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It's a brisk autumn morning, a slight breeze, the smell of fresh rain in the air, the trees turning color, and the rumble of a mighty Reading T-1 Hog. It's October 14th, 2023, and the Reading and Northern railroad is running fall foliage trains to and from Reading Outer Station with Reading and Northern 2102. The brisk and thin air makes the Reading 6 chime louder, beefier, and more ominous, you hear the chuffing get closer, the noise of the drivers pounding away, and then the T-1 rolls into the frame putting on a show of smoke as the steam crew fights the tough grade.
...of the morning commute is alive and well in downtown Harrisburg as busses and trains move in and out of the Harrisburg Transportation Center.
Meanwhile, loaded auto rack train 18N thunders past the morning rush with an all EMD consist including the SD70ACe leader, a 60i and SD70 trailing.
“The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately.”
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CPKC 148 gets a route through Grey Cloud Dunes SNA on the BNSF St. Paul Subdivision after Amtrak's Borealis exited the Twin Cities. I like that there is traffic ready to go after the Borealis consistently, so that I can get a bonus train somewhere whether it's the BNSF or CPKC. It had been a while since I had visited Grey Cloud Dunes. There is a large residential development encroaching on my peace and serenity here, so I have been hesitant on revisiting since the earthmoving and construction started. CPKC 148 was a good motivator to hustle down the hill to this spot and catch it passing the 4167 intermediate signal.
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Ochota district.
Winter
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It's Freight Car Friday so here is another look at THE freight cars synonymous with railroading on the Iron Range. This string of empty ore hoppers comprises Canadian National train U710 headed to Minntac for another load of taconite pellets. They are hustling over the Clouquet River at MP 25.5 on modern day CN's North Division Missabe Sub mainline. The 440 ft long and 40 ft high Warren Deck Truss bridge with deck girder approaches was once double tracked and is actually two identical parallel structures, with the one the train is on dating from 1924 and the abandoned one in the foreground dating from 1907.
The 24 ft 70 ton style ore hopper has been the standard since about 1942 and the Missabe amassed some 8000 between then and 1957. I'm not sure how many of the fleet remain today but we still saw trainloads of 1952, 1953 and 1957 vintage U29, U30 and U31 class cars.
This is an area that needs no introduction to even the most casual fan as the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway is in a word legendary. I won't bore you with pages of history as I couldn't do the road or region justice anyway. It simply needs to be experienced for oneself. But I will direct you to two resources. Absolutely check out the fabulous historical information here: www.missabe.com/
And for a fabulously well written overview of modern CN operations find yourself a copy of the April 2023 edition of Railfan and Railroad right now! shop.whiteriverproductions.com/products/rfr-202304
South of unincorporated Burnett
Industrial Township
St. Louis County, Minnesota
Thursday May 11, 2023
Not much of a roster shot with a pole shadow and another behind but I was excited to see this in Superior at the time. BN 6430 Hustle Muscle (GN 400, EMD's first production SD45) on November 14, 1985 after it had been donated to the GNRHS. The SD45 would be moved across the bay to LSRM and eventually repainted by BN into GN colors at their Grand Forks roundhouse in 1989. Today Hustle Muscle is in St. Paul at MTM, still owned by the GNRHS.
Turning around after taking the prior shot I grabbed this going away view off the same overpass.
Inbound Keolis/MBTA shuttle train 1974 from Fall River to East Taunton with six bi levels shoved by MPI HSP46 2035 hustles north in this view looking north off the New Street overpass above new Weaver interlocking on the Fall River Secondary at MP FS 9.4 which controls access to the new Weavers Cove layover facility and Cashman siding at left which hasn't served any freight customers in decades. The vacant plot of land along the tidal waters of the Taunton River was once a Shell Oil tank farm which closed in the 1990s.
This rail route into the city of Fall River opened in 1846 and saw continuous passenger service under the auspices of the Fall River Railroad and then the Old Colony system until the latter was folded into the New Haven Railroad in 1893. The NH continued daily service to Boston until September 1958 when all passenger service ended to south of Middleboro including to the famed whaling port of New Bedford. In June of 1959 Middleboro lost service along with the other former Old Colony branches to Plymouth and Greenbush. Commuter service returned to Middleboro and Plymouth in 1997 and Geeenbush a decade later but the extension south had to wait until now.
Fall River, Massachusetts
Friday March 28, 2025
Memory is a funny thing. his shot was taken in May of 1992. I have not been back since the date of this photo. When I look at this photo my memory says this train is an empty returning to Hoyt Lakes and it is near Cramer somewhere. However when I look at the Cramer area on a map I am not so sure. Perhaps this is a load and it is the crossing East of Cramer. Any help would be appreciated. Nonetheless the F-Units stole the day.
