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Have you ever seen such huuuge tomatoes ?! : ))
Special delivery from Italy !!
Crazy Tuesday - theme of June 7, 2022: Fruit and Vegetables
Tomatoes are fruits that are considered vegetables by nutritionists - so this is killing two birds with one stone ( so to speak ... no harm done to birds by taking this image ... but maybe to those yummy tomatoes afterwards : ))
I will catch up in the evening !
At Binghamton, NY, three NYS&W Alco C430's shove hard against 10, 000 tons of train from their yard and onto the Conrail Southern Tier line. This was one of the first so-called "Haulage Trains" that ran between Binghamton, NY and Passaic Jct, NJ that had NYS&W power and freight, but with Conrail crews running them. They were a sight to behold if you were lucky enough to catch one. They only ran once they got a large enough amount of freight, and it could happen on any day at any time.
With 14,000 Alco 251 horsepower up front, a trouble-plagued Susquehanna haulage train rolls to a stop at Deposit, New York. The late-afternoon shadows are quickly approaching the railhead.
It's "Grab-a-Box" week once again. This time I reached into the cabinet in the hall and opened a shoe box containing maybe thirty of those little yellow boxes. This one would held 20 slides, but only 15 were in it. I scanned them all and will post them all so this theme will run for a little over two weeks. All are from the 80's decade. There are six railroads represented. So, with no direction to go with but chronologically, we'll begin with the earliest one from 1980 and make our way to the final ones in 1988.
For the third slide we have moved to September of 1984.
The New York, Susquehanna & Western has been in operation of the Utica & Syracuse branches that were obtained from the great Conrail branch line spin off for nearly two and a half years now. It became the "Northern Division" of the NYS&W with no direct connection to the "Southern Division> in New Jersey. However, much traffic from Canada and the west would arrive at Binghamton and Utica to be forwarded by Conrail to the Southern Division. The NYS&W struck a haulage agreement for a reduced shipping rate if a tonnage line was reached. So, NYS&W held paper cars bound for Marcal and propane cars bound for a couple of gas customers until that line was reached and then ran a train. To make the haulage agreement even cheaper, NYS&W tossed in the power, too! All Conrail did was supply the crew. On this day, 3 Alco C430's would be the treat. This train would run maybe every week to ten days, but when word got out, fans flocked to Binghamton, even in rain, sleet, snow, and sometimes, sun!
Here we find one such "Haulage Train", (I don't recall the CR symbol), at Kirkwood, NY with the engineer really feeding the fuel to reach track speed, which will be needed to move the 10,000+ tons for what lays ahead, Gulf Summit.
The other surviving North Eastern overtrack box is at Hexham and can be seen in the distance as 66762 rumbles through with the 6G40 1104 Hepscott Jn to Carlisle N.Y.
Note : some fencing has been removed from the bottom right of this shot in post-processing.
13th September 2025.
Finally have the chassis and mudguards painted, original type 5th wheel mounted - just need to paint 5th wheel mounting cradle.
In the days when loco haulage could still be enjoyed on a number of Lausanne S-Bahn services, SBB Class Re 4/4" 11319 was recorded passing Ependes in September 2009 with the Table 210 08:55 Lausanne to Yverdon-les-Bains [S11 12824] service.
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One of the traction engines entering Hope village on the Hope Valley Steam Rally (June 2024). Due to the closure of the Bradwell road at Brough around 20 steam traction engines and other vintage vehicles had to make their way from the overnight camp at Bradwell into Hope via the single track Pindale route.
29th December 2017 - 2 Western Star trucks from the US sit on Deck 2 of ACL's 'Atlantic Sea' at the Seaforth Container Terminal in Liverpool.
A westbound Susquehanna haulage train begins the climb to Gulf Summit from Deposit, New York. Deposit was a helper base for this grade into early Conrail days. I don’t know why the Conrail C36-7/C30-7A combo is ahead of the NYSW power, which includes three C430’s, a C420, and a CF7 still painted for the Santa Fe.
McAleese Heavy Haulage Mack Titan Oversize load pulls out from the BP Port Augusta Truckstop heading towards the over dimensional detour around Yorkeys Crossing bound for Perth.
The staple diet of RhB EMU Regio services on the R16 Chur-Arosa line has been 'interupted' by the use of two locomotives and push-pull formation diagrams during the summer of 2025. In this view taken in early September, Class Ge 4/4'' 612 eases into platform 2, where a good number of waiting passengers for the 12:08 departure had gathered.
All images on this site are exclusive property and may not be copied, downloaded, reproduced, transmitted, manipulated or used in any way without expressed written permission of the photographer. All rights reserved – Copyright Don Gatehouse