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You’ve got to see it! Set up with makeshift stools, tents, umbrellas and sticks, this local market gets three minutes advance notice to clear the track for passing of a passenger train.
NYS&W Southern Division local WS-3 pulls empties out of Belden Brick in Riverdale, NJ on the Pompton Industrial. The crew today brought along four "general purpose" EMD variants after needing the horsepower for a large train from Little Ferry to Saddle Brook. The last time four engines were consisted on this stretch of former Erie trackage was likely decades ago.
CSXT 516, sporting YN2 colors, leads local train CSX L214 westbound through Lynchburg, Virginia, along the CSX James River Subdivision.
D795-15 waits in the clear at Charmain Rd on CSX's Hanover Subdivision while the B702 continues working up ahead at Highfield, February 15, 2022. The 8044 was manufactured for the Seaboard Coast Line in 1979 and was delivered in the Family Lines paint scheme originally.
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NS's Allentown based local HA13 sits in the Bethlehem Layoff Track next to an empty river yard. To my knowledge, HA13 was a weekday local that ran pull-pull from Allentown Yard to the Buckeye Pipeline Co. in Emmaus, back east to Bethlehem and then back to Allentown Yard. My best assumption on this day was that the train outlawed here the day before and was left to spend the weekend on the layoff until the next crew would arrive Monday morning.
Wisconsin Central GP7 1505 had the Schiller Park local L501 heading home as it rolled south through Buffalo Grove in 2001.
The 1501 was built by GMD in 1951 as Algoma Central 157 and was obtained when the WC took over the AC in 1995. The short high hood was chopped when it was repainted for the Wisconsin Central and scrapped by the Canadian National when they took over the WC.
As passengers wait for the next train, CSX Richmond-based local, D794 passes the station, headed north on the former RF&P mainline to its next stop. This was the only CSX train I saw moving on this morning -- everything else was Amtrak.
The local from Helena with 315 and 324 arrives at Trident on July 18, 2007. This was the last time I was to Montana and with the flares now gone I'm not real sure I'll be back anytime soon. It was a good time in 2007 even though the new EMD's were handling most assignments and you had to search out power like this in comparison to 2004 when these could be found anywhere on MRL.
When local traffic is light you can shoot from the center of the street to get a straight on shot of First United Methodist church.
This is a Sagebrush Sparrow, mostly found east of California, but it does look very much like a Bell's Sparrow. Another birder found it in advance of the annual Carrizo Plain Christmas bird count, and it stuck around for count day, for which I'm grateful
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CSXT L13607 has just finished servicing Suburban Propane in Woodensburg, MD and is about to continue east to Emory Grove where the crew will interchange the three lumber flats and the boxcar with the Maryland Midland Railway. January 7, 2025, Ilford FP4, Nikon N8008.
551 heads to Aldershot after swapping quite a few cars on to the various customers on the Grimsby sub.
A UP local headed west on the Harrisburg line presumably to work an industry at West Jct on the southwest side of Houston on this veterans day.
A couple of tunnel motors, wood chip cars and some box cars are eastbound at Maxwell while a wicked storm brews in the background..
HEALTHY LIVING for me involves making much of our family food from local ingredients. And you can't get any more local than the Evans Cherry ( a sour cherry) tree 20 feet from my back door! Today we picked the fruit and within 2 hours turned into jam. Making my own healthy jam means I'm in control of the ingredients .... and I'm supposed to be in control of how much of it I eat :) ... Sometimes HEALTHY LIVING can be difficult!
for the Macro Monday challenge HEALTHY LIVING
On just about any rain-free spring, summer or autumn afternoon in my hometown one can spot this hot air balloon. On three occasions this year it has landed in my neighborhood. As the wind currents slow, so does the balloon and eventually it must come down. I find myself chasing it and talking to the captain or helping the chase team pack it up. One of the really cool things about riding in a hot air balloon is . . . you don't feel the wind in your hair because you are traveling at the exact speed as the current.
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Crazy Tuesday: Red
I've enjoyed so many "mini world" photos by klickpix70, Eddie Photozaki, Jürgen Weyerhäuser, and others that I decided to get some tiny people of my own and give it a try. :) Here, the workers of Union Local 187 start the day by darning a pair of red socks and organizing the workroom's sewing supplies.
A late L318 heads South out of the siding at South Deshler after having run around its train. The local had been in Leipsic all morning and through the eclipse waiting on a northbound and numerous southbounds before getting a gap to head North and run around in the early evening.
Deshler, Ohio
EMDX 798 and BNSF 2927 have come out of Rice's Point yard bound for the elevators and customers in the Port of Duluth.
I strangely have very little coverage along the 15 mile stretch of CSXT's ex Boston and Albany main between Palmer and Springfield, so finally decided to try out a few new (for me) spots on this gray Friday.
CSXT West Springfield based local L038 is a Mon-Fri local on duty at 1030 that handles work on the mainline as well as the Athol Industrial Track and other chores in the Springfield area. I'd never made the effort to photograph it before despite spending time hunting down nearly every other local freight job CSXT operates in New England. After running east with a healthy train, they dropped their cars on Main 1 and then made a 'big runaround' west via Main 2 between CP 92 and CP96 on the Berkshire Sub. Having pulled and spotted the Sulco Warehouse to the east they have now moved west on Main 1 and dropped their train and cut away to head into the other Sulco Warehouse just east of the Roosevelt Ave. overpass at about MP 95.1 from where this was captured.
The pair of 6200 series GP40-2s of Chessie System heritage are the standard power on all New England locals these days, but in my youth these jobs that prowled industries, yards, and branchlines were exclusively the domain of Conrail blue B23-7s.
Springfield, Massachusetts
Friday March 15, 2024
The Hillsboro Roustabout heads west out of its namesake, bound for the big Stimson Lumber sawmill at Seghers. Once upon a timetable, this trackage was part of the Westside Line that went all the way to Eugene via McMinnville and Corvallis. For a time, the line was electrified as far as Corvallis for SP's "Red Electric" interurban service.
By 1991, this track was part of a lonely dead-end branch that went to Seghers via Forest Grove. Portland & Western took over in 1995, and still operates this trackage today.