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The MP Heritage Locomotive and and a patched SP SD40T-2 are in charge of UP Train IHOYC 04 as it leaves after being runaround by the LSI55 05 through the siding at Junland on the UP Hoxie Sub.
Back then I was much more excited about the lead unit, but 11 years later I'd much prefer the consist to be facing the other way. Now the MOP unit is on its second paint job, and the tunnel motor is long gone.
Locomotives: UP 1982, UP 8860
8-5-06
Junland, MO
Class 37 in Railfreight grey livery with large BR logo, red band with yellow cabs runs around the Stock at the loop just north of Broomhill Station where the herratige railway currently ends. Seen here getting waved forward as the driver was still operating the locomotive from the other end during Aviemore's Strathspey railway mixed traction gala.
CSXT's ex Am Railways Boston based local BO-1 is running light along the busy and cluttered Everett waterfront with GMDD GP40-2LW MEC 507 (blt. Jul 1974 as CN 9472). After shoving over the Mystic from Yard 21 in Somerville with three scrap loads, they temporarily dropped those up at the 'coke works' before running down light to pull a long cut of cars from Ciment Quebec and Schnitzer Northeast. After gathering those up they took all those off the dock up to the runaround and set them over and then picked up their three scrap gons and made a third trip back down here to spot them. Having completed that they are running light making their fourth and final trip along the waterfront to head straight back home to BET in Somerville and call it a day and a weekend!
Some will laugh and some will scoff but I waited around till this final move after getting dozens of more 'conventional' scenes just to capture this admittedly unusual view. I just loved how perfectly the unit was framed by the cab of the forklift that just happened to be dressed in matching colors. Thoughts?
Everett, Massachusetts
Friday July 28, 2023
Bay Colony #2443 prepares to make a runaround move on the Millis branch at Medfield Junction in December 1994.
The L528 local out of Joliet is in the clear off the Leithton Sub at Butterfield Center, MP 24. The crew has paper cars to spot and pull at WestRock and International Paper on this small lead outside of Aurora. At WestRock, the crew has 4 cars in and 4 out, and at International Paper, the crew has 3 cars in and 3 out. Judging by what they were doing there is some thought needed by the conductor to runaround the cars and be setup to do both spots. Here the crew pulls the 3 cars out of IP. Unfortunately the SD70 was facing the wrong way for this cool action.
First generation power looking sharp in fresh paint on the Maryland Midland at Westminster MD on 30 June 1990. Streamlined F7A No. 101 is on the north end of the EnterTRAINment Line excursion train while GP9 No. 200 poses during the runaround.
Conrail train ALCA (Allentown, Pennsylvania – Camden, New Jersey) is on the first leg of its journey at East Penn Junction, Pennsylvania. Due to a runaround move required in Philadelphia, ALCA was easy to spot with cabooses on both ends.
In June of 2016, the Wheeling and Lake Erie was in the process of revitalizing and rebuilding it's forlorn Clairton Branch. While the replacement of the bridge over Peters Creek took place, this left the branch split in half with no access to the clairton side. The only way to resolve that without a long tedious detour in order to access their interchange yard and dump ballast, the Wheeling ran a 78 car ballast train down the Union Railroad via their Mifflin Branch. Once on the main, they ran around their train at Duquesne and proceeded south to Clairton.
Once the runaround at Duquense was complete, the 3 GP35's tried to pull the 78 car train in one cut up the 2.2% grade of Bull Run....and to the surprise of no one except for Wheeling management, the train did not so much as lurch an inch forward. So, they then tried it as a 39 car cut. No dice. So, they tried once a 3rd time with a 26 car cut and finally made it up the grade. They would spend the rest of the day getting the following 2 cuts up the hill and down to their yard at Clairton.
Made for an awfully interesting and exciting day watching GP35s on the Union.
After switching out cars at the Perma Treat Corporation in Durham, CT-1 comes south with four C40-8s bracketing three empty covered hoppers. The train will reverse onto Tilcons Reeds Gap's runaround siding to retrieve 25 loaded stone hoppers then head south for Cedar Hill Yard.
