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I imagine some type of adventure by going on this train.

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Pray you don't wait for it at a level crossing

The Northeastern industrial area of Melrose Park, Illinois has a few sets of rails that I assumed were dead. Rusted over and abruptly cut off in places. In my lifetime, I have never seen a train run by here. My Father, also a train guy, doesn't even remember seeing one operating up here. But I guess there's at least one customer, because I saw them rolling some hoppers up to the plastic injection moulding plant today. Such a cool thing to witness.

When seeing the underside I am unable to tell which coach is traction coach and which is trailing coach.

Ofc one way to know is through whichever coach has pantograph on top.

Also what a pretty view of sun glistening on the Stainless Steel isn't it...😌

Here's a "best of" compilation of the videos I took while chasing 2102 from Reading to Jim Thorpe this past Saturday

Source

https://www.flickr.com/photos/alexgillieron/55312521870

I went on my first train ride today! It was for the Maryland Scenic route to frostburg and It was a blast! My Fiance and I are already exploring more train options to view scenic routes!

I also got to use a beginner photographers camera and was able to touch them up in light room to produce what you see here!

The box just labelled it as a "work car" but when I googled I didn't find a match. My best guess is that it's a piece of MOW equipment.

696 wagons, 7.6 km long. 9 minutes. The Ore Export Corridor repositioning empty wagons between Saldanha and Sishen in South Africa.

The most exciting video today (IMHO). Pretty fkn cool.

Edit: this is not my content - I absolutely wish it was. If it's yours, I'll most certainly add credit.

Took this last Saturday during the 2026 Naniwa Yodogawa Fireworks Festival when I rode a Hankyu local train bound for Takatsuki-shi.

These are LEW EL2 electric locos, built in Hennigsdorf (East Germany) for open-pit mine railways. Poles called them "Krokodyle" – Crocodiles. The first 16 arrived at the Konin lignite mine in 1958, and they hauled coal from the pits to the power plants there for the next 68 years.

A few things that make them unusual:

- Bo'Bo', 4 × 350 kW, top speed 65 km/h – slow, but built to drag heavy coal trains

- besides the roof pantograph they have side pantographs, because the tracks inside the pit were shifted as the mine face moved and the catenary hung beside the track, not above it

- the one in the middle was hand-painted in 2025 by Ion Barbu, a Romanian artist and retired miner, as part of the "Just Transition Culture" project about coal regions moving away from mining – it kept working in this livery until the very end

Their Polish service ended on 30 April 2026, together with coal extraction at Konin. On 18 April we ran a farewell photo train for enthusiasts – the only train on the whole network that day.

The story isn't completely over: across the border in Lusatia (Germany), LEAG still runs around 50 modernised EL2m on its coal railway.

Happy to answer questions about the locos or the network.

Love this livery!

This is my favorite clip of big boy during my chase!
The Reading and Northern but on a great show!