So, what's popular where you are?

[SuperSpeedMaglev]

Like the popular trains you guys see a lot...

I don't live by a railway(though kinda near) nor have time(yet) to stop and admire trains here in the UK, so tell me what's popular where you are!


(I only get to view Trains sometimes when I pass over it on a bridge, Recently I saw a freightliner class 66 I with umm... tankers.

The more earlier, Central Trains class 170)

 

[edh6]

Living just next to the WCML at Coventry I mainly see an endless stream of Class 350s and 390s with the occasional 220 or 222. Very rarely there is a goods train headed by a 66 or 70.

 

[SuperSpeedMaglev]

WCML

I never said I was a expert on railways so umm.. what does WCML stand for?

--------------- Main Line?

 

[flusi737]

Neulußheim, South West Germany, half mile away from the KBS700/702 Rheintalbahn, one of the busiest mainlines in germany, a train every ~2-4 minutes , two double track lines:

One for Regional+Freight (160km/h, 100mp/h) , popular trains: BR111, Stwg Karlsruhe, BR425, BR152, BR145, BR185, BR482, BR296, Class66/77, BR151, BR189, BR182, BR155

Other one for HST/Freight (280km/h, 175mp/h), popular trains: BR401, BR403, BR406, BR411, TGV Duplex, TGV POS, BR101, BR120 (EC/IC trains)

Left two tracks the NBS Mannheim - Stuttgart, right two ones the Mannheim - Karlsruhe line

 

[edh6]

I never said I was a expert on railways so umm.. what does WCML stand for?

--------------- Main Line?

West Coast Mainline

 

[SuperSpeedMaglev]

Thxs Flusi ​for kicking this thread off nicely!

 

[judahGrice]

The Seemingly endless flow of SD70ACes, SD70Ms,C44-9Ws, and ES44ACs pulling rock trains, intermodel trains, and manifests through my hometown of Austin,TX

 

[gg14835]

Where I live the Norfolk Southern Piedmont division intersects with CSX. I mainly see a mix of older EMD and dash-9 power along with a bunch of ex-Southern High hoods.

 

[JCitron]

Like you SuperMaglev, I'm about 2 miles from the nearest railroad tracks. I can hear the trains at night and sometimes I can hear the drivers blowing horns for some of the crossings and when the commuter trains reverse direction.

What's popular where I live?

Well on our side of the Hub, as it's called in Boston, we have the Amtrak Downeaster, MBTA Commuter Rail, and Pan Am Railways. There is usually a lot of foreign power on the PAR freights so we get excited when we see a Norfolk Southern and CSX diesels on the front. There are even some from the Union Pacific and BNSF as well as lots of older Guilford (former name of PAR), and leaser units.

MBTA Commuter Rail

http://youtu.be/1eFj8xJ9fkA

A PAR Freights about 4 miles from where I live in Plaistow, New Hampshire and Amtrak's Downeaster running south in Atkinson, NH. Sadly their small station was burned down about 10 years ago. The station once sported a set of ball signals for train orders. Though vacant for many years, the building was set to be restored until the vandals got it. It stood where those pines are in the video.

http://youtu.be/ayosSpHXBl0

Their locomotive is typically blowing smoke due to lack of maintenance on the SD40-2s.

Action about 50 miles west in Worcester. Here we see CSX and MBTA.

http://youtu.be/un4cbYAO6CM

John

 

[bendorsey]

100+ hopper car trains full of crushed limestone moving South Florida north. At the rate they are shipping it Florida will disappear before Global warming has a chance to flood us out, lol.

Ben

 

[amigacooke]

I see this pretty much every day as it's part of my route to work.

 

[davesnow]

There are two UP/BNSF diamonds here in Jonesboro (yes, two) and I see a lot of UP and BNSF trains, of every type... mixed, intermodal, coal, tankers, steel, and just about anything comes thru here, being that it's a major railway throughfare. I also see a lot of Norfolk Southern, CSX, Ferromex occasionally, KCS, and just about all class I's. You never know what you might see down under the Main Street bridge while railfanning. It's a railfan's paradise! I'm lucky!

Cheers,

Dave

 

[dragonharh]

in my city we have alot of container trains go throw pulled by These guys thats more less it not much gose on in this crap hole.

 

[Bluewater]

Welcome to the intersection of the ex-NS Kalamazoo Branch (GDLK Mainline) and Amtrak's Michigan Division!

The City of Kalamazoo, Michigan was once one of the busiest rail areas in the State of Michigan. Then, the trucks came along. NS left the area in 2009 taking the remainder of the CR-painted Geeps with them. Grand Elk (a Watco subsidiary) took over that same year. Traffic has picked up since 2009 but still not as much as when NS was here.

