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US&S switch levers light the board up like a Christmas tree. These are the types of sensory experiences this dispatcher misses most!
Soo Line GP9 No. 556 drills cars at the small yard in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of May 6, 1985.
After arriving back from Farnham, CP local F19 works the Poulin Grain while crossing the South Bay. Photo taken Newport, VT August 31, 2020
Central Maine and Quebec Railway train Job 1-7 switches out the LMS track at Jackman, ME on 3/7/2020. With a heavy train in tow, the power consisted of a pair of F barns, the two AC44's, and two lease geeps.
After the CN rail blockades cleared, these large trains weren't uncommon. Crew shortages on the Quebec side after the CP takeover was announced, resulted in a scaled back schedule which also increased the size of the trains.
Central Maine and Quebec Railway
Train: Job 1-7
3/7/2020
Jackman, ME
CMQ Moosehead Subdivision
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
Delaware & Hudson RS11 5007 switches the yard in Taylor, Pennsylvania. Piggyback cars with general freight and cabooses were still a not-too-uncommon sight in the mid-1980’s, but were rapidly disappearing.
Respondek's brightly painted, IT inspired GP40 works a cut of hoppers in their park in Granite City, IL.
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.
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
Milwaukee Road SW1200 switches industry along the banks of the Mississippi River at Wabasha, MN back in 1983. Amazingly, this 1954 built diesel is still in service on the Twin Cities & Western! Pretty much everything else is gone. We're at the corner of Bridge Ave and Lawrence Blvd. The bridge shown in the background connecting Wabasha with Nelson, WI was replaced by a new structure in 1988. This bridge had a crazy approach and tight curve before crossing the river.
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.
The cool November morning is enveloped in clouds, as Soo Line Mikado 1003's crew, makes up their train and switches out some cars at Fairwater before heading east towards Brandon.
Extra SOO 1003
Fairwater, WI.
November 1, 2015
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.
A GP15-1 and a SD70M switch out the elevator in Triumph, Illinois on the UP Troy Grove Sub before finishing their trek to the facility in Troy Grove.
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.
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
The Columbia Basin Railway local is switching at Connell with its SD9s. Parked up in the distance is a short BNSF inspection train.
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BNSF’s eastbound Cody local stops to switch grain hoppers into Ralston Elevator (Briess Malt and Ingredients Company) just west of Ralston, Wyoming, on June 28, 2018. The elevator has a 2.3 million bushel storage capacity serving this barley growing region located on BNSF’s Cody Subdivision between Cody and Frannie.
UP 622 creeps around the corner to enter the industrial street trackage on Fox Avenue South in Seattle as the night starts to sets in. Once clear of the switch, the crew will shove the two tank cars in tow down Fox Avenue South toward Cascade Columbia Distribution, one of two (possibly three) remaining customers accessed by this street trackage. The switch in the foreground leads to Emerald Services, formerly Brenntag, which still received tank cars at least two years ago but appears to be dormant at this time, potentially since ownership has changed. Some improvements have however been made to the track here in recent months and the switch was kept in place at least. Following the track up the street, Seatac Marine Services is the other customer still active here and receives centerbeams and boxcars rather regularly. Although not this week, cars would be spotted more or less in the street (behind me in this perspective). Seattle, WA
A westbound Kyle train does work in Stratton, Colorado, while the sun plays hide and seek with the train. There are two former SD45s on the line, this one with RCPE reporting marks and another with Kyle reporting marks and logos.
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.
Another look back a couple years to my first successful Batten Kill chase.
#4116 is a real live burbling 244 powered Alco RS3...and an ex Delaware & Hudson loco (4116 blt Sept 1952) on D&H "home rails" no less!
Seen here switching out Carovail, one of the Batten Kill Railroad's two regular remaining customers.
Salem, New York
Saturday April 13, 2019
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
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.
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.
An old hall with turbines in the Maxhütte steel works, photographed in 2015. This building may have escaped demolition and may still be standing today. I wonder how it looks today...
Trilliums 1859 seen pulling away from Forks Jct towards feeder after lifting 4 tanks from Jungbunzlauer and the cut from Verbio that was left at the switch.