EWS 66070 accelerates through Oakenshaw Jn with a Preston to Lindsay tanker train. 17th July 2006

EWS 60014 accelerates away from Healey Mills Yard with a loaded GMW garbage container train for North Lincolnshire. 12th July 2006

FCEN CF7s 55 and 57 depart the small yard by 441 on their way to interchange with CSX at Taft Yard.

C40s 7795 and 7781 roll into the Church Street yard to let the two Amtrak services to clear.

B36-7 5815 basks in the morning sun. Taft Yard.

Three GE U18Bs roll gently through Deering, Portland with the daily RUPO freight from Rumford to Rigby Yard. These little chuggers were the normal power for these trains. Nikon FE2 and Kodachrome ... (more)

On a sunny Wednesday in September 60064 still with it's Load Haul logo heads south with the empty Ready Mixed Concrete (RMC) stone hoppers from Leeds to Peak Forest (near Buxton). Nikon D100 Nikko... (more)

On a sunny Saturday afternoon in August (too much rain that month!) 60037 heads south with a steel slab train for South Wales. Nikon D100 50mm Nikkor AF f1.4 D

67019 switches box cars after arriving with its freight from Selby, North Yorkshire. At Selby there is a bulk transfer facility handling a variety of freight. Kodachrome 64 on a Nikon FM2 and Tamr... (more)

66077 accelerates away from a crew change as it heads to Roxby near Scunthorpe with more GMW (Greater Manchester Waste) containorised trash.

At Treeton Freightliner's 66551 heads south with loaded HHA coal hopper cars. Much of this business is importing foreign coal for burning at power stations such as West Burton, or Drax.

The transportation of trash is big business in the UK. One such route is that between Manchester and Roxby near Scunthorpe. Here we see 66077 heading south with a train of empty Greater Manchester... (more)

A CSX local slowly makes its way off the old B&O line as it approaches the junction with the NS (ex CR,PRR) main. The lead unit is an unpowered GP35 coupled to a GP40-2. The Pittsburgh Brewery is ... (more)

66210 heads north through Treeton with a train of empty coal hopper cars. This type of coal hopper (dating to the 1960s and originally coded HAA) is rapidly being phased out. Really this technolog... (more)

66613 departs Healey Mills yard with a train of repaired HHA Heavy Haul coal hopper cars during a rare period of August sunshine. The yard is underused and a part of it is currently being used to ... (more)