We are home to:
Amtrak

One of the last remaining (and operational!) interlocking towers in the state, BO Tower:

The Kalamazoo River Overpass:

and the Grand Elk:

 

[jjanmarine3]

Around Richards Bay in KZN north coast we have the 200 truck electric coal trains to RBCT (Richards Bay Coal Terminal ) running between R/Bay and Ermelo , diesel and electric freight trains carrying general freight , log and woodchips, rock phosfate and passenger trains between Durban and Empangeni. I am not very close to tracks but I can hear the diesels powering and braking their horns at night.

 

[viesturs]

Where I live there is a railway half a kilometer from home. Usually it sees such DR1A DMU's on commuter and long distance trips.

And as for freight there is a variety of 2TE10, 2TE116 and 2M62 twin section locomotives (sometimes even double headed) pulling 800 meter long oil product trains.

 

[SuperSpeedMaglev]

Like you SuperMaglev, I can hear the trains at night and sometimes I can hear the drivers blowing horns for some of the crossings and when the commuter trains reverse direction.

John

Unlike you I'm not like so close I can hear them, nor am I about 2 miles, It would've a slight walk/Drive there.

(Just wanted to clear this up!)

 

[captainkman]

Here in Brisbane, Queensland, we use a few different types of EMU for our passenger trains. This is the first series, known as the EMU class. They are the oldest EMU's on the network, and the most common, hence why I have posted it here.

Depicted below is one of the members of the class to be fitted with a remodelled and 'bandicooted' front end.

Usually QR's EMU's (that is, all electric MU's) run in pairs to form 6-carriage-long units.

The other EMUs we have are designated SMU (Suburban Multiple Unit), IMU (Inter-city Multiple Unit), ICE (Inter-City Express - long-distance version of the EM's; only one unit left in service) and SMU 260 (the newest trains on the network - they are WiFi-enabled). I can post pictures of these if anyone is interested.

And to add to the above discussion, I am a 15-minute walk away from my local train station.

Kieran.

 

[hauntedclipp]

I live about half a mile from the Oceanside - Escondido branch, home to the Sprinter light rail service and a tri-weekly freight train.
The Sprinter service uses Siemens VT642 Desiro diesel railcars. They mostly run as single sets, except during rush hour when the trains are made up of two units.
I think the freight trains are mostly run by some company called Pacific Sun or something. They use older geeps for that.
I'm not sure how often BNSF actually runs trains along the branch.

About 20 miles west of here is where the branch starts, Oceanside. It's a busy station, serving as NCTD's Sprinter's western terminus, NCTD's Coaster's northern terminus, Metrolink's southern terminus, and a through stop for Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner. The Coaster, Surfliner, and Metrolink own F59PHI's. Coaster owns mostly F40PHM-2C's, Metrolink has mostly F59PH's, and the occasional P42DC heads up the Surfliners, along with an F40PH NPCU on the end of the extra single-level Surfliner set made up of Amfleets and Horizons.
At night, after the passenger trains stop running, several BNSF frieght trains take advantage of the open tracks to run north and south through the station.

I'll find some pics to post when I've got the time.

EDIT (finally):
Here's a southbound (loco facing north) Coaster train awaiting its departure on track one next to a northbound (loco facing south) Metrolink train on track two. The Metrolink's cab car is one of their nifty new Hyundai-Rotem "Guardian" fleet cars. This pic might be slightly dated, since most Metrolink trains now have less Bombardier bi-levels in use.

Here's a Sprinter train waiting at its own separate stub-end light rail platforms, while a Coaster sits at the through tracks maybe twenty feet away. The little Sprinter trains are scheduled to meet NCTD's Coaster trains for fast and easy transfers between them, along with many of the Surfliners.

A Sprinter train its own dedicated elevated loop line in San Marcos, either heading for or away from the California State University San Marcos station.

Inside the Sprinter maintenance facility in Escondido:

 

[JCitron]

Unlike you I'm not like so close I can hear them, nor am I about 2 miles, It would've a slight walk/Drive there.

(Just wanted to clear this up!)

I understand... I thought you were closer to the tracks.

I'm really not so close either to the majority of the action. The station is 2 miles from me but the rest of the line is 4 miles from me as it heads up into New Hampshire. I don't hear much at the station and only the through trains as the blow for the crossings.

See this image... The image depicts my area and where I live in relation to the tracks. The stations are marked STA, my house is H, the other blue marks are crossings, and the red line indicates a closed railway line which is now a trail. Where the closed line starts, is Bradford depot. There is now a commuter train storage yard and a big parking lot now. I used to live just above the old yard when there was once a cement company and lots of tracks. The old branch was still in service for a few miles at that time. Haverhill, in this case, is the larger city unlike England where the two names came from. In the West Highlands, Bradford is the bigger city while Haverhill is a small farming community! Here Bradford is a smaller township that's part of Haverhill since 1880.

The quantity of trains is pretty low up here except for the commuter trains. Any freights run between hours and mostly at night and early mornings with Amtrak coming through about 4 times per day.