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GP38's all, 2 are ex Southern, one is ex Seaboard. Interesting trio handling the switching chores in March 2017
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)
On a crisp and windy Christmas Eve, the Exshaw switcher pushes a cut back into the Lafarge cement plant at Exshaw after blocking their cars in the yard.
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Taken with a 16mm Fujifilm extension tube.
McGill's Yutong E12 I5008 SG71 MXP on display and lit up at McGill's launch event for the brand new electric buses. McGill's have invested over £30 million in 55 of these electric buses. So far all of the buses that have entered service wear "Switch 26" route branding for the busy 26 service between Nethercraigs, Paisley, Braehead and Glasgow.
Switching one of the Facilities close the the yard located near Virginia Avenue in North Charleston. Interesting catch of a GP20 and GP16. GP20 #2008 appears to have been built as an EMD GP20 demonstrator EMDX #5626 While #2003 is an ex SAL GP16,
Mass Central GP38-2 1750 switches a plastic customer on the "Ware River Route" in Ware, MA. I bet people from Ware are sick of those jokes.
is powerful when you have complete control over it.
This is Satomi Ohashi, professional model and student,... she has full control over the switch.
The first time i saw her i thought "ooh, pretty girl,... now where is that model dammit, she's running late!"
when she's not "on" she's as down to earth as you can get,... modest, lovely and even just a bit shy,... you'd never guess that she's worked with some amazing people.
But once the camera comes out,...
flip goes that switch,...
and it's like she opens the floodgates and lets something from deep inside out,...
and it knocked me on my ass.
I've never been so happy to have bruised a coccyx.
edit: I'm not quite sure what happened in the lower right corner,... it's possible it was a shadow from a shelf in the shop window.
Maine Northern Railway Train 900-14 makes some switching moves at Skerry Siding on the Madawaska Subdivision.
Out of view behind the train is a massive sawmill owned by Maine Northern's parent company J.D. Irving. The mill makes up a large portion of MNR's traffic, shipping logs to Woodland, lumber, and chips for Irving's papermills in Saint John. Having just spotted a cut of empty chip cars, an army of front end loaders has already started the process of loading the empties. Roughly 50 chip cars, around 20 log cars, and 9 center beams can be loaded at a time. Depending on demand, the mill can be switched on both the north bound and southbound leg of 900's journey.
The empty log cars on the head end are destined for the yard at Fort Kent, where they will be loaded by the TNT Road Company which harvests for Irving Woodlands. Others will go to Irving's Grande-Riviere sawmill in Saint-Leonard, NB to be loaded there.
Maine Northern Railway
Train: 900-14
1/14/2024
Skerry, ME
MNR Madawaska Subdivision
An OTVR crew switches cars in the yard at home in Fergus Falls. Nice to see some train activity here where I usually get shut out from seeing any movement or signs of life. The crew would eventually spot the hoppers and reconnect with their other unit, OTVR 3045, sitting just down on the east side of the yard.
OTVR GP40
Ex-HESR 3044, ISRR 3044, ISRR 4037, ISRR 6554, CSX 6554, BO 3779
Out to the east of Cleveland there used to be the Fairport Painesville and Eastern that ran between Fairport Harbor where they connected with the Baltimore and Ohio and Perry where they connected with the Norfolk and Western. For a short time the railroad continued east of Perry but that had been cut back in the 40's when the planned traffic never materialized. The biggest customer was a Diamond Alkali plant in Fairport Harbor but they were a busy little outfit with several other online industries. Here we see a stone train crossing the B&O coal yard lead in Fairport Harbor. This would have been Good Friday 1968. That was one of the few weekdays that my Dad and his cousin were both off on the same day and they would pack up sons and venture a little farther from home. These 2 S2's were originally bought by the FP&E in the late 40's. There's a very thorough history of the FP&E online accessible with a simple search. Today there is a stub end branch in Fairport Harbor operated by NS to serve one customer.
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The Morning Helena Switch (Y HEL0601 29 A) is in the process of setting out their cars at Helena Yard in Helena MT, March 29, 2018. MRL SD40-2XR was built for the C&NW in January 1966 as an SD40. Nikon F, f2 50mm, 1/500th at f5.6, Fuji Acros 100.
Say hello to Mr Conflicted. Kaji is student council shacho, but has an alternate life outside which he hates but has no choice but to live out. More soon :)
Kaji is a Switch Milhwa on a Little Monica type A body :)
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
2532 spots a car of malt at Yuengling's Brweery built at the south end of Reading Co's St. Clair yards in Port Carbon.
Continuing in my subject/slideshow fashion we'll take a look at the R&N around Pottsvile. They serve what I think is still a team track and 2 Yuengling breweries around town. The Pottsville Branch from Port Clinton ends at Pottsville Junction, a switch which is probably technically in Mount Carbon. There is about a half mile spur from there north towards downtown Pottsville while the Middleport Runner (the former Passenger Main as this was from Port Clinton to Tamaqua) goes about 10 or 12 miles to Middleport. About 2 miles up the runner past Pottsville Junction is Mill Creek Junction and the connection(s) with the Saint Clair Runner to Yuengling's brewery at the south end of the old Reading Co. St. Clair yard in Port Carbon. The track to this brewery had been abandoned but was put back in in 2002, a great opportunity as the arch bridges you'll see in this sequence are on the wyes of Mill Creek Junction which was the relaid track.
The Soo Yard switch job arrives back in the USA with 408 leading a transfer from the CP on April 27, 1987. 40 foot boxcars were still very common in newsprint service at the time. When business was booming in the late 70's until the rerouting of most overhead freight in late summer 85 the Soo Yard switch job often made a few trips a day to Canada. By the Lake States era it was usually just a single trip and once back the yard unit would tie up for the day or often be added to the road power on train 12 and come back the next morning on train 11.
Bangor & Aroostook GP38s 82 & 83 are working in the yard at Searsport ME on September 16, 1991. Today's crew switched out the old friction bearing tank cars that were used for transporting diesel fuel. The Geeps were a 1967 delivery which involved the BAR trading in their two E7 passenger diesels towards the order. By this date, September 16, 1991, the 38s had now served the BAR longer than their E7 predecessors had.
Kodachrome Professional 64, Nikon N8008
A long abandoned section of track and switch arm for switching the train onto a different track out in the middle of the California desert.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to gold.
Click on the image because its best BIG ON BLACK!!!!
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
CN 7229 & CN 4700 do some switching in the Pointe St-Charles Yard six years ago today. The dwarf signals at right are on the connecting tracks of the Montreal Sub. Surprisingly they have still not been replaced at present.
MER 710 Begins to spot cars around Essetle Corp. to prepare for the next customer they will have to switch, after it’s done doing its switching it will cause a nice traffic jam before heading down the main back to Lakeland
Fully Charged Live! returned to the Farnborough International Exhibition & Conference Centre at the end of April 2022. Although no buses were on display at the show, the park & ride services provided a real mix of vehicles to enjoy including brand new electric Yutongs for Newport Bus, rare Higer Steeds from Big Lemon, and a number of local independent operators pooling together to provide a link to the main car park in Rushmoor Arena.