Twilight Express 2015.12.6

 

October 2022, an unattended freight train ran away from platform 3 at London Liverpool Street station.

 

The Green Diamond at Milwaukee Central.

 

Canadian Pacific empty coal train running with a pair of Union Pacific GE's on each end.

 

Hokkaido railway class Kiha 283 series,

 

Ex WD 2-8-0 coal trains at work on the old Great Central Line in Yorkshire, 1950's.

 

Union Pacific 1757 and 1729.

 

This is one of the very newest doubledecker InterCity trains of DB. The locomotive is a Bombardier TRAXX 3rd generation Br147.500, specifically designed for these doubledecker IC trains.

 

Southern Region Tangmere, named after the military airfield in Sussex, is therefore a (Battle of Britain) class locomotive, completed at Southern Railway’s Brighton works in September 1947 and given the number 21C167. Following the nationalisation of Britain’s railways Tangmere was renumbered 34067 in July 1949.

 

Port Clinton, Pennsylvania, October 8th, 2022, as Reading & Northern 4-8-4 No. 2102 is fired up.

 

 

The GWR 1400 Class is a class of steam locomotive designed by the Great Western Railway for branch line passenger work. It was originally classified as the 4800 Class when introduced in 1932, and renumbered in 1946.

 

JR East KuMoHa 12 EMU car July 1980.

 

York North shed, taken from the top of the coaling plant.

 

Surrounded by black standard cabs at the NS Bellevue Yard, Bellevue, Ohio, visitor BNSF 5748 a GE ES44DC. 2009.

 

IC2013 with only one german class 218 (class 185 pushing from the back) 218 414-1

 

LNER class J94. The locomotive was built in 1943, to a Hunslet Engine Company design, by Hudswell Clarke for the Ministry of Defence. It then entered service as WD75091. It was delivered new to the War Department depot at Transportation Store Depot at Marchwood in Hampshire in November 1943.

 

The Japanese Class EF57 of 2-C+C-2 wheel arrangement DC electric locomotives was a development of the previous JNR Class EF56. The 15 EF57s were built between 1939 and 1943 by Hitachi and Kawasaki.

 

Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways Baldwin 608, October 2022.

 

The Deutsche Reichsbahn's Class 52 is a German steam locomotive built in large numbers during the Second World War. It was the most produced type of the so-called Kriegslokomotiven or Kriegsloks (war locomotives). The Class 52 was a wartime development of the pre-war DRG Class 50, using fewer parts and less expensive materials to speed production.

 

UP SD40-2 3250 leads the westbound SP train ADHFT (KC-Nogales, AZ Ford auto parts train going to Hermosillo, Mexico), seen here climbing out of Benson, AZ on 11/5/1994.

 

Milwauke Road Super Dome, was a Dome car built by Pullman-Standard for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad ("Milwaukee Road") in 1952.

 

In 1970 Penn Central became the biggest corporate collapse America had ever seen, leading ultimately to the initially nationalised Conrail taking the freight services (and quickly trimming the network by thousands of miles) and Amtrak and the states of New York, New Jersey and Maryland picking up the passenger business, and the GG1 fleet was dispersed accordingly. The bright blue was a big improvement over the dirty black, even if it didn't quite suit the GG1's lines. Unfortunately it only pertained to 4800, which retained its unique riveted bodyshell.

 

L&Y Class 21 'Pug' 19 (as BR 51241) performs another run past during the 3P20 Parcels Group morning photo charter at Burrs Country Park during the East Lancashire Railway's Autumn Steam Gala.

 

Indian Railway passenger train.

 

Thunder. Constructed in 1949 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, Chesapeake & Ohio Railway steam locomotive no. 1309 was built to handle the railroad’s heaviest coal trains throughout Kentucky and West Virginia until it was retired in 1956. 64 years later, no. 1309 is undergoing a meticulous and extensive restoration to service. When complete, the locomotive will become an outstanding tourist attraction operating trains between Cumberland and Frostburg, Maryland, and the largest operating steam locomotive of its type in the world.

 

CP S-2 No. 7082 and a slug trundle along trackage near elevators at Thunder Bay, ON while the Canadian departs the station in August 1976. Note the elevators receiving 40 ft. grain boxes at this time.

 

An engine built in Finland in 1950, if found in Suffolk, UK.

 

CC 206 13 xx - KA 159 Lodaya, Indonesian Railways. The GE CM20EMP diesel-electric locomotives (also known as CC206 in Indonesia.

 

Testing of the Alfa-X began in May this year. Japan.

 

47987 Midland Beyer-Garratt, designed for heavy freight. A total of 33 were built from 1927, specifically ran from Toton Sidings, Nottinghamshire, for coal transport.

 

Southern Pacific Alco RSD's 15, No 855, built 1956 to 1960, 75 units.

 

The Rocky Mountaineer, British Columbia.

 

Ivatt Class 4MT 2-6-0s.

 

AT&SF 5033 heading 4 Units.

 

Amtrak's view liner Inspection Car.

 

Collection of Burlington Northern Railroad Units at Clyde, Illinois.

 

FLYING SCOTSMAN CENTENARY 60103. The Flying Scotsman will be on show at Kings Cross over the weekend The newly-restored Flying Scotsman has been unveiled ahead of a series of events to celebrate its centenary year. The 97-tonne locomotive was built in Doncaster in 1923, and is now owned by the National Railway Museum in York. Restoration has been completed and the engine is on show at London's King's Cross this weekend, as the 100-year celebration programme is announced.