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Soo Line GP9 No. 556 drills cars at the small yard in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of May 6, 1985.
While I am fully in support of the Snowplow Sunday movement, there are many of us who can't participate due to lack of material. I believe others have started the idea of Switcher Sunday, and this is my offering fot this week.
After the sun has dropped below the horizon, a Lehigh Valley SW8 works one of the hump receiving tracks at Allentown Yard.
NYNJ 1502 & 1501, two low emission locomotives switching the 65th St Yard in Bay Ridge of Brooklyn, New York. This is the last rail served port in New York. This was a nice treat to catch while on vacation back in 2019.
Shortly after UP 1004 got it's nose patch torn off, it got assigned to the Redding Local. When I found out it I made a trip to see the local. After waiting for a northbound to pass the train flew south to this industrial park where they switched Valley Pacific Petroleum. After the train finished switching they would head to Anderson and dump their train before returning north with no cars. They would pick up one car along the way.
A pair of Cat-powered geeps switch cars in the Breckenridge yard while another job idles. The field have been harvested and tilled - a sign of the transition of seasons.
Delaware & Hudson RS11 5007 switches the yard in Taylor, Pennsylvania. Piggyback cars with general freight and cabooses were still a not-too-uncommon sight in the mid-1980’s, but were rapidly disappearing.
An eastbound Kyle grain train switches Arriba Grain on the former Rock Island main line in the great plains of Colorado on May 6, 2014. Two former Southern Pacific SD45T-2s power the train, led by recently repainted No. 3099.
On the morning of September 27, 2016, Portland & Western GP9 No. 1801 switches the PNWR yard in Eugene, Oregon. The 1959-built EMD is dressed in classy Southern Pacific black widow colors and lettered for previous owner Willamette & Pacific.
western vancouver washington a bnsf railyard with strings of boxcars and flatcars waiting assignment.
A BNSF GP50 leads one of the Los Angeles Junction Railway's switch jobs through the many industrial warehouses along the LA River in Vernon.
A Union Pacific local has arrived at the sand mine located on the outskirts of Pacific, MO to do a little switching. A check of Google maps shows this facility owned by U.S. Silica and it is not only still in business, but it also appears to have been expanded since the time of the photo.
Toledo, Peoria & Western’s Morton Switcher, powered by the road’s lone EMD GP18 No. 600, switches a lumber yard at Morton, Illinois, on December 16, 1983.
From a May 1992 trip to Pittsburgh. I have no idea where this is in the Pittsburgh area except it is crossing a river on a fairly large bridge. Perhaps one of you knows. If so please post in the comments.
A GP15-1 and a SD70M switch out the elevator in Triumph, Illinois on the UP Troy Grove Sub before finishing their trek to the facility in Troy Grove.
The Columbia Basin Railway local is switching at Connell with its SD9s. Parked up in the distance is a short BNSF inspection train.
Providence and Worcester local CT-1 with B39-8E 3906 is seen on the Portland Running Track working the only customer on the line, Red Technologies, which ships contaminated soils and demolition debris out by rail. After crossing the more than 1200 ft long bridge, there is only a bit more than 3/4 of a mile of perfectly tangent track on this side of the river extending to just shy of Marlborough St. / Route 66. This view looks east (railroad north) from the aptly named Airline Avenue grade crossing toward the end of the line where one can still find an old New Haven era freight house standing as a reminder of an earlier era.
To read the detailed story of this day along with some history and links see the original post here: flic.kr/p/2n38ud7
Portland, Connecticut
Friday February 11, 2022
Just another frame I like of this picture perfect scene as a Delaware-Lackawanna crew makes a few last switching moves before calling it a day. They are on the Mall Siding adjacent the railroad's yard office and base of operations located in the former Lackawanna Railroad's Bridge 60 tower. Located at MP 133.8 (as measured from the DL&W's Hoboken Terminal) just east of the railroad's large steel span crossing Bridge Street, the D-L's ex D&H main, the Lackawanna River, and tha abandoned CNJ right of way,
Leading is DL 405 an Alco C420 blt. Nov. 1964 as Lehigh Valley 405. Behind her is DL 2457 an Alco C425 blt. Jun. 1965 as Spokane, Portland and Seattle 312.
