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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!
CPKC is really pushing the limits of their mainline in the Mississippi River floodwaters in downtown Davenport, IA as an empty ballast train heads north with KCS 3967 and KCS 4405.
Another northbound would follow the ballast train 1.5 hours later and the mainline will possibly shut down yet today with floodgates closing at Waterworks.
April 29, 2023.
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.
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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Another place I can finally check off the list, Morants Curve. It's too bad about the ever growing trees in the foreground but those mountains in the background will always be stunning.
CP Laggan Subdivision
February 6, 2020
Another look at AP4 and the four PAs leading 3 B&M "bluebird"s east towards Boston.
Mainline Mechanicville to Ayer B&M
in this shot from 2009 4965 rood aston hall passes wardle in poor weather with a vintage trains excursion
IC 9145 leads a couple more cool units on a manifest near Mattoon on July 24, 1973. No photographer to credit, Chuck Schwesinger collection.
A pair of CSX SD50s were passing underneath the former Western Maryland Railway overpass in Keystone in 2003.
They were on their way back down the Sand Patch grade after helping a heavy westbound over the grade to help the next train that needed a shove.
If only the Western Maryland Railway was never included into the Chessie System and was still an active mainline; unfortunately, it is now a bike trail.
MRL GP9 109 splits a pair of searchlights as it enters a siding on its way to Townsend, MT, with the Helena local.
Milwaukee North #2603 departs Union Station behind #405, Metra's own Milwaukee Road heritage unit, passing underneath the east end of the former C&NW mainline leading into Ogilvie/North Western Station.
Back in the fall of 1995, I was called at Argentine yard in Kansas City for a work train on the Emporia Subdivision. Our job was to drill into the sub-roadbed and pump a lime-slurry into the soil to help stabilize the roadbed.
Here we are on Olathe Hill west of Kansas City taking a break as a westbound train charges up the hill past us. We'd work both Olathe Hill and Wellsville Hill that day before calling it quits.
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.
Fortune favours the persistent? Attempt number 4 at phoning grids on the logs here in sun finally pays off as 56051 'Survival' leads 56094 through Keckwick, Daresbury, working 6J37 Carlisle Yard to Chirk loaded logs. 17/7/23
A bit of trivia, the rather faded 56094 was the first 56 returned to use for Colas, whilst 56051 is the most recently returned and the only one to have the smaller Romanian style grid on the front left on the mainline, 56049 having one cab end rebuilt to the UK grid end.
***NOTE: This shot is now gone. The field is now being developed for houses.
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.
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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.
DRS 37425 "Sir Robert McAlpine / Concrete Bob" is seen at full power past Ricknall Grange working 6X36 Belmont Down Yard - Tyne S.S. on January 31st, 2022.
SP GP9E 3857 leads the Davis Local west after making a pick-up at Sucro between Davis and Dixon, CA on the Southern Pacific's Cal-P Mainline on a hot August 17, 1988 afternoon.
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
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.
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.
The viaduct at Batty Moss/Ribblehead is seen in what some would describe as typical Settle carlilse conditions
Although it may be hard to imagine, this picture presents what used to once be the most important line for freight traffic in interwar Poland - the coal mainline from Silesia to the harbour in Gdynia. There used to be tens of cargo trains rolling here each day. Nowadays it's just a forgotten stretch of track with minimal train traffic.
On 27.05 I woke up early once again to photograph this returning train from Kościerzyna, which was headed by TEM2-261 of Omniloko (previously owned by CTL). The train had a small load of rails, leftover after unloading near Kościerzyna, for the upcoming modernisation of this line. As it turned out, I ended up meeting some friends, and we chased the train further down the line towards Bydgoszcz later.
On the picture, the TEM2-261 is seen with its TNS 543004 Kościerzyna - Chorzów Stary, having passed the stop Łąg Południowy (near the crossing of the coal mainline with the Ostbahn from Berlin to Königsberg). The train is closing in to what used to be a passing loop in the nearby forest, called Szary Kierz (Königsried). It was shut down in 1945, when much of the heavy coal traffic was moved to the line from Bydgoszcz via Tczew to Gdańsk.
Between the two currently existing stations - Bąk and Lipowa Tucholska, there used to be 3 passing loops. Apart from Szary Kierz, they were located near Wojtal and Szałamaje, averaging a distane of around 6 kilometers between stations (now - 22km). Other parts of the railway line were hit with simmilar cuts - first after the 2nd world war, and then in the 1990s.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
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!
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.
in this archive shot from the winter of 2012 6201 princess elizabeth approaches bunbury lane with a train for chester
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 climbs towards whichurch through the fields of south cheshire near wrenbury with a liverpool --cardiff excursion
making a welcome return for mainline steam rebuilt bulleid light pacific 34046 braunton nears winsford
One of two westbounds on this temperate July evening at Red Rock was a mainline manifest. With the sun angle and fence, the view to the east basically constrained to a vertical tele---but it works.
A wider take on this scene moments before sunset.
Having completed turning this welded rail train on the yard lead via CPF 197 and 196 this CSXT/Pan Am Rigby yard crew is headed back to the yard with the train as they catch the last glow of evening sun. It will be doubled to the rear of M426 and head to Waterville the next morning ultimately destined for the track project going on between Northern Maine Junction and Mattawamkeag as CSXT rebuilds the old Maine Central mainline they purchased last year.
The crew has a nice merger pair of geeps in the form of MEC 514 and CSXT 2548, the former of which is a GP40-2W blt. Apr. 1976 as CN 9655 and the latter a GP38-2 blt. Nov. 1973 as SCL 548 and delivered in black and yellow. They are on Main 1 of 1500 ft long double track bridge over the Fore River with the warehouses of Merrill's Marine Terminal (owned by New England based Sprague Energy since 2005), an important railroad customer, visible at center behind the train.
Portland, Maine
Saturday February 18, 2023
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
The hottest train on the BNSF's Northwest Division with CEO's onboard bound for Whitefish races up the west side of Stevens Pass in Index. This has become a reliable chase on the second weekend of August every year, marking the third year in a row I've come up to chase the Officer Car Special on Stevens. It was also a good one for the first train I shot on my new R5.