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NKP 765 and the NS NKP heritage unit deadhead towards Williamson past the former N&W coaling tower at Prichard for several weekends of Employee Excursions on the Pokey.
I swear everytime I post something its related to some stupid change which has occured. Ugh. The last of the MRL locomotives have finally been removed from mainline service due to BNSF PTC going live. How ironic that the MRL was actually who began this PTC project but in the end became the victim. It's truly a waste as all 5 GP35's are likely sidelined but at the very least unable to lead trains any longer. Over the last few years of its existence the MRL spent over $500,000 to upgrade all 6 GP35's with a complete rewire and upgrade of the control system. MRL 405 has an easy tell by the red antennae right behind the cab. A close eye will also reveal the MRL 404 has been completed, as the class lights it wore its entire career have been removed and tastefully patched during the rewire. This was all done in house by MRL employees, not contractors. Now, who knows what will happen to them? Always thought they were pretty neat units who didn't seem to be very popular elsewhere but for the most part were very good workhorses in local service across Montana.
Alton & Southern employee appreciation special book ended by the roads pair of GP38-2's # 2000 and # 2001. Washington Park, IL 9/14/2002. Scanned Kodachrome slide
In 2019, UP unveiled a new special paint that celebrated the company’s employees. UP 1111 would tour the system shortly after, making stops at every major terminal across the railroad’s thousands of miles of track. However, the irony of the locomotive made it a target of graffiti shortly after being put into service, with UP laying off many employees shortly after making 1111. Despite this, two years later UP would make another one of these units, this time celebrating the company’s diversity.
Just after six years of service, 1111 is seen bringing an MPDRV onto its final miles into Roseville. It was quite the problematic train, a centerbeam with a problem, the train took ten hours from Dunsmuir to Roseville, and a hot axle caused the train to stop just minutes after taking this photo. The train would finally get into Roseville shortly after 9 PM.
Idling 645 prime mover echoes high note in the air as the cold night slowly take over the town of Cochrane in an already lost battle.
The Cochrane yard crew sit for now, inside the warm cab of GP9 1601, waiting for ONR Polar Bear mixed train arrival before starting the chores assigned to it.
Hard to believe but in less than 30 minutes, the place will be surrounded by railroad employees, passengers and locomotives assisting with the Bear's yarding.
ONR 1601
Milepost 0.2 Island Falls subdivision
Cochrane,ON
February 26th, 2021
Early morning in Audubon Park New Orleans. A garden open to all. Many residents enjoy a moment of nature thanks to the efforts of park employees and volunteers.
photo by Louis Dutrey
BN-1 and BN-2 come through Douglas IL. enroute to Yates City with their train during Galesburg Railroad Days in June 1995.
Here's a close up detail shot of this week's Freight Car Friday offering that I posted earlier with this caption:
For this week’s Freight Car Friday here is an old covered hopper that caught my eye entrained on Providence and Worcester Railroad local PR-3 rolling through ORMS interlocking on Main 7 at MP 186 of Amtrak’s New Haven Line main headed to the Port of Providence. This car is now lettered SLWX 1137 for its present owner Saltine Warrior and is used in short haul rock salt service between the port and Vermont salt sheds. The car is clearly of Chicago and Northwestern Railway provenance and is a 263K, 60 ft. 4750 cu ft covered hopper built in Feb. 1981. I’m not sure of the original number or manufacturer of this car but suspect it was originally in the 190000-19099 series of 1000 cars built that year the first 500 by Berwick Forge and Fabricating and the second 500 by Ingalls Shipbuilding at the Decatur, AL plant. If anyone can confirm the manufacturer and original number I’d love to know.
The car still carries its classic ball and bar logo with the ‘Employee Owned’ moniker from the period after 1972 when the struggling granger was spun off from the parent company to its employees after they were unsuccessful in selling or merging the road. The idea first belonged to Larry Provo, who had joined the company as an accountant at age 29 and would go on to succeed Heineman as president. After two years of negotiations, the employee buyout deal was completed in early 1972. Under the terms of the agreement, employee purchasers had to commit to buy at least $1 million worth of stock. In May, $3.6 million worth of shares were bought when the stock was offered, making the company the largest employee-owned corporation in the United States. One thousand of the 14,000 employees of CNW took part in the purchase, ranging from Provo himself, who invested $100,000, the maximum allowed, to secretaries who bought the minimum ten shares for $500. The official name of the company was then changed to the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company. In order to create an easier mechanism for diversifying, a new holding company, CNW Corporation, was formed in 1985 and after about that date the employee owned logo was no longer used.
