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Having slogged my way up The Band and reached the lower eastern ridge of Bowfell the time was right to stop for a few photos.
48151 makes a stirring sight as it slogs it's way to Cowburn Tunnel with 5Z53 Burton Wetmore-Carnforth ECS on 26th August 2019.
It's mid March in 1998 but there's not even a hint of spring in the air. But after all, it is Wisconsin and sometimes winter can last all the way into May. There's also no hint of sunshine as it was snowing, windy, and only 25 degrees. My notes say that this was also Friday the 13th. Surprisingly, it was also the first time I had been out with the camera that year. This is the Wisconsin & Southern frame train with GP20s, 2001 and 2002, both ex Cotton Belt units, headed west through Slinger. They had been siting awhile waiting for Wisconsin Central #46 to finish picking up and then getting out of town. My notes also said that I froze to death, but that appears to be incorrect....I wonder where that old Milwaukee Road switch stand wandered off to?
Jubilee 'Alberta' approaches Ribblehead in a little ray of sunshine, a snow-topped Pen-y-Gent broods in the background. Steam does have a certain something, though I don't go out especially for it; I don't think a diesel would give quite the same shot here (not unless it was in serious trouble!).
60011 slogs through Horton in Ribblesdale with the SO Gascoine Wood - Carlisle house hold coal working on 30/08/97. We had sat under cloudy skies in the Barnetby area on the morning. After confirming with my Mother that the weather was good in the west we made a dash for the S&C and this working, arriving in the field with just a few minutes to spare.
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We'd just slogged up Wall Ditch, a steep pull up from Mill Dale before descending down Larkstone Lane to Weags Bridge in the Manifold Valley. Wife and No.One son realised their brakes weren't too good on the way down, on the 1 in 4 zig-zags near the valley bottom.
This is looking back from where we'd been
60019 Slogs up the valley at Cwm , with 6B71 10.20 from Margam to Ebbw Vale Steelworks on 10.6.2001. All now part of history .
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66 127 fills the cutting with diesel fumes as it accelerates 6J46 09.10 Peak Forest to Hope towards the 1 Mile 1224 Yard long Dove Holes tunnel.
56105 slogs up the 1:120 gradient near Keld on 4 March 2024, approaching Appleby with 6J37, Colas Rail Freight’s 1252 Carlisle Yard – Chirk log train (loaded to seventeen bogies).
The snow line beyond, is lying on the highest section of the Pennines, with Cross Fell (above the centre of the locomotive) and Great Dun Fell (topped with the Civil Aviation Authority’s air traffic control radome). Cross Fell and Great Dun Fell are the Pennine’s highest and second highest peaks respectively.
70801 makes hard work of getting 6C89 Mountsorrel to Carlisle over North Stafford Junction, a new angle for myself and Rob here and one that made us wonder why we hadn't noticed it before.
66548 slogs up Battlefield Bank, Shrewsbury on 31-8-17 with the 0300 Portbury Coal Terminal - Fiddlers Ferry PS.
Winter Storm Gail slammed into the northeast the week before Christmas and Washington County was absolutely dumped on with over three feet of snow! The Batten Kill Railroad made a rare Saturday run to help open up the entirety of the railroad. They ran light engine with a pair of classic double headed Alcos: G&J 4116 a veteran ex D&H Alco RS3 (blt. 9/52) and SNEX 5012 an ex Atlantic & Danville Alco RS36 (blt. 12/59) stopping along the way to shovel switches and clear the roads of the snow they would push out on to each crossing. Here they are headed east approaching the busy State Route 22 crossing at Greenwich Jct. where they will head around the south leg of the wye and start plowing south to Shushan, Cambridge, and Eagle Bridge. They are only a mile and half or so from where their day began at the Cargill feed mill west of here. This is about MP 10 on the original Greenwich and Johnsonville Railroad and 4116 is very much on her historic home rails. The mileage is measured from Greenwich and this trackage dates from after 1906 when the Delaware and Hudson (which had acquired the little shortline that year) built this approximately 10 mile line east to connect with it's Washington Branch route here at Greenwich Jct. For it's entire life until being sold to the new Batten Kill it was an independent and wholly owned subsidiary of the D&H.
