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Detroit & Mackinac RS2 #468 is busy moving cars on and off the Chief Wawatam at Mackniaw City in October of 1976. Despite its name, the D&M was then a new-comer to Mackinaw City, having finally reached it via the acquisition of Penn Central's Mackinaw branch between here and Bay City earlier that year. Unfortunately, D&M owner Straits Corporation was not interested in growing traffic on the route, being far more interested in the value of the property owned in Mackniaw City itself for real estate purposes. They were quite annoyed when the other railroad in town, the newly formed Michigan Northern, initiated a rate flag-out that virtually tripled the amount of traffic crossing the Straits of Mackinaw on the Chief. Though the bulk of the traffic went to the MIGN, D&M always had the contract to switch the ferry. This all came to an end in 1984, and today only the docking apron and counter weights remain here.
This is a scanned slide from my collection, originally taken by Michael A Tedesco.
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.
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.
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.
A Union Pacific local has arrived at the sand mine located on the outskirts of Pacific, MO to do a little switching. A check of Google maps shows this facility owned by U.S. Silica and it is not only still in business, but it also appears to have been expanded since the time of the photo.
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
Narrow gauge industrial switcher that worked at Atlas Powder Company in Reynolds Tamaqua, Pa. It is an 8 tonner and built about 1965. Continue to look for additional information. It is now seen at the Tamaqua former railroad station, now restaurant. I recommend the corned beef sandwich and a Yuengling, it was delicious.
For Switcher Saturday, we see Bath & Hammondsport S1 #4 posing with a box car for wine at the Taylor Wine company warehouse in Hammondsport, NY. Although the weather went downhill when I was there, I appreciated that they fired up this S1 for the day's trip to Bath. It was originally the only S1 that the Nickel Plate had (NKP was a hometown favorite road growing up and I had shot the #85 in Brewster in NKP paint). Although there is still an active Bath & Hammondsport railroad, this track running right to the lakefront in Hammondsport no longer exists..June 17, 1977
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
The Columbia Basin Railway local is switching at Connell with its SD9s. Parked up in the distance is a short BNSF inspection train.
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
The Pickens Belton Job throws cars back and forth as the build their train for Belton on a cold morning.
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.
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
As usual, Bart interrupted my flower photography in the kitchen tonight. He misses me when I'm gone for much of the day, and needs his attention. I took my camera off the tripod, put the flash on, and switched the camera to my animal settings, then snapped a few photos. My 105mm macro lens is also good for portraits. Behind him is my new sequined backdrop, with rainbow stripes, also seen as bokeh in the rose photo that precedes this one.
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.
After photographing the last trains of the day on the Lahntal I went back by bike along the river to check if the switcher at the Schaefer Kalkwerk was shootable.Sure enough they were still loading their train and thanks to the flip screen on my new camera I could get some shots holding the camera over my head. V60 261 841-1, numbered as HABA7, for its old owner Stadtwerke Osnabrück is one of 5 locos on the property, but I think only two are operational. The line to Schaeffer Kalk is the only remaining portion the former meter gauge Kerkerbachbahn, which otherwise ceased operations in 1960. This place reminds me a bit of Crab Orchard, Tennessee, a limestone plant along a busy road on the remnants of a local shortline. Unfortunately missing are the highhood GEs and huge trestles.....
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On April 7, 2008, SMS SW1200RS #1337 leaves Delanson, NY with a one-car train for Guilderland. Scanned from a Fujichrome Provia 100F slide.
Montana Rail Link Train 844-19 switches the Graymont facility at Townsend on 10/19/2022.
Lime is mined and produced at a mine to the west of here, which is then trucked and transloaded onto rail cars here.
I was lucky to catch the 109 leading, since it had been out of service for most of my trip and went down again not long after.
Montana Rail Link
Train: 840-19 (Helena Local)
10/19/2022
Townsend, Montana
MRL 2nd Subdivision
323210 rolls into Four Oaks with 2O45 Lichfield Trent Valley High Level to Bromsgrove with the former platform lighting control switch taking centre stage removed and rusted up it's certainly switched out.
2021 represents a significant milestone in the history of the Phoenix Railway-Photographic Circle with the celebration of our 50th anniversary. Phoenix was set up in spring 1971 and was created to promote an alternative approach to railway photography. Why not take a look at the PRPC web site at www.phoenix-rpc.co.uk/index.html.
Four of CN's four-axles engine fleet are at the helm of local job L538, doing some switching at the east end of Coteau yard's track Q068.
After the switching done, the crew of three will pick up their train built into track Q065 and head toward the Valleyfield subdivision in order to serves the daily needs of Valleyfield industries.
CN L53821-12
4777 GTW 6226 4802 9410
Coteau Yard - Milepost 38.3 Kingston subdivision
Coteau-du-Lac,QC
August 12 2021
CSXT MP15AC 1189 pulls a set of tanks from Heinz Portion Control in Jacksonville, FL. The 1189 is one of only a handful of MP15s remaining on the CSX roster and is likely only left because of it's remote control capability. Heinz makes small sauce packets here and receives corn syrup and other oils and tomato paste by rail. The remote operator would set out an empty tank, replace it with a load and also spot a loaded boxcar of tomato paste, which gets tucked away at the farthest spot on the spur where the only unloading door is located.