VIA 903 at mile 71.2 on the Chatham Sub, hustles a 5 car Toronto-Windsor train towards its final station stop.
Great Northern Railway Historical Society's SD45 400 was the first 3600 h.p. turbo-charged 20 cylinder 645E3 production model EMD SD45 diesel electric locomotive built.
GN 400 was delivered in May 1966 and is in operable condition. In 2006 it was at WSOR's Horicon Shops to get a repaint. GN 400 currently resides at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in Duluth, where it runs regularly.
The GNRHS's beautifully restored and painted Great Northern SD45 #400 'Hustle Muscle' is operating at the Osceola & St. Croix Valley Railway in Osceola WI
On a sunny but cold and windy day at the farmers' market by the “Viktor-Adler-Markt” in Favoriten, the 10th district of Vienna
The Grand Rapids Turn continues west through Warba after meeting a taconite train at Draco siding. The 4 coal hoppers behind the power, was a nice touch.
I'm not sure if I love this or hate it. I was trying to convey speed but the Alaska Railroad mainline is no Northeast Corridor so I probably needed a bit slower shutter for a touch more motion blur, thought to be honest I kinda wish I'd just shot this at a high shutter speed for a traditional sharp freeze frame image. But you can't go back in time and photography is an evolving process of trial and error as you learn new skills and techniques and decide what you come to like.
So I don't completely hate this but nor do I love it. Thoughts?
Anyway, as for the train this the northbound Coastal Classic passenger train (210W) behind a standard SD70MAC/GP40-2 making its way home to Anchorage, 111 miles from the south end of the railroad in Seward. They are leaning into the curve approaching Beluga Point near MP 95.2 on the ARRC mainline. The tide is high in Turnagain Arm and the mud flats are hidden beneath the deep blue water while the Kenai Mountains sparkle in the distance a dozen miles away across the fjord like waterway.
On this day the sun rose at 4:22 AM and won't set until 11:39 PM so the passengers aboard will have a glorious view over the top of the mountains at Grandview and then along the shore of Turnagain Arm with a scheduled arrival back in the big city at 10:15 PM.
South of Anchorage, Alaska
Wednesday June 13, 2013
The warm morning sun makes a brief appearance, as Wisconsin & Southern train T4H muscles it's freight eastbound at Hartford. The large building below the vintage smoke stack is the Hartford Auto Museum, which holds the beautifully restored Soo Line Mikado 1003 along with many classic automobiles.
WSOR T4H
WAMX 4219,4174
Hartford, WI.
Summer 2018
Three different Alco models represented by 8022/ 4454/ 44221 combine to hustle 3SP7 superfreighter from Sydney to Perth through the yard at Bundanoon, New South Wales, on 19 April 1994.
The train is only a few hours into its transcontinental journey and will probably undergo at least three loco changes before reaching its destination. Today the train would be three times the length and would complete the coast to coast journey with just one loco change - if that!
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Green Machines at Wyckoff NYSW 6366 leads the pope mobile and freight during the rebuild project. Carl Perelman photo
If you like harlequin ducks, Ediz Hook in Port Angeles is a good place to go and take a look at some.
A man named Luis has these young folks working on their soccer skills and is looking to get them in a league. This is totally a volunteer operation with no organization funding it and very impressive for the work it does.
I've been seeing them out there and meaning to stop, but I finally did tonight.
These pictures aren't great because A) I'm not a sports photographer B) My 55-200mm lens is too slow for the evening light -- it was already getting dark. C) I accidently left the stabilizer off on the lens. Doh.
So, fairly high ISO shots, but fun none the less.
Taken with my Nikon 55-200mm F4-5.6 VR lens with stabilization accidently left off.
Having made quick work of delivering 23 cars to Ash Grove Cement in Montana City the Montana Rail Link's 840 Helena Local is hustling home light engine to return to whatever they had in store on this quiet Labor Day holiday.
They have just climbed up and over the hump on the 'new' connection that swings from this former GN trackage to the ex NP mainline and are smoking it up as they accelerate off the 13th Sub branchline and enter the MRL's 2nd Sub mainline here at MP 235.1 for the short three mile trip home.
For the prior few months, the assigned power on this local had been MRL 109 and 355. Both are veteran ex Burlington Northern units, the former a GP9 originally blt. Feb. 1955 as Northern Pacific 210 and the latter an SD45 blt. Dec. 1971 as BN 6558. Long known for its preference for the 20 cylinder EMD brutes, the MRL rostered some 52 indivdual units of the model at varying times during the past 35 years (and over 80 if you include dash 2 and cowl variants) though today this one is the last of her breed in service on the property.
Countless articles have been written about the MRL over the past 35 years of its existence and if you care to learn more download this great set of articles courtesy of Trains Magazine:
www.trains.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/TRN-MRL.pdf
East Helena, Montana
Monday September 5, 2022