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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!
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.
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
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 Mac Switcher pulls forward to set off their inbound cars and pickup outbounds for McMinnville. In the background the Newberg Switcher is seen getting in the clear.
Way back in September 1998, Rich Barnett, Ken Putelis and myself set out on a 7 day trip to the midwest. It was just after the merger of the ATSF-BN into the "new" BNSF. Luckily we did well on weather the entire week, and we did well with matched pre-merger consists all across Illinois . We covered quite a bit in and around the greater Chicago area, give or take a 100 plus mile radius. My notes show us shooting about 15 different railroads, mostly now all fallen flags. Toward the end of our week, we were all ready to kill each other, however the sun stayed out and the action was plentiful as we made our way back east. After spending most of the day on the Wisconsin Central, and getting an SDL39 leading, we ventured down to Bensonville yard, just on the other side of O'Hare for rush hour. At the time, I didn't think much of this slide, as were concentrating on the parade of Metra F40C's and F40PH's. Here the west end switcher job with a pair of former MN&S SW1200's drag cuts of cars momentarily blocking our view of the mainline. Such cool stuff, hard to believe it was so long ago. September 1998.
A pair of Iowa Northern GP38s switch the yard in Mannly, Iowa seen here pulling through the car reader near Harris Street. It is weird to think that the Iowa Northern is now a fallen flag and gobbled up by the Canadian National.
Decided to spend a cloudy morning with the Housatonic NX-10 on their trip down to serve their customers in the Danbury area. After running south from New Milford, the crew cut away from their train of empty dumpsters to pull and spot Pharmco in Brookfield, CT. While these two sidings are used by the railroad various times a week, they were both fairly grown in.
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
Another serendipitous moment to find BNSF 536 switching Continental Cement Co. on the west bank of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis north of downtown. Fun to see some life on this former piece of Northern Pacific trackage that connected downtown Minneapolis to Northtown Yard.
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.
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.
A pair of Prairie Line's locomotives switch Archer Daniel's Midland in Clinton Iowa NBH photo 10/16/2024
Escanaba and Lake Superior Baldwin DS-4-4-1000 202 switches Menominee Paper, Menominee, Michigan, on July 7, 1986.
While I was waiting for the southbound Amtrak Talgo funeral train, Union Pacific sent this nice SD40N/Slug combo up the Brooklyn Yard lead. That's the Eastmoreland Golf Course across the tracks in Southeast Portland, Oregon.
Reproduced 35mm slide
Photo shot by my Dad, Jay Thomson, Jan. 20, 1980
Dad found a couple of SW7s sitting at the station in Cartersville, GA in January 1980. Judging by the blur on the tank car behind the switcher it looks like there was a moving mixed freight going by at the same time Dad was shooting this one.
This original slide is now up for auction on eBay. You can find the auction listing here:
Macro shot of a Hama Wireless Remote, unfortunately I forgot to remove the dust and noise so here it is “warts and all”.
Three yard goats help break out switches at the CHS elevator in Superior prior to BNSF delivering a cut of grain hoppers. The freeze/thaw cycle the past few days has really played havoc with switches.
Amtrak 533 (SW1500) shoves a cut of Amfleets into Ivy City. An older SW9 (796) rests behind it.
Of note about 533 is the cylindrical spark arrestors. And of note about 796 is the “Redblock” logo on the side of the cab (not visible here)
Nice to see someone else out here too, shoutout to Austin tagged in the post, check out his photos!
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:
www.flickr.com/photos/henry_dell/15445579949/in/photolist...
Owens Corning Roofing, switched to trucks at several facilities across the US with limestone shipments:
www.flickr.com/photos/henry_dell/14510986414/in/album-721...
Steelcon Supply, may or may not get service still - hasn't gotten a car in months:
www.flickr.com/photos/henry_dell/14512630714/in/album-721...
www.flickr.com/photos/henry_dell/28915284395/in/album-721...
Manson Construction, reactived its spur for about a year to receive rock for dredging project:
www.flickr.com/photos/henry_dell/22147836598/in/album-721...
www.flickr.com/photos/henry_dell/23119879146/in/album-721...
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.
The Aspen trees are a brilliant yellow as BNSF's Golden Local switches cars with a pair of SD40-2s.
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