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LNER A4 No4464 'BITTERN' and No4468 'MALLARD' alongside LNER Peppercorn Class A2 'BLUE PETER' and LNER Class V2 No4771 'GREEN ARROW' at Barrow Hill. All out of action at present and either being worked on or mothballed in a museum. I would love to see all of these locos doing what they do best. Performing out on the mainline!
1953 Ford Mainline
This album will show vintage cars, trucks and other vehicles from Cuba, mainly from the 50s and earlier. I visited Cuba 5 times, 2005 and 2007 (scanned slides, Minolta X700), 2011, 2017 and 2020, just before the Covid crisis.
In the summer of, much needed work on the Susquehanna mainline was underway to keep things moving in a safe manner. At Charlottesburg, NJ, an empty rail train head down off Sparta Mountain heading east. More welded rail would arrive, much more!
CN L568 rushes down the Rainy Sub. mainline into Virginia, MN with 4 SD60s on the morning of August 22, 2021. This L568 is the Rainer to Proctor local that many days draws pair of SD60s but today's train had two power sets together. CN 5426 South will switch mainlines ahead at Shelton Jct. and then work Keenan Yard.
Thanks to CN Southwell for the heads up on this one. I've tried to make it a point to catch the 60s on these trains, but it has been tricky between the smoke and this train running frequently off schedule all summer.
The East Coast mainline at Peterborough, looking north (which is actually "down" in train-line speak I believe, as London-bound is defined as "up").
Meopta Flexaret Standard camera
Kodak TMax 400 film
Lab develop & scan
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Northtown-based GP60Ms 132 & 125 ease up to CP42.1 in dynamics to meet the westbound St Cloud Local.
The pair had been mainly local and transfer service for much of their time here, but occasionally sneak out on a road trip.
On this particular day, they were returning from Grand Forks. Not much after I took the shot did the clouds fill in for the rest of the day, typical for late fall here.
For being former Santa Fe "Super Fleet" units, they sure clean up well in the corporate H4 paint.
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BNSF 132
BNSF 125
+ 145 cars.
The grain elevator stands tall and the old switch engine idles next to the mainline of the Union Pacific in western Nebraska.
A Vermont Railway Qualifying Extra is seen blasting north over the Sugar River trestle in Claremont, NH on the NECR Palmer Subdivision. With the closure of the Middlebury Tunnel on the VRS Northern Subdivision starting in the coming weeks, Vermont Railway will be detouring trains over the former CV now New England Central mainline from Burlington to Bellows Falls, providing some unique photo opportunities for a normally nocturnal stretch of railroad. Although I would like to see matching VRS power, the power will primarily be GATX GP38-2's that were leased by the State of Vermont specifically for these detours.
BUGX 1752, a former Keokuk Junction Railway FP9A and likely the only F unit hauling freight in the US this day, leads a freight from Kingsland toward St Marys, Georgia on the St Marys Railroad. The unit is occasionally used to haul excursions on the weekends but was filling in this day for the MP15DC undergoing maintenance. The St. Marys Railroad currently has four customers (in addition to many storage and car cleaning clients): Georgia Pacific, Bocks Board Packaging, Synergy, and the Kings Bay Naval Base.
While I usually like to stay low with drone shots in some situations going high can give you the sort of overview of an area not possible any other way. In this case I caught wind of NS pulling a 68D unit stone train out of the quarry at Clay Center, OH with just enough time for me to get over there and capture a bird's eye view from the NS Chicago main in the foreground to the quarry pit in the background. The town of Clay Center occupies the space between the mainline and the quarry to the middle right. Also note the bridge pier along the road that once supported an interurban rail line. 10/1/2021
Illinois Central SD70s are still plugging away on the CN North-South corridor between Chicago & Centralia. Nearing the end of the journey, CN A40891 06 enters Central City, Illinois in dynamics.
Locomotive 2M62MM-011 with a daily coal train leaving Shariin Gol coal-mine station. This station is the final point of the Darkhan - Shariin Gol branch line. As well, daily freight-passenger mixed and short coal trains run with M62 and 2M62 locomotives in this line. Which is a most attractive thing for railfans and M62 lovers :)
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MRL GP9 109 splits a pair of searchlights as it enters a siding on its way to Townsend, MT, with the Helena local.
in this shot from 2009 4965 rood aston hall passes wardle in poor weather with a vintage trains excursion
Way back to 2014 for this image.
R 707 takes regular mainline trips around Victoria. Unfortunately for us the line that passes about 300 metres from us is no longer considered a mainline since the completion of the regional rail link in 2015.
