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Respondek's brightly painted, IT inspired GP40 works a cut of hoppers in their park in Granite City, IL.
A pair of RF&P GP40s lead what was most likely the Sealston Switcher south out of Potomac Yard. The train is passing an inbound freight at Alexandria station. This job handled sand and gravel for the construction industry in the Washington, DC metro area. The empties in tow should have originated at Solite in Arlington. The train will fill out it's consist at one other location before continuing South to Dahlgren Jct. The cars would eventually be loaded at a Solite quarry on the Dahlgren Branch before returning north, starting the cycle over again.
RF&P Sealston Switcher:
RFP 125 GP40
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.
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.
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.
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
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When viewed small this image seems to be one thing but as it get larger it switches and it's true perspective emerges. I liked the pattern but also the surprise.
SOOC - pretty much.
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.
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.
Switching action on the Indiana Harbor Belt: RP15BDF 1514 shoves a long string of cars into the west end of Blue Island Yard, while SW1500 waits to pull out across the CSX diamonds at CP Harvey for headroom.
On April 7, 2008, SMS SW1200RS #1337 leaves Delanson, NY with a one-car train for Guilderland. Scanned from a Fujichrome Provia 100F slide.
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.