Train CT-1 pulls past the second cut of loaded aggregate hoppers parked on Tilcons Reeds Gap siding. The two B39-8s will reverse back onto them and then continue their journey to Cedar Hill yard.
It's a glorious clear morning in Western Montana as SD70ACes 4408 and 4406 (both built new for the road in Apr. 2014) just in with Montana Rail Link's 'Day Gas' train from Missoula perform their runaround here at about MP 30.3 on the modern day MRL's 4th Subdivision mainline, the former Northern Pacific Railway mainline. They are just east of the Golf Street crossing on the eastern outskirts of the small town that serves as the county seat of Sanders County, and rising abruptly to the west across the valley of the Clark Fork is the Bitterroot Range. In short order they will couple to a string of empties and head east for home via a 110 mile run on the 4th and 10th Subs.
These gas trains are strictly an intra-MRL affair having come into being in 1995 when a gap was created in the 40 yr old and 531 mile long Yellowstone Pipeline when the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe chose not to renew the pipeline company's lease of 21 miles of right of way across their Flathead Indian Reservation. To learn about how and why this came about this article may be of interest: www.bigskywords.com/montana-blog/the-yellowstone-pipeline...
Thompson Falls, Montana
Monday September 5, 2022
This beauty had to wait in the car while his people picnicked in a local park, hope he had a good runaround at some point.
Conrail JR-4 brings an empty 62V down the Waldo Running Track in Jersey City, NJ to run around 4100' of trash empties destined for New Jersey Rail Carriers in Kearny. As luck would have it, a westbound PATH train flies by heading to Newark.
Male Blue Tailed Damselfly giving me the runaround.
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One last shot of the little goslings , they are Egyptian Geese and have been exploring Earlswood Lakes giving mum & dad the runaround !!
A beautiful small car complete with leather seats and in pristine condition seen in a dales village. Just what you need for a trip to the shops. The old BT red phone-box is not an optional extra.
Sorry I did not get the make - See Brian's comment below describing a Figaro
Figured I would finish the year with the last image I took so here it is. CSXT 423 leads KH00 down Norfok Southern's Lurgan Runner in Shippensburg, PA. The local comes out of Hagerstown to interchange with the Pennsylvania and Southern at the Letterkenny Army Depot outside Chambersburg, PA. After the former Western Maryland Lurgan line was taken up through downtown Chambeersburg, CSXT was forced to use trackage rights over NS to access the isolated portion of the former WM's Lurgan Line. They now use the NS Lurgan Branch from Hagerstown to Shippensburg where they have to runaround thier train before heading back west to Letterkenny. If you cannot tell from the signals, this portion of the Lurgan is former Reading and is approximately 1 mile from the end of the line where it terminated at the connection with the WM's Lurgan.
BNSF 3015 (EMD GP40M blt. Dec. 1966 as CBQ 189) and 1798 (EMD SD40-2 blt. Nov. 1974 as CS 958) in old school Burlington Northern Cascade Green paint look right at home on this former Northern Pacific line while working BNSF's 'Renton Rocket' local. They are switching a pair of coiled steel cars just shy of MP 4 and the Lake Washington Blvd. crossing, though I'm honestly not sure where these cars were destined to or from.
At left in the runaround is a cut of specialized empty 737 fuselage flats pulled from the Boeing factory that they will take with them to Seattle to begin their long trip back to the Spirit Aerosystems Factory in Wichita.
The massive Renton plant just out of sight off to the right on the south shore of Lake Washington has been continuously building aircraft since 1949 and is the only thing that keeps this south end of the old Woodinville Sub alive now that most of the other major industries located around here (including the once massive Pacific Car and Foundry plant that built thousands of railcars as well as structural steel for the Space Needle and the World Trade Center among other famous buildings and bridges) have closed or are no longer rail served.
Renton, Washington
Friday April 14, 2017
In addition to the shot of NRFF deep in the Lehigh Gorge at Penn Haven as seen here: flic.kr/p/2nEJvDV I also made a point to photograph the Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway excursion while out here. Just over a mile south of M&H Junction at Penn Haven as seen in that photo is a location on the railroad known as Old Penn Haven (five miles on foot or bike from the nearest road). This was once where the Lehigh Valley Railroad mainline swung over and crossed the river to the east bank. When exactly the railroad was realigned and the new bridge was built I'm not sure, perhaps after the floods in 1911 but if anyone knows with certainty I'd be interested to learn.
