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CSX geometry train W003 prepares to leave Cayce Yard in May 2023. A geometry train is a train that measures track geometry thanks to the use of eletro-magnetical devices. These trains are used to pinpoint any kind of defect in the tracks for the safe operation of the trains. This train left Cayce, South Carolina for Hamlet, North Carolina.
CSXT 9969 is was built as New York Central 3051 in 1967, then became a Conrail, same number. It was sold to Maryland Transit Administration as MARC 32 who later renumbreed it to MARC 69 and rebuilt it to GP40WH-2 specs. MARC then sold it to CSX who renumbered it CSXT 9969.
BNSF Dash 9-44CW 5265 was part of the power on a southbound mixed freight leaving the Great Falls, MT yard on May 15, 2008.
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BNSF SD70MAC 9478 (ex-BN 9478) at Deer Lodge, Montana on June 10, 2015.
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GP38X 2168 & GP39E 2929 were sitting behing the Shelby, MT BNSF/Amtrak station. Too bad that crew shuttle vehicle was sitting in the way.
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I know you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a Dash 9 on BNSF rails, but I actually do like them and don't mind seeing them.
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Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Etowah, TN in October 2008
On October 23, 2008 Dad shot CSX C40-8Ws 7784 & 7786 with a southbound cofc tote train in the yard at Etowah, TN.
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On 8.13.2024, CSX local Y102 had GP40-3 rebuilld 6582 leading a GP38-2. Provided the information I found online is correct, she was built in 1980 as Louisville & Nashville (LN) GP40-2 6603, then Seaboard System (SBD) 6603. Upon the formation of CSX in the 80s, she became CSXT 6465.(All of these numbers being s close together confuse me.)
The crew is going to work the industrial trackage off of Rosewood Drive in Columbia, South Carolina.
We had sun earlier in the day and again a few minutes after I made this shot. But this photograph would have been backlit a certain bit if the sun had been out when I clicked the shutter.
Thank-you for viewing my artist impression of CPR Steam Engine No. 374
CPR ENGINE 374 , holds very fond and unique childhood memories for me.
As a youngster, I lived blocks from the beach, where this old engine was displayed.
Every child in the area, myself included, played on this train regularly.
We climbed in, over and under the well loved, weathered ( at that time ) vintage structure.
It was a valued piece of history and such a great prop for developing the imaginations of young minds.
What could possibly be more fun, than pretending to be engineers on this historic old train, waving out the open window frames, stoking the steam engine, steering the train down the track, checking the wheels, and mimicking train and whistle sounds etc.
Examples of vintage steam engine sounds:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oJAVJPX0YY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbzU-1oiCgk
This grand ole lady recently celebrated her 130th Anniversary, and I was elated to spend this day with her, once again.
The volunteer staff from the West Coast Railway Association, used a heavy duty wench system to pull her outside into the great outdoors. It was a beautiful sight to see her outside the Roundhouse Museum, basking in the sunshine, as she once stood (in my mind's eye), so many years ago.
Engine No. 374 is the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) locomotive that pulled the first transcontinental passenger train to arrive in Vancouver, arriving on May 23, 1887.
This was a year after sister Engine No. 371 brought the first train to cross Canada into Port Moody, roughly 20 miles (32 km) to the east.
History: ( As per Wikipedia )
No. 374 was built by the CPR in 1886 and was one of eight similar steam locomotives built that year in their Montreal shops.
While No. 371 was scrapped in 1915, No. 374 was completely rebuilt in 1914 and continued in service until 1945. Because of its historical significance, it was donated to the City of Vancouver upon its retirement, who placed it on display in Kitsilano Beach Park. It suffered greatly from exposure to the elements and a lack of upkeep. It remained there until 1983, when a group of railway enthusiasts launched an effort to restore the engine in time for Expo 86. It was moved from the beach and spent the next few years in different warehouses around Vancouver while a crew of volunteers undertook the task of restoring the engine. Completed in time for Expo, No. 374 was put on display on the turntable at the renovated former CPR Drake Street Roundhouse where it became a prime attraction.
In 1988 the Expo 86 site, including the Drake Street Roundhouse, was sold to Concord Pacific, and in the course of the False Creek North Development Plan, the developer agreed to convert and expand the buildings to comprise the Roundhouse Community Centre. The Community Centre was designed by Baker McGarva Hart and completed in 1997. The plan for the development had made no mention of the 374 and it was temporarily housed inside the roundhouse itself while it was decided what to do with the engine.