Scranton, Pennsylvania
Sunday September 14, 2025
The original Springfield Terminal Railway was an interurban trolley line from N. Charlestown, NH to Springfield, VT. After the end of passenger service, the railroad survived for years with minimal amount of freight, hauling mostly salt for the city of Springfield, VT. GE 44 tonner number has arrived at the B&M interchange at N. Charlestown, NH and is switching the lumber facility in the fall of 1977. According to Fred's notes on this slide, number suffered a major failure shortly after this and was replaced by B&M power. Photo by Fred Bailey
Being switcher Saturday, I'll draw a few scans from the Bob Barnett collection. Amidst the short lines he loved, was the Bay Colony RR with its' fleet of ALCO 244 powered switchers. Conductor Bill Feindel is preparing to switch inbound cars from Conrail at Middleboro, MA in 1982. This scene has changed dramatically today. Robert C. Barnett photo SC Collection
Union Pacific GP9 No. 195 switches the yard near UP’s car shops in Omaha, Nebraska, in June 1981. Mixed in the freight cars in the background are three former Rock Island bay-window cabooses, in three paint schemes, recently acquired from the bankrupt railroad after Rock ceased to exist in 1980.
Doug Harrop Collection • February 23, 1973
Pictured outside the UP shops in Omaha, Nebraska, UPMW 903999 is a 44-ton locomotive built as GE demonstrator No. 1399 in 1947.
It was sold by GE to the Union Pacific on March 28, 1947. Between 1956 and 1972, it served as the shop switcher in Pocatello, Idaho.
By the end of 1972, it was sent to Omaha for a complete rebuild. By February of the following year, it began its new role as the shop switcher in Omaha until retirement in 1974.
A pair of yard jobs switch out the south end of BNSF's Vancouver Yard. On the left is a GP50 still wearing BN colors, while a TEBC6 (originally an SD9) is on the right.
This Saturday morning special required a bit of research. I resorted to an old copy of New England Sates Limited, a magazine from the 80's that Fred and his friend Don Valentine published years ago. On a trip to see the "new" Mass Central RR, Whitcomb 44 tonner, number 401 heads north over Main Street passing the site of Mill No. 1 in Thorndike, built in 1845, on March 29, 1980. The train will pause at Forrest Lake Jct and head west over the B&M Bondsville branch to Diamond National Co paper. Fred Bailey Photo
A Reading & Northern "Work Extra" has just made interchange with the PICW at Penobscot, PA, and are blasting south on the main. The two "pups" in the yard are arranging the locomotives and freight cars for the run to the Creawood Industrial.
God Bless The R&N
On April 7, 2008, SMS SW1200RS #1337 leaves Delanson, NY with a one-car train for Guilderland. Scanned from a Fujichrome Provia 100F slide.
A westbound Kyle train does work in Stratton, Colorado, while the sun plays hide and seek with the train. There are two former SD45s on the line, this one with RCPE reporting marks and another with Kyle reporting marks and logos.
Arkansas & Missouri’s Fort Smith turn passes a shut-downT6 in Fort Smith, Arkansas. A replacement T6 is tucked behind the three C420’s on the turn. Number 14 will return to Springdale for servicing with the turn.
Doug Harrop Photography • September 30, 1974
A clean Southern Pacific Alco S-6 shuffles Amtrak power in Oakland, California. A grand total of 126 S-6 (DL 430) models were built by Alco in Schenectady, New York between May 1955 and December 1960. SP acquired far more than any other railroad with 70 of them.
A trio of former Santa Fe GP60Ms switch out freight at the west end of Kaiser Yard. We set up here hoping to get this power on the main after they built a train, but they ended up not leaving the yard on this day due to the Memorial Day holiday. This shot of them in the yard would have to suffice.