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Southern Pacific 4-10-2 5033 meets new SD9's somewhere in Oregon in 1954. To have been standing on the SD9's running board to witness this! Photo by the late Bob Konsbruck, from my collection.
Just another from this morning out on this great little shortline.
With two classic GE four motor units for power, the diminutive Fore River Transportation Co. is a delightful little gem of a railroad and a throwback to 1990s New England Railroading. Despite being only 2 1/2 miles long the little pike manages to offer a few really nice photo angles and is always worthy of a morning trackside.
Having begun their day pulling outbound cars from Twin Rivers, the crew then did a bit of switching to build their outbound train for interchange with CSXT in Braintree yard. After the crew took a short break, FRVT B23-7 101 blt Jul. 1979 as Conrail 1992) headed out on their short mainline run down to the junction with the MBTA/Keolis Greenbush Branch at Shipyard interlocking. They are seen here passing the 750 ft long siding/runaround as they approach the Adams Street crossing and the junction with the 'T' mainline is just under a thousand feet behind me around the curve.
Fore River Railroad is the underlying owner of the railroad and holds the common carrier obligations for the line, but operation of it is contracted out. In the late 80s and through the 90s the line was operated by the Quincy Bay Terminal, an affiliate of New Hampshire's New England Southern, but in 2000 FRVT took over. FRVT is a Class III railroad owned by its largest customer, Twin Rivers Technology LLC, a manufacturer of industrial inorganic chemicals (rendering of glycerin, fatty acids). Twin Rivers purchased the former Proctor & Gamble soap plant in 1994 and in 2007 the company was purchased by FGV a Malaysian Global Agribusiness company that was originally and arm of the Malaysian government agency FELDA but was taken public in 2012.
To learn more about this cool little railroad and the Fore River Shipyard check out the detailed caption here: flic.kr/p/2juca6A
Braintree, Massachusetts
Friday June 6, 2025
yesterdays charter returned from llandudno today hauled by class 37's d6817 and d6851---seen shortly after leaving chester
a closer view of the triple identity jubilee galatea/sierra leone/ alberta passing hartford---see previous picture
Looking west along the Erie Mining Company-built mainline at Murphy station at Murphy City, Minnesota. Murphy City was constructed by the mining company as a maintenance section crew base complete with a small neighborhood on the east side of Minnesota Highway 1. On the west wide, the section buildings cluster off of a rails spur visible to the right. Fascinating to walk around this area and see what evidence remains years after the last train plied the rails. Steve Glischinski shot a loaded taconite train heading to Taconite Harbor here in 1975. The original station sign was replaced and the plants have had plenty of time to mature. See below for his photo from this location.
A southbound BNSF mixed freight with a classic early 2000s consist rounds the curve over the old Santa Fe bridge through Larkspur, Colorado.
Heading out of Burton Wetmore Sidings, 31128 Charybdis gets ready to work 0Z31 to Lichfield Trent Valley Low Level Civil Engineer's Siding.
in this archive shot stanier pacific 6201 princess elizabeth appropriately hauls an excursion called the merseyside express southbound near acton bridge
sadly this is another location now ruined by palisade fencing
standard pacific 70000 Britannia powers a test train for chester at wardle Cheshire--one of a series of pictures of this event--this one by my wife
375907 working the 2R24 1004 London Charing Cross - Dover Priory is seen being past by Eurostar class 374 No.4020 working the 9I26 1104 London St Pancras International - Amsterdam C.S. Seen at Harringe lane, Sellindge 19/7/24.
back on familiar ground at acton bridge 48151 ,once based at northwich heads north with a return excursion from shrewsbury
GBRf 66791 (Ex Sweden T66-404) works 6M54 Colnbrook Lafarge Gbrf to Bardon Hill empty stone pass Braybrooke on 30 March 2021.
Shot taken with the assist of a pole.
after recent repairs 70000 britannia made a test run from crewe to shrewsbury and return
seen here near wardle
there are reports that problems were encountered
A pair of Union Pacific westbounds – One a TOFC/container train led by an EMD SD60 and the other coal empties led by a GE C41-8W – Are both stopped on the main line tracks at Clinton, Iowa for crew changes. – August 4th, 2000 ~~ A Jeff Hampton Photograph ©
On hire to Colas, recent returnee to the mainline, Andania Engineering owned Class 37/4, 37402 'Oor Wullie' heads south through Besford, Worcestershire, working the 1Z77 10:56 Derby RTC Serco to Cardiff Taff Vale Sidings top and tail with Colas Class 37/0, 37057.
611 rips through Danville on the way to Lynchburg with 20 plus coaches, 8099 and 6311 in tow. Kinda fun to use a SLR with film in it for a change.
EN: The Berlin - Hamburg mainline gave a good opportunity to see czech and hungarian coaches in the north of Germany at all times. Before Mr Najbrt painted all czech coaches blue and white, we see EC 179 Westerland - Prague with mainly wagons of CD near Müssen.
Slidescan.
