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The railroad may haul the scrap steel cars, but someone else still loads the cars. Loading cars at a scrap dealer in York, Pa.
Loading gill net for fishing. On the other end is a truck with a big winch, providing tension, and feeding the winch on the front of the gill net boat.
Viterra employees work to load a unit train train for movement on CP at Star Alberta. The terminal, located at the end of the Willingdon Subdivision, is the only grain loading point on the CP north of Edmonton Alberta.
The UP's Marsh Job, LPA-55, pulls two loads of scrap from Miller Compressing in Walker's Point.
This is one of three semi-regular customers for the UP in Walker's Point, but the traffic for delivery of empties and pickup of loads is fairly inconsistent.
UP 1474
"Stick" Shilman and Brandon Terrell arrive at "103" in the 900 with an equipment transport for Mill 5/dry sort from town. The 988 log loader could be easily moved by flat car between the Mill Three and Five sites as needed.
Recently arrived GB&W C424 320 is on the load box at the Norwood roundhouse in Green Bay in June 1980. The engine started life as Erie Lackawanna 2412 and came to the GB&W in March 1980.
At a tiny speck on the map known as Brimson, a loaded train from Arcelor Mittal's Minorca Mine creeps towards the siding where it will meet an empty train heading for US Steel's Minntac Mine. Leading the way is the Illinois Central SD40-2 6251, the last black unit on the CN roster still sporting a white frame stripe.
The calmly flowing waters of a swollen Kickapoo Creek gently touch the concrete footings currently supporting the passage of this heavy, 131-car, southbound Union Pacific coal drag as its two, lead, AC six-axles ride their dynamic brakes, coasting downhill across a combination deck plate and lattice through truss bridge along the former C&NW "SI Line" outside Bartonville on a gloomy July morning. This train of loaded aluminum BethGons -- symbol CNAPW 14 -- are topped out with over 18,000 tons of Wyoming's finest black diamonds; Filled at Peabody's North Antelope Mine in the state's rich Powder River Basin, these hoppers have only a few short miles left to travel before reaching their destination at NRG Energy's Powerton Generating Station, near Pekin. The train will soon cross the Illinois River drawbridge and immediately make a right turn onto the IMRR and down into Crescent Yard for interchange where they'll tie down and the loads will wait for an Illinois & Midland crew to spot the cars at the plant for final dumping. Slated for decommission come the end of 2028 due to the country's relentless insistence on "cleaner" energy alternatives, Powerton is the sole remaining, actively burning coal-fired power plant to still remain standing in the greater Peoria area, outliving the facilities at Havana, Hennepin and Canton's Duck Creek (2019), and eventually the E.D. Edwards Station at Bartonville (2022). Once closed, it'll be another major hit in activity levels for a route that is already down in traffic. Twice weekly scheduled manifest service between Peoria and Clinton, IA, as needed coal, grain and ethanol unit traffic, and seasonal ballast trains are pretty much the bulk of what traverses this line.
For southbounds, this is the final, and most dramatic, crossing atop a snaky Kickapoo Creek which twists and turns beneath the rails of the Peoria Subdivision in six different locations within just about a short, two mile stretch of track. Just about a half mile back from this bridge, the train is still working through the CTC controlled interlocking at "Peoria JCT" where the Peoria Sub main to South Pekin splits from UP's "Low Line," which routes trains for Peoria area interchange into and out of their small Adams St. Yard just a short distance away on the city's southwest side. The single-tracked Peoria Subdivision, which runs south out of Nelson away from the busy Geneva Sub, uses a combination of CTC, TWC and ABS infrastructure to route what little traffic runs down this line and is also the only class 1 of four that has a "through route" through the city. A line that does not get much attention from photographers, an older "winged" EMD SD70ACe on the point of a well timed coal load just was enough for me to grab the camera and quickly pick it off at this very seldom shot location.
I sure could do without that walkway.
No Electrical Power....
We suddenly have a lot of load shedding this last couple of days. I have my opinions on why but won't go too much into it right now. I think I will have to write a book about corruption and mismanagement and political stuff if I want to really explain why it is as it is.
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A trio of trains meet briefly at Union Pacific's Hull Avenue Yard on the east side of Des Moines, Iowa. UP 2711 is slowly rolling south with a loaded ethanol train as it approaches the signals for the diamonds over the Iowa Interstate and BNSF. UP 8214 and 5321 are on a grain train waiting to depart following the ethanol for a run south towards Kansas City. Meanwhile the ADM's MP15 1357 has pulled into frame as it works the industrial trackage on the east side of the UP yard.
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UP Mason City Sub
Des Moines, IA
Unknown Symbol (Grain Loads)
UP 8214 ES44AC Blt. 2014
UP 5321 ES44AC Blt. 2006
Unknown Symbol (Ethanol Loads)
UP 2711 ET44AC Blt. 2016
Unknown Symbol (Industrial Switcher)
ADMX 1357 MP15DC Ex. UP 1357, MP 1357 Blt. 1982
IC 6251 is dragging a loaded train out of the Fairlane facility at Forbes, MN. Shortly, the train will enter the Missabe Subdivision and bomb South for Proctor.
WC train ESSOA rolls down the hill west of Trout Lake with the ore loads for Algoma Steel on July 17, 1997. 6654 and 3017 have 44 loads on a warm summer morning and after a meet with there westbound counterpart at Trout Lake will be off to Soo Yard.
The classic Laker John D. Leitch is at the CSX coal dock in Toledo on a sunny September evening for a load of coal. Toledo, OH 9/19/2022
With a fresh crew on board a trio of IC SD70s pass the searchlight at Fredonia, PA en route to XB with ore loads.
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