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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
Sorting cars brought in from interchage, the two center cabs pass by a building that's seen better days.
Soo Line GP9 No. 556 drills cars at the small yard in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of May 6, 1985.
Norfolk Southern SD33ECO #6223 crosses Murphy Avenue as they work Mondelez near Oakland Junction on the southwest side of Atlanta.
Respondek's brightly painted, IT inspired GP40 works a cut of hoppers in their park in Granite City, IL.
A BNSF GP50 leads one of the Los Angeles Junction Railway's switch jobs through the many industrial warehouses along the LA River in Vernon.
Higgins Switch. December2025. Mistakenly shot this roll of Retro80 at 400. It seems the DDX worked though. I lost a lot of shadow. Then the fixer failed. I don’t think it fully fixed the whole image. I dunked it back into the fix for an extra five minutes. Still the edges of every frame seem to have suffered. So there’s a little crop on everything. Along Higgins Switch Road in Higgins, Arkansas USA. RolleiRetro80@400. PentaxMX. SMCPentax100mmFA. DDXdeveloper1:4-20minutes. AGOFilmProcessor. CameraScan:FujifilmXH1
Middletown & New Jersey #2174, a GP38-2, slides out of Eastern Alloy in the Town of Mongomery, NY after spotting a box car. "New" power in the form of the Norfolk Southern unit had recently arrived. To this day, that loco has yet to receive the sharp East Penn blue and yellow paint.
An eastbound Kyle grain train switches Arriba Grain on the former Rock Island main line in the great plains of Colorado on May 6, 2014. Two former Southern Pacific SD45T-2s power the train, led by recently repainted No. 3099.
While I am fully in support of the Snowplow Sunday movement, there are many of us who can't participate due to lack of material. I believe others have started the idea of Switcher Sunday, and this is my offering fot this week.
After the sun has dropped below the horizon, a Lehigh Valley SW8 works one of the hump receiving tracks at Allentown Yard.
Toledo, Peoria & Western’s Morton Switcher, powered by the road’s lone EMD GP18 No. 600, switches a lumber yard at Morton, Illinois, on December 16, 1983.
Providence and Worcester local CT-1 with B39-8E 3906 is seen on the Portland Running Track working the only customer on the line, Red Technologies, which ships contaminated soils and demolition debris out by rail. After crossing the more than 1200 ft long bridge, there is only a bit more than 3/4 of a mile of perfectly tangent track on this side of the river extending to just shy of Marlborough St. / Route 66. This view looks east (railroad north) from the aptly named Airline Avenue grade crossing toward the end of the line where one can still find an old New Haven era freight house standing as a reminder of an earlier era.
To read the detailed story of this day along with some history and links see the original post here: flic.kr/p/2n38ud7
Portland, Connecticut
Friday February 11, 2022
UP 815 lifts what would be one of the final empty boxcars from the Chicago Tribune printing plant adjacent to the former Grand Avenue yard in downtown Chicago. The Tribune closed its doors a few weeks after this was taken in favor of printing outside of the city, together with the Daily Herald and Sun-Times under the umbrella of Paddock Publications in Schaumburg, IL. At the same time, Blommer Chocolate also permanently closed its plant here in downtown Chicago, receiving its last tank car shortly after this was taken to send out the plant's remaining cocoa butter to the company's other plant in East Greenville, Pa. Thus, in a matter of weeks, all rail service into the heart of Chicago came to an end as the last two remaining customers shuttered their plants almost simultaneously.
Blommer and the Tribune had been the last customers on the former C&NW line to Grand Avenue yard, now only a run around track, for the last 23 years. Up until 2001, the Navy Pier line emerged here, continuing further east into downtown in the streets and underneath high-rises to serve the Sun-Times, and up until the very early 1980s, to serve Navy Pier and the Tribune Tower - which relocated into the plant pictured at that time. In the decades prior, the line served many more industries in downtown, including notably the Curtiss Candy Company, famous for their Baby Ruth and Butterfinger candy bars, which moved out of the city in 1970.
In this scene, the C&NW caboose was brought along as a shoving platform to reach Alpha Baking and to spot the hopper loaded with flour on the left later in the afternoon. Located northwest of downtown, Alpha is now the last customer traditionally handled by this job. In the background to the right, part of the former Montgomery Ward building can be seen across the river, on whose doorstep the Milwaukee Road once ran down the street on the Kingsbury branch to reach a variety of industrial customers, Wallace Press being the last of which to see service this far South of that branch up until 1990. Goose Island is immediately behind (north of) the Tribune plant, where the Milwaukee Road and later Chicago Terminal served customers like AKZO Salt and Big Bay Lumber as late as 2015. The UP used to interchange cars to the Chicago Terminal from North Avenue yard just up the line, where Morton Salt also still received cars until the end of 2015.
