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US&S switch levers light the board up like a Christmas tree. These are the types of sensory experiences this dispatcher misses most!
Union Pacific’s Cache Valley Local crosses the Cub River trestle while backing toward their caboose at Presto Plastics in Lewiston, Utah the evening of Aug. 30, 1988. I recall at the time being shocked and dismayed to see a caboose tagged with graffiti. My how times have changed.
While I am fully in support of the Snowplow Sunday movement, there are many of us who can't participate due to lack of material. I believe others have started the idea of Switcher Sunday, and this is my offering fot this week.
After the sun has dropped below the horizon, a Lehigh Valley SW8 works one of the hump receiving tracks at Allentown Yard.
Rio Grande's Craig Switcher approaches Craig, Colorado, at the end of the Denver & Salt Lake main line.
NYNJ 1502 & 1501, two low emission locomotives switching the 65th St Yard in Bay Ridge of Brooklyn, New York. This is the last rail served port in New York. This was a nice treat to catch while on vacation back in 2019.
An eastbound Kyle grain train switches Arriba Grain on the former Rock Island main line in the great plains of Colorado on May 6, 2014. Two former Southern Pacific SD45T-2s power the train, led by recently repainted No. 3099.
A pair of Cat-powered geeps switch cars in the Breckenridge yard while another job idles. The field have been harvested and tilled - a sign of the transition of seasons.
Delaware & Hudson RS11 5007 switches the yard in Taylor, Pennsylvania. Piggyback cars with general freight and cabooses were still a not-too-uncommon sight in the mid-1980’s, but were rapidly disappearing.
Antiguo interruptor y fusibles de porcelana eléctrico
Old electric switch and fuse porcelain.
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With Norfolk Southern, North Shore, and North Sunbury Bulk Transfer all using "NS", names can get confusing in Pennsylvania railroading.
This GE 50-Ton, former Navy, switcher engine has seen better days. With its swing couplers and side rods, I don't know if it is still in use or not.
western vancouver washington a bnsf railyard with strings of boxcars and flatcars waiting assignment.
A BNSF GP50 leads one of the Los Angeles Junction Railway's switch jobs through the many industrial warehouses along the LA River in Vernon.
A Union Pacific local has arrived at the sand mine located on the outskirts of Pacific, MO to do a little switching. A check of Google maps shows this facility owned by U.S. Silica and it is not only still in business, but it also appears to have been expanded since the time of the photo.
Toledo, Peoria & Western’s Morton Switcher, powered by the road’s lone EMD GP18 No. 600, switches a lumber yard at Morton, Illinois, on December 16, 1983.
Another look back a couple years to my first successful Batten Kill chase.
#4116 is a real live burbling 244 powered Alco RS3...and an ex Delaware & Hudson loco (4116 blt Sept 1952) on D&H "home rails" no less!
Seen here switching out Carovail, one of the Batten Kill Railroad's two regular remaining customers.
Salem, New York
Saturday April 13, 2019
Just another frame I like of this picture perfect scene as a Delaware-Lackawanna crew makes a few last switching moves before calling it a day. They are on the Mall Siding adjacent the railroad's yard office and base of operations located in the former Lackawanna Railroad's Bridge 60 tower. Located at MP 133.8 (as measured from the DL&W's Hoboken Terminal) just east of the railroad's large steel span crossing Bridge Street, the D-L's ex D&H main, the Lackawanna River, and tha abandoned CNJ right of way,
Leading is DL 405 an Alco C420 blt. Nov. 1964 as Lehigh Valley 405. Behind her is DL 2457 an Alco C425 blt. Jun. 1965 as Spokane, Portland and Seattle 312.
Scranton, Pennsylvania
Sunday September 14, 2025
The Columbia Basin Railway local is switching at Connell with its SD9s. Parked up in the distance is a short BNSF inspection train.
The original Springfield Terminal Railway was an interurban trolley line from N. Charlestown, NH to Springfield, VT. After the end of passenger service, the railroad survived for years with minimal amount of freight, hauling mostly salt for the city of Springfield, VT. GE 44 tonner number has arrived at the B&M interchange at N. Charlestown, NH and is switching the lumber facility in the fall of 1977. According to Fred's notes on this slide, number suffered a major failure shortly after this and was replaced by B&M power. Photo by Fred Bailey
Being switcher Saturday, I'll draw a few scans from the Bob Barnett collection. Amidst the short lines he loved, was the Bay Colony RR with its' fleet of ALCO 244 powered switchers. Conductor Bill Feindel is preparing to switch inbound cars from Conrail at Middleboro, MA in 1982. This scene has changed dramatically today. Robert C. Barnett photo SC Collection
Union Pacific GP9 No. 195 switches the yard near UP’s car shops in Omaha, Nebraska, in June 1981. Mixed in the freight cars in the background are three former Rock Island bay-window cabooses, in three paint schemes, recently acquired from the bankrupt railroad after Rock ceased to exist in 1980.
On April 7, 2008, SMS SW1200RS #1337 leaves Delanson, NY with a one-car train for Guilderland. Scanned from a Fujichrome Provia 100F slide.
Milwaukee Road SW1200 switches industry along the banks of the Mississippi River at Wabasha, MN back in 1983. Amazingly, this 1954 built diesel is still in service on the Twin Cities & Western! Pretty much everything else is gone. We're at the corner of Bridge Ave and Lawrence Blvd. The bridge shown in the background connecting Wabasha with Nelson, WI was replaced by a new structure in 1988. This bridge had a crazy approach and tight curve before crossing the river.
A Reading & Northern "Work Extra" has just made interchange with the PICW at Penobscot, PA, and are blasting south on the main. The two "pups" in the yard are arranging the locomotives and freight cars for the run to the Creawood Industrial.
God Bless The R&N
Doug Harrop Photography • September 30, 1974
A clean Southern Pacific Alco S-6 shuffles Amtrak power in Oakland, California. A grand total of 126 S-6 (DL 430) models were built by Alco in Schenectady, New York between May 1955 and December 1960. SP acquired far more than any other railroad with 70 of them.
A westbound Kyle train does work in Stratton, Colorado, while the sun plays hide and seek with the train. There are two former SD45s on the line, this one with RCPE reporting marks and another with Kyle reporting marks and logos.