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North Pacific Cannery National Historic Site.
The North Pacific Cannery was founded in 1889 and processed salmon until 1968. In 1987 ownership transferred from BC Packers to the village of Port Edward. NPC has 25 buildings that can be toured, including a visitor centre, canning loft, First Nations and Japanese bunkhouses, a European house, and the Mess House, which has been turned into a small cafe. The Cannery was declared a national historic site in 1989, 100 years after its founding.
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.
BN-1 and BN-2 come through Douglas IL. enroute to Yates City with their train during Galesburg Railroad Days in June 1995.
On an amazing 28 August 1989 Conrail ran an employee picnic train up from New Jersey to the Tioga-Hammond Lake Reservoir near Wellsboro PA on the former NYC "Grand Canyon" line using the OCS train with two E-units on one end and a GP40-2 on the other end for reverse moves. The special is seen between Tioga and Middlebury with the 3281 leading a northbound shuttle run.
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.
Hard Rock Café, Pier 39, San Francisco, California, USA
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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
Employee only trips ran from downtown Atlanta to Hapeville, GA and return over former Central of Georgia tracks. June 2012.
A railroad employee on his way home from work takes a moment to enjoy watching his colleagues take the afternoon local up the line to deliver some loads to businesses in nearby towns.
This scene was staged as part of an October 2024 photo shoot on Connecticut's Valley Railroad, organized by Dak Dillon Photography. Featured here is Valley Railroad Mikado #40, a 1920 product of the American Locomotive Company and an engine that has been in tourist service here for nearly 50 years. The train is pictured at the Bokum Road crossing, near Milepost 3, and just about a mile south of the railroad's headquarters in Essex, CT.
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.
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
It's Rodeo time in Tucson and as we have done in years before we're parking cars in our lodge parking lot. The money we raise goes out to community projects we have like providing school supplies to South Tucson's community K-12 charter school.
Next to our lodge is an empty dirt lot. In years past we've contacted the owner of the lot and asked him about using it to park cars and we would split the money taken in with him, and he's always refused. From what I understand he's one one of those guys that goes outside and yells at the clouds for passing over his lot.
This year it seems like he decided that a little cash revenue wouldn't be a bad thing so he hired Heckle and Jekyll to park some cars for him. I say "seems" because we're not sure if these guys are working for him or if they're entrepreneurs who saw an empty lot and decided to make some quick cash.
The lodge has parked cars for many years and we're well prepared. We've got signage, flaggers, chalked out parking spaces, radios, the whole works. People know that we man the lot for the entire rodeo and keep an eye on all the cars. The same can't be said for Heckle and Jekyll.
These muppets were walking out in the street, stopping cars and telling them they should park in "their" lot. If you look at my previous shot:
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you'll see Engine Co. 22, the partner of Mr Pajamas. He was using that bunch of Caution tape as a flag, trying to get some attention. Needless to say it really didn't work.
They did get a couple of people to park, overflow from us since our lot was filled to the brim. Somebody (not us) call the local PD to complain about being harrassed so the PD had a nice chat with the muppets, let them know that if they didn't clear out they were going to get a free night's lodging at the GreyBar Hotel. They disappeared shortly after, never to be seen again.
We still don't know if they were employees or entrepreneurs.
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
WEEK 29 – TRUBeContinued (I)
This cart was sitting out in the actionway, and I thought that all the stuff piled into it was interesting enough to warrant a snap. This looks like your typical employee cart, cluttered with all sorts of scattered paperwork and pricetags, a handheld scanner or two, and a beverage. In particular, the blank liquidation “take X% off” tags in there were cool to see. I've always kinda wanted one of those :P
(c) 2018 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
Williamsport, PA. November 2019.
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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 ...
Check out the two Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air Employee Powered Aircraft together here in Portland!
Fast-food chains rely on frontline employees to provide first-class customer service, setting their establishments apart from competitors in this highly-competitive industry.
Claude, an employee of both Boolster's Brew and KDON Radio, works the entrance gate to the arena while Elizabeth speaks with KDON employee Whitney Cox about obtaining a "crew" pass for backstage access (and free water).
August 1976. In 1972, the Chicago & North Western was sold to it's employees through a stock ownership plan. The slogan "We're Employee Owned" began appearing on rolling stock and within the company's logo. CNW 11160 sports the slogan both on the heralds and on the tag line painted on the sides. Elmhurst, Illinois.
Only one person is privileged to the mysteries that lay beyond this crudely-marked unlocked door. That person: employee.
Laurens County, Georgia
General Laundry Cleaners and Dyers Building, St. Peter Street, New Orleans, LA. Built 1930. HDR image.
BNSF Employee Appreciation Special at MP 207 on the BNSF DFW Subdivision. Train O-TEATEA1-27.
Locomotive
BNSF 7483
Passenger Cars Date Built Builder Type Heritage
BNSF 52 - Glorietta Pass 1962 Pullman Baggage car AT&SF
BNSF 10 - Lake Superior 1958 Budd Dining Car NP
BNSF 29 - Valley View 1947 Pullman Club/Lounge AT&SF
BNSF 7 - Santa Fe 1957 Budd Business Car AT&SF
BNSF 40 - Fox River 1955 Pullman Bi-Level Coach SP
BNSF 41 - Flathead River 1955 Pullman Bi-Level Coach SP
BNSF 31 - Bay View 1954 Budd Full Dome Lounge AT&SF
BNSF 44 - Colorado River 1955 Pullman Bi-Level Coach SP
BNSF 45 - Powder River 1955 Pullman Bi-Level Coach SP
BNSF 2 - Columbia River 1958 Pullman Business Car GN
BNSF 11 - Fred Harvey 1950 Pullman Dining Car AT&SF
BNSF 51 - Snoqualmie Pass 1964 Pullman Baggage-Power Car AT&SF
BNSF 64 - Marias Pass 1950 AC&F Sleeper AT&SF
BNSF 68 - Rollins Pass 1950 AC&F Sleeper AT&SF
Locomotive
BNSF 7430