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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.
Veterans B75 and 44206 are seen leading Waratah set A34 earlier in the day, heading through Thornleigh here as train 4178. This EMU is being transferred from Cardiff workshops to Auburn Maintenance Centre, and the diesel haulage is due to the lack of electrified roads at Cardiff and qualified crew to make the journey.
EMD B75 comes in at a whopping 71 years of service, with Alco 44206 not far behind with 53 years under it's belt.
Thanks to the recent rain and warm temperatures there was a bit more growth in the foreground here than I was hoping for.
Finally have the chassis and mudguards painted, original type 5th wheel mounted - just need to paint 5th wheel mounting cradle.
Pickfords M8935, a Scammell Constructor 6x6 PUC475 and M2255, a Guy Vixen pantechnicon 784XUG (which is a DVLA re-reg)
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.
This one goes out to the one I love
This one goes out to the one I've left behind
A simple prop to occupy my time
This one goes out to the one I love
The fire risk that's made the news headlines across the country also affected the North Yorkshire Moors Railway's ability to run steam locomotives. On Tuesday afternoon we made the decision to switch to diesel locomotives the following day.
A huge thanks to the staff and volunteers who stepped up to the challenge to adjust rosters.
There's always an opportunity with this kind of challenge and it was good to spend the morning before Trust Board on Friday enjoying some diesel photography.
I was also encouraged to see quite a lot of diesel fans out getting their diesel haulage in.
Rain is due this coming week, but it will take a lot to saturate the tinder dry ground and vegetation.
Working the short internal set, 37264 passes Park Gate with the 10.55 Pickering to Grosmont.
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.
McAleese Heavy Haulage Kenworth C501 hauls a 4 Metre Oversize around Yorkeys Crossing on the journey from Perth to Shepparton then onto Tasmania.
The view from Liverpool Lime Street station up towards Edge Hill station shows the incline,
As built this line utilized rope haulage, and today, in a manner of speaking, it still does, the wire rope still provides the energy to lift trains up the incline, the difference being that the wire rope conducts electricity today.
The two holds significance, as this was P3 prior to remodeling of the station, they extended platforms to increase capacity, and..... removed a platform ?. from what i am lead to believe the original P1 is to be utilized for retail usage, then re opened as P0....
The sceptic in me thinks all this work has been done, not for passengers but for money....
Although the argument would be that, passengers can take advantage of the retail outlets on offer....
This raises more questions however,
Firstly i should say that i'm no retail marketing analyst, but....
This side of the station is predominantly Northern Rail in it's operations, along with the Newcastle and Scarborough Trans Pennine services.
It is auto ticket barrier accessed, and most of the services are relatively short haul and commuter focused...
The other side of the station operates Virgin West Coast, LNW and East Midland services and is open access...
I would have thought that these travelers would be more likely to spend prior to making a journey,
Whilst people on the other side, going to Blackpool or Scarborough are more likely to save their cash to spend at their destinations. that is my logic anyhow,
Along with all of this, the Northern side being auto ticket barrier controlled, says a little about Northern's determination to remove train crew, whilst the other side being open access may be saying something about the need for train crew on longer distance journey's.... Or more customer focused operators ! any how you catch my drift i hope..
Ross Road Haulage Kenworth T904 hauls a semi trailer load of caravans through Lochiel on the journey West to Perth in Western Australia.
The final Saturday of the summer 1987 BR Timetable and a frame of Railfreight Class 47/3 47327 working the SO 1E72 10:39 Birmingham New Street to Yarmouth. It was recorded passing [on the left] the rail served Distillers Gas Plant at Coleshill.
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