Now everything has come to a close - the Chicago Tribune plant here has since been almost entirely demolished, and the iconic 1939-built Blommer Chocolate factory building is sitting idle and awaiting an uncertain fate. All the rails here haven't seen movement in months with all customers now gone, and will likely be removed as this area gets turned into an entertainment spot - the site of the Chicago Tribune is getting turned into a casino...
Chicago, IL
CN L53881 01 switches out the modest yard in Appleton, powered by EJ&E GP38-2 703. After shuffling cars around for an hour or two, they will head north to work the industries on the New London Spur.
The original Springfield Terminal Railway was an interurban trolley line from N. Charlestown, NH to Springfield, VT. After the end of passenger service, the railroad survived for years with minimal amount of freight, hauling mostly salt for the city of Springfield, VT. GE 44 tonner number has arrived at the B&M interchange at N. Charlestown, NH and is switching the lumber facility in the fall of 1977. According to Fred's notes on this slide, number suffered a major failure shortly after this and was replaced by B&M power. Photo by Fred Bailey
On the morning of September 27, 2016, Portland & Western GP9 No. 1801 switches the PNWR yard in Eugene, Oregon. The 1959-built EMD is dressed in classy Southern Pacific black widow colors and lettered for previous owner Willamette & Pacific.
MC 2010, 2012, and LTEX 3815 switch out reefers at Maritime Terminal in New Bedford, MA. 3815 was added to the consist here and, to my dismay, was added on the other end of what could've been a desirable northbound chase.
This Saturday morning special required a bit of research. I resorted to an old copy of New England Sates Limited, a magazine from the 80's that Fred and his friend Don Valentine published years ago. On a trip to see the "new" Mass Central RR, Whitcomb 44 tonner, number 401 heads north over Main Street passing the site of Mill No. 1 in Thorndike, built in 1845, on March 29, 1980. The train will pause at Forrest Lake Jct and head west over the B&M Bondsville branch to Diamond National Co paper. Fred Bailey Photo
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The Columbia Basin Railway local is switching at Connell with its SD9s. Parked up in the distance is a short BNSF inspection train.
Doug Harrop Photography • September 30, 1974
A clean Southern Pacific Alco S-6 shuffles Amtrak power in Oakland, California. A grand total of 126 S-6 (DL 430) models were built by Alco in Schenectady, New York between May 1955 and December 1960. SP acquired far more than any other railroad with 70 of them.
The Pickens Belton Job throws cars back and forth as the build their train for Belton on a cold morning.
Conemaugh & Black Lick SW7 #104 pulls an empty wire coil gondola from Building 112 just North of the JWF Industries complex on a freezing January morning in Johnstown, PA. The old structure was once part of the vast Bethlehem Steel complex that shuttered its remaining operations in the early 90s. It's great to see such an old brick structure still receiving rail cars; I believe the Johnstown Wire plant receives cars here while also utilizing a direct spur to their plant located on the West side of the Conemaugh River. They seem to be going through somewhat of a dry spell currently as the plant itself hasn't gotten any loads in a few weeks it appears. Thanks to Keith for helping with some info on the operation! Johnstown, PA
A Reading & Northern "Work Extra" has just made interchange with the PICW at Penobscot, PA, and are blasting south on the main. The two "pups" in the yard are arranging the locomotives and freight cars for the run to the Creawood Industrial.
God Bless The R&N
Arkansas & Missouri’s Fort Smith turn passes a shut-downT6 in Fort Smith, Arkansas. A replacement T6 is tucked behind the three C420’s on the turn. Number 14 will return to Springdale for servicing with the turn.
CSXT 2012 pulls empties at Kraft Heinz in Jax, FL on a smoggy evening, likely from a nearby wildfire, a pretty routine occurrence around the swampy regions here in North Florida and South Georgia. Notable here is the SP boxcar with dreadnaught ends that the conductor would spot in place of the RBOX; extremely few still remain in service in 2025 with basically zero making it to Florida these days. One more 50' car with dreadnaught ends made it to Heinz a few months later, but like the one here it wasn't pulled or placed until nighttime. Unfortunately the conductor first had to switch the tanks around and by the time the loads were spotted it was well past dark in this case, leaving this as the only photo of the classic car getting switched. The car, SP 656253, was built in November 1976 by Pacific Car & Foundry, leaving only about a year left for its service life, if it makes it that long. Interestingly, this exact car number has an N-scale model; here it hauled tomato paste for ketchup production from California to Jacksonville, FL.