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After overnighting at KCS's Kendleton Yard near Houston, the KCS business train shoves out from the north end of the yard and onto the siding. After the crewman to the left throws the switch, they'll resume their journey south to Laredo to attend the groundbreaking of the new US-Mexico rail bridge there.
Also, with KCS's growing business to Mexico and southeast Texas, Kendleton Yard is expanding. The track under construction to the left is a new, extended yard lead.
BKCLR 27 (Business Train- Kansas City, MO to Laredo, TX)
KCS FP9A #1
KCS F9B #3
KCS FP9A #2
Kendleton, TX
October 29th, 2022
From the archives
An ice shove is a surge of ice from an ocean or large lake or inlet onto the shore.
Ice shoves are caused by ocean currents, strong winds, or temperature differences pushing ice onto the shore, creating piles up to 12 metres (40 feet) high.
York Railway's MPA job gets ready to shove its outbound cars east through York to the NS interchange on the north side of the city.
A pair of Utah 40s are shoving hard on the rear of a BNSF freight as they enter Nolan Tunnel on their their way to the top of Soldier Summit. I miss these days along the Rio Grande. Mar 2000
A former Santa Fe GP39-2 assigned to BNSF train Y-KCK2161-10A shoves through the wye off the Turner Tail Track as it heads to work customers along the North Turner Industry Lead near BNSF's Argentine Yard. This is the one and only unit left in Kansas City still wearing pre-merger, and it's typically assigned to yard jobs at Turner in Argentine Yard. 8/10/22.
KCS coal load CKCSH02 shoves back over I-20 in downtown Shreveport, with BNSF 9166 and 9039 on the head end.
After shoving back through CP Wilson's Alley, a BNSF crew will board for the rest of the trip to TXU Energy's Martin Lake power plant near Longview, TX.
Shreveport, LA 9/3/2022
Helpers shove hard on the rear of a westbound freight as it crosses over the WM's Thomas Sub, and the north branch of the Potomac River into Bloomington MD. The concrete marker denotes the MD/WV state line. The train is now starting up 17 Mile Grade up to Altamont, one of several hard stretches of railroad that make up the B&O's formidable west end. Once the through route to St. Louis, much of the freight activity is a memory today. Taken presumably the summer of 1969, no photographer listed. JL Sessa collection.
After switching a couple of industries, BNSF train Y-KCM1911-24A, the 19th St. Switcher, shoves across the diamond on BN 2 of the KCT at BN Crossing as it heads back to it's namesake yard. A former Santa Fe GP60 is being used as the power today, and fits right along with the Santa Fe Waycar, or caboose, that this job uses as a shoving platform. 12/24/20.
A now retired Metrolink F59PHI shoves an Inland Empire/Orange County Line commuter train through Riverside.
HOS 468 shoves a cut of cars south towards the Perry County Port Authority yard just south of Tell City, IN. There they will spot the cars at their respective tracks before cutting away and tieing down for the day.
The green of springtime has the slopes of Bozeman Pass looking more lively than the last eight months of brown grass. The regular 0800 helper crew is on their second shove of the day, trainCSCMRBC124.
Livingston, MT
May 24th, 2021
CN SD40u 6001 shoves into Kirk yard in Gary, IN with the hump job, 13 years after the last day of the J (1/31/09)
Another empty train for the pit shoves away from the unloader with more tracks in the foreground and the Tian Shan mountain range in the background.
Sandaoling China
Certainly not a Chamber of Commerce day by any means, but in the rare events when there's something interesting running on a NS line that sees two trains a day might as well get out anyway. The Wabash unit has just ducked under the original alignment of US Highway 280 outside of Alexander City, and will be put to good use shoving up the hills as the train gets closer to Birmingham.
In an uncommon move, CN 500's power is shoving towards Port of Montreal trackage, with beat up caboose CN 79834 leading the way as two crewmembers keep an eye on the shove.
