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Toledo, Peoria & Western’s Morton Switcher departs Morton, Illinois, with a diminutive train for the yard at East Peoria on a cold day in December 1983. The local this day is powered by TP&W’s only GP18, No. 600, and only one car and a caboose trails the colorful locomotive.
For switcher Sunday we see 2 former PRR SW's (a 7 and a 9) leading a westbound local on what was PRR's 4 track main through Canton, Ohio in December 1981. It's about to be overtaken by one of the many trailer trains on the 4 track main that was still in place through town. The building to the left was a Fisher Foods warehouse that clearly still provided some box car business. The freight cars are as cool as the power is blue.
A local crew works the tight quarters of the Louisville & Nashville team tracks in Frankfort, Kentucky. Today, things aren’t so tight. There is only one track and the station has been razed.
El 310.022 de Adif maniobra con unas plataformas de contenedores vacías en el cargadero de Laumar de Vicálvaro.
A small railroad locomotive used for maneuvering railroad cars inside a rail yard in a process known as switching (US) or shunting (UK).
This one is at the Niles Canyon Railway maintenance facility near Sunol, California.
Job 1 has arrived in Jackman behind consecutively numbered 9021 and 9020 and have begun switching the logs at Jackman to be taken back east by Job 2.
CSX 2625 and 5353 intercept traffic on Tarragona Street as they hook up to a pair of boxcars spotted on the spur to W.R. Taylor Company. Since W.R. Taylor only has one unloading spot, the crew will pull both cars from the siding, re-spot the load and take the empty car back to Goulding yard. This unique switching operation takers place as needed but sometimes as often as twice a week, depending on demand, but almost always at night. This day the crew wanted to stay ahead of an approaching storm and had no cars to switch around at the port, and thus they managed to get to W.R. Taylor just as dusk started to set in. While this type of scene might have been commonplace 50 years ago, nowadays this operation is one of only a handful of instances left in the entire country where a carload customer is switched out from street running trackage. Pensacola, FL
A switch engine in Nebraska caught on film. Reality So Subtle 6x6 pinhole camera, Ilford film and caffenol developer.
Freeport McMoRan 49 switches cars at the Morenci Mine before making the trip down the 4.5% grade to the interchange with the Arizona Eastern in Clifton, AZ.
The brakeman of Boston & Maine’s Groveton switcher looks down the track at the next cars to grab as his ride approaches.
The ET boys switch out their unit of choice here right alongside the road, opting to take the red and yellow over to do slag pot service
BNSF’s Sandpoint local has finished switching empties for the Pend Oreille Valley Railroad at the east end of the yard in Sandpoint at Boyer, Idaho, on September 26, 2021. As an eastbound BNSF stack train curves by on the main line, the power will soon head west in the yard to pick up interchange from POVA before heading back to Spokane.
The Conemaugh and Black Lick Railroad were out this morning, as C&BL 2000 moves a cut of cars from the Johnstown Wire Technologies complex to the CSX interchange East of town. Fog slowly begins to burn off just as the sun rises over the hills on the start of a great day trackside.
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In the summer of 2003, one could still find a SD9 or two assigned to Alliance, Nebraska, that were used for switching the yard there. Late in the afternoon of July 21, 2003, Burlington Northern Santa Fe EMD SD9 No. 6128 switches coal gons at South Yard.
The Everett Railroad switches out their yard in Hollidaysburg, PA. Powering the train is a GP16 that's been down here for decades along with a newer B32-8 acquired from Norfolk Southern.
Sorting cars brought in from interchage, the two center cabs pass by a building that's seen better days.
Respondek's brightly painted, IT inspired GP40 works a cut of hoppers in their park in Granite City, IL.
US&S switch levers light the board up like a Christmas tree. These are the types of sensory experiences this dispatcher misses most!
Soo Line GP9 No. 556 drills cars at the small yard in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of May 6, 1985.