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Maine Switching Services hauls CSX Sappi-4 up the steep grade into the Sappi mill complex on 6/16/2024.
LTEX GP9u 1585 was added at the mill crossing, since extra power was required to make the hill. The track splitting off from the mill lead runs to a small 7 track yard, the slurry tracks, as well as two spurs into the warehouse. The is another yard to the north of the mill as well as some storage tracks in the former log yard.
Maine Switching Services
Train: Sappi-4
6/16/2024
Hinkley, ME
Sappi Mill Lead
The DM&IR Steelton Switch continues north over the LS&M at South Steelton with four cars back when the Missabe owned this line, but ran far fewer trains than tenant CN.
The Missabe South Dispatcher Keenan has green boards for the 213 as far as Nopeming Jct. along with a track warrant up the Spirit Lake Branch, allowing the crew to tie up at Proctor just after dark on 12/8/02. Consist was a normal looking DM&IR 213, 408, and 203 as the Missabe liked to use one of the regular 7000 hp PRS sets on this move, even if there wasn't much tonnage to move.
Mäntylä Hospital
The hospital buildings have been abandoned since 2010 when they were examined to be too worse condition to be totally renovated in other words the renovation wouldn’t have been economically viable. This statement meant that over 100 years old heritage of people treatment at the site would come to end.
The oldest buildings at the site were built in the end of 17th century and the newest and the largest one in early 60s. The yellow wooden building served as retirement house and it was the first of its kind in Lappeenranta Finland.
Nowadays the condition of the buildings is very poor. The buildings have faced a lot of vandalism and the most of the windows have been shattered. It seems that the destiny of the buildings is that they will eventually be teared down.
When Takagi does manage to threaten coax little brother Kaji to go home, he makes sure he gets his tea served to him for his trouble ;)
The East Broad Top crew has been had at work with track work over the past several months. Here you can see some new-to-the-railroad ties, the refurbished switches, and some nice and straight trackage. I can't wait to see steam rolling down these lines again!
For many years, CSX's Wyoming Yard was synonymous with MP15s and GE drones. Here we see regularly assigned MP15AC #1177 working with RCPHG4 #9249 on the Y193 switching job on the Old Even. The drones like #9249 contained the remote control equipment necessary for RC operation, making any locomotive they were paired with RC. Eventually CSX realized that maintaining the power-less drones was too expensive, and the RC equipment was moved to conventional locomotives instead.
After chasing L507 to Saukville, we got lunch and then went to Ackerville for a NB with CN 8898 leading just to shoot it and we then went to Slinger Road where we saw L249 switching Ackerville. L249 would pull to where we were at the crossing a number of times and this was one of them
From a trip to Pittsburg in May of 1992. A Trio of Union Railroad switchers pull a heavy train of gondolas at some forgotten, by me anyway, location.
CIE (Ireland) EMD GL8 readies departure from Sligo, County Sligo, with a passenger train, July 20, 1967. These engines have since been withdrawn from service.
Another installment in the small mech series. This time its Switch Fang! I tried incorporating the CCBS pieces in more interesting ways :D Hope you enjoy the build as much as i do :D Build video can be found on my youtube channel youtu.be/fLbU5Wno6h4
Fully Charged Live 2021 (aka Fully Charged Outside) was the latest event to be held at the Farnborough International site in Farnborough, Hants. The three-day event hosted a huge selection of electric vehicles including two PSV products. There was also an internal Park & Ride bus service operating using 8 buses over the course of the event with the addition of an occasional trip to Farnborough (Main) railway station.
I visited on the overcast Saturday and returned on the sunny Sunday. For the record, buses seen were:
On display
EL19TRC Westway Yutong TCe12;
c/no 400336 Switch MetroCity EV 8.7m;
Park & Ride
BIG822 Big Lemon Higer Steed B26F;
OP02ARE Switch Solo EV 8.9m;
YD70CFJ Newport Yutong E12;
YD70CFK Newport Yutong E12;
YJ19HUV Switch MetroCity EV 10.8m;
YJ19HVC Switch MetroDecker EV 10.5m;
YJ19HXV Big Lemon Optare Solo EV 8.9m;
YJ68FZN Big Lemon Optare Solo EV 8.9m.
