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With the first snow of the season finally sticking I went out trackside close to home to shoot the Seaview Transportation working down in Quonset-Davisville. After digging out cars at Ocean State Yard over on the Davisville Branch half of the railroad they headed over to the Quonset side and assembled their train in the new Mill Creek Yard before continuing east down the line to work mainstay customer, Toray Plastics.
Here they are working out across Roger Williams Ave. as they pull and spot the five stub ended tracks inside the facility. As described by their own web site: 'Founded in 1985, Toray Plastics (America), Inc., is a leading innovator in polypropylene, polyester, and polyolefin technology and operates three state-of-the-art facilities. Our headquarters in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, is home to two facilities. There we manufacture cast and mono- and biaxially-oriented polypropylene film, biaxially-oriented polyester film, and bio-based films, and conduct in-house metallizing and coating. Our films are used for industrial, packaging, lidding, graphic, optical, and electronic applications.'
Parent company Toray Industries is headquartered in Tokyo and was founded in 1926 as a Rayon Yarn Production Company. Today, it operates in 29 countries and has over 48, 000 employees globally and is the world's largest producer of carbon fiber among a vast array of other modern industrial products.
SVTX GP10 1855 was built as a GP9 in Aug. 1956 for the Baltimore and Ohio as their #6467. Later rebuilt by ICG's Paducah Shop she bounced around on different shortlines until coming to Rhode Island in 2006 where she was given this snappy paint job.
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North Kingstown, Rhode Island
Monday December 12, 2022
The Niles Train Museum.
Night, full moon, one minute exposure, sodium and mercury vapor lights, blue and red-gelled strobe flash.
Y193 goes about its switching duties on the Old Even at Wyoming Yard with MP15DC #1146 and RCPHE4 #9120. The drone was 1 of 4 former GP40s converted to RC drones that called Grand Rapids home for many years. 3 wore Chessie paint while the other was in MOW orange. A few years later all were rebuilt into 2300 series RDMT Road Slugs.
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NYSW WS-2 switching out cars in MC before heading west towards PC and beyond to work industries around the area. SD40-2 #3022, a former Southern “High Hood” SD40-2 has the honors for the night.
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
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
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.
It's within us all
for we have the wherewithal
as lakeside guests
molified strains and bequests
now within view, unabated
phenotypes hereby related
observe, simply and purely
Summer still lingers demurely
reflections, like touching of hands
displays all that nature understands
now, in respite, and unison of minds
a vade-mecum of all kinds
refresh and reinvigorate your true being
with nature supporting all you are foreseeing.
by anglia24
19h25: 27/08/2007
© 2007anglia24
☀
A little flashback Friday, to a pre-Hunter Harrison CP, when they still ran some switchers in Muskego Yard.
CP 1447
BNSF local R-PWR4011, the Golden Switch, returns to Golden Yard with Burlington Northern painted GP39E (GP30) 2745 leading.
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.
The Landisville Railroad's SW900M prepares to gather outbound cars for the NS interchange a couple of miles to the north. Despite the Chessie-inspired livery, this is a former Lehigh Valley engine by way of Conrail. Taken on railroad property with permission and escort.
Leased, or even owned, by the Texas & Oklahoma RR, this "GN" (originally Frisco) MP15DC switcher rests just north of I-20. October 2020.
Mass Coastal 2008 is seen departing Maritime Terminal Inc. in New Bedford, MA after switching out the load for the empty.
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
A pair of leased Geeps crawl through an alley with a cut of empty waste cars for New York Waste Management on the Bushwick branch. Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Looking down Myrtle Avenue, MNNR 1983 and its crew is waiting for trailers to move out of the way to switch out a tank car at WestRock in Saint Paul. I have mostly seen this job get done at night, but here it is just before sunset in the shadows of WestRock itself. This is one of Minnesota's last active stretches of street running railroad.
A Proctor switch crew (probably R926) is departing the yard and heading to the docks via Proctor Hill with a load of taconite that arrived as train U7178208 from UTAC's Fairlane plant. This view is from the Kirkus Street overpass looking towqrd the south end of the yard with the train strung out across 2nd Street at about MP 7.1 on modern day CN's North Division Missabe Subdivision mainline.
The nice looking set of power consists of three ex SD45T-2 tunnel motors (now technically rebuilt SD40-3s) consisting of BLE 909, DMIR 400, and DMIR 406 all ex Southern Pacific units built as SSW 9277 in Feb. 1973, SP 9196 in Mar. 1972 and SP 9171 in Feb. 1972 respectively.
Proctor, Minnesota
Monday October 9, 2023
L586 goes about its switching duties on a tranquil Sunday morning in Dubuque. The job's duties consist of switching out the various customers CN has in the area, including across the river on the shared trackage with BNSF and beyond. In addition to these duties, the job also sorts the pick ups and set offs for/from the pair of CN manifest freights that pass through town daily. A nice pair of GTW GP38-2s for power made this Michigan native very happy.
On Houston's northside, UP 680 switches scrap gons out of Commercial Metals at Tower 71 on the West Belt. After wrapping up their work, they'll swing around the corner at Tower 26 nearby to head back to the bottom end of Settegast Yard.
The green signal to the left is a lineup for the Big Boy, which will be passing through in a few minutes on its way to the top end of Settegast Yard.
YHO50R 04
UP GP38N #680
Houston, TX
October 4th, 2024