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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.
Road switcher, powered by two Power Functions L-Motors, geared 20/12.
Head and rear lamps are each lit by a Power Functions LED.
1797 sporting the parent company Aberdeen and Rockfish colors shoves hard to switch the Domtar plant in the rain; note the drops on the lense. 1797 is an xe ACL GP7.
A pair of Pennsylvania Railroad swithcers, No. 94, PRR class A5s, an 0-4-0 locomotive built in 1917 by the Pennsy's Juniata Shops in Altoona, Pennsylvania and No. 1670, PRR class B6sb, an 0-6-0 locomotive, was built at the Juniata shops in 1916.
Original photo was taken at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in the early 1980's using a 35mm Honeywell Pentax Spotmatic II, Super-Takumar 1:1.4/50mm prime lens, Kodak print film.
Signal 616 at Stockholm Östra station is known in Swedish as a huvuddvärgsignal – in English, a main dwarf signal. This means that the dwarf signal is capable of displaying both switching and main signal indications. This type of signal has obvious similarities to the Pennsylvania Railroad position light design, but has two additional green lamps below the position light head, as well as an offset light that can display a red indication.
Signal 616 governs moves from Stockholm Östra's track 3, and is displaying a signal for the 16:41 departure for Näsbypark. The indication in Swedish is "Kör 40, varsamt" and the aspect is "blinkande grönt till vänster". In English, the indication is: "Proceed at 40 km/h, carefully", and the aspect is "flashing green to the left".
The speed restriction of 40 km/h (about 25 mph) is dictated by the track geometry of the station throat. The need for caution is dictated by the fact that the train's route from the station to the open line is not completely set, and there is a stop signal a short distance down the line.
The next huvuddvärgsignal at the end of the platform – signal 636 – is displaying the same indication, but I snapped the shutter while the green lamp was in the "off" state of its flashing cycle; the green lamp thus isn't visible. Once the route leaving the station is fully established, the green lamps on signals 616 and 636 will switch to a steady indication. In Swedish, this is "Kör 40” ("grönt till vänster”). In English, the indication is "Proceed at 40 km/h" and the aspect is "green to the left".
If conditions permit, the lokförare (driver) will encounter a "Kör" ("Proceed") indication on the station exit signal, at which point he or she can accelerate to the maxiumum authorized speed.
For a tiny station, Stockholm Östra is a busy place; there are six arrivals and six departures every hour, even on weekends like the Sunday, July 29, 2018 when I captured these images.
The railroad seen here is a suburban narrow gauge line, using rails that are three Swedish feet apart – 891 mm (2 ft 11 3⁄32). The line is known as the Roslagsbanan, named for the region it serves north and east of the Swedish capital of Stockholm.
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.
Thursday another three switches were unloaded at the Autoport site. The crew was earning their pay this day, it was hot! Unlike with the previous switch these were moved across the road onto the property for the new facility. Visible in the upper right are the 22 lengths of ribbon rail dropped last month. After being cleared out previously the junk at the junk yard is once again encroaching upon the ROW. I'm sure once the dirt starts flying for the Autopark lead it will retreat again. July 2, 2020.
Shortly after departing the shops of the Midwest Central Railroad, Surry, Sussex & Southampton #6 runs light toward the switches that will take her to the train shed in the background on the left, where she will pick up her excursion train for the day. On a typical day during the Old Thresher's Reunion event, the Midwest Central will run a pair of trains, which will depart the north and south station complexes simultaneously, so as to always be separated by half of the 1.25 mile loop. Since the #6 is the only operable steam power at present, the other train will be pulled by one of the line's Plymouth diesels. In years past, when two steamers were operational, both trains would be steam-powered.
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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