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Battenkill Railroad RS3 #605 is northbound out of Eagle Bridge, NY as it crosses Owl Kill Road with a decent size train. I had made a few trips to this road over the years prior to this day, but this was the first time I actually caught them running.
After making their pickup from the Great Western in Loveland, the Longmont Switch heads south through an S curve with a BNSF warbonnet.
Seaview SW-7 #5 spots some loaded auto-racks at NORAD's Davisville, RI, unloading yard. The headout car is a still fairly fresh, and graffiti-less, Providence and Worcester auto-rack; the previous owner of the little EMD switcher.
November 2013
Davisville, RI.
Ex Canadian National GP9rm now working for Carolina Coastal pulls cars from the yard at Perdue. It will couple to the other GP9 and head to Rocky Mount with the interchange traffic.
A pair of S&S Leasing switchers shove a cut of stacks onto the lead to UP's Centennial Business Park at the east end of UP's Salt Lake City intermodal facility. The switchers, of Milwaukee Road and MStL heritage, are leased by the contractor that switches the ramp for UP.
SSRX SD40-2 #1414
SSRX GP9 #116
Salt Lake City, UT
April 24th, 2023
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.
Providence and Worcester's Rhody based local PR-3 is going about their morning chores switching in the compact 7 track Valley Falls yard before heading out down the East Providence Running track.
They are seen switching across the High Street crossing at MP 6 along the historic original mainline with PW GP38-2 2006 (built new for the then only 7 yr newly independent road by EMD in Feb. 1980) and B40-8 4002 (blt. Jun. 1988 as NYSW 4008) which is a bit unusual here as this local is almost always assigned two geeps.
Valley Falls
Cumberland, Rhode Island
Thursday June 1, 2023
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
In the Novara Boschetto yard both private and national operators provide the shunting services.
Here the SerFer G2000.02 and D245.2275 are staging before coming back to switch freight trains. (19/9/16)
SIND 103 performs some early morning switching at the cement plant in Speed, IN. The crew will spot some cars, and serve the plant before taking a cut south to the CSX interchange at Watson later in the morning.
Nerdy Light Switches. Embrace your inner geek with theses decorative wall switches. Coming to the 7event this Feb maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cyldane%20Mall/208/214/3097
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.
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
Otter Tail Valley's local makes the usual stop on the way back to Fergus in S Moorhead. They have 3 customers on this short branch and two are being serviced today. The last car is a load of lumber for Sprenger and the other two centerbeams are for Drywall Supply.
It was a quick switching stop today, but sometimes they can work this branch for as long as three hours. If you see the local leave Dilworth with 10+ loaded centerbeams and nothing is sorted, that's your answer on switching time.
A late running 6M31 09:53 Hunslet Tilcon Sdgs - Arcow Quarry hauled by GBRf 60087 “Ingleborough” passes Switchers Farm near Otterburn, on approach to Hellifield.
Having departed Hunslet some 100+ minutes behind schedule, it was down to 67 late passing Shipley however, on approaching Skipton it got routed into the loop, despite nothing needing to overtake, after an anxious wait, 6M31 got the route north passing the camera around 92 late, probably a blessing in disguise being late.
January 2025.
In Palmer, MA, a pair of former Canadian National wide cab GP40s work as the New England Central Palmer switcher on Friday, January 24, 2025. The second locomotive wears a special paint scheme honoring veterans.
6002 is an SD40T-2, originally built for the Southern Pacific. Seen here switching at Guardian with several other Lancaster and Chester units.
Mass Coastal 2008 is seen at Maritime Terminal Inc. switching out a reefer car in busy New Bedford, MA.
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
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.
Mon River Industrial Group engine 'Marla' poses on a short train of sand cars at the railroads transload facility in Allenport, PA.
The engine was temporarily lettered and numbered 28, its original Monessen South Western number, during the organized WGRF event with the permission of the railroad.
Photo taken on private property with permission
Duluth & Northeastern 14 is on switching duty the railroad's base town of Cloquet, MN. 14 is now owned by the Sierra Railroad, acquired in 2022 from the now defunct Filmore and Western Railway.
9-21-1963
Photographer Unknown - Jacob Narup Collection
Union Pacific SD45 No. 3637 performs a 'flying switch' in Provo, Utah on July 3, 1977. Merriam-Webster defines this as 'a maneuver in which one or more railroad cars are disconnected from a locomotive while moving and as the locomotive pulls away are switched to another track to roll to a desired position under their own momentum.'