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Union Pacific's LUC53 local pulls a brand new 75-ton Grove RT875 Rough Terrain Crane through the old Team Track area at 2nd South and 4th West in Salt Lake City, Utah on August 23, 1993. The two cars of farm equipment will be delivered to an implement dealer in the Centennial Industrial Park west of downtown.
UP 667 pulling the last of two empties from the north end of the trackage on Fox Avenue. I think the cars that are spotted here are for SeaTac Marine Services.
May 17, 2017
Union Pacific's tiny depot in Midvale, Utah awaits demolition on Sept. 30, 1973. The structure was located on the corner of Depot at Holden street in what is today a very busy team track, served by the Utah Railway.
One last look at L574 between the two freshly spotted lumber loads. They're highballing west kicking up a little snow. I had hoped to have a loader grabbing a pack of lumber as they passed but the timing wasn't quite right. The chase was on. January 15, 2024.
An MRL work train has shoved into a lightly used spur to clear the main, butting the "shoving platform" up against the old team track loading dock. One of the crew members is climbing onto the tie crane to move around some ties.
MRL Tie Train
MRL SD40-2XR #259
MRL Caboose #1007
Helena, MT
August 30th, 2021
The last rays of sunlight find UP 6240 (ex-SP 203) nose-to-nose with UP 2215 (ex-UP 6062) on the short team. UP 6538 rests in the background on the long team.
I found these Two Florida Central Locomotives on a Team Track on the Florida Central Railroad (Pinsly Line) in the Orlando Regional Area of Florida. The FCEN Railroad Track parallels US Route 441 in the Orlando Area. I'm not 100 Percent Sure, but I think the Team Tracks were between US 441 and where Beardall Street meets North Rio Grand Avenue.
GP7u FCEN Number 55, Built by General Motors (GM), Electromotive Division (aka: EMD) in February 1951, Rebuilt May 1979, ex: FC (aka: Fulton County Railroad) Number 2155, nee: ATSF (Atchison, Topeka & SanteFe Railway) Number 2680.
With the empty out of the way, the two loads are spotted on the spur. Two loaders from the lumberyard have already descended in preparation to start grabbing packs of lumber off the cars. Pretty neat scene, reminiscent of the old Lionel industries where the cars would be unloaded as soon as they hit the loading dock.
January 15, 2024.
The local has temporarily left the lumber loads on the siding while it backed onto the spur to pluck an empty lumber car off the spot. Seen just to the left of the locomotive are the tank cars that make up the balance of the local's westbound cars. A little farther to the left is the stone Colfax depot. To the right is the original Colfax depot (blue). January 15, 2024.
I found these Two Florida Central Locomotives on a Team Track on the Florida Central Railroad (Pinsley Line) in the Orlando Regional Area of Florida. The FCEN Railroad Track parallels US Route 441 in the Orlando Area. I'm not 100 Percent Sure, but I think the Team Tracks were between US 441 and where Beardall Street meets North Rio Grand Avenue.
GP7u FCEN Number 55, Built by General Motors (GM), Electromotive Division (aka: EMD) in February 1951, Rebuilt May 1979, ex: FC (aka: Fulton County Railroad) Number 2155, nee: ATSF (Atchison, Topeka & SanteFe Railway) Number 2680.
GP18 FCEN Number 59, Built by General Motors (GM), Electromotive Division (aka: EMD) in October 1961, ex: FWCR (aka: Florida West Coast Railroad) Number 1353, exx: LSBC Number 1353 (aka: La Salle & Bureau County Railroad, aka: Chicago Rail Link) Number 1353, nee: CRIP (aka: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad) Number 1353.
I found these Two Florida Central Locomotives on a Team Track on the Florida Central Railroad (Pinsley Line) in the Orlando Regional Area of Florida. The FCEN Railroad Track parallels US Route 441 in the Orlando Area. I'm not 100 Percent Sure, but I think the Team Tracks were between US 441 and where Beardall Street meets North Rio Grand Avenue.
