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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.
TLTX 553775 is seen being put away after a long day of filling railcars with various grades of stone and asphalt bound for New York City and various Tilcon Distribution plants around the state. This locomotive is soully used to switch railcars within the Tilcon reeds gap quarry located in Wallingford, Ct
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
Where electrics once roamed. GIO's Welland job switches out cars for Ardent Milling, which will be transloaded on the westernmost track at the London Agricultural Commodities elevator (the former Robin Hood facility.)
Constructed in 1940, the Robin Hood Flour Mill received rail service from the Niagara, St. Catharines & Toronto Railway via a spur from their Welland Division mainline on Elm Street. An electric locomotive was based at the foot of Elm Street in Port Colborne as an outpost assignment, servicing this facility in what was then known as the community of Humberstone, amalgamating with Port Colborne in 1952. Electric service on the NS&T ceased in 1960, with CNR diesels taking over the assignment. The yard pictured contained only the main and east siding at the time, while over on Elm Street, a short stretch of the old NS&T main was kept south of Barrick Road for switching purposes. This arrangement remained until the connection at the north end of the elevator was constructed in 1983-1984 to the Canal Sub. Per Paul Duncan, this connection appears to have been the CN Casco Lead until being handed off to the Port Colborne Harbour Railway. The connection south to the former Dunnville Sub would be built in 1997 with startup of PCHR operations.
The Robin Hood Flour Mill would be closed in 2008 by Horizon Milling, and later sold to Ceres Global Ag in 2010 to be used primarily for grain storage and export. Space in the elevator would be leased to London Agricultural Commodities effective 2019, with LAC purchasing the facility in 2023. Shortly before the end of NS&T electric operations, this unit was built. Rolling out of GMDD London in 1955 as CNR 2013, this GP9 would be renumbered in 1956 to CN 4464. In 1986, it would be rebuilt as GP9RM 7224, and sold to Lambton Diesel Services in 2021.
Looking at 1930s aerial imagery, this site can be seen prior to the elevator's construction. Steve Host's recent research pointed out the abandoned right of way from the Welland Ship Canal Construction Railway. It would appear just north of the elevator location was a dump site for earth and other construction debris, and the construction "mainline" cut across the canal near this location. Comparing 1930s and 1940s imagery, one can see this track runs along the former construction railway right of way from the point where 7224 is seen above, right to the elevator silos.
GIO Welland Job
LDSX 7224, LDSX 269
GIO Harbour Spur
Port Colborne, ON.
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.
This is Mark.
Mark is the president of the Nevada Northern Railway - a national historic landmark in Ely, NV. The railroad Mark presides over is considered one of the most complete historic railways in the United States.
While Mark would never claim credit for the success of the NNRY, I'm here to tell you that so much of what you can experience today is only possible because of this man and his passion. It takes an army to keep this place running, but Mark is the spark at the center of it all.
That energy and enthusiasm is precisely what inspires me to volunteer my time and talents to the NNRY; I have no doubt other volunteers would say much the same.
This scene was taken in 2018 at the Photographer's Weekend, but it could just as easily have been 1918. Mark has checked the south switch of Keystone Wye and will soon direct NNRY #40 forward.
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.
i've never been one to enjoy yogurt and throughout my life i've tried many kinds. but before taking on this challenge, i knew i was going to have to switch it up a little and try new things. so this morning i did.
i had a lemon poppyseed bagel with butter, vanilla yogurt with fresh nectarines, blackberries, and strawberries in my super adorable thrifted mug, and my BIG glass of coffee.
usually i drink my coffe first thing in the morning and eat breakfast afterwards, but i woke up late and was running out of time... places to go people to see :) i ended up enjoying the yogurt more than the bagel and look forward to having it again.
i don't like the comp in this picture, but i was feeling rushed.
have a great day... i'll be catching up later.
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.
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UP GP38N #680
Houston, TX
October 4th, 2024
Here's another random LHF shot that meets my criteria for being worthy. I was told by the crew working this day that this particular customer very very infrequently receives cars so getting to see them working here is pretty lucky. And while the light was perfect alas the front coupled unit makes it certainly less cool.
Nonetheless here is one shot for the record as New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad Utica based local UT-1 with GP40 3040 spots two boxcars to the SCI Plywood siding here off the old West Shore Railroad New York Mills branch.
Check out the long caption with this shot to learn more about the history of the railroads in this area: flic.kr/p/2mGgRx2
Village of New York Mills
Whitestone, New York
Thursday October 28, 2021
C&NW GP7 4104 switches the Morton Salt facility along Elston Ave. at Magnolia and Blackhawk. It is now the entertainment venue The Salt Shed. 1989.
A CSXT local switches Kayne Ave on March 9, 2019. The days of an end cab switcher on CSX are numbered.
© Eric T. Hendrickson 2019 All Rights Reserved
The other day I was creating with some friends and was a bit lost in my own mind.
I started thinking of how creative my friends are, how creative this community is and how I'm so lucky to have a job and passion and life where I get to share very openly, the inner workings of my mind. The inside of who I am as a person through my work. I came up with this idea of my "inner workings" spinning away above my head, like a hamster on a wheel.
#thelightbulbproject_inside
After a lot of car shuffling in the Barnesville yard, OTV's local to Dilworth is rolling into Sabin over the South Fork of the Buffalo River. We happily took the extra switching in Barnesville as it let the sun get over to the side at one of our favorite spots.
Ann Arbor's switch job pulls four cars from the "Harbor" (former Blade Warehouse) at the extreme south end of the Olive Industrial just north of downtown Toledo on a cold snowy February morning.
A square-cabed Geep trundles down the overgrown spur to WCO Enterprises to retrieve an empty wax car off of CSX's now decommissioned Export yard. With the adoption of precision scheduled railroading, all jobs from Export yard are now originating from Moncrief and have been consolidated into fewer and fewer locals. The customers around Export yard largely remain. Portside Paper has vacated its space and moved to a different warehouse up the line, still receiving cars at its new location. Manson Construction's service ended after enough rock for the St. johns dredging project was delivered. Owens Corning had discontinued limestone deliveries a few years ago but still gets asphalt service. Steelcon Supply hasn't gotten a car in a few months to a year but continues to be in business it appears. That leaves Export yard with WCO (pictured here), Jones Chemicals, a Crowley transload (tomato paste boxcars), Owens Corning (asphalt only), Lehigh Cement, and potentially but not certainly the occasional service to Steelcon Supply.
Below are some photos of the customers that have disappeared:
Portside Paper, relocated and still serviced in Yulee, FL:
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Owens Corning Roofing, switched to trucks at several facilities across the US with limestone shipments:
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Steelcon Supply, may or may not get service still - hasn't gotten a car in months:
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Manson Construction, reactived its spur for about a year to receive rock for dredging project:
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Bringing train 664 into Overbrook, 642 makes another autumn appearance on the Keystone Corridor. MOW is hard at work replacing a switch as part of a weekend project.
Pan Am Railways PORU switches out cars at the feed mill in N. Leeds, ME. Three blue dip Geeps were a treat on this dreary February day.
We spent a couple hours in the morning watching the Gas Local switch out the tank car facility at Pipeline. Figured it could make for a cool framing shot to show that view from the back seat.
MRL Day Gas Local
MRL SD70ACe #4408
MRL SD70ACe #4315
Thompson Falls, MT
May 5th, 2022
The Montreal East switcher is pulling empties out of the Canadian Copper Refinery (CCR) with a GP9 leading as it passes through a parking lot.
A lone ACWR SD40 switches out the facility in Midland on a cold February Night. The fog really adds to the scene here and its one of my favorite times to go out and shoot.