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A CN C40-8 makes for a rare leader on the BNSF Staples Subdivision in Elk River Minnesota as it leads E-CGKBTM westbound.
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Bathed in warm winter sunlight, an extra Denver to Salt Lake City intermodal curves through Henefer, Utah on Feb. 1, 2019.
I debated whether to continue my drive to Mowich as I was running behind. I only had about a hour from the time I parked to around sunset. 2.8 mile to the summit? In a hour? Well, I hustled out of my car and beat feet...not bad, thankful for the flat sections. Even had a little time to spare on the final approach to stop and work this scene a bit. The clouds were flowing nicely.
A D&RGW work extra has spent the day working on the Dotsero Cutoff, and is now eastbound on the Tennessee Pass line at Gypsum, CO running for the quit.
Union Depot Train Days 2022 started off right with the ever-popular night photo shoot.
This year, 7 locomotives (a train days record) were in attendance. The stars of the show of course were the SD45s sent down from Duluth, including GN 400, the Hustle Muscle.
The last time I saw Hustle Muscle she was awaiting a new SD45-2 engine to replace the old one that suffered a broken crankshaft. It was around this time that GNRHS elected to have 400 leave MTM's Jackson Street Roundhouse and return to Duluth, where it had been for much of its time pre-Millenium but post-retirement from BN.
The scene is complete with an illuminated "1st" sign, a popular background feature at many night shoots at SPUD. It's fitting, as GN 400 was the first locomotive to be displayed at Union Depot during the first "Train Days" in 2014 (not to mention the 1st production SD45).
To date, Hustle Muscle has made three appearances at Union Depot Train Days, tied-most with Milwaukee Road 32A, which was also in attendance this year.
A personal thank you to everyone involved to make Union Depot Train Days 2022 happen. Haven't missed a Train Days yet, hoping the streak will continue. Also thanks to Steve Glischinski & Chris Guss for organizing another phenomenal night photo shoot.
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Just another wider frame from this spot to add to the album and the record of a great chase.
The next spot on our chase of Pan Am Railways train POAY (Portland to Ayer manifest) was a grab shot that wasn't on our agenda. But since we were just enough ahead of him to make it over this crossing before the gates activated we figured why not. On a picture perfect day with a clean leader and good light sometimes you just want a simple classic wedge shot. Here they are approaching 'Varney Crossing' over Elm St. / Route 4 on the former Boston and Maine Portland Division at MP 234.3 (measured from Mattawamkeag, ME) on modern day Pan Am's Freight Main. Leading the train are MEC 7585 and 7627 both GE C40-8s blt. Sep. 1989 and Aug. 1990 for CSXT with the same numbers.
If anyone is as nerdy about toponymy as I am a quick bit of research revealed that the name Varney Crossing comes from a gorgeous old colonial house that stands just out of frame to the left on the corner of Buffum Rd and Elm St. Built in 1765 by Joshua Buffum it is one of the oldest homes in the town. After several generations Charles Buffum sold the home to his sister Phebe and her husband Isaac Varney who ran a felt mill near the home. When the Boston and Maine built its 'Western Route' into town and crossed Elm St. here in view of the by then more than century old home this spot became known as Varney Crossing.
North Berwick, Maine
Saturday January 22, 2022
Every true hustler knows that you cannot hustle forever. You will go to jail eventually.
The Notorious B.I.G.
On a hazy, hot and humid August morning, Norfolk Southern's Jersey Central heritage unit leads past the old depot in Duncannon, PA. This was a total surprise, and I had to HUSTLE to get out here and get into position. I am glad I did, because I love the scene of the town folded into the mountain with the train rolling by.
Boats and buses above and below London Bridge, across the River Thames.
Behind the bridge lets the twin towers of Cannon Street Station, the dome of St Paul's Cathedral, and the glazed offices of Riverbank House.
Long exposure, shot with a Nikon D40 and a Nikkor AFS DX 18-55mm F/3.5-5.6G II lens and processed in GIMP and Photoscape.
While certainly long into the UP era this MRODV shot in March of 2000 was still all Rio Grande. Seen here a few miles east of Thompson bathed in the golden light of the Utah Desert at sunset.
Hustling up riders for the tourist buses. How lucky are those of us that don't have to struggle every day to make ends meet? How much separation exists between us that allows people to ignore or even look down on the less fortunate. This is another one of those miserable jobs people have to do just to survive, and it can still be worse.
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With over 70 cars, NYS&W EMD SD45 leads a Saturday afternoon southbound on the Syracuse branch at Little York, NY. The unit single handily on it's own puts an end to the drone of nearby Interstate 81 traffic with it's unmistakable sound of it's 645 diesel.