In 1989, CNW Corporation was purchased in a leveraged buyout by a group of investors that was led by Blackstone Capital Partners L.P. The group also included the securities firm Donaldson, Lufkin, and Jenrette, the Union Pacific Railroad, and CNW senior mangement. The buyout was engineered in order to avert a hostile takeover attempt by Japonica Partners, a New York-based investment group. Valued at $950 million, the buyout exceeded Japonica’s bid of $747 million. A new holding company, Chicago and North Western Holdings Corporation, was thus formed to take the place of CNW Corporation, which continued to exist on paper as a subsidiary to “Holdings” and parent company to the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company. As part of a $1.2 million recapitalization of CNW, the company went public once again in 1992 with a $200 million stock offering, but this final era was short lived and in 1995 the Union Pacific bought out the shares it didn’t own and merged the CNW out of existence into its vast system.
Providence, Rhode Island
Monday April 20, 2026
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Credit to Beck for the shaded rails and to MrBleau/Jake/Camisado for the mag waffling. Done in PMG 0.6.
I revisited the closed bridges that must have connected Mahwah, NJ with the ford plant across the Ramapo River.
CSX empty oil train K603 is about to go under East 71st Street in Cuyahoga Heights with Union Pacific's Chicago & North Western heritage locomotive on the point. The 1995 really could use a bath.
Carnegie Museum of Art, much to the entertainment of the employees and other guests who saw this moment.
Only one more minute after shooting number 25 I lensed number 26 out of 54 trains I ultimately photographed in the span of 4 hr 45 min here at Dobbs Ferry. Metro North train 876 is a 4:31 PM inbound from Poughkeepsie making a 1 hr 44 minute trip to Grand Central Terminal.
The train consists of seven cars (various models of Bombardier 'Shoreliner' coaches of which MN operates 133 in east of Hudson service) shoved by GE P32AC-DM 214 (blt. Apr. 1998 and one of 31 on the roster including four owned by CDOT and dressed in New Haven McGinnis style colors). This unit is the fifth of seven (so far) special Metro North 'heritage' units and pays tribute to the railroad's employees with the mosaic images on on the unit being made up of over 3000 individual photos of the railroad's workers
You can read more about this unit here: www.mta.info/press-release/photos-metro-north-railroad-un...
This is MP 20.5 as measured from Grand Central Terminal on modern day Metro North's Hudson Line, the four track former New York Central water level route which traces its history here back to 1849. In 1913 the NYC installed third rail electrification through here as far as Harmon, 33 miles north, a system that remains to this day.
Today this route is astonishingly busy with over 150 MNCW trains passing this point on weekdays with electric MUs operating as far as Croton-Harmon and diesel powered trains to Poughkeepsie, 73 miles north. In addition another 22 Amtrak trains pass to and from points as far flung as Burlington, VT, Montreal and Toronto in Canada, and Chicago. Lastly rounding out the parade is a nightly CSXT road freight between Selkirk Yard near Albany and Oak Point Yard in the Bronx.
A dozen miles down river can be seen the George Washington Bridge and less than twenty miles away are the high rises of Midtown Manhattan.
Village of Dobbs Ferry
Town of Greenburgh, New York
Friday June 20, 2025
Still looking remarkably good 23 (ugh...) years post-merger, is the CNW 178323. This PS 4750 was built in March '80 (class CH 100-226), and when I photographed it, the car had been set out in Union Pacific's yard in Lawrence, KS.
Employee medical and dental facilities at Kaiser’s 240-acre Mead smelter site, which comprised 1.5 million square feet of building space. The "Mead Works" is located north of Spokane, Washington. From 1942 until 1978, the factory operated non-stop, producing critically important aluminum and has been described by Spokane's daily newspaper as "a gritty relic of the nation’s rapid buildup of production capacity during World War II." Because Spokane was far from the coast and safe from potential Japanese attack the government footed the construction bill. At its heyday in the 1960s, the company had 2,100 workers.
