
Saturday February 18, 2023