Hilton and Mears: Return to Coalbridge Street...

Even this time of year, it’s still enough of salt season to find more peace in preparedness than in postponement…

We chased 954 down to the junction where they picked up a load of bagged salt in an East Suffolk boxcar that Langton’s had been renting in a kind of interesting loop arrangement between their yards where they themselves were the shipper and receiver. 

I get easily led into patterns so have to be careful. But, there’s what, a couple dozen B&W hoppers and here’s one and here I am wondering if I could photograph them all. 

I expect these adorable short hoppers will start gathering their way slowly back home to fill empty track on the B&W before being shipped as one block up to Ciment Québec for reload in time for construction season to begin.

Words by Chris, models by James, imagination shared.

Number 954, the latest instalment in the story is pictured here, unfinished on Coalbridge Street, where it is forever late autumn in New England, in the 1970s. Until next time more soon…

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