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A pair of Geeps shove a cut of scrap gons into Tri Coastal Trading in east Houston. The scrap will be loaded into barges on Buffalo Bayou on the opposite side of the facility.
YHO75R 27
UP GP60 #1043
UP GP38-2 #553
Houston, TX
December 27th, 2022
For this switcher Sunday, we're in Tulsa Oklahoma on May 22, 1980 and see an SW7 drilling the rear end of a freight that had come into Cherokee Yard from the east. This was a quick stop over for me on the way home from a year long work assignment in Texas. I was anxious to get home but Tulsa deserved a lot more time. Sadly, I've not been back.
Hoboken Paints was an active customer on NYS&W's Lodi Branch into at least the early 90s. Service was infrequent, but if a clay slurry tank car appeared on a local, there was a good chance it was headed to Hoboken Paints. Here we see 1804 working in the weeds on the siding, which ran parallel to the Division of Motor Vehicles facility in Lodi. Most likely the Engelhard car was an empty which will be pulled, and the loaded car spotted in its place. Today Hoboken Paints is gone. The building still stands, but there is hardly any trace of the siding, which crossed Gregg Street after diverging from the Lodi Branch (which, itself, is now a memory).
NYSW 1804 GP18
Duluth & Northeastern 14 is on switching duty the railroad's base town of Cloquet, MN. 14 is now owned by the Sierra Railroad, acquired in 2022 from the now defunct Filmore and Western Railway.
9-21-1963
Photographer Unknown - Jacob Narup Collection
Union Pacific SD45 No. 3637 performs a 'flying switch' in Provo, Utah on July 3, 1977. Merriam-Webster defines this as 'a maneuver in which one or more railroad cars are disconnected from a locomotive while moving and as the locomotive pulls away are switched to another track to roll to a desired position under their own momentum.'
Interior of the main gate guard shack on the Green River Missile Base and Launch Complex, Green River, Utah.
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MRL's Helena Local switches hoppers at the Graymont lime facility in Townsend on the 2nd Sub.
MRL 840 Local (Helena Local)
MRL GP9 #109
MRL SD40-2XR #252
Townsend, MT
May 4th, 2022
Led by P&W GP38-2 2007, Providence and Worcester’s daily local PR-3 based out of Valley Falls, RI is seen switching out some hoppers at Teknor-Apex on the East Providence Branch, after switching Teknor they would head down the line to Key Container where they had 1 boxcar to spot today.
The Pointe St-Charles Switcher works their namesake yard with a GTW caboose in tow. Power is CN 9584 & CN 4721.
After arriving from the CN interchange at Joffre Yard with a dozen cars, the Sartigan is switching Logibel, an important client of this growing shortline.
Two "CROW" EMD SW's working for Cliff's Steel of Cleveland, OH, shove against some "hot bottle" cars for their next pouring.
This shot was taken from the public access on Independence Ave.
NECR 4049 accompanied by Bay Line 3018 and 2078 switch cars in the CSX interchange.
A recent derailment at the interchange set things back for the Bay Line so today was the day they had to make up for lost time. Unfortunately, making up for lost time in Dothan meant that the Hilton turn wouldn't run which was the main reason my friends and I were out here. Although we didn't get exactly what we had hoped for, I am glad we at least had the opportunity to see something operate out here.
PHL's YPUP01 job switches out the yard at Pier B in Long Beach. Behind the power the signal cantilever for CP-GASPUR can be seen. Like many May mornings in the South Bay, the morning is gray and gloomy but the skies do at least compliment the power somewhat. The PHL 68 was originally built for the Southern Pacific as an SD40.
Switch grass makes airy curtains with views of the marina in the background.
The sailboats add to an interesting bokeh on a sunny,warm September afternoon :)
After switching at the east end of town for a while the 9011 and 9014 shove into the west end of the yard to start the remainder of their work before shoving into the clear for the Maine Northern to pass by. What was supposed to be a short wait for the Maine Northern would turn out to be over a 2 hour wait which gave me a lot of time to do some time exposures and chat with the crew.
Y193 goes about its switching duties on the Old Even at Wyoming Yard with MP15DC #1146 and RCPHE4 #9120. The drone was 1 of 4 former GP40s converted to RC drones that called Grand Rapids home for many years. 3 wore Chessie paint while the other was in MOW orange. A few years later all were rebuilt into 2300 series RDMT Road Slugs.
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CNW SD40-2 6847, built in March 1974, idles in Union on a partially cloudy May afternoon. The crew breifly discusses what their plan is to pull the locomotives in tow out of the shop and to move CNW 6847 onto a seperate track. Today's plan was to get CB&Q SD24 504 out of the shop to use the outdoor crane to replace the radiator, and CNW 6847 was the designated shop switcher for the day. While this may look like a scene straight out of a 1980s Chicago and North Western railyard, in reality CNW 6847 is currently owned and operated by the Illinois Railway Museum and was switching power around the Diesel Locomotive Restoration Shop.
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Union, Illinois, USA
May 24, 2025
Canon EOS 60D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
After switching around Weyers Cave VA. Shenandoah Valley’s former B&O GP9 6512 will pick up her train and head back to Staunton.
The crew of Battle River Railway 5353 stuff as many storage cars as they can into the short siding at Kelsey Alberta
" Lets get the drill on P&H 1 lined for the naught..The yard job on P&H 2 for the Waverly runner ...and I got a transfer job from the Garden waiting to come off the NY BAY Line spur ..and he's on SHORT TIME......"
WA5 in the good ole days on a Saturday morning ..a switch tenders nightmare
Newark NJ WA5 P&H Branch/Greenville Branch CR
I remember the RS-1's floating around on the SOO but I was a little to young to have shot any. This view of 353 switching at Stevens Point on September 10, 1966 represented pretty much what the did in there later years, yard work and local service. Early on before the merger the DSS&A used there RS-1's on the passenger trains and also in switching service. Catching a back to back pair wasn't uncommon on the St- Ignace-Marquette freight although it generally was assigned Baldwins. Most likely a Joe Stauber shot, Chuck Schwesinger collection.
A Conrail local freight powered by Erie Lackawanna SW9 447 does some switching work at the junction of the Northern Branch and the Piermont Branch at Sparkill, New York, USA, 2 June 1977.
February 13, 2011: A mine run switches dolomite hoppers in the storage tracks at Riverview (Tacoma), Virginia on the the N&W Clinch Valley District.
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A mashup of a guilty pleasure from the cupboard and an electric gadget. The grainy-looking orange gummi bear is what's left of a container of sour gummi bears from the bulk section of a local market. The orange ones are my favorite, so in an OCD-driven way, I work on other colors and save the orange ones for last. The granular coating contains malic acid, the substance that naturally give sour fruits their tang and is used as an additive to impart sourness, usually in candy.
The orange illuminated pushbutton switch was purchased along with the red and green ones I've posted before. I originally planned to feature the sweet by itself until inspiration struck. I hope you all like this!
Dedicated to the late Hans Holt.
Explored July 26, 2023 (Explore takeover day; Orange theme)
The Torrance Local shoves back into the lumber yard at Gardena passing one of the two remaining Wig Wag crossing signals on this short stretch of Pacific Electric trackage.
Iowa Traction Railway steeple cabs Nos. 60 and 51 switch the yard at Emery on the west side of Mason City, Iowa, on April 15, 2008. IATR No. 60 was built by Baldwin-Westinghouse originally for Youngstown & Ohio, while No. 51 originally worked for Northeastern Oklahoma Railway. No. 60 is 100 years old in 2017, while sister No. 51 is four years younger—both providing 196 years of rail service!