In December 2000, fresh off a bitter, two-year labor dispute, Kaiser shut down the Mead plant after concluding it was more profitable to resell the electricity the plant consumed than continue to smelt aluminum. Ken Hoff, 61, worked there from 1977 until it closed in 2000. "It’s pained me dearly to see the old plant shut down and scrapped out," Hoff said. "It’s hardest to be tearing down some areas where I worked and areas I actually helped build."
The Mead Works also hosts one of the country's most toxic EPA Superfund sites, a 128,000-ton pile of smelting wastes containing cyanide and fluoride, which have leached into the underlying soils and groundwater. The final phase of demolition at the site began in early 2020.
#abandoned #spokane #washington #aluminum #smelter #factory #kaiser #superfund #industrialarchaeology
In March 1943, about 1,000 international people living in Shanghai were interned in Chapei Civil Assembly Centre by the Japanese. As the war progressed, food rations became smaller and less varied. Many people living in the camp were helped by people living in Shanghai from countries which were neutral during WWII, like Sweden. Also Chinese employees from foreign companies sent their former colleagues food.
This photo shows a label of such a food aid package, sent by the Swedish family Asker, to the Dutch family Hennus. Mr. C.G.C. Asker worked for the Maritime Customs Service of China (as per Records of the Maritime Customs Service of China 1854 –1949 Part Three: Semi-Official Correspondence from Selected Ports by Professor Robert Bickers, University of Bristol).
The text reads:
"DONOR: Mr C G C Asker, Swedish ...
1300 Rue Lafayette
CONTENTS:
Milk powder, 12 ozs
Jam, 1 tin 12 ozs
Sugar, 2 lbs
Margarine 1 lb
Peanuts 2 lbs
Tomato sauce, 1 bot
Cocao cubes 1 pkt
Fruit drops, 3 pkt
BENEFICIARY:
Master M F Hennus, Netherlands, C.829
CHAPEI CIVIL ASSEMBLY CENTRE
4th Febr. 1944"
Chapei Civil Assembly Centre was liberated on 15 August 1945, 76 years ago today.
California Digital Newspaper Collection, Vestkusten, Number 39, 28 September 1944:
"SWEDEN PRAISED FOR ASSISTANCE IN BRINGING AID TO WAR PRISONERS. By Dr. I). A. Davis, Associate Executive Director, Y. M. C. A. Worlds Committee,
Sweden and Switzerland, spared the horrors of warfare, are doing their share to lighten the burden of war victims. These two neutral countries are cooperating with the War Prisoners Aid of the Y. M. C. A., with headquarters in Geneva and New York, in sending material aid to war prisoners and civilian internees in Europe and the Far East. The rights and privileges of more than 6,000,000 prisoners of war confined behind barbed wire throughout the world are protected by the treaty called “The Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War,” signed by 47 nations on July 27, 1920. Among other things the Geneva Convention specifies that various welfare organizations may have access to war prison camps to render certain services to prisoners; thus War Prisoners Aid, under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. World’s Committee carries on its stimulating programs of educational, recreational and religious activities among war prisoners, regardless of race, creed or nationality. The role that Sweden plays in this important services are manifold, for giving financial support as well as supplying materials for leisure-time activities. They provide also a large percentage of the personell necessary. From Sweden comes books, writing materials, lumber and other materials hardly found now in other european countries and piany of the neutral secretaries are permitted to visit war prison and internment camps. “We sail never forget what your Swedish colleague, Hoffman, did for us in England,” said a German prisoner of war to Gunnar Celander, Swedish representative of War Prisoners Aid, during a recent prisoner of war exchange between Germany and England, through Sweden. Boatloads of German prisoners from Canada, U. S. and .England, and British prisoners from Germany, docked at Trelleborg and Goteborg, while they transferred to boats waiting to take them home.
