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Abandoned home in Macon County, Missouri by Notley Hawkins. Taken with a Canon EOS R5 camera with a Canon EF28-300mm f/3.5-5.6L IS USM lens at Æ’/8.0 with a 1/400-second exposure at ISO 125. Processed with Adobe Lightroom CC.
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Falls Road Railroad's LB-1 (Lockport to Brockport) shoves fresh Tropicana loads into Lineage Logistics in Brockport, NY sporting Alco RS-32 2035 on this bitter February day.
For once I don't have a massive essay to write up on this one, save for a few key details. Of all the things you'd never expect to see in Western New York snow, Florida oranges certainly top that list. Imagine my excitement when it was announced in summer of 2024 that Lineage would be taking on a contract with Tropicana, to offload their cars up here close to home. This shot idea was months in the making from the minute the cars began showing up. The opportunity to juxtapose a warm weather commodity in the extreme opposite conditions was always the goal right from the start. Prior to this, the only other time I had seen these cars in person was on a day off during a Disney trip in 2022, as I had rented a car near the resort to go railfan the Tampa area for the day, intercepting one of the locals which brings these cars into Yeoman Yard. Outside of that, there was a classic orange 60' box car with a Tropicana logo on it which frequented the Buffalo metro area in years past. That too I have not seen since 2022.
While this contract started out rather slow, only seeing a few cars a week at first, by fall of last year it really shifted into full swing. Falls Road themselves, in a pre-emptive move, ordered two extra engines to be shipped up from the Delaware Lackawanna down in Scranton, DL 2002 and DL 1804, at the same time the contract started up. The idea as it's being executed now was to keep one or both engines in Brockport as daily switchers, as the warehouse can only fit up to five cars at a time. The expectation was to see up to 25 cars a week on the easternmost end of the railroad, warranting the extra power outside of the two engines this Genesee Valley Transportation outfit already had. (The other is high hood RS-11 DL 1802.)
This contract resulted in a major shift in operations for the Falls Road. Up till 2024, the railroad was based only out of Lockport, and the entire line was served from its interchange point with CSX. While some days two crews could be used to work the line on especially heavy work days, the once seldom practice has now become much more commonplace. A couple times a week, the Lockport and Brockport crews will meet in the middle at Knowlesville, where a siding exists along with one customer in Growmark. The crews will exchange trains, and return back their separate ways, splitting the customer work somewhat. Such was not the case on this day, with one crew running the whole line, battling through snow drifts galore. West of Knowlesville has more customers by quantity, but the Tropicana traffic is the most regular of it all at the moment, with a couple of the grain-based customers close behind. When the Brockport job does run the line, it apparently runs under the very fitting symbol OJ-1, generally sporting a small unit train of refrigerated box cars, both for Lineage and the other cold storage warehouse across a diamond from them, Nortera (formerly known as Bonduelle). On the days the jobs don't meet, they merely work isolated in their own sectors. Further expansions in the customer base are set to take place in the near future on the east end of the railroad, with Falls Road and GVT eyeing up growth at every turn. The future is bright for a line that once was in danger of abandonment under Conrail in its later years. At one time a through route all the way to Rochester, now dead ending in Brockport, rail service is just as alive as it ever was.
My friend Hayden, on a beam in the old GNR warehouse in Derby. Sadly, unbeknownst to him, he's right under a pigeons favourite perch there, about 20 seconds after this though it reminded him not to stand in the drop zone! Health and safety, as always was a priority.
Having just arrived from Calgary, the timelessly elegant 'Royal Canadian Pacific' glistens in the quickly fading light at Lake Louise, Alberta — evoking thoughts of an era when legendary trains such as The Dominion and The Canadian called on this scenic resort town — as EMD FP9A 4107 utilizes the high track to run around its train in preparation for a private charter to Banff. On this day, the consist of this distinguished six-car train included APU Power Car (CP 97), HB Bowen (CP 110), Glacier (CP 89), Major Rogers (CP 103), Selkirk (CP 3605), and the regal Mount Stephen (CP 74), all trailing A-B-A configured locomotives 1401, 1900, and 4107.
Another impression from last weekend and a sunny day spent at Dawlish Warren Nature Reserve. Let's see what this weekend holds in store for us...
Ford model A in Havana - Cuba
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Niagara Yard's afternoon industry road runner L035 spots one loaded TBOX at 84 Lumber's Tonawanda, NY location at last light following heavy rainfalls which left behind a small gift in the gauge.