Located at MP 129.7 on modern day RBMN's Lehigh Division mainline this wide spot along the right of way features a small runaround where LGSR power usually swaps ends. However this day they simply paused for a moment and then reversed directions and shoved back the 7 miles to Jim Thorpe. Here is the 3 PM excursion basking in the sun between the green hills of the surround gorge with the sharp OCS units in charge. As for these two F units, 270 (former NS 4270) and 275 (former NS 4275) are an F9A and F7B respectively acquired at auction in November 2019 when Norfolk Southern divested their executive power.
Old Penn Haven
Lehigh Township, Pennsylvania
Sunday August 14, 2022
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Arriving at Port Mayaca before the Turn, an agonizing three hour wait unfolded. Before continuing past the lift bridge, the crew of the westbound SCFE Fort Pierce Turn would take the time to completely re-block their entire 84 car train; this process involved grouping all the loads towards the front and empties on the bottom. A runaround siding north of the bridge would be used to complete the work. Boredom kicked in while waiting, Mason cleverly taking the opportunity to nap while I kept an eye on the train‘s movements.
Just before 17:00, with their re-blocking work complete, the Fort Pierce Turn inched up towards the signal guarding the north side of the lift bridge, allowing for the conductor to hop off and lower the span. With the span down and locked after a seven minute wait, #HLCX6341 [SD40R] eases over the century-old Port Mayaca lift bridge at 17:06, the engineer blasting the K3LA for SW Kanner Hwy grade crossing. Excitement kicked in once the shot was pulled off, but with no time to celebrate, the chase back to Clewiston continued.
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Port Mayaca, FL
SCFE Fort Pierce Subdivision
Date: 03/01/2023 | 17:06
ID: SCFE Fort Pierce Turn
Type: Local/Turn Job
Direction: Westbound
Car Count: 84
1. HLCX SD40R #6341
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East Penn Railway GP10 7554 takes cars from CJ Robinson and Blommer Chocolate South to the runaround in order to make the northbound trip to Emmaus, PA to the NS interchange. According to the engineer the old brick building was a casket factory many decades ago.
Heber Valley Railroad's Lakeside Limited is nine miles into its two hour journey along Deer Creek Reservoir as it approaches the runaround track at Wallsburg, Utah on Sept. 13, 2024.
This former B&O GP9 is a good stand in for the many Rio Grande GP9s that traversed the Provo Canyon Branch in the 1950s and 60s.
A group of local historians take in the view as Heber Valley 5926 runs around Rio Grande business car 100 at Decker Bay siding.
This used to be a pretty prime spot for afternoon westbounds, but the westbound out of Waterville normally runs during the night these days, making it pretty hard to get a train coming through here in good light. Running seven hours late, WAPO is rolling under the four track wide tell-tales that still hang over the tracks, although there are only three tracks here now. The train is on the main, the middle track is the Madison Branch (used to be a siding before they ripped out the crossover at CPF119), and the far track with the boxcars is the runaround for the Madison Branch. GP40-2LW 519 leads the 511 and 344 with sixty-one cars as the crew races against the clock to make it as far west as they can before they run out of time.
Just another frame I really like of this catch. CSXT's ex Am Railways Boston based local BO-1 is working the weedgrown trackage on the Everett waterfront with GMDD GP40-2LW MEC 507 (blt. Jul 1974 as CN 9472). After shoving over the Mystic from Yard 21 in Somerville with three scrap loads, they temporarily dropped those up at the 'coke works' before running down light to pull a long cut of cars from Ciment Quebec and Schnitzer Northeast where they are seen working here. After gathering those up they took all those off the dock up to the runaround, set them over, picked up their three scrap gons and made a third trip back down here to spot them. Once all that wad completed it was time for one final trip ligjt engine along the waterfront and straight back home to BET in Somerville to call it a day and a weekend!
