Hinckley & Bosworth Scenes
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BNSF 558 hustles through Oak Grove on its way back to Northtown with 33 cars. 542 and 558 went up to Hinckley on Wednesday and tied down there. 252 and 281 went north on the Hinckley local and combined the power at Hinckley for the run to Northtown. It has been really quiet along the Hinckley Sub, the local is mainly the only thing that runs in daylight now unfortunately.
A 60M/40-2 combo, still in cascade green, brings the H-SUPNTW through Andover on a crystal clear Christmas day. Switched to the tele last-minute to get a better look at the mini ground blizzard. Thanks to K Mad for the heads up out of Superior.
CP 8102 on one of its first trips since rebuilding heads north on BNSF's Hinckley Sub near Superior with train 493.
On a warm (for winter) evening in Hinckley, IL, a former Santa Fe SD40 rounds the bend into town with a fairly long 476 in tow.
CSX's Y121, formerly known as SAPPI-4, is seen trundling back east towards the paper mill at Hinckley, led by the MEC 345 and 307. At one point Guilford/Pan Am had amassed a fleet of almost seventy GP40s, and now these two are the last ones operating, having survived Penn Central, Conrail, Guilford, and Pan Am, now operating for their fifth owner, CSX.
Hearing about a Northtown to Hinckley manifest, I swung into Hinckley on the way to Superior, Wisconsin to see where such a train was hiding out. I rarely shoot in Hinckley, so I grabbed a few frames of the matched set of SD60Ms assigned to the job that ran up the previous evening/night under the symbol M-NTWHIN.
SCXY 1326 and 1325 head south out of Hinckley with 40 cars down to Rush City. This is the only overpass along the line for the SCXY.
New year and a new-to-me railroad I had not shot before, a good time.
Due to continuous issues with the GATX slug set that is normally assigned to the job, Pan Am's GP9's have been making recent appearances on train SAPPI-3/4, providing a welcomed opportunity to shoot them outside of yard service. On a cloudless but frigid January day, ex-B&M GP9 77 is seen leading SAPPI-3 westbound on the Hinckley Branch crossing Canaan Road in Fairfield, ME, shortly after leaving the mill at Skowhegan. Despite being former Maine Central trackage, the maroon and gold B&M heritage paint is by no means foreign to this territory as the scheme was used by both roads when they operated under joint management.
While on the way back from Northern Maine Jct., I heard District 1 give paper to Sappi 3 with two blue dips 370&504. Well into their trip from the mill by the time I got down to Fairfield, it was decided to sit and wait here where a nice shot can always be taken at this time of day. I didn't wait too long before the horn started blowing for the crossings in Fairfield. Here is the train entering the mainline off the Hinckley Branch on its final leg to Waterville.
BNSF was busy between Superior and Chub Lake (Carlton) on the evening of March 27, 2016. Heard a U Superior to Kelly Lake in the mix, so I headed to Carlton to see what kind of power and train it was.
BNSF 3183 and 3181 roll through West Chub Lake with empty MGPX ore gons for Kelly Lake. The Geeps have just passed a Hinckley unit sand train that is waiting in the siding for coal loads off the Brainerd. Nice shooting trains at 19:00 even if the melting snow is leaving a brown, muddy landscape.
Not sure if it is by design, but it seems this pair of ex-Santa Fe GP50s gets the call when Superior needs some yard power to pull a train on a quick mainline trip.
BNSF 132 and 542 head north out of Oak Grove after working an industry in town on a nice summer morning.
SAPPI 3 gets underway shortly after getting a crew to take it west from the mill. On this bright but brisk Sunday morning, ST 77 and GMTX 406 do the honors as they cross Route 201 in Hinckley with fresh powder surrounding them from the small storm the night before.
The scene at Hinckley station in January 1983, where the BR Table 18 15:05 Birmingham New Street to Cambridge arrives in the care of 31405.
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BNSF 9730, an uncommon SD70MACe, leads GFDBRC through the town of Hinckley. Although hard to see, trailing 9730 was one of BNSF's few "Thundercab" ACes.
Plus the old BN America container sitting by the watertower
The 6th exposure on my second roll of 35mm b/w film (numbered for half-frame cameras).
I took this photo on Tuesday 30th March 1971 whilst on the afternoon shift at Hinckley signal box.
This gentle colourization shows seven of more than 220,000 16 ton mineral wagons that were built between 1950 and 1958, the one in the down refuge siding had been positioned to replenish the signal box coal bunker, five behind the Sulzer type 2 on the Up Main are returning to the Eastern Region from Nuneaton Abbey Street and one is on siding number three for a local coal merchant.
Some of my fellow school leavers were probably earning greater wages in the distant hosiery factories but I was more than happy to be a signalman.
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06/04/21 Hinckley: GBRF Class 66 66793, now a celebrity in BR Trainload Construction livery, hitches a lift to Peterborough behind 66722. The train is 4L04 Hams Hall - Felixstowe South.
The 5th exposure on my second roll of 35mm b/w film (numbered for half-frame cameras).
I took this gently coloured photo on Tuesday 30th March 1971 whilst on the afternoon shift at Hinckley signal box.
8K14 was the 1103 Wagonload freight service from Corby to Stoke Yard.
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Milwaukee 261 heads south along the Hinckley Sub as the fall colors peak out on this perfect Autumn day. Oct 13, 2014
68004 growls through Hinckley with 6U76 0859 Basford Hall to Mountsorrel on 31st July 2015. A very shadowy location, I can't see myself in a hurry to go back!
The H-DILNTW takes the crossover at Coon Creek after a bit of waiting in Anoka. The nice and colorful lashup really shines in the evening sun.
these ledges are covered in graffiti. most of it is not worth photographing, but this one made me pause.
Whipps Ledges, Hinckley, Cleveland Metro Parks.
ABSOLUTELY TOP GUN
Today saw the 9th annual soap box derby to be held at Hinckley, Leicestershire. 43 teams and individuals competing in time trials (and over jumps and a chicane) to find the fastest soap box of the day. Pictured are team 'Top-Gun' getting off to a flying start and as it turned out a safe landing.
This pic appeared in the printed and on-line version of The Guardian newspaper 11/7/2018.
This pic also won me a 1st in a competition with Boundless UK in spring 2019