Switch Face (Hidden Faces All Around Us)
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At the Scheidplatz square is a major interchange of the same name from bus to tram to subway.
Here we are on tram tracks while in the distance one line 12 tram is about to leave (away from me, just to state that).
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Well... finally made the switch to Legacy, and I must say I'm lovin' it so far! (thanks for the nudge & help Tolla! ♥)
[LEGACY] Meshbody
“Make sense who may. I switch off.”
Quote - Samuel Beckett
Wishing you a nice weekend ahead, will be away for some days.
Toledo, Peoria & Western’s Morton Switcher departs Morton, Illinois, with a diminutive train for the yard at East Peoria on a cold day in December 1983. The local this day is powered by TP&W’s only GP18, No. 600, and only one car and a caboose trails the colorful locomotive.
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.
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.
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
Its a beautiful morning in the Willamette Valley as The Mac Switcher with Willamette & Pacific (PNWR) 1801 is seen shoving a cut of cars from Cascade Steel on the north side of McMinnville to the interchange track at St Joseph. I had originally thought this crew spent the morning spotted cars at Cascade from the east end, but it turns out Cascade has a plant switcher so all the W&P crew does is clear the outbound cars by shoving them up to St Joseph and spot the inbound cars on the interchange track. Oct 19, 2021
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.
Susquehanna C420 2002 drills cars on the former Erie main line in front of some of the most-photographed brick buildings in the east.
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.
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.
Rio Grande SD9 No. 5312 works D&RGW yard trackage in Provo, Utah the morning of Oct. 21, 1975. It was built for the D&RGW by EMD in July 1957 and retired by the SP in Oct. 1991. 5312 was sold to National Railway Equipment in Dixmoor, Illinois the following month. History from UtahRails.net.
In the summer of 2003, one could still find a SD9 or two assigned to Alliance, Nebraska, that were used for switching the yard there. Late in the afternoon of July 21, 2003, Burlington Northern Santa Fe EMD SD9 No. 6128 switches coal gons at South Yard.
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! 😊