Amtrak Brunswick to Boston Downeaster train 696 is at MP BW 26 as measured from North Station in Boston via the MBTA Western Route. The train is lead by NPCU 90406 dressed in its Phase III 40th anniversary paint. This locomotive is a former F40PHR built by EMD in July 1988 using components from retired SDP40s. In 2011 it was converted into a non powered control cab and in 2023 it was renumbered to give the 406 slot to a new Charger.
To the left is the famed Ayer Mill Clock Tower, with the world’s largest mill clock. Its four big glass faces are only 6 inches smaller than Big Ben in London. It is the treasured icon and landmark of the community, a hard luck post industrial city that was once an industrial powerhouse trying to reclaim a bit of its past glory
Lawrence was formed in 1843 from land purchased from Methuen and Andover by successful business men from Lowell to establish a new textile manufacturing industry on the banks of the Merrimack River. Periods of boom followed periods of financial difficulty for the huge mills that attracted immigrant workers from all over Europe. By the 1890’s a solution to stability appeared to be consolidation and in 1899 under the direction of Frederick Ayer, eight textile companies merged under a new trust: The American Woolen Company.
In 1906, president of the American Woolen Company, William Wood, Frederick Ayer’s son-in-law, completed construction of a huge new mill intended to produce all the yarn for the company and named it the Wood Worsted Mill. Just one wing of this new mill was half a mile long. The mill spun the fleece of 600,000 sheep in just five hours, but even with this capacity Wood soon realized that it could never produce all the yarn requirements of the company, so he began construction of the Ayer mill, named after his father-in-law, in 1909.
The Ayer Mill, built to spin and dye yarn, was opened on October 3, 1910. Its grand, illuminated clock tower immediately became the architectural focal point of the Merrimack Valley. Decades later the competition of synthetic materials, the migration of the mill companies to southern states, and the end of war-time demand for woolen blankets and clothing doomed northern mills, and The American Woolen Company closed in 1955. Without regular maintenance, the Ayer mill clock soon stopped working. As thousands of residents lost jobs the city fell into major decline and the grand old clock, its disrepair visible to all at 260 feet above street level, became a symbol of the Valley’s economic troubles.
After 36 years, the community rallied in 1991 to restore the clock. Over $1 million was raised and artisans were called in to bring it back to life. Clemente Abascal, a realtor and community activist working on the effort, saw the restoration as a harbinger of hope. “Once the economy starts turning around, the city of Lawrence will come back stronger than ever. That clock symbolizes people at work”, he said. The original bell that had called thousands of people to and from work throughout the city, had been lost for years and was replaced by a beautiful replica.
The train is passing another relic of Lawrence's past, the rusting unused canopies standing behind Lawrence's 1931 brick union station that still stands out of site to the left of the frame. While called a Union Station, that was a misnomer as by that time Lawrence was served by only one railroad, the Boston and Maine, which had opened this route to the New Hampshire state line by 1840.
The first station in Lawrence was built in 1848 when the original tracks from Ballardvale to North Andover were abandoned and the route was relocated to the modern routing through Lawrence south of the Merrimack River. In the mid to later 1800s other railroads built routes radiating north and east from Lawrence, all of which would come into the fold of the B&M over time.
By 1965 the B&M had ended all passenger service to Portland cutting back to Dover, NH and two years later that also was cut and Lawrence was left with a single daily round trip between Haverhill and Boston. By 1976 even that was gone and for three years the city had no service at all. But trains returned three years later with the energy crisis and have remained ever since, though in 2005 this old platform was closed when the Senator Patricia McGovern Transportation Center opened with a new Lawrence train station a quarter mile to the east, replacing this 1931 facility.
In the year 2025 Lawrence sees 26 MBTA commuter trains stop each weekday and in 2001 intercity trains returned when Amtrak Downeaster service commenced between Boston and Portland. Though the 10 daily trains just pass through Lawrence without stopping they do call at Haverhill not far to the north (east) of here.
Lawrence, Massachusetts
Sunday May 11, 2025
A southbound VRS detour move rolls by the old Central Vermont station at Windsor, VT. It must have been something back in the day, to stand here and watch CV 2-10-4s and Boston & Maine E7s hustling through town.
Amtrak still calls here today, at a small (but newly-renovated) platform just behind the camera.
Given an HDR twist this shot captures the clamour of an arrival at Ringas Junction.
Not only is there pressure on would-be passengers to find seats (including clambering over folks intent on staying in the doorway to keep cool), but there's also a lot of pressure on the concession owners who pay to be on the station, and who necessarily come alive when the train passes through in the hope of drumming up business.
Just another day in the life of........
Ringas Junction, Reengus, 17th March 2016