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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Railway switch on an abandoned rail track in the Euro-Industriepark.
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182 east taking the final curve off Pipestone Pass and the Continental Divide.
Vendome was a small siding removed in the early 1970's after a derailment at the west switch.
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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.
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
CSX L614 pulls a boxcar from the Arauco fiberboard plant in Moncure. Located on the Phoenix lead just off the Aberdeen Subdivision, Arauco produces medium-density fiberboard at this location. Of all the industries on the lead, it is the most photogenic but also the most elusive as carloads are relatively infrequent. As neat as the YN2 leader was this evening, I was more excited to have a chance to get them on this spur - probably not something I will ever luck into again!
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.
El 310.022 de Adif maniobra con unas plataformas de contenedores vacías en el cargadero de Laumar de Vicálvaro.
Its a beautiful morning in the Willamette Valley as The Mac Switcher with Willamette & Pacific (PNWR) 1801 is seen shoving a cut of cars from Cascade Steel on the north side of McMinnville to the interchange track at St Joseph. I had originally thought this crew spent the morning spotted cars at Cascade from the east end, but it turns out Cascade has a plant switcher so all the W&P crew does is clear the outbound cars by shoving them up to St Joseph and spot the inbound cars on the interchange track. Oct 19, 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.
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.
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.
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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.
The brakeman of Boston & Maine’s Groveton switcher looks down the track at the next cars to grab as his ride approaches.
FEC train 915 brings loaded rock gondolas to the yard in Rockledge, FL for unloading. As a bonus, 915 used an SD40-2 rather than the typical GP40-2.
The gondolas come off of train 336 who originates in Medley and brings loaded rock to City Point near Cocoa, FL overnight on weekdays. 336 carries a few loaded gondolas for this location on the head end of the train. Every morning after 336's arrival, 915 comes to take the gondolas to this location. Typically, a GP40-2 or two are the power for this train but today was a different story. The crew of 915 took the trailing SD40-2, FEC 716, off of 336 along with the gons and used it for the day. They would later run to New Smyrna Beach with traffic for the yard and they would end up swapping engine 716 for 714.
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.
The Everett Railroad switches out their yard in Hollidaysburg, PA. Powering the train is a GP16 that's been down here for decades along with a newer B32-8 acquired from Norfolk Southern.
A pair of Lhoist North America Railroad jobs simultaneously work Lhoist's Crab Orchard Plant. FIMX 4021, a rare highhood B23-7 originally built for the Southern Railroad in 1981, is the days plant switcher. In the background, a GP35 and B23-7 prepare an outbound train for the Norfolk Southern interchange in Rockwood, TN.
After yanking transition gear out of there C628/C630 fleet the SP put them to work in heavy switching service at a number of big yards around the system. Colton seen there share of the big Alco's and a spiffy looking set of 3153 and 3152 are working there in September 74 in this Greg Stadter shot, Chuck Schwesinger collection.
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.
Soo Line GP9 No. 556 drills cars at the small yard in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of May 6, 1985.
Union Pacific’s Cache Valley Local crosses the Cub River trestle while backing toward their caboose at Presto Plastics in Lewiston, Utah the evening of Aug. 30, 1988. I recall at the time being shocked and dismayed to see a caboose tagged with graffiti. My how times have changed.
Respondek's brightly painted, IT inspired GP40 works a cut of hoppers in their park in Granite City, IL.
Rio Grande's Craig Switcher approaches Craig, Colorado, at the end of the Denver & Salt Lake main line.