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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!
Alongside the Union Pacific’s mainline at North Lake, Wisconsin - Sparkling overnight frost has given sections of spare rail a covering of Pure Cold. – November 2015 ~~ A Jeff Hampton Photograph ©
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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The grain elevator stands tall and the old switch engine idles next to the mainline of the Union Pacific in western Nebraska.
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.
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.
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.
class 5 4-6-0s 44871 and 45407 double head the stock of an excursion returning from chester on the crewe line at hargrave--the tower of waverton church peeps over the trees in the distance
A trio of matching EMDs race west on M-NTWSTC4-18A under Big Lake's signal gantry.
The train of 54 cars was supposed to go to St Cloud on the local the previous day, but never made it.
The GP60Ms have split up, and the 132 has found two new mates for now, looking good on the point.
M-NTWSTC4-18A
BNSF 132 - GP60M
BNSF 3175 - GP50
BNSF 2695 - GP39
Temps were just hitting 40 degrees for a January thaw when the train passed through, but it wouldn't last, a cold front soon came to drop temps back to subzero, and clouds the block out the sun.
....well it was Yesterday. 60066 sits under the dark skies of the North Yard at Toton on February 21st with a Few Swordfish Wagons for Company. The Celebrity 'Doughnut' taking a few days rest from Mainline work diagrammed to the 0T01 Pilot turn
Lets cool down a bit on this hot summer afternoon, with a photo from Lonnie Maves. Lonnie captured this scene of an unwitting snowmobile rider about to come face to face with the Milwaukee Road 543 pushing the wedge plow just outside of South Wayne on this chilly looking winter's afternoon.
MILW Plow Extra
MILW 543
South Wayne, WI.
February 1978
Lonnie Maves photo, D.A.Longley collection
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.
The Northern Belle Service had previously worked 1Z73, 12.15 Norwich to Cambridge, via Ipswich and then 1Z74, 15.38 Cambridge to Ipswich, via Norwich, arriving in Ipswich at 18.08.
Passengers were treated to a glass of champagne once they boarded, followed by a 7 course Christmas Dinner.
Video of the departure here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSGGO8njeQo
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
The viaduct at Batty Moss/Ribblehead is seen in what some would describe as typical Settle carlilse conditions
Mainline Blue 73136 'Kent Youth Music' and Intercity 73141 head 6Y46 Eastleigh -Hoo Junction past Wandsworth Road in March 1997. Sir Giles Gilbert - Scott's iconic Battersea Power Station in the background was disused at the time but is now part of a housing development. Many thanks GG for the train info.
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
Mainline blue duo 37248 'Midland Railway Centre' & 37375 haul a CWR set on the regular engineers service; 6V41 13:13 Eastleigh N.Y to Westbury on 13th September 2002. I can't remember the detail but the gen groups had picked up on theses loco being allocated this turn so the area was invaded by photographers.
37248 made preservation and details of it career can be found here:
thegrowlergroup.org.uk/?page_id=30
Unfortunately 37375, the former D6893, 37193 didn't fair so well and was scrapped at Kingsbury in January 2008
Mamiya 645 Slide Scan
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.
Well, not really. Here we see L550 from Aldershot shoving CN 385 through Brantford with an eclectic assortment of EMD power...man did this sound good!
1954 Ford Mainline 8 Series Model 72C 2-door Business Coupé
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AWC 390045 at Preston awaiting to depart on 9M59 to London Euston with a conveniently placed puddle making a nice scene. Taken March 12th, 2022.
46100 royal scot near cholmondeston cheshire on a crew training run--what looks like a kestrel hovers in the distance
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
The classic unelectrified old coal mainline carries the legacy of almost 100 years of transporting goods from southern Poland for export in the harbour of Gdynia. As of now (the beginning of 2025) it only has mere months to go before modernisation (notice the rails laying on the track!). A second track and electrification is what this line desperately needs, as it serves more and more commuters from Kartuzy and Kościerzyna towards Gdynia and Gdańsk.
One of the elements which I will be missing the most will be the telephone pylons, which decorate most of the line. They are one of my favorite details to photograph here, both because of their old age and the fact that it's hard to find a line, which has them running along nowadays.
Today the first train to the fuel base in Ugoszcz made a return from Lipusz to Gdynia Port, and I could snap a quick picture of it as it was leaving Żukowo Wschodnie towards Gdynia, headed by BR232-502 of Cargounit, here working for Qemetica Cargo.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
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.
Eastbound train #M-RCHU is seen as it starts to climb up the ruling grade on the Pierre-Rapid City mainline, which is called "Wall Hill" on the railroad. Ahead are about 10 miles or so of a killer climb that will end once reaching the town of Wall. The climb will put the four SD40-2's to the test, and this climb is the most likely place for any RCP&E train to encounter stalling issues. Unfortunately, from this photo location to almost all the way to Wall, there is little access to the railroad. Therefore, for the railfan it is "Drone Fly Boy" or hiking territory, but even then likely requires permission to access as it's all on some type of private property.
45562 'Alberta' hauling the Cumbrian Mountain Express, from London Euston to Carlisle. Out over Shap, returning over the S&C. Seen here on the return at Stockber.
Ex LMS Black five 45212 is seen at Bonishall lane between Prestbury and Macclesfield 8th March 2025. Working Manchester Piccadilly to Stratford upon Avon railtour at 8am on a stunning spring morning