Successful fundraising efforts were undertaken by the Vancouver Parks Board and the Lions Club, among others, and a year later the new Engine 374 Pavilion was completed.
Now a central feature of the Yaletown area redevelopment, the Engine 374 Pavilion is open daily for public viewing from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. during the summer and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the winter. An anniversary celebration is held annually on the Sunday before Victoria Day. The pavilion is staffed entirely by volunteers from the West Coast Railway Association and on average sees roughly 41,000 visitors per year as of 2015.
A special thanks to you all, for taking the time to view and acknowledge my photography.
I appreciate your visits & kind words of support.
~Christie by the River
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On may 25, 2006 a Lancaster and Chester Railway crew iis heading toward downtown Lancaster to access the former Southern Railway interchange to get on their original trackage. They have just worked the Gerdau Ameristeel plant on the former Southern Railway SB Line alongside Riverside Driver. This photograph was captured off of the West Meeting Street Bridge.
The crew is using GMTX 2661, a leased EMD GP38-2 from GATX Rail Locomotive Group. It was built in 1970 for the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore as PRSL 2011, a straight GP38, before becoming Conrail (CR) 7631 and then CSX 1945. This was the first time I saw the railroad using this locomotive.
Photograph of A.T. & S. F. steam engine 811 on display in Atchison, KS. This engine manufactured in Atchison is a favorite subject of my film captures. This particular shot was captured with my 100 plus year old Improved Conley Magazine camera. This really cool box camera was originally designed to shoot glass plate negatives and has a surprisingly effect falling plate system that allows up to 12 images using metal plate holders that are advanced with an ingenious system actuated with a dial on the right side of the camera. There is a wire spring on the back door of the camera that moves each plate into position after the exposed image is dropped to the bottom of the camera with the dial. Image captured using Foma 200 film and developed with 510 Pyro at 1:100.
I think these Dash 9-44CWs are the second most common motive power on BNSF, after SD40-2s.
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Here ES44DC 7762 and second unit Dash 9-44CW 4540 reenter my field of view with the Missouri River - The Mighty Mo - in the background.
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BNSF Dash 9-44CW 5276 at the Great Falls, MT roundhouse on April 10, 2007.
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Lancaster and Chester EMD SD60M #8782 is on the point of Train 12 in Richburg, South Carolina as the crew shuffles cars around the yard there. In this shot, the train is stretched beyond Faddis Concrete Products.
I've snot GP39E 2929 (ex-BN 2929, xx-BN 2545, nee-CB&Q 999) before, back in April here in Great Falls. I do enjoy catching a unit I've photographed before in a completely different location, though.
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Coming home from Joplin last weekend where we celebrated my sister's birthday, I was driving along the outskirts of Carthage Mo when I crossed a railroad bridge. I decided to drive down to the railroad and see if the bridge was worth taking a photo of. Not much interesting there, but I did find these two engines idling on the tracks near the old Carthage Railroad Station. These are the first engines I've ever seen of these two lines, DGNO (Dallas, Garland and Northeastern) and Arizona & California. It's rare to see anything other than the orange and black Burlington Northern Santa Fe engines in this part of southwest Missouri, so I had to get a shot of them! Hope you all have a great Tuesday! Explore #51 on 10/13/09. Thanks everyone!
On April 13, 2023, the Pee Dee River Railway works the large Marlboro Mill of Domtar Paper, one of Marlboro, South Carolina's largest employers as a fellow railroad shooter looks on.
The motive power on the Pee Dee River Railway is four former Seaboard Coast Line GP16s. Specifically, PDRR 1800 was built in 1951 as Atlantic Coast Line (ACL) GP7 215. Years later, Seaboard Coast Line sent it through their successful GP16 rebuild program. She remains in service on the South Carolina shortline as of 2023. The railroad is owned by the Aberdeen & Rockfish out of North Carolina.
Lancaster and Chester Railroad works the Klerk's Plastic spur in Richburg, South Carolina. Space on the spur limits it one locomotiv and two cars at a time. A tight curve also limits the number of axles the locomotive and cars can have.
Whoever did the weathering on this one did a good job. Looks very realistic. 1:1 model.
