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CSX 9280 makes its way through Charlotte, NC on M491. This unit, formally CSX 7627 was sold back to GE and eventually onto Pan Am Railways in 2017. In June of 2022, CSX would acquire the Pan Am as a apart of the CSX system and 9280 would be the only example of one of the CSX Standard Cabs being renumbered and repainted back into CSX colors. To my knowledge this unit is currently out of service with major mechanical errors.
Even I hesitate to post this but in the spirit of '68... You really have to squint but this was the reason I thought the last Bolton shed post could have included Stanier Black 5 4-6-0 45318.
The result of a combination of no light inside the shed and my lack of understanding of aperture and shutter speed. At least it's a record of 45318's time at Bolton. It was transferred to Lostock Hall in July, withdrawn in August 1968 and cut-up in March 1969, probably at Albert Draper's in Hull.
Adrian, a long time school friend from Doncaster, enjoying a sit in the cab of English Electric Class 37 37215 at Toddington station on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway.
I lost touch with Adrian when we left school in 1978, our paths went in completely opposite direction, then one day, some 25 years later I received an email from Adrian after he had seen a collection of my photos on a railway website. We had a lot of catching up to do.
Prompt: a dead-end alley in a gritty urban ghetto, full of graffiti walls, cracked pavement, trash bins, garbage, fire escapes, dim neon lights; parked in the alley is an old yellow cab, no tires, broken windows, rusting; roof sign on the cab "Out of Service". Light rain, foggy, wet pavement, --chaos 25 --ar 14:11 --exp 25 --v 7
The digital fine art was created using Midjourney AI v 7 and Photoshop
I was originally rostered as fireman on a Steam Driver Experience but the cancellation of that turn offered me the chance to Secondman on a Diesel Driver Experience instead. And what a diesel: EE Class 55 Deltic 55019 Royal Highland Fusilier.
A view from the cab as we prepared to run-round from the headshunt at Leicester North. We didn't quite reach 100mph...