NS G05 with SD60E 6920 shoves the South Tracks just before clearing the main at Griffin, Georgia in December 20221.
With everything else done for the night, CN L546s last assignment was to drop ONT 1603 on a spur beside the Uxbridge sub. 546 is seen reversing to that spot here with ONT 1603, CN 9639, CN 4798, CN 4709.
Woodstown Central shoes backward, to prepare for the next runby. Cool little locomotive and photo shoot.
Climbing the mountains of Indiana
Kankakee, Beaverville & Southern 315 and 312 shove hard in the rear of a 50+ car grain train to Lafayette, Indiana.
The C420 wasn't too well maintained as it seems. The engineer was sitting in the RS11, he must have had quite the ride on June 17, 1999.
Earl Park, Indiana
June 17, 1999
#dieselrarities1999
Eleven years ago, EJ&E 662 and IC 6204 shove M343 up Steelton Hill on May 3, 2009. Three J SD38-2s showed up to Pokegama Yard the previous month and they start out using a pair in yard/transfer service and a single one with IC 6204 as shover power. The IC SD40-3 had the helper link on the long hood so this was a common arrangement for awhile. Eventually 3-4 more EJE units came up to the Twin Ports and solid pairs were on the shover jobs. It appears this train was shoving conventional through here so they would probably cut off at South Switch Simar on the former DWP. During 2009 it was most common for northbounds to use the Peg on the directional running.
CSO-4 shoves out of CSX's West Springfield yard and through Springfield station. 2 matching G&W geeps power 68 cars for Hartford.
T35 shoves a cut of empty woodchip hoppers back to the chip mill at Royal Blue on the Jellico Branch.
A TRRA yard job shoves a cut of cars into the south end of the railroad's large Madison Yard in Venice, IL
The E&LS was working in Menominee where they switch box cars and tank cars before they head across the river into Marinette where they run a cut of 5 box cars and 1 tank car for Kimberly-Clark.
ELS 1202 (ex-ILSX 907, ex-BRC 506)
After running around their train, the Landisville Railroad shoves a lengthy cut of cars to the NS interchange track.
I've got 10 or so different frames of this scene I'll slowly add to the album but I think of all of them this is probably my favorite. Just something about a classic Class 1 branch line local with weedy tracks and perfect light....it just about checks all my boxes!
CSXT's Framingham based L004 (old B724) has dropped their train on the at MP QBU28.7 on the Fitchburg Branch and are shoving down the weed choked spur leading to Safety Kleen. This location is known as Marlborough Junction for the 2 mile branch off this branch that once led northeast into Marlborough Center. Abandoned by the New Haven in 1966, the approximately 800 ft into Safety Kleen that they are now now traversing is all that remains of the branch.
To learn much more about this classic traditional branch line refer to the earlier posts.
Marlborough, Massachusetts
Monday May 12, 2025
In January 1991, N&W C36-7 8518 and a partner shove empties back into the Paramont Coal Company loader at Esserville, Virginia. This was a short spur off the Interstate Railroad's Glamorgan Branch, built in the 1970's.
(Pentax K1000, scanned from Kodak Gold 100 negative.)
Sometimes too many collared doves manage to get onto the bird feeder and there's a lot of pushing, shoving and flapping that goes on to maintain their positions.
Fresh loads from Coal Mountain off the Cub Creek Branch roll past the signals at 'Lincoln' on Norfolk Southern's Guyandotte River Branch. Crews use a caboose for the ~10 mile shove from the loadout to Morri Branch where they keep the cab at.
Shoving northward towards the terminus at the Elkins, WV, station, the New Tygart Flyer tiptoes over the Tygart Valley River across the former Western Maryland Railway truss bridge with its concrete piers acting as blank canvases for local artists on the afternoon of June 25, 2023.
I think Della was trying to push her little brother Tug in the water today at the beach. Sorry Tug, I'm not going to save you. Della was probably sick of hearing me yell at you for eating dead fish!