Prior to 2022, daylight shots here were hard to come by, with steel coil customer DKP almost always being the first stop for this job on the southbound journey. DKP was located about a mile south of 84 Lumber, however on track two rather than off of track one like all the other customers L035 caters to. With the closure of Kenmore Yard's office in late 2020, this job's former iteration Y234 was moved to Niagara Falls as its base, merging with a job already based out of Niagara at the time Y203. DKP was one of the most consistently worked customers on the Branch, almost always on the three days a week it was allotted. With 84 Lumber more of as-needed stop, DKP took precedence since the remainder of the evening's work is otherwise off of track one. On days when the crew had both to work, they would do DKP first thing, spin the train at Blackrock and head back north on track one (barring a necessary shove move into the Kam Siding at CP 8), complete their northbound track one work, lock in on the Lockport Industrial Runner north of 84, run around at the end of the industrial, open back up onto track one at QDN 14.1, then work 84 Lumber as their last customer stop on the second trip south to spin again, before returning north to Niagara. In this order of operations, 84 was virtually always left in the dark. In March of 2022 CSX made sweeping symbol changes across its system, converting Y203 to L035. In summer of that year, DKP succumbed to supply chain shortages and took a pause on rail service for a brief time, returning for a few months before finally giving it up for good. Ever since, 84 Lumber is now always the first customer L035 can work going south, with no work off of track two required any longer. The only things left to work on track two are the myriad of customers jutting off of Kenmore Yard (or what's left of it), covered by first shift Niagara job Y136 these days. Both that job and L035 share the same PTC power five days a week, unless Y136 is late to return after L035 goes on duty. But that condition is only fulfilled if there are two PTC units at Niagara, which up until this year has not been a regular thing since the symbol changes in 2022. A brief history of operations for ya.
Only once in April 2021 did I ever hear of DKP skipping a day of rail service, which allowed for my first opportunity to shoot 84 Lumber, and ultimately failed as I didn't find the right path back to the tracks in time. The closest access points to the spur are either walking south straight down the right of way from the nearest road crossing, or my preferred and much more discreet method, climbing down a small embankment behind the storage unit lot directly next to 84, emerging right onto the switchback siding into the customer. On that particular occasion I instead elected to drive right into 84's lot and walk the tracks next to the building, which was met with a disgruntled employee informing me they were locking up at that moment. I was not afforded another chance for over a year till May 9th, 2022 as part of a full sunrise to sunset unforgettable day of railfanning. This was a special circumstance which saw both 84 and DKP worked back to back. Due to repaving projects for the major road crossings on the Lockport Industrial in North Tonawanda, the customers on the industrial would not be getting served that day, leaving L035 with only three customer stops all within three miles. Being up at Niagara at the time of departure, I spotted the loaded centerbeam they had with them from afar and my face lit right up when they told dispatch their first stop would be 84. Following their stop there, they would go down to CP 9 and use the handthrow crossover switches to switch to track two, then shove back north a mile to DKP. Their last stop that day was Aurubis on the Kam Siding at CP 8 after turning the train. With all three customers switched well before sunset, it was an early trip back to Niagara for the quit. That was 2022 though. The shot above is 2025. The only other thing to note is that box cars have separate designated placement spots than centerbeams for unloading. The engine doesn't normally get this deep into the spur, as half the time they work here with other cars on the head end, sticking out a bit on the curve. It certainly made for a unique angle, and one I haven't seen again this year, nor ever before that evening. The puddle reflection perfectly still between the rails was just a little bonus. I swear I never start off these posts thinking I have that much to say, but the details naturally flow forth.
Vintage farm equipment frames a pair of handsomely matched Canadian National EMD SD75Is — both wearing their nearly 30-year-old paint remarkably well — as they hustle Edmonton to Calgary train no. 442 through the countryside near Bircham, Alberta.
Eighty-pound stick rail and a blaze of tamarack set the scene at Hearst Junction, where the former Algoma Central and National Transcontinental Railways once met. Today, both fallen flags live on, with CN operating over the former ACR as far as Oba, while the ONR polishes the railheads of the once-mighty NTR a single day each week for the sole remaining customer on the line, the Lecours Lumber Company at Calstock, Ontario.
On this crisp autumn afternoon, in the far northwest reaches of the ONR system, the Calstock roadswitcher, based out of Hearst Yard, has just lifted a string of bad-ordered ATCO trailers that were left on the Pagwa Spur main by CN’s five-day-a-week local 552 earlier in the day. Before pressing on over the final 22 miles to the end of steel, the crew makes a rare southbound move back into the yard after lifting the bad orders to clear the main, as captured here at Mile One of the Pagwa.
According to the CN/ONR crews, these Horizon North structures are ultimately bound for Moosonee, where a large hospital construction project is currently underway.
There are several cool places in Chicago to get these repeating elements, line and light kind of shots.
This one is the south side of the Boeing building - which is interesting architecturally too for its structural system that uses steel trusses to suspend the corner above the Amtrak and Metra railroad tracks below this walkway.
Damp, and slippery narrow "boardwalk" at Troy Nature Center. Only inches above the ground, it will be very welcomed in the Spring when this area will become a vernal wetland.
Explored 11-22-16
Another "old" image. I'm having a "spring clean" on my computer, deleting, organising and mapping them. Kept this image as "no delete" as I quite like the moss-covered rocks and light giving a fairy tale atmosphere. - Primary forest, Sweden.
a gloomy day in munich. the sky is a heavy grey, and the rain has left the stones dark and wet. but in the salvatorpassage, the lights are on, creating a warm, artificial day within the day. a woman walks through this tunnel of light, her closed umbrella a promise of a pause in the downpour. her journey is a solitary line, drawn in the reflections of the wet floor, a brief, cinematic moment where the gloomy day feels like a beautiful, moody night.