Switch Face (Hidden Faces All Around Us)
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“Make sense who may. I switch off.”
Quote - Samuel Beckett
Wishing you a nice weekend ahead, will be away for some days.
A Cement dust laden CBFX Switcher, an EMD SW1500 doing its job at the Giant Cement Co at Harleyville, SC.
Spent part of my Sunday walking through the wonderful beech forest at Ekedalen. This shot is made by 4 portrait photos stitched together to get a wider shot and to make sure at least parts of the tree tops are visible. It was my first visit there, but for sure not the last...
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.
El 310.022 de Adif maniobra con unas plataformas de contenedores vacías en el cargadero de Laumar de Vicálvaro.
Dreistufiger Messbereichsschalter eines Vielfachmessgerätes, hergestellt vom Urgrossvater des Sekretärs (Datum unbekannt, wahrscheinlich irgendwann zwischen 1900 und 1925).
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Three-stage measuring range switch of a multiple measuring device, made by the great-grandfather of the secretary (date unknown, probably sometime between 1900 and 1925)
Another frame of BNSF local Y-SPM220 switching in the caves at the Springfield Underground facility. To learn more check out the caption with my first post of this scene: flic.kr/p/2mm7sxC
Springfield, Missouri
Wednesday September 1, 2021
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.
Switchers on Saturday finds the TSU crew backing out of their two stall enginehouse and performing a brake test before starting their day of switching the numerous customers along their 10-mile line toward Tulsa.
The brakeman of Boston & Maine’s Groveton switcher looks down the track at the next cars to grab as his ride approaches.
A switch engine in Nebraska caught on film. Reality So Subtle 6x6 pinhole camera, Ilford film and caffenol developer.
Thanks to some tips from a group of friends, when things went south on a chase of the Delaware Lackawanna PO-74, I was able to intercept the return trip of a Reading & Northern OCS turn from Jim Thorpe. There was some waiting involved but it was a good time with friends old and new in some great early Fall-like weather.
Here the former NS executive Fs bang across the CTC switch at Haucks where the line to Hazleton splits off.
Owego & Hartford SW-1 #40 arrives at Berkshire, NY with a load of fracking drill pipe. This was one of the very few areas of New York where fracking was allowed. It has since been banned by the state government and the fruits that fed this little short line dried up. RJ Corman has since put this operation under it's umbrella.
I never thought it would happen to me but it has, as amusing as it may sound and as it is often the jest of many a joke by comedians or in comic film making, but the midlife crisis is very real! Arriving at a stage in one’s life where within the mind reflects on what feels like a former life, undecided on new directions, lost in constant reminiscence of the past, suddenly things you could so easily tolerate now annoy the hell out of you, having spent half a life chasing the unseen and unobtainable whilst simultaneously overcoming the multiplicity of challenges life throws at you, in my case, addiction, CPTSD, overcoming the past, etc, etc and I have done so and I am proud of myself.
But here I am, as many others I am sure have arrived at this point, accompanied with the virtue of having been told I am “different” all my life, succumbing to the realisation I now have encountered something as much as anyone else, not sure if that is a good thing or not. But I am living in a modern era where as people no longer even use words, replaced by emoticons, replaced by the postage stamp consensus via a glowing mobile screen too many call reality, so does anyone even read anymore? Text that is? Hence the title, where do I go now?! The curious switch of navigating to a new field of thought, the inundation of possibilities is overwhelming!
I hope everyone is well and so as always, thank you! 😊
On the former Rock Island main line to Limon, an eastbound Kyle Railroad grain train arrives at Seibert to do some switching at the Seibert Equity Co-Op Association grain elevator on May 6, 2014. Kyle EMD SD45T-2 No. 3099 is the then recently-repainted former Southern Pacific No. 9330, with trailing sister No. 9362 still in remarkably good SP paint.
Kendallville Terminal Railway SW8 #16 switches Kraft Foods at Kendallville, IN. Despite rumors of Pioneer Rail replacing the unit, I believe it is still there along with a Michigan Southern geep.
During the late 90's into the early 2000s, it was common for the P&W's Sunday Worcester extra to finish its' day with a side trip north to Gardner, MA to grab interchange from Guilford (B&M). Long before Med City-St. Vincent Hospital was built over the tracks altering the downtown Worcester scene, the Sunday extra with SW-7's 1201-1202 creep up the connection switch to access 2 in the hill. Engineer Bob Borelli and Conductor Chris Devlin waste no time, as the day is coming to a end. Richard C. Barnett photo SC Collection
Union Pacific’s Cache Valley Local crosses the Cub River trestle while backing toward their caboose at Presto Plastics in Lewiston, Utah the evening of Aug. 30, 1988. I recall at the time being shocked and dismayed to see a caboose tagged with graffiti. My how times have changed.
US&S switch levers light the board up like a Christmas tree. These are the types of sensory experiences this dispatcher misses most!
Norfolk Southern SD33ECO #6223 crosses Murphy Avenue as they work Mondelez near Oakland Junction on the southwest side of Atlanta.
Definitely not as frosty as yesterday's Finch, but I think the pose tells the story here with it's puffed up look, and how it's head appears to be sunken into the feathers of it's chest. I am sure it is doing what it can to conserve it's body heat.
The warm weather has arrived here. Last night the temperature soared about 12 degrees in an hour or two. It was like a switch was turned on. Along with that warming we got just a bit of freezing rain which I am not thrilled about, but it is nice to see the temperature moderate as it as.
I think the next time I see this dove it will have a completely different pose for me.