Lancaster and Chester Railroad EMD MP15DC #2369 is seen here sitting on a siding in Richburg, South Carolina that can only take four axle locomotives. With the railroad transitioning to mostly modern six axle power, they sometimes leave a unit here to use on this specific spur as needed. LC 2369 was built for the Southern Railway. Norfolk Southern had it assigned to their Norfolk & Portsmouth Beltline before putting it up for auction in 2016 at which time L&C parent owner, the Gulf & Ohio Railways, bought it.
CSXT 3194, the Spirit of Law Enforcement Unit, leads manifest M332 eastbound along the CSX Keystone Subdivision, as the train battles the curves of Mance, PA.
This is an old train that was converted from color to black and white sepia tone in the old fashion Daguerreotype effect
I don't often find run-through units in the lead but here I found Norfolk Southern ES40DC 7522 in the lead on a westbound unit grain train rolling through Shelby, MT.
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Lancaster and Chester #91 was the last SW900 built. It rolled off the assembly line in October, 1965 with sister unit #90. Almost sixty years later, the end cab switcher is still on the L&C, though it has been relegated to shuffling cars at the Circle S Feed Mill for the better part of the last two decade while the railroad's other end cabs have been sold off.
In 2005, I shot this classic scene of the Lancaster and Chester passing the Heath Springs depot on their Kershaw District. Four end cabs, led by SW1200 #94 are on the point of a train enroute to the ADM plant in Kershaw in September of that year. A few years later, the railroad would start selling these little engines off and replacing them with bigger GP38-type motors making this shot impossible to get again.
Lancaster and Chester Traiin 16 crew onboard LC 2369 shoves over Highway 9 in East Chester, South Carolina toward the interchange with CSX Railroad. The MP15DC was built for the Southern Railway in 1977. Norfolk Southern later assigned it to the Norfolk and Portsmouth Belt Line.
Conversion to Black & White was processed in the BeFunky online app.
This was definitely a sight to see with the train coming up the tracks from around the bend downstream! In fact, I kept humming a Johnny Cash song from his Folsom Prison Blues song as I waited to see this train. I had this idea of an image that could have been taken many years ago. For that reason, I decided to play around with at least one of the images captured that morning to bring out a similar effect imagined. I used an Antique Portrait recipe in Silver Efex Pro 2 while converting to black & white. With some adjustments to the color filters, I was able to bring out a much richer tonal contrast with the sepia style toning.
Three BNSF Dash 9s lead a Montana Rail Link mixed freight eastbound just east of East Drummond, MT.
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Former Southern Railway Train 14 passes Circle S Feed Mill in Chester, South Carolina with GP38AC #2866 leading.
Reproduced 35mm Slide
Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, at Shelby, KY in April 1979
On April 4, 1979 Dad shot C&O GP7 5811 & GP9 6227 at Shelby, Kentucky.
Getting off the train in Amsterdam Centraal station this piece of work was parked on the adjacent track.
I suspect the numbering has little to do with operating the train. Graffiti knows no bounds.
Wichita, Kansas: Caught this train going past after a rainy morning next to a scrap yard. Climbed up on the wall to catch the unique train engine, Cherryvale Chargers. Reflections in the water: sunny blue on blue.
A few things can happen to an old locomotive once the railroad that bought it decides they don't need it anymore. They can sell it to another railroad or they can scrap it. The joke among some railfans is that the old train engine you see one week might be razor blades you use the next. In some cases, the railroad will sell it to a leasing company. Helms Leasing (HLCX) is one of those companies.
This vintage EMD SD40-2 was built for Burlington Northern Railroad in 1979 as BN 7181. HLCX later bought it and at the time this photograph was made, the unit was being leased by CSX Railroad.
BNSF GP39-2R 2870 (ex-BNSF GP39M 2870, xx-BN 2870, xxx-SP GP30 7756, nee-SP 6653) at Shelby, Montana on October 17, 2015.
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I caught CSX local Y102 with aGP40-3 rebuild 6582 leading a GP38-2. Provided the information I found online is correct, she was built in 1980 as Louisville & Nashville (LN) GP40-2 6603, then Seaboard System (SBD) 6603. Upon the formation of CSX in the 80s, she became CSXT 6465.(All of these numbers being s close together confuse me.)