Nick's RR blogs

CSX Switching Sidney 24 April 2019

Reuters: Exclusive: Persistent rail service disruptions dog CSX customers.

Big 4 Bridge- Drone footage. I’d like to see this with a train passing over.

CF&E reversing at Sugar Street Diamond - EMD GP40-2 horn show and radio...

Filming the CF&E on the IORY at Sugar St.

CSX intermodal passing North Baltimore

CSX switching on the LDL at Wapak

I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it: Closure of Nottingham Victoria Station marked 50 years on -

Adams Co, OH. Part 2.

Adams Co. OH Part 1.

CSX does intermodal. Double-decker style.

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hudWo4Brv4w)

http://www.eastmidlandstrains.co.uk/information/media/news/Advice-for-Rail-Enthusiasts-Photography-at-stations/

This is a great train chase by Scott Taipale across Indiana and Ohio in the US. He mentions the train got up to 40 miles per hour at some points. Much more difficult in the UK where fast freight can move at 75mph+.

Runaway and derailment of locomotive, Toton sidings, Nottinghamshire, 30 October 2016. Not a word in the local press.

I spent some time playing around with the legends, layers and basemaps. A most useful resource and as the saying goes close enough for governement work!

I’ve been scanning some slides shot back in the 1990′s when I visited a few diesel traction galas on heritage railways in the UK. Here is the Great Central; unsure of the year but between 1996 and 1999, featuring diesel hydraulic locomotives.