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Black SP-F with 35/3.5 SMC
This camera belonged to my father in law and after several years of negotiating he agreed to pass it on !
We were taken up into the CSXT Control Tower in Groups to prevent overcrowding and to prevent any interruption of the Tower Operator Duties.
In November 2005, I took an AMTRAK Train from Tampa Union Station in Florida to Hamlet, North, Carolina to attend a Summer Convention of the ACL/SAL Historical Society in and around the Hamlet Area Hamlet Metro Area, One of the sites we visited was CSX Hump Classification Yard Hamlet.
Tower Mailing Address: 127 CSX Drive, Marks Creek, NC 28345
This Yard is relies on Gravity, a Ladder of Switches and Speed Retarders to assemble trains destined for all parts of the US and Canada on an assortment of tracks, one track for each destination. or Intermediate Yard.
This particular photograph shows CSX Locomotive Number 2758 (former CONRAIL Locomotive), a rebuilt EMD Model GP38-2 which located next to the Fueling Station in Hamlet Yard.
IMRR's Shops Switcher makes a quick poke at the south end of the A yard back in February 2018.
Say what you will about the G&W Orange "Borg"; they at least paint their loco's and keep them clean.
IMRR 2108 - GP38-2
TPW 2056 - GP38
Moffat Avenue - Springfield, Illinois
February 12, 2018
Modoc Northern switches out Malone, Oregon enroute from Tulelake, California to Klamath Falls. The elevators here have been a constant source of traffic for Southern Pacific and Union Pacific.
I got my Nintendo Switch on Friday and afternoon a few days, I'm quite impressed. The console itself is very nice and a bit heavier compared to the Wii U gamepad, although that doesn't bother me. I havent played with the Switch that much yet due to Horizon Zero Dawn hogging my attention, but from what I have played I've found it so enjoyable that I struggle to stop playing.
Three of my steam switchers... From left to right, my Thomas Industries 0-4-0 (Probably from 1949), my Lionel 1615 (From 1955 - 1957), and my Lego PRR B6.
BN SW1200 #250 rubs shoulders with Dri-Line S3 #5 under the Centennial Bridge in Davenport, IA.
Scanned from a Kodachrome slide, processed in August 1974.
Here are several shots that somehow slipped under the radar from my October '11 trip to Pennsylvania.
I discovered this abandoned Whitcomb switch engine along the side of PA 309 south of Hazleton PA. I stopped for other reasons, then noticed the switcher. What a lucky find!
This switcher is on the site where obvious surface mining had occurred in the past, and the engine has apparently been siting here for some time based on how deeply it's buried in the ground.
The Whitcomb Locomotive Works built industrial switching engines of varying sizes and capacity. Among those produced was a line of small, unique direct drive gasoline switchers - as seen here. In 1929 the company was purchased by The Baldwin Locomotive Works. From 1931 until 1940 the company was operated as the Whitcomb Locomotive Works, a subsidiary of The Baldwin Locomotive Works. During 1940, Baldwin completely took over the company and after that time it was operated as a division of Baldwin known as The Whitcomb Locomotive Company. Production of the Whitcomb locomotive line came to an end in March, 1956 after producing approximately 5,000 locomotives. Engines prior to 1952 carry the Whitcomb name (engines built from '52 to '56 carry the marking B-L-H).
Illinois Central 9567 with Canadian National 4803 leading a very short Canadian National Train L562, the Jackson-Ferguson Local, stops by the locomotive parking spur switch in the small Material Yard in Brookhaven, Mississippi and the conductor gets out to flip the switch, the train then waits for about five to ten minutes before proceeding east out towards the Georgia-Pacific Paper Mill out at Ferguson, that is over in Lawrence County, Mississippi.
About a few minutes later a large pop-up thunderstorm lets it loose, dumping a lot of rain over the area, and I had to take refuge under the awning behind Pearlhaven Baptist Church that is up the street from my house.
This photo is a screenshot from the video that I have taken on a hot and humid, then very stormy Sunday, August 15, 2021 at 4:03 PM CDT.
IC 9567 [EMD GP38-2]
CN 4803 [EMD GP38-2W]
Canon EOS 5D Mark II met MP-E65mm f/2.8 1-5x Macro Photo
65mm, f/2.8, 0.5 sec op 200 ISO
Single RAW shot en Adobe Photoshop CS6
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