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PHL's YPUP01 job switches out the yard at Pier B in Long Beach. Behind the power the signal cantilever for CP-GASPUR can be seen. Like many May mornings in the South Bay, the morning is gray and gloomy but the skies do at least compliment the power somewhat. The PHL 68 was originally built for the Southern Pacific as an SD40.
A trio of EMD standard cabs sits at the interchange between UP and Kennecott Utah Copper, located at Garfield west of Salt Lake City. All switching at the copper smelter and refinery in Garfield is contracted out to RailServe, hence the RSSX locomotives here.
GMTX GP38-2 #2662
RSSX GP9u #1590
RSSX GP7 #116
Garfield, UT
April 24th, 2023
Switch grass makes airy curtains with views of the marina in the background.
The sailboats add to an interesting bokeh on a sunny,warm September afternoon :)
After switching around Weyers Cave VA. Shenandoah Valley’s former B&O GP9 6512 will pick up her train and head back to Staunton.
C&NW SD40-2 6847, built in March 1974, idles in Union on a partially cloudy May afternoon. The crew breifly discusses what their plan is to pull the locomotives in tow out of the shop and to move C&NW 6847 onto a seperate track. Today's plan was to get CB&Q SD24 504 out of the shop to use the outdoor crane to replace the radiator, and C&NW 6847 was the designated shop switcher for the day. While this may look like a scene straight out of a 1980s Chicago and North Western railyard, in reality C&NW 6847 is currently owned and operated by the Illinois Railway Museum and was switching power around the Diesel Locomotive Restoration Shop.
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Illinois Railway Museum
Union, Illinois, USA
May 24, 2025
Canon EOS 60D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
The crew of Battle River Railway 5353 stuff as many storage cars as they can into the short siding at Kelsey Alberta
I remember the RS-1's floating around on the SOO but I was a little to young to have shot any. This view of 353 switching at Stevens Point on September 10, 1966 represented pretty much what the did in there later years, yard work and local service. Early on before the merger the DSS&A used there RS-1's on the passenger trains and also in switching service. Catching a back to back pair wasn't uncommon on the St- Ignace-Marquette freight although it generally was assigned Baldwins. Most likely a Joe Stauber shot, Chuck Schwesinger collection.
A Conrail local freight powered by Erie Lackawanna SW9 447 does some switching work at the junction of the Northern Branch and the Piermont Branch at Sparkill, New York, USA, 2 June 1977.
February 13, 2011: A mine run switches dolomite hoppers in the storage tracks at Riverview (Tacoma), Virginia on the the N&W Clinch Valley District.
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After switching at the east end of town for a while the 9011 and 9014 shove into the west end of the yard to start the remainder of their work before shoving into the clear for the Maine Northern to pass by. What was supposed to be a short wait for the Maine Northern would turn out to be over a 2 hour wait which gave me a lot of time to do some time exposures and chat with the crew.
217 construction core. If you've ever traveled through the Beaverton area, you know why everyone hates this freeway. The Hillsboro switcher passes by in some nice lighting, hauling 2 boxcars pulled from Interantional Paper on the Beburg drill. After returning to Tigard, the crew would put together a train for Albina, with the UP power from the previous night's soda ash storage movement.
From left to right, in the cab, Carl Spencer, outsdie, Bruce Sharpe, Jimmy Doliver, Frank Eldred, and Jim Dundon, engineer, have the Conrail Norwich local heading north through Norwich, NY on a hot summer day. The ground crew get to enjoy the 10 mph breeze on the rear of the ex Erie Lackawanna EMD SW unit all the way up to Woods Corners where they'll switch I.L. Richer Feed.
Maine Switching Services shoves a long cut of boxcars into ND Paper as the late afternoon light shines down. On a visit 9 days later, the mill would be shut tight with not a peep of movement, the start of an "extended shutdown" that may likely extend infinitely. At this point, the switcher has gone west and Old Town yard is used mainly for car storage.