GP18 FCEN Number 59, Built by General Motors (GM), Electromotive Division (aka: EMD) in October 1961, ex: FWCR (aka: Florida West Coast Railroad) Number 1353, exx: LSBC Number 1353 (aka: La Salle & Bureau County Railroad, aka: Chicago Rail Link) Number 1353, nee: CRIP (aka: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad) Number 1353.
Wood keeps moving from Mass City on the E&LS but with a full stock of empty cars it will be a while before a train shows up to polish the snow off the rails. December 27, 2015.
This photo shows the Florida East Coast Railway Society N-Trak Model of the FEC/ Walmart Exchange Tracks (Mile Marker 173) at Cocoa Yard. I photographed this photo during an N-Trak operating session in our conference room at the Miami Airport Embassy Suites Hotel.
This N-Trak Module shows Models of FEC GE ES44Cr Locomotives #806, #809, #823 and Liquid Natural Gas Railcar #300. Notice the Container on Flatcar Train passing through Cocoa Rail Yard. This Train is powered by a mixture of 50% Diesel Fuel and 50% LNG. The Liquid Natural Gas Tank Car #300 is between the two Locomotives Numbers 806 & 809.
N-Trak is a model railroad assembled with individual modules to form an operating N Scale Operating Model Railroad that can be quickly assembled for Shows, Displays, Festivals and Conventions. The standard module is two feet wide, and four feet long. See:
Former Excelsior Steel building in the background on the left with its front painted blue. The track on the right once crossed Division Street and headed all the way south to the southern tip of Goose Island where it connected to the track that came down North Branch.
Looks like the boxcar on the team track might have held rolls of newsprint from the looks of the object on the platform. The Tribune and Sun-Times were directly served by rail-I wonder who the off line customer was?
National Tea was a major customer south of Division Street at Hooker. Its former building still there.
I had hoped as SD40-2s these ex-Algoma Centrals might have a longer life on the roster than the SD45s but that didn't seem to be the case. Some found buyers when they left CN and continue to earn their keep for other RRs. Sadly, the 6004 had a limited future meeting the torch at Homewood, IL in less than five years. New Richmond, WI, September 4, 2006.
This was a nice first train to catch to start my third year in Atchison. Why I didn't chase it, or at least shoot it from the bridge in the background, are questions for 2017 Wes. Ugh.
The beginning of year 1, exactly two years to the day before this picture was taken, from the bridge in the background.
The beginning of year 2, exactly one year before this picture was taken, a couple miles up the line.
Trailing unit UP 6385, five years after this picture was taken.
MKCMC 27
I followed the oil train west even though it was against the light. While not the preferred approach, there were a few spots I wanted to get so I did some DPU shots. The first at Noxon was one I'd eyed a couple times. I was just ahead of the train so thankfully didn't have to wait long. It is not an easy or relaxing place to shoot, while I didn't have to stand on the shoulderless roadway the perch on the guard rail wasn't much better. September 1, 2023.
It was all peace and tranquility in Paradise, Montana on this morning as a horse calmly grazes. MRL 262 standing by on the other side of the fence provides evidence that normalcy has only recently returned to this place. 262 has the uncommon task of standing ready with a fire train. Earlier in the month the town had to be evacuated when surrounded and threated by the River Road East Fire. Thankfully the town was saved and this horse can go about the morning as though it's an ordinary late summer day.
August 31, 2023.
The sun lights up the scene at Dundee Yard as the ME 19 rumbles in idle. The crew of ME MX-29 prepares to make the pull to grab the EL U34CH 3372 out of the spot is has held for the last 14 years. In this draft of equipment is the NYGL GP9 1268, an ERIE Bay Window caboose C340, and NYGL FA1 Power-Pack 7375.
