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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.
A Canadian Pacific yard job with a Soo Line GP38-2 is switching tank cars at the Red Star Yeast complex just off of West Greves Street in Milwaukee. – As of this posting the 4414 is still around (although now wearing CP colors) – But the Red Star plant here is long gone, having been closed about three years after this November 2002 photo was taken and since completely torn down. ~~ A Jeff Hampton Photograph ©
A pair of Commercial B39 type GEs switch some cars around in the yard at St. Anthony. The engineer waits for the conductor to clear so they can shove back into the yard.
In the past few years CP donated GP9 CP 1608 and CN donated SW1200RSm CN 1382 to Exporail. Both are seen here, with CP 1608 parked and CN 1382 doing some switching.
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.
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.
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.
A pair of GP38-2s switch Catawba, SC at Resolute's Bowater Yard.
This yard is now switched by RJ Corman.
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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.
CA-11 with the NS 5221 leading hits the switch off the Penns Grove Secondary and onto the Vineland Secondary.
CSX YN2 GP40-2 #6957 is at work switching Sentry Industries on CSX's East Rail district, with a blooming tree creating some nice color behind the train amid the lousy weather.
Before starting their snow busting journey south to Eagle Bridge the Batten Kill Railroad Alco duo had to spot up some loads at the Cargill plant and cleat the mainline. The SNE RS32 runs remarkably clean but still will give a bit of that signature Alco smoke when throttling up. But you have to be ready and quick with your camera to capture it!
This was my first time getting to shoot the privately owned Southern New England Railroad unit working here since the day earlier in the year when I was lucky to shoot her arrival to the Batten Kill dead in tow. SNEX 5012 is ex Atlantic & Danville Alco RS36 (blt. 12/59) and is coupled up with Batten Kill's own G&J 4116 an RS3 (blt. 9/52) built 1952 for the D&H that has spent all of her life on the rails for which she was built.
Salem, New York
Saturday December 19, 2020
A dual in-line package (DIP) switch. Dual in-line packaging is a standard style for many electronic devices and DIP switches are often used to set various options on the device. Standard spacing between pins is 0.1" or 2.54mm.
Slightly less than 1.5:1 reproduction ratio.
Strobist info: the switch is lying on its back (side away from the numbers) on the diffuser on an EX 430 III at 1/64 power. A second bare EX 430 III at 1/128 power is touching the side of the lens and aimed almost directly toward the nearest pin-side corner to light the front and create slight shadows. The front of the second flash about 1.5" from the switch and about 1.5" in front of the lens.
After a long slow ride south from Crete, the first stop of the day is to switch the Nutrien fertilizer distribution facility at Hoag.
A Illinois & Midland switcher pulls four Buffalo & Pittsburgh power units and a few cars as it is assembling a train at the DuBois, Pa. yard.
CSX Q594 with 5 GPs slowly creeps through Tuscola past a switchstand that led to the interchange between the CSX and CN. The track has recently been removed.
Gefunden in einer alten Fabrik in Görlitz / Sachsen
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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).
To learn more check out the long caption with this shot: flic.kr/p/2mmJMoD
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