British Electric Multiple Units
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About a decade ago, I bought a local auction lot that included some HO gauge USA/Canadian rolling stock and locomotives. I intended to sell them on but instead I started to collect them as and when they came up locally. It's still a very small collection.
I have a small number of 'B' units, description here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%E2%80%93unit#:~:text=A%20B%20unit....
The only UK example I could think of was the Class 13:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_13
I'm guessing this is a Santa Fe loco, given I saw an identically coloured A-B-B-A loco set on YouTube pulling a long rake of Santa Fe box cars.
Passenger F3 #882B, the power for the Joliet-Chicago Local, known as the "Plug," rests overnight in the South Joliet roundhouse in March 1969.
An Ashton, Iowa to Port of Stockton, California unit ethanol train rumbles along a farmer's ditch in Echo, Utah on April 8, 2023. ue top warm weather, Utah's abundant snowpack was melting quickly!
When putting together a modular model, I always make a small test to see how the units, usually with different colors, have to be connected to form a corner.
This is how it looks like and this shape gave me the idea to use the striped paper for this model of which I showed you the single flat units all together yesterday, (See first comment box)
It reminds me of a kind of spaceship ;-))
Have a nice Thursday!
Model: origami X-Cube
Design: Jeff Beynon
Diagrams in the BOS booklet #31: 'More 'igami' by Jeff Beynon
Paper: 3 rectangle (1:2) pieces of kami paper, 7,5x15cm
A Kusudama, for those not familiar with the term, is a modular papercraft origami model, where multiple units may be glued, sewed or connected with themselves using underlying geometric principles of polyhedra to form a spherical shape.
The word "Kusudama" literally means "Medicine Ball" when translated from Japanese. They were originally used for incense and potpourri.
Here you see 3 units connected together. A first step for assembling another kusudama, that I will show you tomorrow, have to make a photo first today ;-)
Wishing you all a lovely Tuesday !!
Alongside Loch a'Chuilinn with an Inverness-Kyle working on 2/5/2014.The plan had been to get steam on the GB tour here but it was diesel-hauled and I misjudged how long it now takes to get to the position ! Still it was worth checking out for future use - there aren't many better locations on the line
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BHS' first unit train for Cargill was a success. 85 cars were received from NS, loaded, and returned back to interchange in less than 24 hours. Two of our three MP15s have 13 loads in tow as they climb the hill form the dock to the yard.
47727 seen dragging Anglia unit 720581 at Sawley with the late running 5Q90 0923 Derby Litchurch lane - Wembley Intercity depot.
If the PRR had survived into the 21st century it might look like this. The latest AC power passing under the classic signal bridge in Tipton, PA at MP 225 on the Middle Division with NS run-through power trailing. Train 507 is a Carney's Point, NJ to Shire Oaks, PA empty hopper train.
A spot I've wanted to try for a long time that comes with it's challenges. There's not much traffic for one challenge and it often is on one of the tracks up against the wall as this one is. Most of the through traffic on NS bypasses this line due to it not having high enough clearances for stacks and auto racks. And then there's the Gingko trees which bring a lot of shadows with the color they bring in the Fall. The normal train to shoot here is the Allegheny Valley's daily transfer to NS. After shooting that returning to Glenwood on this same track I heard about this empty 861 hopper train that was in Conway and would come this way with a crew called for 2:30. With sunset being at 5:03 that seemed like it would be enough light to be worth a wait. It ended up being a 3 hour wait showing up at 4:58 with pretty dark skies. Fortunately the Gingko's light up the scene enough to salvage it. Pittsburgh's North Allegheny Commons Park West 11/13/2024.
Single-car unit heading south on the Cumbrian Coast on 15/7/2015.Taken from a lower position than the steam shot alongside
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In special livery to celebrate the re-opening of the Borders line,a 170 heads to Tweedbank on 30/9/2015
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There is still some fall color hanging on if you get out and look for it. On this picture perfect Friday I did just that hunting the last pockets of autumn leaves to be found along Amtrak's Springfield Line. I started my day here at the Connecticut River bridge for a quick succession of three trains, one each from CTRail, Amtrak, and Connecticut Southern.
Here is the latter in the form of train CSO-4 northbound on Amtrak's Springfield Line main near MP 50 crossing the Connecticut River on the Warehouse Point Bridge crossing from the town of Windsor Locks into Enfield behind OHCR 8530 and CSOR 3901 (both are GE B39-8Es built in Dec. and Nov. 1987 respectively as LMX lease units for service on the Burlington Northern orginally numbered 8530 and 8511 respectively) . The 1470 ft long double track bridge (though only one track is in service) dates from 1903 when the circa 1866 iron bridge was rebuilt by the New Haven Railroad, but even that structure was the second one on the site replacing a wooden Howe truss that first crossed here in 1843 by NH predecessor Hartford and Springfield Railroad.