An 86 car loaded QAP gravel train (150W) coils south on the Alaska Railroad mainline passing through downtown Anchorage at MP 114. The train occupies the main while in the foreground is the ARR's south yard lead while on the other side of the main can be see passenger depot tracks 1 and 2. The ARR's historic downtown depot (built 1942 and expanded in 1948) is on the right while beyond the C Street overpass can be seen the roofline of the recently remodeled freight shed and the signal bridge at CP 1147.
Rising dramatically in the background are the 4000+ foot peaks of the Chugach Mountains including the popular summits of Mount Gordon Lyon and Rendezvous Peak and the Arctic Valley ski area.
Anchorage, Alaska
Saturday May 15, 2010
Here we find a bit of an unusual move on the Richfied Springs Branch of the New York, Susquehanna & Western at Richfield Springs, NY.
Henry Greenblatt is braving the bitter January weather as he protects the rear.....um, excuse me, the front of his train. You see, this empty tank car that held fertilizer was spotted on the main at South Columbia for a new customer, Key Fertilizer.
It's kind of strange that there was no siding for the customer built and that a tank car would be spotted on a main track located on a Form 19 train order dispatcher controlled line.
If a load were coming in, it would be placed on the rear of the train when leaving Richfield Springs, and spotted, or dare I say, left on the main where Key would unload it. The next trip to the Springs, the train would couple onto the car and push it the rest of the way, which is what we see here, to where there was a run around track. Interesting short line move, but I certainly would not want to be Henry.
This was my last visit to the Richfield line. The last run to RS was in July 24, 1986. After that, service was cut back to West Winfield and the weeds took over this portion.
6024 - Goodrington 30-05-2010 P1020911
Mainline Steam Special - The Torbay Express
Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway
class 5 4-6-0 45231 climbs out of the weaver valley on the 1 in 100 to cuddington on the former cheshire lines manchester -chester line
In the background can be seen the new locomotive maintenance facility being built for Freightliner, in part of the former Top Yard.
A sharp-looking leader with a long potash train takes to the mainline in Thief River Falls after meeting the daily westbound manifest, CP 241, near the Soo Line Depot. Canadian Pacific is in the process of demolishing some blighted structures on the east side of the tracks. It will open up a wider angle for morning shots.
NS H-55 makes its usual eastbound run on NJ Transit's Mainline at Mahwah, NJ, on their way to serve local freight customers around Paterson and Clifton.
NS P57 heads north at Doraville, Georgia with the Marco Polo in tow as they pass 154. November 14, 2020
in this archive shot from the winter of 2012 6201 princess elizabeth approaches bunbury lane with a train for chester
WA-R with the 314 bounces around the old Lower Road at a steady 10 MPH through Vassalboro Station (yes, I'm holding my camera level) with six empties from Augusta trailing. It's hard to believe that this used to be a signaled 40 MPH mainline only thirty years ago, with almost brand new rail in place when Guilford sold the line to the state in favor of the slightly longer Back Road. These days, the only trains gracing the rails are the twice weekly Augusta locals, but at least that business is better than none, and both customers in Augusta seem to be doing decently.
Former push-pull Class33, 33103 in BR Green livery gets a day out on the mainline with a RugEx special. Seen here on the straight between Newport and Cardiff. Taken 6/11/1999.
Canon EOS 3. EF35mm f2, Fuji Superia 200.
37419 'Carl Haviland' is seen leading 1Q77 Mossend to Inverness north climbing Drumochter Summit at Dalnacardoch with 37405 dead on the rear - 07/09/2019
46100 royal scot near cholmondeston cheshire on a crew training run--what looks like a kestrel hovers in the distance
46100 royal scot climbs towards whichurch through the fields of south cheshire near wrenbury with a liverpool --cardiff excursion
the effect of strong winds on a plume of steam --class 5 4-6-0 45305 passes the site of tattenhall junction between chester and crewe in 2010----an unseen frame or possibly a reworking , some shots were so similar, being taken in rapid succession , from many taken that day
46100 royal scot approaches nantwich travelling to shrewsbury to stand in for sir nigel gresley , which is temporarily out of action
making a welcome return for mainline steam rebuilt bulleid light pacific 34046 braunton nears winsford
Everett 11 chugs into Claysburg, PA with 2 loads of lumber in tow, destined for the team track here in town. The train could be considered very, *very* crudely street-running here, splitting the gravel Mainline Avenue in two.
A northbound BNSF freight rolls through the center of Fort Collins, CO on the busy main street. This line hosted a few trains per day back when this was shot in the summer of 2001 making the wait easily bearable.
66767 heads past Margam along the South Wales mainline with the Eglwys Nunydd reservoir in the background, the working is 6B75 14:05 NEATH ABBEY WHARF to PENGAM.