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While I was waiting for the southbound Amtrak Talgo funeral train, Union Pacific sent this nice SD40N/Slug combo up the Brooklyn Yard lead. That's the Eastmoreland Golf Course across the tracks in Southeast Portland, Oregon.
Macro shot of a Hama Wireless Remote, unfortunately I forgot to remove the dust and noise so here it is “warts and all”.
Escanaba and Lake Superior Baldwin DS-4-4-1000 202 switches Menominee Paper, Menominee, Michigan, on July 7, 1986.
The Aspen trees are a brilliant yellow as BNSF's Golden Local switches cars with a pair of SD40-2s.
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A pair of leased Geeps crawl through an alley with a cut of empty waste cars for New York Waste Management on the Bushwick branch. Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Chicago Great Western Alco S2 #8 switching local industries at Sycamore Illinois, Summer 1967.
I wasn't employed by CGW at this point, but I must have known somebody on the crew who may have invited me up to ride around with them a bit.
A blue SW sits at PLS in East Chicago, IN. It looks like Cliffs colors, but as of now it's still sitting here unlettered.
No private group or multiple group invites please!
Ningún grupo privado o grupo múltiple invita por favor
Aucun groupe privé ou groupe multiple ne vous invite
Geen privégroep of meerdere groepsuitnodigingen alstublieft
Keine private Gruppe oder mehrere Gruppen laden bitte ein
Nenhum grupo privado ou grupo múltiplo convida por favor
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HESR 8802 switches Georgia Pacific on the west side Owosso as a lite rain/mist falls on a rather nasty January night. As a kid i used to watch 8802, 8804 and the other CMGN and HESR units switch this line over the years. With the Railamerica take over by G&W and all their repainting & moving of power, it is really nice to see this engine working Owosso. 8802 and the 4 former HESR GP38's are the only ones left on the HESR that have not been renumbered or repainted. It is only a matter of time.
With a pair of ECO rebuilds, this local crew has just finished switching the Lafarge cement plant at Exshaw. They're shoving into the small yard at Exshaw to grab their cars for Baymag at Gap.
CPKC C31 (Exshaw, AB to Copithorne, AB and return)
CP GP20C-ECO / DRS-30 #2221
CP GP20C-ECO / DRS-30 #22??
Exshaw, AB
August 26th, 2025
OSR 8235 and 1400 switch the CAMI Automotive plant, I'm always impressed with the grade to get up to the yard.
In the days when EMD switchers dominated the Lancaster & Chester roster, a pair of SW900's work an industrial siding in Orrs, South Carolina.
An ES44AC and an SD70M bring UP train MTPKC-02 up to Hickory St on Main Track 2 of the UP KC Metro Sub as it meets "Run 12", CPKC train YKK12-02, with a KCS Belle trio including a pair of GP40-3's and an SD70MAC. These guys are holding on Main Track 1 with a transfer from CPKC's Knoche Yard to UP's 18th St. Yard, and they're waiting on a better signal at Kaw Tower.
The transfer is waiting on another westbound ahead of it on 1 to clear up, which itself is waiting on traffic around 18th St. to clear. With a train working 18th St on Main 1, that westbound ahead of the transfer will cross over to 2 at K004 once the MTPKC is through, and this will then allow the transfer to continue its way west behind it. The MTPKC will have to hold here at Hickory St until the transfer gets moving, as the transfer is strung out through Broadway and preventing the MTPKC from crossing over there. So basically, everybody's waiting on everybody. Confused?
Off to the left at State Line Yard is the KCRR SW1500 No. 3408, a former Frisco switcher assigned to Jaguar Transport Holdings, LLC's Kansas City West Bottoms Railroad, which will begin operations this week. 3/2/25.
Lighting is still not quite where I would like it but the light box works for what it is. I think I need to raise the work lights off the ground and angle them down through the box.
BPRR 3301 leads the Batesville Switcher as they switch cars around at the Future Fuel spur in Magness.
Here is just another from last summer when GP40-2LW MEC 507 showed up on the docks in Everett to work BO-1 in her sparkling brand new paint. Truly one of the most improbable things to happen in New England railroading in 2020.
The red white and blue unit beside them is the Ciment Quebec plant switcher. This unit is the last privately owned plant switcher to be found in daily use in the immediate Boston area. It is a cabless 125 ton Alco blt. in 1960 and acquired from the bankrupt James River Coal company. The unit is remote controlled and has a hostler stand on it and once worked at a coal mine in Kentucky whose lettering it still wears. I'm not sure of the exact history of of the switcher. Some sources say it was ex Baltimore and Ohio but another says that it was originally Lehigh and New England Alco S2 616 before being sold to the Louisville and Nashville that eventually traded it in to GE that rebuilt it as an 'auto-haul 335.'
To read the whole story check out the original post here: flic.kr/p/2jtoazu
Everett, Massachusetts
Wednesday August 5, 2020
Amtrak's "Ethan Allen Express" contained multiple firsts for me, and among them was mid-trip power switching. This train requires power to be on both ends due to a change of directions in Rutland (another first), but going in-and-out of NYC, they only need one unit, so they add/remove a unit at the Albany-Rensselaer station.
From here, they run the surplus unit up to Amtrak's nearby Rensselaer shops for servicing. From a fan perspective, it also allows you to get out and photograph the train in the process. In this case, we're looking south towards NYC, and the 701 would be cut off in short order, allowing the rest of the train to run south with just the 716.
Illinois and Midland SW1500 prepares to switch out the ADM grain industry nearby Creve Coeur, Illinois during a very dismal morning.
Няшные йосд у меня могут вырасти только в няшных сд xD
не так я представляла себе первое появление этого товарища на людях, но раз уж все равно его спалила, а до полного воплощения еще как до луны пешком, да здравствуют снова портретики \(^___^)/
Face up by Ksiny ♥
ELS 1201 drops 2 boxcars inside the KK warehouse in Marinette, WI, wrapping up their work for the day, they'll then head light back to the ELS yard across the river in Menominee, MI
KCS switching the Cargill plant on Nicholson Ave., Kansas City, 10-31-17. You just couldn't go wrong with this paint scheme.
A pair of Green Bay & Western RS20's switch the Ann Arbor Carferry Viking at Kewaunee WI. February 1976.
IHB SW1500 1505 leads a local -past one of the very few remaining EJ&E searchlights at Bridge 631 in East Chicago, IN.
Because my VicVipers always have to have a gimmick, I decided to try building one with variable swept wings this year. Like the 2017 model, it was based on sketching out various ideas, one of which was to have it be a "Sometimes Vic". It only strictly meets the criteria with the wings deployed.
The gearing situation was fun to mess with. You twist the engine to move the wings. There is an unfortunate amount of slop when doing so, however. Maybe some of you Technic buffs have pointers?
All in all, a highly enjoyable build and very swooshable.
EDIT: Uploaded higher res image.
After CSX L135 grabbed their cars from York Rail at Smiths, they came back to Center Street yard just east of Hanover, PA. Here they broke the train apart and switched it to be in a proper order.