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Trent Barton ADL Enviro 200 MMC 206 - YY18 TPF is unusually pictured off route in Milton Street, Nottingham on test, being driven by fitters.
Another view of the Keolis/MBTA test train led by GP40MC 1117 in sparkling fresh paint from its recent overhaul at the MBTA's Wareham shop with four cars including two MBB cars still wrapped in CTRail imagery from their time leased for Hartford Line service. They are on the causeway that cuts across Terry Brook Pond at about MP FS 4.9 just north of the Copicut Road grade crossing, but alas it is too brushed in to see the water on either side of the train.
This route into the city of Fall River opened in 1846 and saw continuous passenger service under the auspices of the Fall River Railroad and then the Old Colony system until the latter was folded into the New Haven Railroad in 1893. The NH continued daily service to Boston until September 1958 when all passenger service ended to south of Middleboro including to the famed whaling port of New Bedford. In June of 1959 Middleboro lost service along with the other former Old Colony branches to Plymouth and Greenbush. Commuter service returned to Middleboro and Plymouth in 1997 and Geeenbush a decade later but the extension south had to wait.
Fortunately both lines were never fully abandoned, and remained active as freight only branch lines served by the New Haven and successors Penn Central, Conrail, and CSXT. In latter decades they saw no more than a lonely local freight two or three days a week and both the Fall River and New Bedford Secondary's track conditions deteriorate until speeds were limited to 10 mph on the two lines that were not even an afterthought in the vast CSXT system. In 2010 the Commonwealth of Massachusetts purchased the two routes totaling 38 miles from the Jacksonville based Class for $21 million as the first step in the long dreamt of plan for a passenger train revival. Concurrent with that deal CSXT turned around and sold its perpetual freight easement to Mass Coastal which since then has provided exclusive freight service on both lines, interchanging with CSXT at Cotley Junction in Taunton. For the past decade the MC dispatched and maintained the lines on behalf of the state while they remained 10 mph branches served a couple times a week.
Finally in 2020 the transformation of the lines began in earnest at a cost to exceed $1 billion and by mid 2023 track and station work was largely completed on the Fall River Secondary include a new Freetown station about 1/2 mile behind me here. The first week of August this year Keolis assumed dispatching responsibilities from Mass Coastal once the new CTC signal system was commissioned and PTC testing and crew qualification trips have been running daily as seen here.
To learn more about the project these links will take you to the state's official sites:
www.mbta.com/projects/south-coast-rail
Freetown, Massachusetts
Friday August 16, 2024
This little chap was one of the models provided at an event to try out the latest full frame cameras. For me it was a chance to get my hands on the Canon EOS R and two of the new RF lenses.
strobist: one alien bee 1600 socked beauty dish camera left, reflector camera right, Yongnuo Triggers
What new gremlins await my model railroad whenever I make changes to the track and wiring?
For several months I have been weathering some of my bright and shiny Kato Unitrack using felt tip paint pens from Woodland Scenics. I paint the steel rails a brown-black color and some of the wooden crossties (sleepers in UK rail terminology) a dark brown color. That makes the track look a lot more realistic, but the paint must be removed from the top of the rails, the rail joiners, and certain parts of the switch points in order to maintain electrical continuity between the trains and track. After the paint has dried, I rub an abrasive Bright Boy along the tops of the rail, the metal portion of the Unijoiners, and the inside surfaces of the switch points.
I snap the Unijoiners back onto each piece of track and connect each weathered piece of track with my test rig. The 12 volt DC power is fed via the blue and white wires from my power supply to an unpainted S62F feeder track upstream from the items to be tested. In this case, I am testing a right hand #6 switch and a piece of curved track to make sure I have continuity. The red and black wires control the switch motor. I run the engine forward and backward on each route of the switch several times to insure a good electrical path. All of my newly painted track is tested on my work table before I install them on the layout.
I have finished painting the visible portions of my westbound (lower) staging yard, my entire mainline, passing siding, and industrial tracks. Next I must paint the visible part of my eastbound (upper) staging yard before I install it on my layout. It is easier to paint and test track before installation. Then I need to temporarily remove all the track from my layout, install Styrofoam sub-roadbed in order to elevate the track above the streams I plan to build and connect the lower and upper staging yards by a long 2% grade on my mainline.
The Lincoln Park Observatory as the early morning light starts to arrive.
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Test Car 1, ADW150375
Test Car 2, ADB975397
Mentor, ADB975091
Test Car 6, ADB975290
Test Car 10, ADB975814
at RTC, 1987 [Photo used in my book courtesy of Serco]
Haji Lane comes alive after hours - some of the places only open at 4pm and keep crankin' until 1 or 2am - so wandering around in the daytime can be surreal.
This odd mosaic-design pattern on the pillar of an Italian-themed bar resembles the old TV test patterns that would be aired when the station was off-air.
With information overload now the norm and stations broadcasting around the clock, soon the university crowd will have no idea what a test pattern is! If you're interested, check out en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_card
Test Car 6 (TC6) was converted in the mid-1970s at the RTC Derby from one of the first production order British Rail Mk II FK vehicles (S13396), being renumbered ADB975290 with TOPS code QXA.
Read about how and why trains were tested in the 80s and 90s in my RAIL VEHICLE TESTING book - ISBN-9781999935603.
© Dave Bower - Rail Vehicle Testing Webpage
Sandra @ MonroeModels Photographer: Juan Sánchez Castillo Stylist: Javier Navia Assistant: Abel Belmonte
Alder Valley Bristol RESL comes down Station Road in Aldershot on August 23rd 1984. Judging by the incongruous blind display, it was most probably on a test run to/from the depot in Halimote Road.
This is a test video from the cruise, to see if it'll work ok. I didn't get a chance to video the heaviest of the seas we went through (considered "moderate"), which were about 10' swells. The swells in this video are about 6' (2m). It's hard to get a sense of scale in the video, but keep in mind this was taken from Deck 7, which is about 3 or 4 stories above the water.
You can see a container ship on the horizon in the beginning of the video.
This was taken in the Caribbean, off the northern coast of Columbia.