The Swedish Y. M. C. A. and Red Cross Lottas, Swedish rail roads and welfare organizations assumed a large portion of the responsibility of looking after these men— most of whom were invalided and blind during their short stay in the country. Food, travel facilities, reading matter, games, gramophones supplied with records of German and British music were made available to make the men comfortable. Crown princess Louise visited the prisoners, with representatives of the Swedish government, who officially welcomed them. Mr. Celander reported “We Swedes are happy that it was the privilege of our country to arrange this exchange of prisoners in the spirit of conciliation and kindness in the midst of the fire of conflict. I longed to share with the entire Y. M. C. A. and its secretaries the memory of the happy faces these homeward-bound prisoners and their many proofs of gratitude. All these men can testify that we were able to serve them in of their liberation. That is the highest reward and greatest encouragement for our work.” In Stockholm a War Prisoners Aid office is under the able leader their capacity as well as in' these days ship of Hugo Cedergren, Associate Director of Y. M. C. A., and National Secretary of the Swedish Y. M. C. A. Mr. Cedergren, who has visited prisoners in Europe, U. S. and Canada, said recently in America: “The spirit of prisoners is excellent. I can say that honestly from my own experience. The treatment they are receiving is correct and good.” Mrs Ceder gren is the daughter of Prince Oscar Bernadotte, brother of King Gustaf. He is honorary president of the Swedish Y. M. C. A. Pastor Carl-Erik Wenngren of the Stockholm Diocese, Associated National .Secretary of the Swedish Y. M. C. A., is now in U. S. as a neutral representative of the Ecumenical Commission for Chaplaincy Service to prisoners of war, of the World Council of Churches, and as a representative of War Prisoners Aid of the Y. M. C. A. He is visiting camps throughout America carrying the message of the church, especially to German prisoners, conducting services and other functions of a minister. Gunnar Celander, Henry Soderberg, Gunnar Janssen, O, M. Carlman and Erik Berg have been recruited from Sweden to visit war prison camps in Germany, while Bengt Hoffman carries War Prisoners Aid service to allied fliers detained in Sweden in compliance with neutrality laws. Civilan internment camps in France ares visited by mr. and Mrs. Hemming Andermo. The Swedish representative in India is Fredrik Franklin. (In the Philippine Islands, aid to prisoners of war and civilian internees is carried on under a neutral committee of Swiss, Irish, Danish, French, Belgian and Norwegian citizens, headed by Swedish Ex-Consul Helge A. Jansson, in Manila, and appointed by W. J. K. Bagge, Swedish Minister to Japan, since July 1942, chairman of neutral citizens, responsible for Y. M. C. A. services to prisoners and internees in Japan and Japanese-controlled areas. All contact between War Prisoners Aid and Japanese government are made through Stockholm. Through Minister Bagge, War Prisoners’ Aid received the first complete information about aid work in the Philippines. Final permission was given by the Japanese for the YMCA to purchase monthly in the Philippines sorely needed relief supplies for shipment to camps there in which Allied prisoners are interned. War Prisoners’ Aid service to allied war prisoners and civilian internees in Japan and Japan-held territory other than the Philippines is headed by I. P. Troedsson, Swedish Consul to Japan, assisted by N. E. Ericson of the Swedish Legation in Tokyo, under supervision of Minister Bagge. Swedish representatives of War Prisoners’ Aid make regular visits to camps in Japan are B. Gawell, John Anderson, A. Swensson and O. Pettersson, C. G. C. Asker works in Shanghai, and in Thailand, War Prisoners’ Aid service is carried to prisoners of war by F. Ehnstedt, Swedish Consul there. N. Arne Bendtz, with headquarters in Chungking, is in charge of War Prisoners Aid Services in Free China. He was responsible for taking aid not long ago to the more than two hundred German and Italian Catholic Fathers who had been interned for more than a year in the Honan Province. Traveling hundreds of miles over famine-stricken war-ridden country by car, rickshaw and on foot, climbing bleak, rugged hills, fording gushing streams, enduring scorching heat, mud and a plague of locusts, Bendtz finally reached his destination and found that the missionaries were living in dilapidated buildings, lacked essential food and clothing and faced grave financial difficulties. “For about three weeks I lived among these Catholic missionaries sharing their daily life, which I shall never forget,” wrote Bendtz in his report to Geneva. “They had suffered a lot during the past year and we came, as one said, “like an angel from Heaven, to soothe and comfort their sorrowful hearts.” “They had not met another foreigner since internment, and the concerts and speeches made in honor of the War Prisoners’ Aid representative were visible tokens of their gratitude.” Solutions to many problems facing War Prisofters’ Aid of the YMCA, a participating agency of the National War Fund, in its service to prisoners and civilian internees in Europe and the Far East, are greatly facilitated by the cooperation of Sweden.
