Switch Face (Hidden Faces All Around Us)
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At the Scheidplatz square is a major interchange of the same name from bus to tram to subway.
Here we are on tram tracks while in the distance one line 12 tram is about to leave (away from me, just to state that).
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Toledo, Peoria & Western’s Morton Switcher departs Morton, Illinois, with a diminutive train for the yard at East Peoria on a cold day in December 1983. The local this day is powered by TP&W’s only GP18, No. 600, and only one car and a caboose trails the colorful locomotive.
For switcher Sunday we see 2 former PRR SW's (a 7 and a 9) leading a westbound local on what was PRR's 4 track main through Canton, Ohio in December 1981. It's about to be overtaken by one of the many trailer trains on the 4 track main that was still in place through town. The building to the left was a Fisher Foods warehouse that clearly still provided some box car business. The freight cars are as cool as the power is blue.
Spent part of my Sunday walking through the wonderful beech forest at Ekedalen. This shot is made by 4 portrait photos stitched together to get a wider shot and to make sure at least parts of the tree tops are visible. It was my first visit there, but for sure not the last...
Chicago Bears fans take a short cut to the big game at Soldier Field.
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 125, f/6.3, 270mm, 1/160s
El 310.022 de Adif maniobra con unas plataformas de contenedores vacías en el cargadero de Laumar de Vicálvaro.
A pair of Delaware-Lackawanna RS3's have finished their switching at Bridge 60 in Scranton, PA and are now headed down the connector to the ex D&H tracks where they'll reverse direction and run to the South Scranton shops where Papa Don is waiting to give some tender loving care.
A westbound run of the Rocky Mountaineer follows Amtrak train 5 a few blocks behind (Amtrak was exiting Tunnel 2 while this train approached West Rocky), as it heads upgrade toward Big 10 Curve west of Rocky, Colorado, on October 12, 2022. The west switch of Rocky siding is in the cut above the cab of RMRX GP40-3 No. 8020, while the entire length of Clay…I mean Eisele…siding is on the level above, and will soon be traversed by the tour train.
A small railroad locomotive used for maneuvering railroad cars inside a rail yard in a process known as switching (US) or shunting (UK).
This one is at the Niles Canyon Railway maintenance facility near Sunol, California.
Another frame of BNSF local Y-SPM220 switching in the caves at the Springfield Underground facility. To learn more check out the caption with my first post of this scene: flic.kr/p/2mm7sxC
Springfield, Missouri
Wednesday September 1, 2021
Job 1 has arrived in Jackman behind consecutively numbered 9021 and 9020 and have begun switching the logs at Jackman to be taken back east by Job 2.
CSX 2625 and 5353 intercept traffic on Tarragona Street as they hook up to a pair of boxcars spotted on the spur to W.R. Taylor Company. Since W.R. Taylor only has one unloading spot, the crew will pull both cars from the siding, re-spot the load and take the empty car back to Goulding yard. This unique switching operation takers place as needed but sometimes as often as twice a week, depending on demand, but almost always at night. This day the crew wanted to stay ahead of an approaching storm and had no cars to switch around at the port, and thus they managed to get to W.R. Taylor just as dusk started to set in. While this type of scene might have been commonplace 50 years ago, nowadays this operation is one of only a handful of instances left in the entire country where a carload customer is switched out from street running trackage. Pensacola, FL
Susquehanna C420 2002 drills cars on the former Erie main line in front of some of the most-photographed brick buildings in the east.
A switch engine in Nebraska caught on film. Reality So Subtle 6x6 pinhole camera, Ilford film and caffenol developer.
Freeport McMoRan 49 switches cars at the Morenci Mine before making the trip down the 4.5% grade to the interchange with the Arizona Eastern in Clifton, AZ.
Powered by colorful EMD GP18 No. 600, Toledo, Peoria & Western’s Morton Switcher arrives at Morton, Illinois, on a snowy December 16, 1983. Merry Christmas to all!
The brakeman of Boston & Maine’s Groveton switcher looks down the track at the next cars to grab as his ride approaches.
The “We’re Here!” group is full of art school dropouts. Yes, I’m one of them. I switched my major after one year of fine arts instruction.
These days my efforts are limited to photography, but sometimes I dig out paints and pastels and mix things up. This image has a watercolor spatter layer and a pastel texture layer piled up with several layers of the photo. I also used various layer properties settings and one bi-color filter lightly applied.
At Weekly Theme Challenge we are featuring “Household Objects”.
CSXT 1203, an MP15T, works Reichhold Inc. in Jacksonville, Fl. I was surprised to see an endcab switcher in town as the vast majority have been sold off and left the roster of almost all Class I railroads.
BNSF’s Sandpoint local has finished switching empties for the Pend Oreille Valley Railroad at the east end of the yard in Sandpoint at Boyer, Idaho, on September 26, 2021. As an eastbound BNSF stack train curves by on the main line, the power will soon head west in the yard to pick up interchange from POVA before heading back to Spokane.
IHB transfer is coming through Franklin Park, IL, with a pair of SW1500's. The train is almost to it's destination of the Milwaukee Road's Bensenville Yard.
This is shot on 8-11-1985
Kendallville Terminal Railway SW8 #16 switches Kraft Foods at Kendallville, IN. Despite rumors of Pioneer Rail replacing the unit, I believe it is still there along with a Michigan Southern geep.
Powered by a pair of Rio Grande EMD GP40-2s, Union Pacific’s West Local switches the aggregates plant at the end of Rocky Spur leaving the main line at Rocky, Colorado, on February 21, 2002.
It feels like everyone has gotten sick of the MRL shots so I thought I'd switch it up a bit. Getting ready to move ahead after swapping their loads for empties with the UP, the track takes a sharp swing uphill leaving Plummer... a 6 axle might scrape the fuel tank here!
US&S switch levers light the board up like a Christmas tree. These are the types of sensory experiences this dispatcher misses most!
Sorting cars brought in from interchage, the two center cabs pass by a building that's seen better days.
NYS&W Alco C420 #260 brings the rear cut of COFC's into Maybrook yard during the "Shuffle". The double stack cars were pulled down the ex Lehigh & Hudson River Railroad tracks that we seen this train pull into town on by the other two units that were cut away. Now, this cut will be added and also pulled out of the yard. This move places the lighter container flats to what will be the rear of the train when it finally leaves Maybrook.