Everett, Massachusetts
Friday July 28, 2023
#7524 was converted for hump service in 1980 and spent many years in slow speed service pushing cars over the hump in one of CN's hump yards. Displaced from the hump by six-axle power many of the hump service GP38-2s have joined their GP38-2 brethern in yard and local service. #7524 recently showed up in Hamilton and on this sunny Saturday was working the 0700 Yard Job. They have just finished working Parkdale Warehousing and are shoving back to the small yard here where they will runaround their train and head west and eventually back to Hamilton Yard.
For it's new service outside the yard #7524 is sporting portable ditch lights.
UP YPR60B runs around its train after making its pickup at the Chicago Tribune. Looks like they even got the stove working in #11119 again.
Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway, Lake District
A short mid-week break up in the lakes at Grasmere and Lakeside and a trip on a line I haven’t been on before. Not something to be missed when the line passes behind our hotel - The Swan Hotel at Newby Bridge.
As with many branch lines, there isn’t the benefit of turntables to turn locomotives around for the return journey. Most have a head shunt and passing loop to run the loco around the coaches/wagons. In the case of the L&H Railway this facility is hidden in a tunnel.
Here, I’ve captured 2682 ‘Princess’ emerging from the tunnel for the return leg up to Lakeside.
Delaware & Hudson train RPPY (Rouses Point – Potomac Yard) passes the hump at Conrail’s Allentown Yard on the Allentown Running Track. Guilford has jettisoned the D&H, and the Susquehanna now operated the much larger road. The NYSW/NS/D&H power needs to run around its train to continue to Pot Yard via Reading and Philadelphia. It appears that there is no room in the yard to do the runaround move, so the train will proceed to another location, likely South Bethlehem, to reverse direction.
TRY...TRY...TRY....AGAIN! two marsh tits led me a right runaround but gave me so little chances, kept returning for food, but moved so fast, and changing there approach all the time. Will not admit to how many shots I took to get this rather poorish image, have shown it just the same, as its been a while since I have seen one. Captured at Lackford Lakes "MUST TRY HARDER!"
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NS 661 and 4728 idle in the runaround in Manhattan, where they will sit for a week until they run out of fuel.
A Southbound IMRL train is working towards Plymouth and onto the Iowa Northern at there. IMRL used the IANR alot in those days to get around the runaround at Mason City needed to run east with trains from Austin, MN. Trains using IANR could come out onto the 4th Sub at Nora Springs and head east to Marquette. The SRYs were main stay on the Wells Job in the later IMRL days. Scanned slide 2001.
AB 1501 pulls through the runaround siding at the former Erie depot in Kent to get on the west end of their one tankcar from Crowley Tar on the morning of Oct. 20, 2017. The Star of the West mill in the background closed in 2015 and is likely to be torn down in the coming years.
4917, 4815 and 4829 approach the end of the line at Lake Cargelligo, where they will runaround and shunt their consist before beginning to load grain having run overnight from Maldon as 2343.
Friday 4th April 2025
The twice weekly UP local arrives in Canon City, they will pickup a couple of cars & runaround their train before heading back to Pueblo.
Autumn is in full swing on the mean streets of Chicago's west side as the BRC local pulls over 16th Street on the 22nd Street runaround before making its delivery to Charter Steel.
This part of North Lawndale is locally known as "K-Town" for its street names beginning with the letter K (Kolmar, Kenton, Kilpatrick, Kilbourn, etc). The origin of this system dates back to 1913 when John D. Riley, Bureau of Maps superintendent, proposed naming north-south streets in western neighborhoods annexed by the city after letters respective to their distance from the Illinois-Indiana state line. Located in the eleventh mile from the state line, streets between Crawford (now Pulaski) and Cicero would be alphabetized in the eleventh letter, K, the twelfth mile in the twelfth letter, L, and so forth and so on. Only streets west of Crawford were subject to Riley's system.
RBMN NRFF soars across the Lehigh River on the new bridge in the middle of Lehigh Gorge State Park. Completed earlier this year, this bridge allows trains to traverse the whole length of the Reading & Northern's main line without a runaround move. This has permitted the railroad to run the NRFF across the full length of the main line, from North Reading to Pittston and return. The northbound run is well timed to shoot them crossing the bridge in decent light. Here, three SD40-2s bring a healthy sized train across the bridge.