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Switch Escape was my entry into The 100 Project | 2019 .Original works of 100 Community Toy Photographers.
A BAR brakeman rides two free-rolling tank cars into their intended track at the Searsport ME yard, September 16, 1991.
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A pair of GP38-2s switch Catawba, SC at Resolute's Bowater Yard.
This yard is now switched by RJ Corman.
Looking back toward Boulder City with the River Mountain Trail switchbacking between Red & Black Mountains. An easy trail, mostly because of the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps between 1935-1937. They built quality, and they built to last.
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Taken with a 16mm Fujifilm extension tube.
Green Bay and Western RS20 305 is switching the west end of Norwood Yard in Green Bay, September 1979.
Natsuki - he's confident and "flirty" got a bit of a smirky playful side too. (Not shown here though!)
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
A 500mm zoom shot of a Seven Cities Scot Rail HST passing Greenloaning signal box working a Dundee to Glasgow service. The box has been switched out for a number of years, and despite the fact the passing loops have been disconnected, the loop signals are still in place. I suppose it is only a matter of time before it all disappears.
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. In the background the YS1 waits in the clear for the RJ2 to finish. Then it will be their turn to switch their train at this end. March 30, 2021.
Tri-X Pan, Rolleicord lll
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
GP38's all, 2 are ex Southern, one is ex Seaboard. Interesting trio handling the switching chores in March 2017
Eagle Railcar in Roscoe, TX has this former DoD switcher, with blacked out TXPF reporting marks. Regardless, I was happy to find them out switching cars and not hidden inside the facility. January 2018.
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
BN local switching an industry on Seminary St. in Galesburg, IL 5-31-86. A little added bonus from a brief visit to the City's annual Railroad Days event that year.
Strasburg Railroad's ex Canadian National 2-6-0 89 makes a switching move past a farm at Strasburg PA.
I love this doll a lot!
I suddenly went out with her because I had to take outside pics of her like right now.
She now needs white eyelashes (but I suck so much at glueing eyelashes T.T)
Just another shot from this fun relaxing day out on the Mohawk, Adirondack and Northern.
MHWA 2453 (Alco C425 blt. Oct. 1964 as Erie Lackawanna 2453) was repatraited back to the states with several sisters after a long post EL career in British Columbia. On this Thursday the crew ran west from Utica with a shirt train and switched in the small yard on the former Griffis Air Force Base before running out to the end of the former USAF trackage to work here. Once completed they headed back east with 10 cars via the fast running on their trackage rights over CSXT's Mohawk Sub mainline.
This is the major customer that the MHWA serves in what is now the Griffiss Technologies and Business Park. Sovena USA was founded as the East Coast Olive Oil Corporation in Utica in 1991, and 80 percent of it was acquired in 2005 by the Portugal-based Sovena Group, which two years later renamed it Sovena USA and moved it to Griffiss.
Rome, New York
Thursday October 28, 2021