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Heavy diesels could often produce more electric power than their motors needed. In these cases railroads attached a "slug," a set of trucks and motors that drew power from the locomotive.
The Durbin and Greenbrier Valley crew are breaking the double-header apart in the yard at Cheat Bridge so they could switch freight cars for the photographers.
An MP15DC sits on a pretty roughed up shop track during some switching operations. I have only seen cars sitting on this track very few times, it doesn't seem to be used very often. A BNSF Dash 9 is about to pass the switcher and to be turned on the wye.
Face-up work
Name: Gunlock
Mold: SWITCH Soseo
Owner: me
* Face up was done since 30 Oct 2011.
Gunlock also has his 'cool' side! >w<
I worked on this boy for my friend Bulgolgi~ Go check out her flickr for more Jin Love =D
He's looking great in her hands now =3 But yush I had fun and worked some realistic touches into him huhuhuhuhu
A road switcher crosses Kent ave in order to pull Pacific Coast Metals, one of the remaining customers at the O Yard.
mounted on wooden crossarms & wood braces, this is one of many the Long Island Lighting Co. has installed throughout the 1960's. this one is on a 4kv circuit.
Illinois Central 9567 with Canadian National 4803 leading a very short Canadian National Train L562, the Jackson-Ferguson Local, stops by the locomotive parking spur switch in the small Material Yard in Brookhaven, Mississippi and the conductor gets out to flip the switch, the train then waits for about five to ten minutes before proceeding east out towards the Georgia-Pacific Paper Mill out at Ferguson, that is over in Lawrence County, Mississippi.
About a few minutes later a large pop-up thunderstorm lets it loose, dumping a lot of rain over the area, and I had to take refuge under the awning behind Pearlhaven Baptist Church that is up the street from my house.
This photo is a screenshot from the video that I have taken on a hot and humid, then very stormy Sunday, August 15, 2021 at 4:03 PM CDT.
IC 9567 [EMD GP38-2]
CN 4803 [EMD GP38-2W]
CP 472 switches out the east end of Bensenville Yard with a CP SD40-2, DM&E SD40-2, and an IC&E SD40-2
dockers are switching the setup on the crane to load coils on the Blue Master II at the NHS Terminal at the Churchill dock
The Blue Master II calls on Rotterdam, Hamburg, Antwerp, Bilbao, Leixoes, Walvis Bay, Cape Town, Durban, Richardsbay, Durban, Cape Town, Walvisbay, Vigo and back to Rotterdam.