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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.
A BAR brakeman rides two free-rolling tank cars into their intended track at the Searsport ME yard, September 16, 1991.
Kodachrome Professional 64
KCS switching the Cargill plant on Nicholson Ave., Kansas City, 10-31-17. You just couldn't go wrong with this paint scheme.
Once switching has been completed, Union Pacific's LDI04 "Local 4" with a pair of SD40N's begin to shove back to their train on the siding at Greeley, Colorado after picking up some gondolas and a box car at a couple of industries on January 25, 2017.
CEFX 1569 and NECR 3840 work the yard at Brantford.
1569 was pinch hitting for a power short SOR and would be returned in a couple months to CEFX. It would then end up in Cardinal Ontario.
With the lead B32-8WH swapped for an ACS-64 Sprinter, the northbound Crescent departs Washington DC for New York. In the background on the right, the Crescent's diesel leader can be seen getting ready to run to Ivy City. In the foreground is Metro's Red Line in this view taken from their NoMa-Gallaudet station platform.
Green Bay and Western RS20 305 is switching the west end of Norwood Yard in Green Bay, September 1979.
After a long slow ride south from Crete, the first stop of the day is to switch the Nutrien fertilizer distribution facility at Hoag.
Many years ago I made the switch from film to digital photography and have regretted selling my beloved Contax 139. I found another in beautiful condition and bought it. I’m still a digital guy with the Fuji gear I adore, but now I may throw in the occasional roll of BW film in the mix.
Gefunden in einer alten Fabrik in Görlitz / Sachsen
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The last major order of business for the now delayed yard job is switching SALCO, which looks best in the afternoon hours. Two boxcars out, two boxcars in as CSX GP38-3 2002 pulls the empties. The customer gets switched twice a week.
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.
I really wanted a good sunny shot here but they were all filtered light except for this one. Alas I didn't have my long lense on so had to settle for this wide view, but it's kind of grown on me over time. I like the brightly lit train and the foreground shadow of the cloud that is moments from swallowing the scene. This view of the whole yard shows its rather diminutive size that belies its role as the main hub of A&M operations.
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).
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Springdale, Arkansas
Thursday September 2, 2021
MRL 251 shuffles cars in the yard at Logan on a cool morning. It just dropped the hoppers ahead for the grain elevator and will now put together its train to head west of the 5th Sub.
MRL 844 Local (Logan Local)
MRL SD40-2XR #251
Logan, MT
May 2nd, 2022
South Shore motors 707-705 are switching at Sheridan at the west end of street running in Michigan City on a cold January 1976 day. They will pickup a train off the Sheridan siding and proceed to Shops.
CSXT Middleboro based local B727 (now officially known as L007) led by GP40-2 6237 (blt. Feb. 1979 as BO 4335 in Chessie System paint) and two sisters are switching on the Myles Standish Industrial Lead. They are curving off to spot one reefer at Americold and then will go pull one from Reinhart Foodservice at the end of track before coming back here to work the busy New England Waste Disposal transfer station. This branch is accessed from Attleboro Junction at MP 8.6 on the Middleboro Secondary a bit over a half mile behind me here.
The Middleboro Sub is strange in that it is owned by MassDOT and dispatched and maintained by Mass Coastal, but CSX still operates it and serves the customers as the direct corporate successor of CR, PC, NH, and all the way back to the Old Colony Railroad. In fact this particular segment of line here on the Myles Stabdish was opened in 1836 by OCRR predecessor Taunton Branch Railroad making it one of the oldest rail routes in New England. Becoming a mainline for the Old Colony it survived as a secondary through route under New Haven aegis seeing its last passenger train pass shortly before the connection with the shoreline was severed at Mansfield in 1955 to make way for a highway grade separation project.. The tracks into Mansfield center lasted until about 1966 for freight service served from this end, but then were abandoned leaving only the present 1.5 mile stub still in use today up to the large industrial park.
Taunton, Massachusetts
Tuesday March 15, 2022
Yorkrail's RJ2 has returned to Lincoln Yard in York PA and is now switching out the freight the crew picked up from CSXT at Smith's Station. A friendly wave from the engineer was most welcome. March 30, 2021.
Kodak Tri-X Pan, Rolleicord lll
MP15AC 1187 shoves loads of asphalt into the Owens Corning Trumbull Asphalt plant. The company uses it to make asphalt coatings and shingles. A few months ago they received covered hoppers as well on a second spur, but it doesn't look like that's currently being used.
Strasburg Railroad's ex Canadian National 2-6-0 89 makes a switching move past a farm at Strasburg PA.
A storm rolling over Newcastle harbour last Friday night. It has been a very long time since I've taken the camera out and even longer since I've tried to photograph lightning. Was happy to snare this one.
London
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