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The Reading & Northern Mount Carmel job switches International Paper in Mount Carmel Junction before returning to Port Clinton.
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.
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.
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.
BNSF local R-PWR4011, the Golden Switch, returns to Golden Yard with Burlington Northern painted GP39E (GP30) 2745 leading.
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.
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 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
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.
Our Daily Challenge-Light Switch
This is the night-light I use and the light switch for above the sink.
Delaware-Lackawanna Job PO-74 switches out the cars they picked up earlier from NS as DL3 to assemble the train they would be taking up the Poconos. This task ended up taking way longer than it should have because they apparently were asked by the secret service to clear out the yard of any freight cars as a "security measure" in anticipation of Sleepy Uncle Amtrak Joe's visit to Steamtown the next day.
Side note: the prominent building in the background, which now serves as a Radisson Hotel, was the passenger station for the Lackawanna Railroad in Scranton. 10-19-21
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
Two rarities in 21st century railroading - an active interlocking tower and an end-cab switcher - converge at the north end of Washington's Union Station. K Tower is alive and well guarding the throat of the terminal and the surrounding area, while Amtrak's switcher fleet is kept busy pulling cuts of cars in and out of Washington's largely stub-ended terminal.
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.
Those of you who follow my work know I have a thing for shooting freight under wire. Well this past Thursday I got a tip that CSXT Middleboro based daytime local B727 would be making a relatively uncommon move that was long on my wish list to shoot. B727 runs five days per week between Middleboro and Attleboro on the MassDOT owned and Mass Coastal maintained and dispatched Middleboro Subdivision serving customers and interchanging with the MC along the way.
On Thursdays they normally sneak out on to Amtrak's NEC main at BORO interlockong for a two and half mile shove west down Track 4 to East Junction to work a couple customers on that historic bit of trackage that I've written about in this caption: flic.kr/p/2jck93J
But there is one other customer in the area that every once in a while gets a switch. And on this day after shoving out they reversed direction and ran east a mile to a short twisting lead splitting off just short of Holden interlocking. This lead reaches down into the building of Polyfiber Inc. a subsidiary of Holland Manufacturing makers of industrial packaging, specialty coated and laminated products, water activated tapes and other products.
B726 has run the mile west with three cars trailing three GP40-2s. Just short of Holden they stopped and made two trips down and back on the lead to pull one empty and spot one load before shoving back east through Attleboro station toward East Junction. They are seen here pulling out of the building with three geeps to head back to the Amtrak mainline at MP 198.
Attleboro, Massachusetts
Thursday January 14, 2021
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.
Just another view from the East Randall Wobbe Ln. crossing into little five track yard north of town where the Arkansas and Missouri Railroad classifies its traffic.
This is train SFLO (the Springdale local) which was on duty at 11 AM with this pair of classic Alco C420s, numbers 56 and 57 both built for the Lehigh and Hudson River Railroad in Dec. 1965 as their numbers 25 and 26 respectively. They are seen here kicking up dust in the sand coated yard near MP 341.9 (measured from the Frisco's historic corporate headquarters city of St. Louis).
To learn more check out the long caption with this shot: flic.kr/p/2mmJMoD
Springdale, Arkansas
Thursday September 2, 2021
A pair of Prairie Line's locomotives switch Archer Daniel's Midland in Clinton Iowa NBH photo 10/16/2024
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
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.
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...
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
CSXT's L13605 is at Suburban Propane in Woodensburg MD along the Hanover Sub. The local has cars for the customer and likewise, the customer has cars for the local. Once finished, the crew will continue east to Emory Grove and run around the cars, then head back west to Hanover PA. The train's power today is GP38-2 2561-a former Seaboard Coast Line unit from 1972 while the other unit is GP39-2 4302- a former Reading Lines unit conveyed to CSXT via D&H.
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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.
CSX switching crew dismount to reset the switch after the train passes off the siding onto the main line preparing to head to Raleigh.
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.
SFG Train 565-11 has cut away from the rest of the train and will shortly start working the Groupe-Lebel lumber mill in Nouvelle-Ouest, Quebec.
The lumber mill is one of only a few customers on the Cascapedia Subdivision and ships outbound loads of lumber and woodchips.
Société du chemin de fer de la Gaspésie
Train: 565-11
12/11/2023
Nouvelle-Ouest, Quebec
SFG Cascapedia Subdivision