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TRC 2008 switches out some cars at the massive facility in Trona, CA. While generally inaccessible to the public, the Trona Road grade crossing offered this view of a switch crew that pulled up just far enough to be photographed.
Mass Coastal 2008 is seen at Maritime Terminal Inc. switching out a reefer car in busy New Bedford, MA.
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Arkansas and Missouri train SFLO is doing a bit of switching at the siding known as Johnson Switch ad they work their way south from Springdale to Fayetteville. This job was on duty at 11 AM with a pair of classic Alco C420s, numbers 56 and 57 both built for the Lehigh and Hudson River Railroad in Dec. 1965 as their numbers 25 and 26 respectively. They are seen here working just north of the Main Street crossing near MP 347.7 (measured from the Frisco's historic corporate headquarters city of St. Louis) in this once small down that is now a suburb of booming Fayetteville.
To learn more check out the long caption with this shot: flic.kr/p/2mmJMoD
Johnson, Arkansas
Thursday September 2, 2021
SMS SW1200 #104 has paused its switching duties in Fort Edward, NY as the covered hopper on the headpin gets transloaded to a truck.
SMS Rail Services
Fort Edward, NY
April 27, 2026
One of two MP15's left on the roster, Belt Railway of Chicago 150 works Charter Steel on Chicago's extreme West side.
Chicago, IL
2022.03.05
Maryland Midland UBHF switches out a lumber customer in Thurmont, about midway through their trip between Union Bridge and Highfield. A pair of former Conrail SD50s provide the power for today's train.
Well, the short story: the arrival of a baby late last year did mess up my schedule completely. The free time was/is difficult to find. :-)
Besides, I've switched almost completely the the Olympus M4/3 system. More to come... I hope.
This is a handheld image of a frog call made a couple of days ago during a holiday to Danube Delta.
During a whirlwind trip across Maine and Quebec in August of 1988, we were just a tad bit late to see the last stand of Maine Central's Alco switchers at Waterville. Here we find four of the creatures dying a very slow death at the hands of Guilford.
MRL's Helena Local switches hoppers at the Graymont lime facility in Townsend on the 2nd Sub.
MRL 840 Local (Helena Local)
MRL GP9 #109
MRL SD40-2XR #252
Townsend, MT
May 4th, 2022
For this switcher Sunday, we're in Tulsa Oklahoma on May 22, 1980 and see an SW7 drilling the rear end of a freight that had come into Cherokee Yard from the east. This was a quick stop over for me on the way home from a year long work assignment in Texas. I was anxious to get home but Tulsa deserved a lot more time. Sadly, I've not been back.
NECR 4049 accompanied by Bay Line 3018 and 2078 switch cars in the CSX interchange.
A recent derailment at the interchange set things back for the Bay Line so today was the day they had to make up for lost time. Unfortunately, making up for lost time in Dothan meant that the Hilton turn wouldn't run which was the main reason my friends and I were out here. Although we didn't get exactly what we had hoped for, I am glad we at least had the opportunity to see something operate out here.
Under a bright blue Albertan sky, Cando rail GP9's 4018 and 4024 are seen switching out the vast paper mill complex in Hinton, Alberta. A very unexpected catch, the train just so happened to be running while I was passing through Hinton back in February of this year.
After setting off their inbound cars for Arizona & California interchange, power from M-PHXMAT returns to the main. Below the lead engine is the East Siding Switch for Castle Hot Springs siding. Although timetable-east, this end of the siding is northwest as far as the compass is concerned. The 543 was probably the best looking warbonnet GE on the roster two decades after the merger.
" Lets get the drill on P&H 1 lined for the naught..The yard job on P&H 2 for the Waverly runner ...and I got a transfer job from the Garden waiting to come off the NY BAY Line spur ..and he's on SHORT TIME......"
WA5 in the good ole days on a Saturday morning ..a switch tenders nightmare
Newark NJ WA5 P&H Branch/Greenville Branch CR
C&NW SD40-2 6847, built in March 1974, idles in Union on a partially cloudy May afternoon. The crew breifly discusses what their plan is to pull the locomotives in tow out of the shop and to move C&NW 6847 onto a seperate track. Today's plan was to get CB&Q SD24 504 out of the shop to use the outdoor crane to replace the radiator, and C&NW 6847 was the designated shop switcher for the day. While this may look like a scene straight out of a 1980s Chicago and North Western rail yard, in reality C&NW 6847 is currently owned and operated by the Illinois Railway Museum and was switching power around the Diesel Locomotive Restoration Shop.
