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Norfolk Southern GP38-2 no. 5670, one of the railroad's Operation Lifesaver units, is seen idling in South Plainfield Yard, operating as Conrail Shared Assets Operations (CSAO) train MA1.
BCOL C44-9WL 4644 switches out autoracks in Homewood, IL, passing under the reused IC signal bridge and passing a maintainer.
The inaugural ITT Hub trade show took place in Farnborough over 2 days at the end of June 2021. Promoting "Innovation & Technology in Transport", the show featured many trucks, vans and around 45 buses, coaches and minibuses, most of which were located in an area next to the main cavernous hall.
Exhibitors from the bus industry included ADL, Altas Auto, BYD, Caetanobus, Dawsongroup, EVM, Harris, Ilesbus, Iveco, Mercedes-Benz, Switch (Optare), Wright Bus, and Pelican Yutong.
The next ITT Hub event is scheduled for May 11th/12th 2022.
A former Southern Railway SD24 (SD9 now) works as a switcher at a grain elevator in Cozad Nebraska. At the time of this photograph the locomotive is 65 years old.
July 2007 flashback- Fresno Traction (later PE) double-truck Birney makes a rare appearance outside of the carbarn during a big switch move. Sacramento Northern electric loco 653 provides the muscle.
MP15AC 1187 shoves loads of asphalt into the Owens Corning Trumbull Asphalt plant. The company uses it to make asphalt coatings and shingles. A few months ago they received covered hoppers as well on a second spur, but it doesn't look like that's currently being used.
GP38's all, 2 are ex Southern, one is ex Seaboard. Interesting trio handling the switching chores in March 2017
Maryland Midland's UBHF pulls onto the Hanover Subdivision at Highfield with their pickup from the CSX local. Once the crew clears the switch in the distance, the CSX job will couple up to the cars that the Midland has left for them. After the local clears, the Midland will back up to clear the switch and then proceed east back to the yard at Union Bridge MD.
November 8, 2021
Kodak Ektar 100 6x9 color negative
Mamiya Super 23
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South Shore 801 switching Burnham Yard shortly after the 800's were assigned to the Gary Switcher in February 1975.
I think I'm ready for this. Unfortunately, I won't be able to start playing a bit seriously until Tuesday night.
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.
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 second ITT Hub (Innovation & Technology in Transport) show took place in Farnborough in early May 2022. ITT Hub is the annual meeting place for the commercial road transport sector, bringing together the latest innovation and technology for bus, coach, truck, van, last mile and autonomous vehicle fleets.
From the bus world there were displays from Alexander Dennis, BYD, Caetano, Dawson Group, Equipmake, Iles Bus, Mellor, Switch, Volvo, Wrightbus and Yutong (Pelican).
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.
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.
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.
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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