Swedish representative of Y. M. C. A. War Prisoners’ Aid, Henry Soderberg (center), talks with prisoner and German camp official in war prison camp somewhere in Germany."
Courtesy Hennus family archives
Metro-North Railroad P32AC-DM no. 214 is seen leading the railroad's employee holiday train through Brewster Station, bound for Southeast Yard. The locomotive is the newest in the railroad's 40th Anniversary fleet, and is decorated with numerous employee photos as a mosaic of locations along the three east-of-Hudson lines.
UP 1111, the Employee Pride Unit heads up Union Pacific train MPRAS (Manifest, Proviso, IL, to Alton & Southern RR run-through, East St. Louis, IL) as it blasts through Thornton Jct. in South Holland, Illinois on UP's former C&EI/MoPac-L&N Villa Grove Sub. The second and third cars of the train are hitting the diamond with CSX's former GTW Elsdon Sub.
I suspect Thornton Jct. had its name from the village by that name to the south before the village of South Holland annexed this far south and grabbed up this land.
The wooden armstrong lever tower that controlled the diamond here lasted into the 1980's, possibly the 1990's(?).
UP SD70ACe 1111 began life as UP 8362 before being repainted and renumbered by UP, and was built by EMD for Union Pacific in May of 2005.
To see more information and watch 1111 get repainted in hyper-speed, check out UP's own video below. I take no credit for creating UP's video:
Pretty sure this was right in the back corner, as there's another of those directories right there beside the door, for my much-needed guidance!
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Rite-Aid, 1998-built (closed May 2018), Goodman Rd. at Tulane Rd., Horn Lake MS
Vice President Mike Pence takes a photograph with employees after having seen the Space Launch System (SLS) structural test, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017 at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The Vice President visited the space center to view test hardware for NASA’s Space Launch System, America’s new deep space rocket and to call the crew onboard the International Space Station.
Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
33rd Annual Florida Renaissance Festival 2024
Feb-March 2024 - Deerfield Beach, Florida U.S.A.
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*[left-double-click for a closer-look - Handsome (Villain?) Knight]
The Joust: Point of Impact - Impacting the Shield
The Field of Dreams - RenFest 2024 - 3/24/24
The Joust Pass: Adrenaline - Gorgeous Horses
Skill - Speed - Action - Shield - Thrills - Excitement
This is my 17th year covering this fun festival filled with color and pageantry and beautiful people. Each year some of the regulars return and sometimes fresh new faces appear to join the eclectic Renaissance Family. Some are vendors or employees, and some customers dress up to fit in with the renaissance festival fun and its 16th century way of life. One big happy family of a few thousand escaping the dull drums of their daily life for a few hours. This year's crop of new faces was lovely. Hope you enjoy the images. I try to capture their joy. Always fun, festive, very colorful and exciting!
Thank you very much for looking. Have a great day! Hazaaa!!
Florida Renaissance Festival Facebook Page:
www.facebook.com/flarenfest?ref=ts
Florida Renaissance Festival Overview Videos:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gRRTINyamw (walking tour)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBB8hSvt3sE (walking tour)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-rc1VzDLxw#t=113.349 (Parade)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVEY7ti5vdo (Day's End Pub Sing)
Please Check-Out This Year's March '24
1-Day 6-Hr Event Coverage (Slide Show):
Associate Administrator for Space Operations Kathryn Lueders delivers opening remarks during an employee engagement event with NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts Raja Chari, Kayla Barron, Tom Marshburn, and Mark Vande Hei, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Keegan Barber)
Who's there for you when you're cold and alone
The teenagers, the teenagers
We're playing our songs and you're dancing along
You're feeling better, feeling better
So your heroe's coming on
With a song to turn you on
And you move your better side
Making room for you and i
Looking like you never cried
And if you leave a band
'Cause you want to dance
Or missing your friends
'Cause you don't have any
Well, we don't care
Just buy our t-shirts and talk about us everywhere
If you wanna
Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, dance, dance ...