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Illinois Railway Museum
Union, Illinois, USA
May 24, 2025
Canon EOS 60D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
Standard Steel SW8 6734 switches inside the massive plant. Still wearing her North Shore colors from where she was purchased in 2014, she was built in Sept. 1951 as Lehigh Valley Railroad 265.
Standard Steel is the only reason the Juniata Valley Railroad still operates the four miles of the old PRR Milroy Branch up from Lewistown and down Water Street featured earlier.
Standard Steel has been in existence since 1795, one of the longest continuously operating forging operations in the United States. The company, initially known as Freedom Forge, was founded during the first term of President George Washington. Initially, the plant produced iron bars and rods though today it solely produces railcar wheels and axles mostly for the freight new build market (though it does sell into the aftermarket and makes passenger wheels as well). Once known as one of the largest producers of steam locomotive tires, by the start of WWII it was producing 1/5th of the all locomotive tires used in the US. Here is a nice one page corporate timeline: www.standardsteel.com/history.php
And for a more in depth article on the saving and resurgence of the 250 acre plant that employs 600 people check out this article: industrytoday.com/the-right-track/
Burnham, Pennsylvania
Friday July 31, 2020
I remember the RS-1's floating around on the SOO but I was a little to young to have shot any. This view of 353 switching at Stevens Point on September 10, 1966 represented pretty much what the did in there later years, yard work and local service. Early on before the merger the DSS&A used there RS-1's on the passenger trains and also in switching service. Catching a back to back pair wasn't uncommon on the St- Ignace-Marquette freight although it generally was assigned Baldwins. Most likely a Joe Stauber shot, Chuck Schwesinger collection.
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Credits:
Hair - Doux Bertha @ Aqua (Open Now)
Face Piercing - SU Piercing Set 4 @ The Chapter 4 (Open Now)
Tattoo - Bolson Mr Burton
Top - Ricielli Charlie Lace Top Black @ The Chapter 4
Jacket - Scandalize Annie Black
Pants - Villena Distressed Pants Black
Shoes - Reign Sweet Bliss Heels @ Collabor88 (Open Now)
Head - Catwa Lona
Eyebrows - Bossie Autumn Eyebrows
Eyes - SU The Dark Eyes
Skin - Deetalez - Head Taylor
Pose - Vilda Melody 1
The Michigan Shore shoves a string of slurry tanks into the plant at Sappi Fine Paper Co with Grand Rapids Eastern #3839. This plant would shut down less than two years later and would be a major blow to the MS, traffic-wise. Everything in this photo is gone today.
The Niles Train Museum.
Night, full moon, one minute exposure, sodium and mercury vapor lights, blue and red-gelled strobe flash.
At the south end of UP's Settegast Yard in Houston, a pair of Geeps shove back as they drill the large, former MP yard.
YHO82R 04
UP GP38-2 #674
UP GP60 #1167
Houston, TX
October 4th, 2024
The Wisconsin & Southern's night job is departing Horicon for Milwaukee, with a consist for everyone on this fine summer afternoon. The night train was always a challenging run. Once you go on duty, the fight against the clock begins. This train will work Iron Ridge, Hartford, Slinger, Germantown, DBR, Granville, North Milwaukee, then head down to Soo Line's Muskego Yard for interchange. After departing Muskego Yard, it's off to Glendale Yard where permission is gotten to switch out and line up the northbound cars in station order. First stop after departing North Milwaukee is Granville to pick up what the C&NW set out for us. Then it's up to DBR (Donges Bay Road) for a run to Rockfield over the FRVR railroad. After this is where the conductor can get a little break until Slinger, where you call the WC dispatcher and try to get out on their busy mainline in order to pickup off of the controlled siding. With this task finished, there is light in the eastern sky, signaling that it has been a long night again. Now it's time to head for Horicon, where the train is usually taken over by the north job at the depot, for switching...and another day begins on the WSOR.
After waiting on an Amtrak track gang to clear up, a trio of P&W geeps bring an ethanol extra past the old tower at Boston Switch, where the P&W Main Line and Amtrak's Northeast Corridor run adjacent to each other for a couple miles before entering the Pawtucket Receiving Yard.
Progressive Rail leased switcher CIT 1101 at Faribault, Minnesota, June 2, 2023. The unit switches former CGW and Milw Road industries in town. Photo by Joe McMillan.
The crew of L506 uses a pair of GP40-2W's to switch the yard at Roma Junction Alberta. The road power for the next day's southbound sits in the yard just to the left of the conductor