ME MX-29 @ Passaic, NJ
ME C424 19
Unassigned Power
NYGL GP9 1268
Standing by at the ready is an MRL fire fighting train nestled between a horse pasture and the Paradise depot. The train was used to protect the mainline when the River Road East Fire burned right up to and across the MRL. August 31, 2023.
Rare GP9 in use by the SOO Line. GP9s were used when trains were longer than normal. The track on which the train is sitting once extended past Division and down Hooker to serve the National Tea warehouse. It eventually linked up with the track that ran down North Branch close to Halsted.
At the time I wasn't too pleased with how quickly a lot of IC black displaced WC maroon and gold, but now I'm sure glad I kept dutifully recording the local power. Four years later 6067 would leave the roster and be scrapped and now, 8 years on, she is but a memory living on only through slides.New Richmond, WI, July 10, 2006.
UP 6194 (Ex-SP 148) is spending the night on the short team in Atchison after bringing in the day's MKCAT. The beautiful former Southern Pacific unit survived longer in its orginal paint than most of its fellow ex-SP AC44's, lasting almost another year before being repainted in mid-2017.
While CN was still running over the Barron Sub the team track behind the Weyerhaeuser depot was used for a time to store cars. It gave the appearance of big business being conducted through the closed depot. In a couple years CN would suspend service over this line and turn over the west end to Wisconsin Northern who would serve Rice Lake and Barron from the south. November 15, 2002.
A view of the C&EI team tracks at 14th place in Chicago. A C&WI switch move from Dearborn station is in the backround.
The water tenders of the BNSF fire train have seen a recent rebuild. The gleaming white tank cars show a stark contrast against the burned mountain rising from the other side of the Clark Fork River. Stationed on the stub track behind the Paradise depot their residency here was almost over as the large fire was largely contained by this time. August 31, 2023.
As a youngster, these tracks were still connected to the B&O main line and in use. They were located behind the B&O station and were a siding and teamtrack for the B&O in Dunbar. This short section and the stops at the end are all that remain.
After slowly gaining on this unit train for nearly an hour then getting ahead of them, I nabbed them curving through Fountain City. I'll have to scan a shot from here taken years ago, I'm sure there used to be a better river backdrop before the right of way grew in.
August 13, 2017.
The team track at Bradley swings back onto the main towards the west end of the yard as the sun sets. February 18, 2018.
It's a fine winter day at the end of the Escanaba & Lake Superior at Mass City. Mostly empty cars show that it hasn't been too long since a train came up from Channing to switch here. I'm determined to catch a train out here again although it is much more difficult now that the Ontonagon mill is gone and service is irregular.
IPCX 40141, February 15, 2013.
Spur dropping down off the west side of the Metra/UP North Line just north of Balmoral. This lead originally led to the spur that went to Tempel Steel and I believe a lumber yard. Nowadays its seems like it is retained for MOW crews or an occasional team track use perhaps.
Rail 2014 - Houten, Merchant Row System, schaal 0 (1:48) van TEAM TRACK (teamtrack.soforums.com/index.php).
Boxcars at the team tracks north of Division at Hooker. Loads for an off-line customer. Note the loading ramp.
Waste Management was a customer of the Milwaukee Road in this area to the northeast.
Perhaps a victim of the snowplow, this crossbuck is now strapped to a telephone pole in order to protect the crossing on the logging spur at Mass City. These Cloquet Terminal cars have the stakes needed for parallel loading as required for interchange to CN so they can make the trip to Minnesota. CTRR 5071, February 15, 2013.
Croswell at US 31. Team track might have been used to bring equipment in to repair Lake Shore Road bridge over the Pigeon River.
For a time, the house track was the home base for a local based out of New Richmond. Even last winter a Loram ditching train parked here for the season. Now however it looks like the end has come.
The little house/team/pocket track in New Richmond wasn't all that noteworthy but it was significant to me for all the various equipment that literally parked in my backyard through the almost 10 years I've lived here.
