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An ex-Penn Central hopper (LANX 7117) is being switched in the Pointe St-Charles Yard, with GP9's CN 4129 & CN 7229 doing the honours.
I love this collage. I passed by it in a car for years and never realized how achingly beautiful it is until I walked by it on a quiet Sunday and stood and really looked at it. Made of thousands of old telephone switching parts it was created in 1961 by Anthony Heinsbergen and is located at 420 S. Grand on what is now the AT&T building.
The Pointe St-Charles Switcher has CN 4707 & CN 4141 for power and is heading east after picking up a single tank car off track 29. Soon they will be backing up towards the Turcot Holding Spur (the track in the foreground) to pick up a boxcar. The tank car will be picked up by CN 596 later that day to be brought to Taschereau Yard. In the background is a portion of Montreal's downtown skyline
St Marys Railroad (SM) MP15DC no. 2379 pauses briefly while the conductor throws a switch while shuffling cars around the interchange yard in Kingsland, GA.
BNSF 1462 moves a couple bad ordered cars around at Willmar yard before departing as the Aberdeen local.
MGB electric switcher 801 is switching freight cars at the central Zermatt station on September 23, 2024. The contraption on the front of the engine is a dual coupler system, so the engine can switch regular freight cars as well as GGB cars, which have a different coupling system. As with all Swiss equipment, the unit is spotless.––photo by Joe McMillan.
Finger Lakes B23-7 2303 on the main seen from GP-10 1801 switching General Foods in Geneva NY in 2003. - from my slide
...Switch sim will be gone at the end of December -- such good memories of this place -- it is a great place to take photos....
A gorgeous October day sees a switcher out of Martin heading up the Utah mainline to the Wild Cat Oil Load-Out. The lead locomotive SD40 CEFX 3103 exCP 5566 was built in 1966.
The bridge the train has just crossed once spanned the Rio Grande branch to the coal mines near Standardville. Just beyond the bridge was Jacobs where the Utah Railway's own Standardville branch departed from the mainline. The branch was built on a steep 3.9% grade for 3.6 miles......
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A wet and muddy morning and a few mills. An early start with a short drive to explore with Martyn, Camerashy - uk and MkWil.
Tone Mills is a complete water-powered cloth finishing works, established by the Fox Brothers and Co at the confluence of the River Tone and the Back Stream and dates from 1830. The remains of the water wheel remain in-situ and so too do all the line shafting and gearing. The Mill later had an electric motor installed to supplement the water-wheel during times of drought, although the water wheel continued to be used for many decades after. Put simply the mill comprises of a number of key areas to accommodate the various stages of production: A Fulling area, where wet cloth was dried, scoured, cleaned and milled to the desired finish. A dying room, adjacent to the fulling area which specialised in producing an indigo colouring. Reservoirs and Sluice gates, to manage the flow of water into the wheel chamber. The wheel chamber and a later power house.
The associated machinery for all the stages of production are all in-situ, making it an industrial archaeologists paradise.
The works finally closed in 2000 and production was moved to a more contemporary location. The buildings and machinery are Grade II* listed.
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Thoroughly enjoyable evening in an old print room, been a while!! Good to be back in the elements. Capped and lens swapped single exposure, with a pleasing line up, although the colour palate leaves a minging taste in my mouth. No time for a rejig - MITZ4138.
Was driving on Junction Ave and caught the North San Jose switch job switching Univar. It was setting out a new string of tank cars. Power UPY 619 and UP 637,
Just another take on this scene from a decade ago.
Long before I ever dreamt I'd be coming here every night to work I found myself poking around Boston Engine Terminal back during the MBCR era while home from Alaska on my annual fall vacation. Stopping outside the gate at 3rd Avenue I stumbled upon the one of a kind work train engine going about a few chores on the Valley Track. This was back before the T owned and controlled the two CSXT (ex B&A) tracks passing over the crossing in the foreground that are now the regular staging location for work train cars and equipment.
MBTA 3247 is a rebuilt GP40-3 that began life as straight GP40 blt. Dec. 1971 as Chessapeake and Ohio 4092. She passed to CSXT and later Ohio Central until being purchased by the MBTA in 2004. She didn't wear her sharp OC burgundy and yellow for long until receiving this variant of T purple and silver. Last run sometime in the later part of 2017, she was already out of service by the time I started here in January of 2018, so to date this is the only time I've seen her move. Currently languishing in Rochester at the MBTA's facility off the MassDOT Cape Main she keeps company with the retired screamers and a few OOS GP40MCs.
Behind is the impressive high line bridge that carries the New Hampshire Route mainline (modern day MBTA Lowell Line) over the former B&A and B&M trackage here just west or south of FX interlocking. This is one of the last remaining pieces of major B&M infrastructure left from that 1931 project that saw the building of a new Boston Engine Terminal and North Station along with four new draw bridges over the Charles and Tower A interlocking to control the terminal trackage and those bridges.
Somerville, Massachusetts
Friday September 10, 2010
A 3D printer would make this a lot easier... I just haven't had the time to build these crossing pieces (aqua) by hand. I'll hopefully have these assembled by the time Fx Bricks' P40 switches are released so i can also attempt to make 9V-compatible versions.
This mockup was done in Stud.io and is based on BrickTracks' R104 switch files.