We started MLK Day 2020 at Canton, expecting to follow the daily Canton to Asheville turn on the Blue Ridge Southern. Unfortunately, they weren't running on their normal schedule that morning, but we stumbled into a local on the western end of the railroad with two old D&H GP39-2s for power. Blue Ridge Southern train T59 switches out Giles Chemical in Waynesville, NC.
Iowa Traction Railway steeple cabs Nos. 60 and 51 switch the yard at Emery on the west side of Mason City, Iowa, on April 15, 2008. IATR No. 60 was built by Baldwin-Westinghouse originally for Youngstown & Ohio, while No. 51 originally worked for Northeastern Oklahoma Railway. No. 60 is 100 years old in 2017, while sister No. 51 is four years younger—both providing 196 years of rail service!
The Niles Train Museum.
Night, full moon, one minute exposure, sodium and mercury vapor lights, blue and red-gelled strobe flash.
SERA 2679 and 2612 pull out a long cut of LPG tanks from the siding in Warnerville, bound for Standard and the propane eventually bound for homes in and around Sonora. The hill job extra, being these 2 units, would pull 5 of the cars along with a empty centerbeam up to Standard. They would switch everything in Standard with anticipation that the regular hill would take 2 loaded centerbeams and 3 tanks from Standard back down the hill. The extra would tie up for the night, most likely heading down with the yet to be unloaded tanks and 2 centerbeams.
12/30/21
At the south end of UP's Settegast Yard in Houston, a pair of Geeps shove back as they drill the large, former MP yard.
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UP GP38-2 #674
UP GP60 #1167
Houston, TX
October 4th, 2024
BNSF local R-PWR4011, the Golden Switch, returns to Golden Yard with Burlington Northern painted GP39E (GP30) 2745 leading.
It's a cold and colorless 15 December 2007 and a perfect day for B&W photography as we witness FGLK B23-7 No. 1989 switching cars across Bridge Street in Solvay.
Former B&M GP9 1741 begins to make up its train for the day at the North Conway Depot on the Conway Scenic Railroad. 1741 was just restored to service, thanks to the 470 Railroad Club. 1741 will lead the annual 470 Excursion to Conway before being added onto the west end of the train to join F7s 4266 and 4268 for the climb up the mountain to Fabyan's. As hinted by the old telephone box, we're in B&M territory, and this train will be operating on the former Boston and Maine Conway Branch. There's no better power than the 3 historic B&M locomotives that will be used today.
Having completed their 28 mile trip from the mainline in Poteau, OK the Fort Smith Dodger (train RHV106 03) is seen working in their historic original Kansas City Southern Yard in the town that gives them their name.
While their are a few smaller customers they switch and they do handle a bit of interchange with both shortlines in town, the Arkansas and Missouri and Fort Smith Railroad's, their main reason for continued existence is to serve the OK Foods feed mill on the edge of downtown. I was astonished to find that the 10 story tall grain towers were decorated with three truly stunning portraits. Fort Smith has a surprisingly vibrant downtown full of historic sites, good restaurants, and public art but few art pieces can compare to this. Sponsored by the company and painted over only the span of two weeks back in 2016 by Australian visual artist Guido van Helten they are inspiring pieces worthy of reflection. To learn more check out this article: www.swtimes.com/news/20160919/guido-van-helten-transforms...
Here is one of the countless angles I captured of the pair of KCS GP40-2s switching beneath it.
And if you missed it and want to learn a bit more about this line check out the caption with my first post of this chase: flic.kr/p/2mmgpqZ
Fort Smith, Arkansas
Friday September 3, 2021
Switch EV YJ19HVC on hire to Lothian for demonstration and is to be used on service 23 between Trinity and Greenbank.
YJ19HVC seen here at Greenbank Temrinus. 06th February 2022.
MRL's 840 local switches Logan before returning to Helena with the only operating MRL SD45 on the roster.