While I've known for a while that Washington Ave, just to the east, was to get upgraded crossing signals with lights and gates I hadn't figured out how they were going to fit them in a tight space. The first clue should have been last month when the good ties were picked out of the house track and stacked off to the side. The next clue should have been a couple weeks back when I watched the weed-sprayer truck hit the main and all the side tracks in town, except this one. Last night a Little Giant crane showed up on the canning plant spur. Today I got home and the rails were gone off the house track.
Few will note the abscence of this little double ended side track along a secondary mainline but it is a pretty radical change in the scene out my back door. The old house track had a nice hook in it and made a nice foreground to a lot of my backyard photos. I'll miss it.
Spur dropping down off the west side of the Metra/UP North Line just north of Balmoral. This lead originally led to the spur that went to Tempel Steel and I believe a lumber yard. Nowadays its seems like it is retained for MOW crews or an occasional team track use perhaps.
Spur dropping down off the west side of the Metra/UP North Line just north of Balmoral. This lead originally led to the spur that went to Tempel Steel and I believe a lumber yard. Nowadays its seems like it is retained for MOW crews or an occasional team track use perhaps.
A truck just out of the Lakeside Canning plant is about to curve over the Washington Ave crossing. Long guarded by simple crossbucks this crossing is due to get a new set of flashers and gates. With sharp angles on the road, slow moving trucks, and a curve on the CN just east of the crossing better protection is a good idea. To make room for the installation it seems the old house track is coming out.
The little house/team/pocket track in New Richmond wasn't all that noteworthy but it was significant to me for all the various equipment that literally parked in my backyard through the almost 10 years I've lived here.
While I've known for a while that Washington Ave, just to the east, was to get upgraded crossing signals with lights and gates I hadn't figured out how they were going to fit them in a tight space. The first clue should have been last month when the good ties were picked out of the house track and stacked off to the side. The next clue should have been a couple weeks back when I watched the weed-sprayer truck hit the main and all the side tracks in town, except this one. Last night a Little Giant crane showed up on the canning plant spur. Today I got home and the rails were gone off the house track.
Few will note the abscence of this little double ended side track along a secondary mainline but it is a pretty radical change in the scene out my back door. The old house track had a nice hook in it and made a nice foreground to a lot of my backyard photos. I'll miss it.
Team track at Croswell and US 31. This equipment might have been brought in to repair the bridge over the Pigeon River at Lake Shore Road. This team track was also used to bring in agricultural deliveries for the blueberry farms in the area.
The house track was the last side track on the north side of the mainline in New Richmond. Visible on the other side of the mainline are the siding and the spur into Lakeside Foods. Looking west, our yard can be seen butting up to the edge of the railroad yard.
The little house/team/pocket track in New Richmond wasn't all that noteworthy but it was significant to me for all the various equipment that literally parked in my backyard through the almost 10 years I've lived here.
While I've known for a while that Washington Ave, just to the east, was to get upgraded crossing signals with lights and gates I hadn't figured out how they were going to fit them in a tight space. The first clue should have been last month when the good ties were picked out of the house track and stacked off to the side. The next clue should have been a couple weeks back when I watched the weed-sprayer truck hit the main and all the side tracks in town, except this one. Last night a Little Giant crane showed up on the canning plant spur. Today I got home and the rails were gone off the house track.
Few will note the abscence of this little double ended side track along a secondary mainline but it is a pretty radical change in the scene out my back door. The old house track had a nice hook in it and made a nice foreground to a lot of my backyard photos. I'll miss it.
Spur dropping down off the west side of the Metra/UP North Line just north of Balmoral. This lead originally led to the spur that went to Temple Steel and I believe a lumber yard. Nowadays its seems like it is retained for MOW crews or an occasional team track use perhaps.
The Strasburg crew is backing a cut of grain hoppers onto the team track with Norfolk & Western #475.