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Arriving at Townsend, the Helena Switch gets to work. The first order of business is splitting the consist, so that SD40-2 262 can be dropped off for ballast train duty. How classy is that Northern Pacific-era searchlight signal bridge?
Buzzi Cement in Ogelsby, IL gets full and receives empty cement cars to the Iowa Interstate railroad twice a week or so. They use the old Illinois Central Gruber line to head north to La Salle to interchange with them. All finished delivering empties, IAIS 712 leading IAIS 711 head back down the 7% grade to their ex-Rock Island line. To the right is their competition, Illinois Cement, which has little chance of getting rail service, as they are entirely serviced by trucks.
Belpre Industrial Parkersburg Railroad GP38-3s 278 & 478 are E/B on the former CSX Marietta Sub after spending almost three hours switching at the Globe Metallurgical plant in Relief, OH. Here, crossing Augenstein Lane.
This switcher has no been used in many years and now belongs to a museum who has yet to get it.
It is a former navy unit left over from the days when the Navy was the operator of the weapons station and has been reengined with an EMD.
General Electric 45-ton side rod switcher refurbished by the Wisconsin Great Northern for the Lake Superior & Mississippi tourist railroad of Duluth, Minn. It will be used on the LS&M in 2020.
Taken on October 25,2019, at the Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad of Trego, Wisc. The railroad offers both freight and passenger service over the former Chicago & North Western line between Spooner and Hayward.
This is a set of 6 photos showing the local Santa Fe job switching the elevator at Kentland, Indiana on July 2nd, 1986. Train had ATSF 3063-3071 and arrived with 9 cars. Crew set 5 hoppers in the elevator and departed with 4 cars.
In this photo, the conductor rides in to make the chop and set brakes on the cars.
A Canadian National Train does a switching move at Gilman, Illinois, after having returned from Champaign where it dropped off and picked up cars. The locomotives show the heritages of railroads that CN acquired, including Illinois Central and Joliet, Elgin & Eastern.
This is an old classic building in Sweden, nu it is not a Radioactive Power plant, it just gets it´s kicks from GAS, or did I read something about that Eon who owns it is switching it off, I wonder what they are use it for, it would be cool if the turned it in to a nightclub or a house of culture, like music, art and happenings, then again that would happen in sWeden :)
Peace and noise!
/ Industrial artist MushroomBrain
Claremont & Concord's venerable old Geep does some switching in the New England Central's south yard at White River Junction, VT, on 6-22-15, before returning across the river to its home base in Lebanon, NH.
An unmarked switch engine pulls and shoves loaded fertilizer cars at Ray Carrol Grain in Hardin, MO on a sunny spring morning.
Started as a bicentennial project in 1976, Bellevue, Ohio’s Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum has grown into one of the largest outdoor railroad museums in the Midwest. Indoor exhibits cover Bellevue’s earliest rail line, the Mad River & Lake Erie of 1839. There is a heavy emphasis on the Nickel Plate Road, and the museum displays several restored pieces including a NKP RSD-12, GP30, and 2-8-4 Berkshire. Other Ohio rail lines are not forgotten, and there are numerous pieces of equipment on display from Baltimore & Ohio, Wheeling & Lake Erie, Norfolk & Western, Wabash, and others. Some of these railroads are now part of Norfolk Southern, which runs dozens of trains past the museum every day. There are also many smaller locomotives in the collection, including an 0-6-0F fireless from Cleveland Electric and a Milwaukee Road Fairbanks-Morse H-12-44 (in fresh paint!), and an assortment of passenger cars that includes the first dome car ever built. The museum is well worth a visit if you find yourself near Bellevue.