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Grand Trunk Western Alco S2 8093 is switching Dunne Paper at the mouth of the St. Clair River. May 1976.
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
Maine Switching Services shoves a long cut of boxcars into ND Paper as the late afternoon light shines down. On a visit 9 days later, the mill would be shut tight with not a peep of movement, the start of an "extended shutdown" that may likely extend infinitely. At this point, the switcher has gone west and Old Town yard is used mainly for car storage.
Switch grass makes airy curtains with views of the marina in the background.
The sailboats add to an interesting bokeh on a sunny,warm September afternoon :)
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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
Switch EV YJ19HVC on hire to Lothian for demonstration and is to be used on service 23 between Trinity and Greenbank.
YJ19HVC seen here at Greenbank Temrinus. 06th February 2022.
The Torrance Local shoves back into the lumber yard at Gardena passing one of the two remaining Wig Wag crossing signals on this short stretch of Pacific Electric trackage.
The Pointe St-Charles Switcher works their namesake yard with a GTW caboose in tow. Power is CN 9584 & CN 4721.
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.
After switching at the east end of town for a while the 9011 and 9014 shove into the west end of the yard to start the remainder of their work before shoving into the clear for the Maine Northern to pass by. What was supposed to be a short wait for the Maine Northern would turn out to be over a 2 hour wait which gave me a lot of time to do some time exposures and chat with the crew.
The Niles Train Museum.
Night, full moon, one minute exposure, sodium and mercury vapor lights, blue and red-gelled strobe flash.
6002 is an SD40T-2, originally built for the Southern Pacific. Seen here switching at Guardian with several other Lancaster and Chester units.
An EMD MAC leads a trio of GEs and 220 hoppers as the sun rises on the Buckingham Branch RR's North Mountain Sub west of Staunton. The west switch for the 3800-foot-long CTC controlled siding is nicely illuminated.
Switch EV YJ19HVC on hire to Lothian for demonstration and is to be used on service 23 between Trinity and Greenbank.
YJ19HVC seen here at Greenbank Temrinus. 06th February 2022.
The crew of Montana Rail Link’s weekend train down the Bitterroot Branch, formerly known as the Darby Branch, switches their train together at Missoula, Montana, on a rainy May 18, 2013.
... from workweek to weekend - TGIF !
African Elephants / Afrikanische Elefanten (Loxodonta africana)
Serengeti N.P., Tanzania, Africa
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
A little flashback Friday, to a pre-Hunter Harrison CP, when they still ran some switchers in Muskego Yard.
CP 1447
Little bit different style for today's photo. I usually like to make my photos bright and colorful, but I wanted to change it up and challenge myself.
SOO 551 works the yard at Stevens Point on September 18, 1983. The pair of ACIS chip cars just behind the clean torpedo geep used to be loaded on the ACR's Northern Division and would be routed thru Sault Ste, Marie to Wisconsin mills.
I thought this shot could look like something else going on a few decades ago. The Illinois Railway Museum diesel crew was using CNW F7 411 as Museum switcher on Sunday 3/12/23. Among the switch moves was to pull out GTW RS1 1951. This veteran ALCO hasn’t been outside in some time.
Stave Lake Powerhouse, supplied power for many years, the area quickly outgrew it.
It is now a museum.
I have learned so much about processing images since this was taken! All I did really is change blend modes though!
\I rarely take HDR any more as my camera now has so much latitude. Ten GB before to 36 GB now!
It was an 9 image HDR, it was plenty garish!
The P&S Brookville Turn works the loader at Dora, Pennsylvania. Had there been some snow on the forground spruce trees, this may have been a Christmas card.