Salem, New York
Saturday December 19, 2020
Sunset tonight from a field near Loveland, Colorado. There is still about 2 feet of snow on the ground but it is like a rock. I slogged out into the middle of a field to take this tonight. Next time I'll bring snow shoes!!!!!!!
Thanks to a stop and protect order for all the crossings it was a slow slog east for Berkshire and Eastern Railroad train B100. This shot isn't much to look at but since I was here anyway I grabbed this after Pownal Curve as slow as they were going. After flagging the Orchard St. crossing they are accelerating here at MP 431.4 on the B&E operated Pan Am Southern Freight Mainline, the one time Boston and Maine Fitchburg Division. Rising some 2500 ft in the background is the Taconic Range forming the border between Vermont and New York.
B100 is the symbol B&E uses for the continuation to Ayer of Norfolk Southern train 264 (intermodal 63rd Street Yard in Chicago to Mechanicville) that used to be known as 22K. The train is led by the standard SD60E which is necessary due to it being one of a small fleet of this model equipped with ACSES for operation on the MBTA property east of Westminster. This train is on borrowed time here because one condition of the sale of Pan Am to CSXT in 2022 was the granting of trakage rights to NS for the operation of one daily pair of premium trains (this one and its westbound counterpart) over CSXT's former Boston and Albany route. These trains will then take the old Delaware and Hudson Albany main to Voorheesville, NY and utilize the connection on to Selkirk Branch which has been rebuilt there. From there they will travel east via Selkirk Yard, the Castelton Bridge and the Berkshire and Boston Subs to Worcester and on up to Ayer. Allegedly that routing will commence June 1, so if you want shots of 'the pig train' on the old Boston and Maine the time is now.
Pownal, Vermont
Friday January 17, 2025
The slog up the western side of the Pennines is almost over for the GBRf Class 60 with more loaded Biomass for Drax Power Station, it's about to plunge into the depths of Summit Tunnel under the Pennine Watershed, where gravity will help on the journey through Yorkshire.
When built, the 1.6 mile Summit Tunnel was the longest railway tunnel in the world, constructed for the Manchester and Leeds Railway and opened in 1841,
60096 6E09 07:40 Liverpool Biomass Terminal to Drax power Station
7th March 2020
This squirrel slogged through the snow this morning to have breakfast on my deck. I hadn't cleared anything yet, but fortunately there were some peanuts buried under the snow for her to find.
As we slog through the Midwest's most miserable time of year, let's turn it back a few months to August when Ohio Central's Super 7s were running out their last miles. An early tie down thwarted our plans at ever shooting one but the clean GP38-2 and beautiful sun was a nice consolation.
And no, it's not the Super 7 smoking up this photo. So much for the EPA emissions deal...
66221 slogs up the hill to Peak Forest Signal Box with stone for Toton. A passer by stopped to video as he genuinly thought it was a steam train.
I've post a few pictures from the location before so I offer no apolgies for another as it provides some fantastic views back across towards Weymouth and the bay.
The V-EFB Volvo B6BLEs were long servants to the area and doubtless endured the long haul up New Road away from Fortuneswell many, many times.
CSX decided to run an extra train, D906, with 116 cars of Lansing and Detroit-bound traffic yesterday evening. Here we see D906 getting ready to slog it east out of Grand Rapids behind a CW44AH-ES44AH duo at Godfrey Ave.
CSX CW44AH #385
CSX ES44AH #862
115 cars
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once the slog up to the plateau is over all that remains is just over a mile of easy going to get to the highest point of Beinn Bhà n. Shame about the howling wind bringing rain in from the west, but at least we had our backs to it.
After slogging up the really steep bit in a deluge the rain continued as we reached the first top on the northern end of the ridge, but as we turned south for the main summit the clouds started to break up and tease us with glimpses of the views we could have seen on a good day.
