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CP 2315 ties onto the remainder of their train after coming off of the Radville Subdivision in the foreground. A spring storm and some great drop down light provided a guardrail sot that I just couldn't pass up.
On one end of Fallison lake is this gorgeous little bog and I thought it was looking particularly nice even in the harsh light.
uhm.. just an experiment! :)
Okay, i 'll explain!
Its a kind of little handlight, and it has some plastic strings stuck on it. When i switch it on, the strings iluminate with different colors. ^ ^
I like the effect!
CSX switching crew dismount to reset the switch after the train passes off the siding onto the main line preparing to head to Raleigh.
In St James' Park, London. Was about to switch to a telephoto when it came over to say hello so no need.
A big thank you to everyone that voted at the Switch photo contest. Congratulation to all finalist. All photographies were amazing, everyone deserved to win !
And a special thanks to Switch for hosting this event. I am really happy ! *tear of joy*
Long Island RR Alco switchers at work. No other info, scan of a print in my collection. The print appears to have been hastily made (or perhaps the neg was damaged), but I thought it was an interesting scene.
GP-7 4296 switches an industry track in Elburn, Illinois on a very cold February 10th, 1988. This unit was rebuilt from the 1650 in November 1980 at the C&NW's Oelwein shops.
Cargill Alco S2M loads a string of grain cars at Gillman, IL. This locomotive was rebuilt with a CAT diesel under the hood. The Alco S-4 that was once here, an original Santa Fe unit, had been donated to a museum in Arizona.
ELS 1201 drops 2 boxcars inside the KK warehouse in Marinette, WI, wrapping up their work for the day, they'll then head light back to the ELS yard across the river in Menominee, MI
In the days when EMD switchers dominated the Lancaster & Chester roster, a pair of SW900's work an industrial siding in Orrs, South Carolina.
I switched Cassandra's eyes to the one's Chiyo was wearing. I think they look much better in her. <3 I think the smaller eye opening needed a more vibrant color eye to show up better.
IHB SW1500 1505 leads a local -past one of the very few remaining EJ&E searchlights at Bridge 631 in East Chicago, IN.
Local job AB10 has slid into Graces at Irondale, Alabama with their pair of SD40-2s and await further instructions for about ten minutes before the mission was aborted. Meanwhile that gave a chance to nab a few shots which were to include the old Southern Railway, Brosnan era maintenance limits sign otherwise known as a football sign. As the time dwindles down and just a minute before the crew heads back to the main, a passerby struts across completely oblivious to the soon to be in motion approximate
350 tons, of course I gladly wait. April 6, 2019
Here is just another from last summer when GP40-2LW MEC 507 showed up on the docks in Everett to work BO-1 in her sparkling brand new paint. Truly one of the most improbable things to happen in New England railroading in 2020.
The red white and blue unit beside them is the Ciment Quebec plant switcher. This unit is the last privately owned plant switcher to be found in daily use in the immediate Boston area. It is a cabless 125 ton Alco blt. in 1960 and acquired from the bankrupt James River Coal company. The unit is remote controlled and has a hostler stand on it and once worked at a coal mine in Kentucky whose lettering it still wears. I'm not sure of the exact history of of the switcher. Some sources say it was ex Baltimore and Ohio but another says that it was originally Lehigh and New England Alco S2 616 before being sold to the Louisville and Nashville that eventually traded it in to GE that rebuilt it as an 'auto-haul 335.'
To read the whole story check out the original post here: flic.kr/p/2jtoazu
Everett, Massachusetts
Wednesday August 5, 2020
GTW 4921 switches out cars at the Appvion paper Mill in Appleton Wisconsin. The overhead bridge was added in the later years of the mill.
The conductor of the L540 switcher heads back to the comfort of the locomotive cab for the trip back to the Edson yard
Three and a half years before the prior shot I caught train 911 making a rather rare stop at Caffey with 807, 383 and 717. The units were parked in such a way that required me to shoot with a garbage wide angle lens to avoid placing the crossing signals between me and 807. It was late afternoon on November 5, 1977 and the sun was about to drop into a cloud bank while the units sat pumping air on there late running 111 car train. After spending a good part of 75 and early 76 in storage the U-boats were back on the main making appearances east of Gladstone. About a year after this shot I seen my last SOO U30C go through Trout Lake. I've seen shots of them working in 1979 but none ventured east of Gladstone that I ever was aware of after November 1978.
The Helena Switch Job is quickly approaching Townsend, MRL 262 and 109 being the power for the 10 cars on today’s eastbound run.
I switched the wig out for this girl with a wig from Kit 2, as I liked it on her better than the blonde wig. I may have to dig through my wig stash and look for another, as this one isn't quite perfect either. She's a beautiful sculpt though!
I was headed to an estate sale last weekend and unbeknownst to me it was located in a shop in the Subtropolis district of Kansas City, MO. On the long drive in through the tunnel complex we passed this switcher engine parked on a siding in one of the tunnels. I stopped and shot two frames with my Mamiya C330 TLR...this one turned out the best. This was the first time I've been in Subtropolis and it is an amazing underground limestone cavern that is big enough to accomodate this train engine and semi trucks that service the businesses at this location. I shot this at f16 for 8 seconds and I was using Foma 400 film.
HAPPY TUESDAY'S TEXTURES !
These days, it seems most switches are virtual. We poke at simulated buttons on touch screens, or point and click on them on computer monitors.
Instead, here are some texture-surrounded real switches!
I have no idea what they control. It seems certain that the owner of the barn on which they are mounted does. I am sure they give satisfyingly real (not simulated) mechanical clicks when they are turned.
Does anyone know what the thing left of the switches is?
Is it some kind of electric bell?
Location: Village of Oetlingen, District of Lörrach, Baden-Württemburg DE.
In my album: Dan's Miscellany.
The only time I was able to get the pair of Whitefish geeps in any kind of sunlight, as they work the west end of Whitefish Yard making up the next day's Kalispell local.
BNSF 2689 & BNSF 3181; both of Santa Fe lineage have made themselves at home far from ATSF territory, being the assigned local power for Whitefish Yard on and off for the past few years.
October 27, 2024
Switch Escape was my entry into The 100 Project | 2019 .Original works of 100 Community Toy Photographers.