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CP work train 4MH-6 shoves back from Moosehead Siding to Harfords Point to grab several MOW personnel, before dumping rail from Harfords Point to Somerset Jct.
The Sterling semi on point is a highly modified truck and trailer owned by Herzog, which is used to unload strings of rail.
Canadian Pacific Railway
Train: 4WMH-6
3/6/2021
Greenville Jct, ME
CP Moosehead Subdivision
Los Angeles International 09/03/2017 KLAX/LAX
Los Angeles International 10/03/2017 KLAX/LAX
The conductors of EDBF and ED9 pause for a quick conversation on the west end of East Deerfield yard; before both trains go their separate ways.
January 24, 2025
East Deerfield Yard - Deerfield, MA
Nikon Z8
BERX EDBF
BERX 5967 : GE B40-8
BERX 5936 : GE B40-8
Both sets of power for todays EDBF and ED9 are still wearing the dark blue and white colors of the former PanAm railways which ceased operations in 2022 after be acquired by CSX Transportation.
January 24, 2025
East Deerfield Yard - Deerfield, MA
Nikon Z8
BERX EDBF
BERX 5967 : GE B40-8
BERX 5936 : GE B40-8
BERX ED9
MEC 345 : EMD GP40-2
MEC 381 : EMD GP40-2
This sheet of twenty postage stamps was issued by America on 16 August 2024 (= Scott Catalogue # 5929 to 5938). The stamps are not denominated, but cost 73 cents each when issued. The ten different designs show American trees at peak fall colors.
Coming tothe end of Pacific National operating trains for Manildra. This is 5936 (4 locos + 52 wagons for 4300 tons) loaded at Penny's Road (Grainflow near Bellata NSW) just after parking the train up in Enfield yard with 8243 leading three other 82 class locos.
At the end of October 2024 PN's contract with Manildra ends and SSR takes it over. Manildra has directly purchased brand new shinkwrapped EMD GT-46 locos made by Caterpillar (Progress Rail) in the USA (not manufacured in Australia) and brand new wagons (not sure but presumably made in China).
Only at Kirk moment... the last GTW painted SD40-2 leads a hump set on the east end of Kirk Yard in Downtown Gary, IN.
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois.
Friday, May 10, 2024.
Redhead duck, Aythya americana, Goodnight Ranch community pond, Austin.
Flying along the CP Tomah subdivision with a loaded train of ballast, CP 5936 and 6067 venture west towards Portage where they will pick up a new crew. Besides the highlight of older power being used on these ballast trains, the faded dual flag scheme still looks great on the mainline
WMPTE 'D12' Fleetline 5996 traversing Birmingham City's concrete road elevation known as 'Mass House Circus'. ...This road structure with its car park below, is long since demolished.
Travelling in from Kingshurst on the 160 service, the Alexander bodied Fleeltine had been acquired from Midland Red by West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive (WMPTE) in December of 1973. The bus was one of the many ex Midland Red buses that were part of the Birmingham and Black Country operations transferred to WMPTE. The transfer consolidated numerous former Midland Red services into the PTE fold, providing a more integrated transport network across the region.
Taken in early 1974, 5996 advertises 'Goodnight Vienna', a studio album released by former Beatle Ringo Starr in the opening months of that year. The album's cover (seen here), was a direct lift from the 1951 sci-fi movie 'The day the earth stood still'. The film featured the humanoid alien, Klaatu and his all powerful robot 'Gort', who came to earth with a message of peace. The sci-fi film is a must-see classic, but Ringo's album on the other hand left me cold.
5996 had been a Digbeth-based bus, but when transferred to WMPTE, it was allocated to Sheepcote Street Garage. Digbeth garage and coach station remained under Midland Red's control, so 5996 couldn't stop there. However, 'Sheepcote Street' was an ex-Midland Red garage situated close by, and had been an satellite garage to Digbeth under the 'Red'.
On acquisition by the PTE, 5996 was wearing an all-over advert for 'Matojetaway' a Birmingham based travel agency. Not contracted with WMPTE the ad needed to go, and the bus was quickly repainted; receiving WMPTE's standard blue & cream livery in February 1974.
5996 would later see service from Birmingham's Acocks Green bus garage (1975 - 1977), then was moved to Oldbury bus garage from 1977 to 1978. At just 12-years old, the bus was withdrawn from use in April 1978 and sold for scrap in the December of that year. Happily, sister D12 Fleetline 6015 (GHA415D) can be seen at the Transport Museum Wythall, and is now the only survivor of the type.
As for Sheepcote Street garage, that was closed in 1975, but was retained by WMPTE for storage use. It was eventually demolished in the mid 1990s when the Broad Street area of the city was heavily redeveloped.
22nd September 2021., Dublin Airport, Ireland
GTW 5936 works the Kirk yard hump job in Gary, IN.
With a new crew having recently arrived, 8252, 8136, 8127 and 8152 prepare to depart Pennys Road AWB with 5936N.
Bellata, NSW.
Friday 7 May 2021.
GTW 5936 works the Kirk yard hump. Gary, IN
As they wait for the mine to finish loading their string of ballast hoppers, CP 5936 and 6067 idle in the hot summer sun outside Waterloo, Wisconsin
4WMH-6 heads to Jackman with a dual flag SD40-2 in charge of a empty rail train.
CP train: 4WMH-6
3/6/2021
Long Pond, ME
CP 5936 and 6258 creep out across the Kennebec at Moosehead, ME with a rail train in tow. The train had taken the siding to allow CP 250-5 to pass. Afterwards, they would pull beyond the road for Brookfield Energy, and would proceed to drop the last 8 or so strands of rail.
CP Rail Train 4WMH-6
East Outlet, Moosehead, ME
3/6/2021
