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Norfolk Southern's K90 job is spotted at Vulcan Materials in Springfield switching the first string of rock cars it brought from Vulcan's quarry outside of Warrenton. This is a weekday job that usually works between the rush of VRE commuter trains that traverse the Washington District.
Don't we all have a tendency to get into routines, doing things the same way over and over, just because that's how we've always done them. Routines can be a trap that prevent us from seeing opportunities and experiencing life.
Here's a thought; what if you're so intimately involved in your life that you have lost perspective? Like a frustrating problem that you can't walk away from.
The way out of that trap is to get out of your routine. Make an effort to experience something new, really new and different, every day. Make it a point to take alternate routes to familiar places. Try a new kind of food. Adjust the lighting differently. Re-arrange your furniture. The list is limitless and so are the possibilities.
Step back, look at the things you do every day, and ask yourself "why?" Then look at the things you've never thought you could do, or never considered doing, and ask "why not?"
Take yourself to the places where you have never been, in the people you don't know much about. One place to do such activity is Hunza. With all its mystery and grandness Hunza takes you out of the routine and for sure stun you with the atmosphere and history.
The only way you can take control of your life is to switch off the auto-pilot and steer your way into this world.
Taken: Baltit Fort, Karimabad, Central Hunza, Northern Areas of Pakistan
Exposure: 20 sec
Aperture: f/20.0
Focal Length: 14 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Auto, Did not fire
The second ITT Hub (Innovation & Technology in Transport) show took place in Farnborough in early May 2022. ITT Hub is the annual meeting place for the commercial road transport sector, bringing together the latest innovation and technology for bus, coach, truck, van, last mile and autonomous vehicle fleets.
From the bus world there were displays from Alexander Dennis, BYD, Caetano, Dawson Group, Equipmake, Iles Bus, Mellor, Switch, Volvo, Wrightbus and Yutong (Pelican).
📟 : 140 to Harrow Weald (Bus Garage)
🚍 : VWH2228 - LK66EOC
📟 : X140 to Harrow
🚍 : VWH2230 - LK66DWJ
🏢 : Harrow Weald (HD)
🚏 : Station Parade
Ⓜ️ : Volvo B5LH Gemini 3
VWH2228 overtakes VWH2230 at Station Parade as it heads to Harrow Weald operating route 140 while VWH2230 heads to Harrow on express route X140.
Usually it's the express overtaking but a light 140 with just the one passenger makes its move!
The only train on the Ashland Sub this day was the local briefly using the side track right in Prentice. It seems there was some sort of project going on just north of here as L584 got permission into the limits of a foreman to make this move. February 28, 2020.
Switch House, Tate Modern designed by Herzog & de Meuron the extension to Tate Modern opened June 2016.
Concrete stair.
Went for a walk when waiting for a friend's train. For the middle of August, the leaves looked like autumn.
One of the many things I enjoy about running with CSX local B724 is the ability to see some customer service up close and personal. Indeed, I've watched them switch out all of the publicly accessible businesses. Ken's Foods, the maker of barbeque sauce and salad dressings, is supposed to get a switch on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. However, this particular week CSX couldn't muster a spare crew Friday, so the regular crew did an emergency switch on Sunday, when the plant is mostly closed. As for the door, the day was nasty hot and humid, literally 90 in the shade. I had a chat with the crew, who told me 6216 didn't have air conditioning, but they could close it if necessary. On a day like that, I didn't consider it so, which they very much appreciated. In the grand scheme of things, no big deal.
South Shore 801 switches at Kensington, Chicago in August 1976. She had a component failure shortly after this and spent the next five years supplying parts for her two sisters.
310068 enters London Euston with a local service on 8th August on 1984. Introduced in 1963, these Derby built AM10s were the mainstay of fast electric services in the Midlands and London lasted just into the new century, the last sets being withdrawn in 2002.
There appears to be a huge number of switch diamonds in this part of the station throat at Euston.
Originating from Waukegan WI, CWKNA9 24 with the UP 3016, a new EMD T4 SD70AH, pulled down to the "Paper House Crossover" between 29 and 30 Main of Proviso Yard just off Lake Street in Northlake IL. After changing crews, a problem arised with the 3016. Cab signals that were needed to proceed West on the Geneva Sub went bad order, so power needed to be swapped around. In the process of swapping power around, the 3016 was set aside on 29 Main which made for a good photo op. They then took the second motor, UP 7243, and tied onto the 3016, then shot back over to 30 Main to tie onto the train. After everything was all said and done, out of town they went with the 7243 as the new leader.
North Western geep 4206 takes a break from switching the quarry west of Downtown Elmhurst on a nice evening in August 1986.
A Lehigh Valley Rail Management crew brings a long cut of double stack cars into the River Yard for interchange to NS.
The train is led by a trio of EMD switchers:
LVRM 19 MP15DC (ex-CI/SB/PBNE 19)
LTEX 1517 SW1500 (ex-PC/CR 9556)
LVRM 1146 MP15DC (ex-CSXT 1146, LN 5036)
CPKC G95 with CMQ 3817 & CP 4509 for power is lifting a car from Total Fuel, one of two clients on the Lasalle Loop Spur. In the background are cars for the other client (Flesichmanns Yeast).
Switch engine idling at Cheongnyangni Station in Seoul, South Korea.
Nikon F801S and Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 on Kodak Portra 400.
Maine Northern Railway Train 900-14 makes some switching moves at Skerry Siding on the Madawaska Subdivision.
Out of view behind the train is a massive sawmill owned by Maine Northern's parent company J.D. Irving. The mill makes up a large portion of MNR's traffic, shipping logs to Woodland, lumber, and chips for Irving's papermills in Saint John. Having just spotted a cut of empty chip cars, an army of front end loaders has already started the process of loading the empties. Roughly 50 chip cars, around 20 log cars, and 9 center beams can be loaded at a time. Depending on demand, the mill can be switched on both the north bound and southbound leg of 900's journey.
The empty log cars on the head end are destined for the yard at Fort Kent, where they will be loaded by the TNT Road Company which harvests for Irving Woodlands. Others will go to Irving's Grande-Riviere sawmill in Saint-Leonard, NB to be loaded there.
Maine Northern Railway
Train: 900-14
1/14/2024
Skerry, ME
MNR Madawaska Subdivision
A Missouri and North Arkansas local/switch job with a pair of GP40-2's runs along horrible track just before sunset. 3071 and 3026.
North Shore Line trolley/battery motor 456 switches just east of CTA's Skokie Shop in February 1962. Photo by Ed DeRouin, from my collection.
Two former BN units still wearing green, a SD60M and a GP39E, do their switching in Joliet, IL with the L-CHI102.
Burlington Northern #240 is seen at Cicero yard switching intermodal cars on June 15th, 1987. I never was a big fan of the BN and didn't live close to it at all but my dad and I did wander around Chicago a lot so I did hit some spots.
BN SW1200 #240 was built by EMD as CB&Q #9282 in July of 1965. Loco may still be around dressed as BNSF 3509.