DE: Die Magistrale Hamburg - Berlin bot seit der Wende zu allen Zeiten eine gute Gelegenheit, tschechische oder ungarische Wagen in Norddeutschland zu sehen. Bevor Herr Najbrt alle tschechischen Wagen blauweiß umlackierte, konnte der hauptsächlich aus CD-Wagen gebildete EC 179 Westerland - Prag bei Müssen beobachtet werden.
Diascan.
bunbury lane --before the trees grew
70000 Britannia in black livery , without nameplates hauls a cathedrals express I was told that it ran like this when first built, but I certainly do not remember it like that, nor have I heard of them running like this before
Freightliner 66515 leads 66551 with the afternoon Southampton to Trafford Park working across the floodplain north of Kings Sutton catching the last of the day's sunshine.
In August I made a short trip to Czech republic for my birthday, mostly in Prague with some friends but with two railfan days tacked on at the end. In hindsight it was a mistake as I should have used the days for more Switzerland, but live and don't learn. I was in Jindřichův Hradec to ride the NG but was surprised to find that the standard gauge was quite interesting too. Here a local arrives at Jindřichův Hradec station where the train will terminate.
sometimes , in the early '60s , the distant , different sound of a britannia whistle as compared with the usual stanier hooter would result in one of the regular group of spotters calling out "that's a brit's whistle "--here that sound is heard again as britannia returns to the main lines on a crewe -shrewsbury test run
it was also a pleasure much missed in the pandemic , to meet and talk to friends by the lineside without masks or distancing whilst waiting for a train to appear !
As from today (18th August 2019) East Midlands Trains is no more, as Abellios 'East Midlands Railway' now has the franchise. Before either of these operators, Midland Mainline were running things, and here back in 2006, we see 222009 (then a 4 car set) at a different looking Harrowden Junction,
21st November 2006
South Yorkshire Pte (Mainline) 1805 (JKW 305W) a Leyland Atlantean, seen at Meadowhall Interchange, Sheffield, operating a 206 service for Dinnington, back in August 1995.
S+D 13809 pass the long closed station at Arkholme on the Carnforth-Settle Junc line with the bottom leg of the CME on 21/4/1984.A treat to see this engine on the Mainline !
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South Yorkshire PTE (Sheffield Mainline) 2290 (UWJ 290Y) a Dennis Dominator, seen at at Meadowhall Interchange, Sheffield.
66 116 with enough filth down the sides to make the livery look all over brown sits at Beattock in the up loop waiting for two passenger trains to pass while working train 6K20 06.05 Aberdeen to Crewe Basford Hall Yard. The train is a shortened Long Welded Rail carrier called the 'Putler set'. It had been used overnight to drop new rails in Schoolhill Tunnel at Aberdeen and was returning south for re-loading at Scunthorpe.
Running well ahead of booked time, 60009 'Union of South Africa' heads north at Barton with her mainline test run from and to Carnforth, around the Hellifield / Preston circuit.
Tues 4th February 2020.
Mainline blue tractor, 37203 leads a lengthy 7L84 1751 Doncaster Up Decoy to Whitemoor yard. Langford Quarry, 27th May 2004.
Led by a pair of Illinois Central SD70 Death Stars, Canadian National Train A408 sprints south passing through Neoga Illinois on the ex Illinois Central's Mainline of Mid-America. The train from will soon arrive at Effingham and work the yard in Effingham before continuing south toward the train's final destination of Centralia Illinois.
The backlog has been so large for so long that I haven't put up anything from the archives for a long time. I figured Thanksgiving is as good a time as any for a lookback. I dipped into the folder of scans done for my book.
There are a number of scans that I thought were a shoe-in but didn't make the final cut once the hard choices had to be made.
The WC was down to a little over a week of independence left in its existence. Train OACTI is making the run west from Sault Ste. Marie to Gladstone over the Soo Line mainline. Most of the train is empty steel hoppers used to shuttle iron ore pellets between the Tilden Mine and Algoma Steel in the Canadian Soo.
The old feed mill at Engadine, MI makes a fine prop. Thanks to a Google visit I confirmed that the mill is still there 24 years later, unfortunately the evergreens seen on this side of the mill are now huge and pretty much completely obscure it from view.
September 30, 2001.
in this archive shot k4 2-6-0 61994 the great marquess hauls the fellsman towards ribblehead viaduct
NS 344 usually originates out of NS Homestead yard and runs via the Toledo District to Bellevue. On this day however a local job brought a solid block of Bellevues up from Maumee and a road crew was put on at Sumner St yard with a 344 symbol. It took them most of the afternoon before they finally got out at 287 which placed them right at sunset at Vickers but catching one of the remaining 5 high hood SD40's leading a road freight on the Chicago main was well worth a shot. 12/16/17
The 30th anniversary of the Settle & Carlisle Development Company was celebrated with a steam run from Carlisle to York hauled by 'Scots Guardsman'. No. 46115 races south over dent Head Viaduct with Dent dale beyond.
class 40 "whistler" d 213 andania passes wardle with a kidderminster-llandudno charter--the forecast sunshine arrived a minute later !