A 3D printer would make this a lot easier... I just haven't had the time to build these crossing pieces (aqua) by hand. I'll hopefully have these assembled by the time Fx Bricks' P40 switches are released so i can also attempt to make 9V-compatible versions.
This mockup was done in Stud.io and is based on BrickTracks' R104 switch files.
Just another take on this scene from a decade ago.
Long before I ever dreamt I'd be coming here every night to work I found myself poking around Boston Engine Terminal back during the MBCR era while home from Alaska on my annual fall vacation. Stopping outside the gate at 3rd Avenue I stumbled upon the one of a kind work train engine going about a few chores on the Valley Track. This was back before the T owned and controlled the two CSXT (ex B&A) tracks passing over the crossing in the foreground that are now the regular staging location for work train cars and equipment.
MBTA 3247 is a rebuilt GP40-3 that began life as straight GP40 blt. Dec. 1971 as Chessapeake and Ohio 4092. She passed to CSXT and later Ohio Central until being purchased by the MBTA in 2004. She didn't wear her sharp OC burgundy and yellow for long until receiving this variant of T purple and silver. Last run sometime in the later part of 2017, she was already out of service by the time I started here in January of 2018, so to date this is the only time I've seen her move. Currently languishing in Rochester at the MBTA's facility off the MassDOT Cape Main she keeps company with the retired screamers and a few OOS GP40MCs.
Behind is the impressive high line bridge that carries the New Hampshire Route mainline (modern day MBTA Lowell Line) over the former B&A and B&M trackage here just west or south of FX interlocking. This is one of the last remaining pieces of major B&M infrastructure left from that 1931 project that saw the building of a new Boston Engine Terminal and North Station along with four new draw bridges over the Charles and Tower A interlocking to control the terminal trackage and those bridges.
Somerville, Massachusetts
Friday September 10, 2010
One of only four SW1001's built by GMD in London, Ontario, AXLX 7602 does some switching at the Axiall Canada Inc. plant (formerly PPG Standard Chemical) not too long after a CSX switcher dropped off some cars here. This unit was built for the Port of Montreal in 1976 and carried the same number in service there. They sold this unit in 2011.
This ancient RENFE (Spain) 2-6-0 (130-2056) was switching the docks at Algeciras, Spain, on October 4, 1966.
Fully Charged Live 2021 (aka Fully Charged Outside) was the latest event to be held at the Farnborough International site in Farnborough, Hants. The three-day event hosted a huge selection of electric vehicles including two PSV products. There was also an internal Park & Ride bus service operating using 8 buses over the course of the event with the addition of an occasional trip to Farnborough (Main) railway station.
I visited on the overcast Saturday and returned on the sunny Sunday. For the record, buses seen were:
On display
EL19TRC Westway Yutong TCe12;
c/no 400336 Switch MetroCity EV 8.7m;
Park & Ride
BIG822 Big Lemon Higer Steed B26F;
OP02ARE Switch Solo EV 8.9m;
YD70CFJ Newport Yutong E12;
YD70CFK Newport Yutong E12;
YJ19HUV Switch MetroCity EV 10.8m;
YJ19HVC Switch MetroDecker EV 10.5m;
YJ19HXV Big Lemon Optare Solo EV 8.9m;
YJ68FZN Big Lemon Optare Solo EV 8.9m.
Thoroughly enjoyable evening in an old print room, been a while!! Good to be back in the elements. Capped and lens swapped single exposure, with a pleasing line up, although the colour palate leaves a minging taste in my mouth. No time for a rejig - MITZ4138.
Switch House, Tate Modern designed by Herzog & de Meuron the extension to Tate Modern opened June 2016.
Concrete spiral stair.
Norfolk Southern H02 is switching Mennen Products in Morris Plains, NJ. This customer has subsequently closed and the factory has been demolished,
Marquette Rail's Z151 switches Van's Logistics on their way north out of Grand Rapids. To the right of the train is the former Pennsylvania RR right of way, which parallels the MQT (former Pere Marquette) north to Comstock Park. A pair of ex CP SD40-2s and a former B&O GP38 provide the power on this day.
MQT SD40-2 #3389
MQT SD40-2 #3391
MMRR GP38 #2057
~50 cars
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