The Genesee and Wyoming owned Connecticut Southern is a small but busy shortline that dates from 1996 when then Rail America acquired the freight rights on Amtrak's line along the so called Hartford cluster of branchlinesfrom Conrail.
Enfield, Connecticut
Friday November 5, 2021
BNSF 3855 leads 121 petroleum coke loads over Fish Creek as it heads west. The unit coke train had originated in Helena Montana and was to be exported through the Roberts bank terminal.
The petroleum coke is a by-product from oil refining.
Going big on this F-unit Friday. Santa Fe's hundreds of red and silver F's are the face of American railroading, and the tradition continued in the second generation with the purchase of nine massive FP45 units from EMD. These 20-cylinder, 3600 hp, six motor, steam generator equipped cowl units were the epitome of streamlined aesthetic, melding the earlier era of industrial design with the more utilitarian look of the modern era. Only 14 units were built, with the others going to the Milwaukee Road. Here is the preserved ATSF 95, seen in July 2008 on display at Barstow CA.
Interesting to note that the FP45s were constructed only three years after E-unit production ended.
156402 & 150107 are seen at Buxton URS leading the 2B12 0920 Manchester Piccadilly - Buxton 8/2/23. (Taken using a pole)
BNSF 6022, one of the 25th Anniversary "sticker" units, powers the westbound Denver to Provo, Utah, manifest train around the big curve at Leyden, Colorado, about 13 miles west of Denver on Union Pacific's Moffat Tunnel Subdivision. Photo by Joe McMillan, July 14, 2023, 11:05 a.m., MDT. Two DPU ACes are shoving on the rear.
An aging widecab GE leads a southbound empty phosphate train through Englewood, TN in the late afternoon sunlight.
The OSR Woodstock Job prepares to depart Woodstock and head for home rails on a sunny May afternoon.
I liked to flag unit much better than the map unit and seemed to see it more often. Here it is leading a CN train out of Trout Lake heading for Munising on March 7, 2002. Despite inroads of IC GP40/s, CN GP40-2LW''s and CN GP38's the WC units remained fairly common in the Yoopee. 3027 and 3012 look pretty good in this late winter scene.
Loaded unit ethanol train B619-17 has come a long way off the CN in Chicago, into the much less frigid Florida this December. The two SD70AC rebuilds and P&LE heritage unit were moderately anticipated, bringing a few familiar folks trackside at the usual north Florida mainline spots; I was trackside at Bryceville with three others for the shot. A railfan blog states the water tower in scene was once used for steam trains that would stop at the out of frame 'Bryce House' to the left: trainsandtrailsofnassaucountyfla.blogspot.com/2015/05/csx...
In 2024 QUBE Logistics took delivery of 12 American built QE class. QE001 leads QE004 and QL011 hauling 50 grain loads.
The train originated from the QUBE load point at Coonamble and was destined for the QUBE owned unloading point at Port Kembla.
QUBE currently operates 4 export grain sets and 1 domestic containerised barley consist in NSW.
Rio Grande train No. 199, a unit grain train from Denver, Colorado, has exited Spanish Fork Canyon and gains momentum through Mapleton, Utah on June 10, 1989.
The recent 470 Club trip between NoCo and Fabyans provided some great opportunities with the pair of recently restored/repainted B&M F's leading. Several photo stops were made along the way for the riders and the units ran great (they're F's in 2022, that is a big win). I made several stops but once they get down the mountain on the return there isn't much to shoot that isn't backlit. I decided to pull over into Gove's bridge since it was vacant, it was better than nothing I suppose
A clear summer morning finds Canadian Pacific's SD70ACU class unit leading eastbound train 286 out of the Rock River Valley at Hustisford Rd, just east of Watertown.
CP 286
CP 7000, BNSF 7695
Pipersville, WI.
Summer 2020
CP's executive train, deadheading to the Twin Cities for the Ryder Cup as 040B-23, passes one of the remaining elevators at Sawyer. This trip saw some wild weather, starting out with thick fog, to pouring rain with lightening, and now towards being sunny. Surely, this was due to the late Bud Burglin being in attendance, aka the human high pressure system.
This was my first trip to North Dakota and my first time seeing the CP Fs. Between the long drive and tumultuous weather, this trip was a blast. And I am still extremely grateful to have gotten this opportunity. Thanks again to those who made this happen.