The monochrome treatment seems to suit the texture of the valley here. We were blessed with great light on the hills to the rear in the minutes coming up to the arrival of the train, but sadly much of the good light was lost moments before the train arrived. Whilst the loco was in a patch of sun, sadly the backdrop was mostly in shadow.
looks like he is toweling his back but he was actually taking his bag off to get a well-earned drink.
Anyone who knows this area will know its a long slog up the other side of here from Bardsea!!
Well done that man!!
Taken in Tavistock - Devon
Processed in Topaz, On1 Photo 10 (Scott Davenport Preset), Topaz Impression
thank you for any comments
48151 slogs up Giggleswick bank unassisted with load 13, in charge of 'The Brief Encounter' circular special from and to Carnforth via the Hellifield circuit.
Sat 15th September 2018.
66615 slogs up the incline at Birkett with the 10.16 Killoch Colliery - Port Talbot Grange coal train on Tue 5th June 2018.
NS 115 slogs west thru the snow at Curran, IL.
NS 1804 - SD70ACC
NS 4376 - AC44C6M
Old C&NW Bridge - Curran, IL
February 5, 2022
Having slogged up a long steep path - with a heavy backpack and the sun blazing down - I had a little while to wait before my holiday accommodation was ready and was very grateful for the cool interior of the little church on the island. It also provided welcome shelter on the day I left (a week later) when it rained ... hard!
It's a slow slog for this Union Pacific grain train. It took a total of 90 minutes for this train to travel from the South St. Paul yard over the Mississippi River bridge to the Hoffman Yard, up and around Robert Street (here), and finally to the St. Paul Yacht Club. Simply amazing.
What a hard slog it was up to Mynydd Moel. The wind had blown the snow off the ridge on to the path leading up. I was up to my waist in snow a couple of times.
66732 Tnt with 66848 head the 6G98 1427 Westbury Down T.C. to Burngullow Jn, nearing the top of Dainton bank they were down to under 20mph...(pole)
60021 Penyghent slogs up the grade at Selside with the loaded 6E77 Arcow Quarry to Hunslet Tilcon on 24 April 2025 with its namesake looming in the shadows
Slogging up Cumbre Pass, a cloud covered Pacific Ocean in the background, 5 units work hard to get a Sulphuric Acid train up Cumbre Pass, near Antofagasto, Chile.
Maine ~ sometimes it isn't all sunshine and flowers, it's sunshine and snow!
A very dear friend told me she strapped on a pair of X-country skies and made a six mile round trip slog out to one of the islands with a pot of chili in her backpack...hardy Mainer! She was with a group, all clipped together with a life line.
Its been a hard slog but finally finished the puft ATP poster just in time before we fly out tomorrow. Its a limitied run of 50 printed 4 colour (2 colourways) on GF Smith Archival mohawk 118gsm paper 50 x 70cm
There will be a handful going up for sale in the waste shop wasteyourself.bigcartel.com/ when I get back..so keep checking if you want to get your hands on one...
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The tough slog up the second highest pass in the Alps with 40kg of bike and bags was one of the hardest things I've ever done, but worth it for the views and the trip down the other side!
48 hairpin turns in all, this is just a few of them! 5 hours to cycle about 24km and go up about 1800m!
58008 slogs up towards Kirkby summit on the B.R. built 1972 deviation at Kirkby in Ashfield, Notts. on 24th April 1990.
It was built to end the traffic queues at a level crossing in the town. So many coal trains passed through on the Midland line back then, it caused buses and other traffic to be severely delayed.
The deviation was from just south of where Sutton Parkway station is today, to join the former Great Northern line near where Kirkby Summit signal box was.
At the southern end, close to where today's Kirkby Lane End junction is, a short link re-connected with the Midland down to Pinxton and the Erewash Valley.
No coal trains today, but the line is still used by the Robin Hood passenger services from Nottingham to Mansfield and Worksop, plus the occasional EMU drags to and from storage in Worksop yard.