The Countdown - or rather the count UP.

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John Deere 4840 Tractor

 

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CSX 4842
A CSX SD70ACe leads an eastbound stack train at Milepost 215.
The train it is passing has just set off a bad order covered hopper on the siding.

 

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UP 4844 Union Pacific EMD SD70M at Shed 10, California -

 

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KCS 4846 Kansas City Southern Railway GE ES44AC at Vicksburg, Mississippi

 

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5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
Earl of Mount Edgcumbe was out shopped from Swindon works at a cost of £4,848 for the locomotive and £953 for the Collett designed 4000 gallon tender. Originally 5043 was given the name Barbury Castle, after an iron age hilltop fort, five miles south of Swindon. It frequently hauled the GWR’s Cheltenham Flyer, which was then the fastest train in the world.

 

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1450 was built at Swindon in July 1935 – Withdrawn from Exmouth shed in May 1965

1450 was built by the GWR at Swindon in 1935 as no 4850 at a cost of £2255, including £497 for the boiler, and spent much of her working life shedded at Oxford working the Abingdon branch. In January 1952, it was moved to Slough shed, where it remained until 1961 when it returned to Oxford.

In 1962 it came west to Exeter and then Taunton in 1963 before transfer to the Southern Region and being tried on the steeply graded former London & South Western Railway Axminster to Lyme Regis branch. 1450 was withdrawn from Exmouth Junction shed in May 1965, having covered 823,012 miles, and purchased by the Dart Valley Railway and moved to Buckfastleigh.

 

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-KCS-4852 leads a manifest train through Tower 26. Houston, Tx.

 

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Mk.I TSO 4854 Stephenson Railway Museum

Mk.I TSO 4854 is pictured in the yard at the Stephenson Railway Museum, Wallsend, on April 2nd 2012.

 

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#4856 AT ENGLEWOOD, IL

 

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Ex-Great Western 14XX 0-4-2T No 1458 in black British Railways livery coupled with an auto-trailer pulls away from Soho and Winson Green Station on the main up line with the Dudley to Snow Hill Local (nicknamed the Dudley Dodger) in October 1956. The hipped roof of Soho and Winson Green Signal Box opened on 19th December 1909 can be seen above the auto trailer. This signal box was a standard Great Western Railway type 27C timber signal box, fitted with 61 levers in a vertical tappet 3 bar locking frame. The locomotive was built in 1935 as No.4858 at Swindon Works as part of Lot 288, entering stock at Stourbridge shed on 17th August 1935. No.4858 was allocated to Croes Newydd shed in April 1936 and subsequently moved to Banbury shed in June 1938.

In November 1946 No.4858 became No.1458, when the whole 48XX class was renumbered in to the 14XX series, to allow the original numbers to be used for those 28XX class 2-8-0 heavy freight locomotives which were being modified for oil burning. No.1458 returned from Banbury shed back to Stourbridge shed in November 1950 and remained there until December 1957. In November 1964 No.1458 was finally withdrawn from Gloucester shed and sold for scrap to Cashmores at Newport. These engines were an updated version of the 517 class 0-4-2T locomotives, which they were designed to replace. The axle weight was kept below 14 tons to allow them to operate on uncoloured routes and they were all fitted with auto-train gear, which allowed them to operate in both directions when paired with one or two auto-trailers