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NYSW WS-2 switching out cars in MC before heading west towards PC and beyond to work industries around the area. SD40-2 #3022, a former Southern “High Hood” SD40-2 has the honors for the night.
The crew of Montana Rail Link’s weekend train down the Bitterroot Branch, formerly known as the Darby Branch, switches their train together at Missoula, Montana, on a rainy May 18, 2013.
Our Daily Challenge-Light Switch
This is the night-light I use and the light switch for above the sink.
Maine Northern Railway Train 521-11 switches LaJoie Growers on 4/11/2025.
LaJoie runs a warehouse here which loads and unloads products for the Twin Rivers Paper mill in Madawaska, since there isn't a whole lot of room at the mill. In addition to this LaJoie takes cars of fertilizer for local potato farms, in addition to shipping occasional loads of potatoes.
Behind me is the large Irving lumber transload, which can load 10-11 cars at a time with lumber from various mills in New Brunswick.
Once done working the US side, 521 will normally work the Irving mill across the river in Saint-Leonard, NB as well as dropping interchange traffic with CN. However on this day they didn't end up switching the mill.
At one point tracks continued south from here to Stockholm, where the line split with one leg going to Caribou and the other to Mapleton. The trackage from Caribou to Van Buren was pulled during the BAR's downsizing in the late 60-80's, while the Mapleton-Stockholm line survived for a few more years. After large plots of land were sold by the paper companies, the BAR got rid of the Mapleton-Stockholm portion after the loss of logs going to the paper mills.
A few customers remained in Van Buren until sometime in the 90's. Around 15-20 years ago, US Customs and Border Protection bought the remaining track running into downtown, to allow for a new border crossing to be built on the former right of way. Today the line dead ends around a mile south of this point.
Maine Northern Railway
Train: 521-11
4/11/2025
Van Buren, ME
MNR Van Buren Yard
I thought this shot could look like something else going on a few decades ago. The Illinois Railway Museum diesel crew was using CNW F7 411 as Museum switcher on Sunday 3/12/23. Among the switch moves was to pull out GTW RS1 1951. This veteran ALCO hasn’t been outside in some time.
Leased, or even owned, by the Texas & Oklahoma RR, this "GN" (originally Frisco) MP15DC switcher rests just north of I-20. October 2020.
... from workweek to weekend - TGIF !
African Elephants / Afrikanische Elefanten (Loxodonta africana)
Serengeti N.P., Tanzania, Africa
The Landisville Railroad's SW900M prepares to gather outbound cars for the NS interchange a couple of miles to the north. Despite the Chessie-inspired livery, this is a former Lehigh Valley engine by way of Conrail. Taken on railroad property with permission and escort.
Mass Coastal 2008 is seen departing Maritime Terminal Inc. in New Bedford, MA after switching out the load for the empty.
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Looking down Myrtle Avenue, MNNR 1983 and its crew is waiting for trailers to move out of the way to switch out a tank car at WestRock in Saint Paul. I have mostly seen this job get done at night, but here it is just before sunset in the shadows of WestRock itself. This is one of Minnesota's last active stretches of street running railroad.
This train of cars went back an forth across this road crossing 3 times on Friday afternoon rush hour as it navigated tracks.
Two rarities in 21st century railroading - an active interlocking tower and an end-cab switcher - converge at the north end of Washington's Union Station. K Tower is alive and well guarding the throat of the terminal and the surrounding area, while Amtrak's switcher fleet is kept busy pulling cuts of cars in and out of Washington's largely stub-ended terminal.
A CSXT local switches Kayne Ave on March 9, 2019. The days of an end cab switcher on CSX are numbered.
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Way back in September 1998, Rich Barnett, Ken Putelis and myself set out on a 7 day trip to the midwest. It was just after the merger of the ATSF-BN into the "new" BNSF. Luckily we did well on weather the entire week, and we did well with matched pre-merger consists all across Illinois . We covered quite a bit in and around the greater Chicago area, give or take a 100 plus mile radius. My notes show us shooting about 15 different railroads, mostly now all fallen flags. Toward the end of our week, we were all ready to kill each other, however the sun stayed out and the action was plentiful as we made our way back east. After spending most of the day on the Wisconsin Central, and getting an SDL39 leading, we ventured down to Bensonville yard, just on the other side of O'Hare for rush hour. At the time, I didn't think much of this slide, as were concentrating on the parade of Metra F40C's and F40PH's. Here the west end switcher job with a pair of former MN&S SW1200's drag cuts of cars momentarily blocking our view of the mainline. Such cool stuff, hard to believe it was so long ago. September 1998.
A pair of Iowa Northern GP38s switch the yard in Mannly, Iowa seen here pulling through the car reader near Harris Street. It is weird to think that the Iowa Northern is now a fallen flag and gobbled up by the Canadian National.
Decided to spend a cloudy morning with the Housatonic NX-10 on their trip down to serve their customers in the Danbury area. After running south from New Milford, the crew cut away from their train of empty dumpsters to pull and spot Pharmco in Brookfield, CT. While these two sidings are used by the railroad various times a week, they were both fairly grown in.
This is Mark.
Mark is the president of the Nevada Northern Railway - a national historic landmark in Ely, NV. The railroad Mark presides over is considered one of the most complete historic railways in the United States.
While Mark would never claim credit for the success of the NNRY, I'm here to tell you that so much of what you can experience today is only possible because of this man and his passion. It takes an army to keep this place running, but Mark is the spark at the center of it all.
That energy and enthusiasm is precisely what inspires me to volunteer my time and talents to the NNRY; I have no doubt other volunteers would say much the same.
This scene was taken in 2018 at the Photographer's Weekend, but it could just as easily have been 1918. Mark has checked the south switch of Keystone Wye and will soon direct NNRY #40 forward.
A lone ACWR SD40 switches out the facility in Midland on a cold February Night. The fog really adds to the scene here and its one of my favorite times to go out and shoot.
A pair of Prairie Line's locomotives switch Archer Daniel's Midland in Clinton Iowa NBH photo 10/16/2024
Bringing train 664 into Overbrook, 642 makes another autumn appearance on the Keystone Corridor. MOW is hard at work replacing a switch as part of a weekend project.
Escanaba and Lake Superior Baldwin DS-4-4-1000 202 switches Menominee Paper, Menominee, Michigan, on July 7, 1986.