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With the normally northbound track close because of a grade crossing project at Deerfield, Amtrak's Empire Builder crosses back from the southbound main at Rondout. In a moment, it will cross CN's former Elgin Joliet Eastern. The switch in the foreground is to Metra's Fox Lake Branch.
This photo is taken from the North Shore Bike Path Bridge. The path occupies the Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee's Mundelein Branch.
There is no siding or run-around track at the end of the former Erie Railroad line t that is still used by the Ashland Railway. So to get the cars to be taken back to Mansfield behind the engine, the brakes on the cars are released and the crew allows gravity to roll them eastward. The Ashland locomotive will then tie on to them and pull them westward. A crew member watches out for traffic on West Britton Road as the "switching" is done.
The guitarist for the band Switch Foot posing for a photographer on stage during their performance at the Bro-Am in Encinitas, San Diego, California
Canadian Pacific 2236 shoves a string of autoracks back into the yard in Franklin Park, Illinois on December 22, 2024.
After sunset, South Shore Freight and lease power switches the CN/EJ&E interchange at Goff on the east side of Gary. The roadway to the left is an old alignment of US 12/20.
Canadian National 5747 and 5262 doing a switching job on the Central Subdivision next to the Material Yard in Brookhaven, Mississippi on Sunday, October 3, 2021 at 3:24 PM CDT. Illinois Central 3108 with Grand Trunk Western 5845 are parked on the locomotive parking spur track within the small Material Yard, the former Mississippi Central Railroad's Brookhaven Yard.
CN 5747 [EMD SD75I]
CN 5262 [EMD SD40-2W]
IC 3108 [EMD GP40R]
GTW 5845 [EMD GP38-2]
This former Canadian Pacific Railway 0-6-0 switching locomotive was captured in the Saskatchewan Western Development Museum pioneer village in North Battleford. A member of the CPR U3c class, it was built in 1905, being sold to the Manitoba & Saskatchewan Coal system in 1949.
April 1987
Rollei 35 camera
Kodachrome 64 film.
"Caught in silver clouds
Enlightened by a mystic full moon You designed the horizon
And amaze my minute heart"
lyrics from a song by my favorite band (Rhapsody of Fire (who used to be Rhapsody and now split into two bands) that popped into my head about my star boy, Cygnus. He's my other fav and I wanted to save he & Shiryu til the end ^_^
E402 113 with it's Intercity train switches tracks at Montetosso to pass through on the centre line.
Providence & Worcester job NH-1 spends time switching sand hoppers on the run around at West St in Middlefield after dropping Danbury empties and loading three ballast hoppers at Tilcon in Reeds Gap. Different pieces of M.O.W. and the PW ballast hoppers typically spend time just by the switch on the run around, however, due to a previous weeks derailment, the Palumbo rail terminal in Wallingford experienced a surplus of hoppers, forcing some to layover in Middlefield before they could be swapped out.