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Fore River Transportation GE B23-7 102 (blt. in Jul 1978 as CR 1980) is switching out the big Twin Rivers plant alongside the shore of Weymouth Fore River. At left is a FRVT 01R a former Pennsylvania Railroad N5B caboose built in Jun. 1941. The vintage car is owned by a long time Fore River employee and is fully certified with an FRA waiver for use in revenue freight service on the railroad as seen here.
This plant is the railroad's only present customer and also the owner of the railroad company that operates the property on behalf of owner Massachusetts Water Resources.
Also sharp eyes will note the in pavement 'subamarine' switches. The bit of trackage on Wharf Street leading into the plant beneath the Route 3A bridge I'm standing on is one of the few segments of street running in New Engiand and is
To learn more about this cool little railroad and the Fore River Shipyard check out the detailed caption here: flic.kr/p/2juca6A
Quincy, Massachusetts
Thursday January 13, 2022
While I am fully in support of the Snowplow Sunday movement, there are many of us who can't participate due to lack of material. I believe others have started the idea of Switcher Sunday, and this is my offering fot this week.
After the sun has dropped below the horizon, a Lehigh Valley SW8 works one of the hump receiving tracks at Allentown Yard.
Detroit & Mackinac RS2 #468 is busy moving cars on and off the Chief Wawatam at Mackniaw City in October of 1976. Despite its name, the D&M was then a new-comer to Mackinaw City, having finally reached it via the acquisition of Penn Central's Mackinaw branch between here and Bay City earlier that year. Unfortunately, D&M owner Straits Corporation was not interested in growing traffic on the route, being far more interested in the value of the property owned in Mackniaw City itself for real estate purposes. They were quite annoyed when the other railroad in town, the newly formed Michigan Northern, initiated a rate flag-out that virtually tripled the amount of traffic crossing the Straits of Mackinaw on the Chief. Though the bulk of the traffic went to the MIGN, D&M always had the contract to switch the ferry. This all came to an end in 1984, and today only the docking apron and counter weights remain here.
This is a scanned slide from my collection, originally taken by Michael A Tedesco.
NYNJ 1502 & 1501, two low emission locomotives switching the 65th St Yard in Bay Ridge of Brooklyn, New York. This is the last rail served port in New York. This was a nice treat to catch while on vacation back in 2019.
Dropping out of The Gooseneck on Track 81 of the KCT North-South Corridor at Old Union Depot Interlocking is BNSF train Y-KCM1911-12A, the 19th St. Switcher, bringing a fairly lengthy cut of cars from Murray Yard to 19th St. Yard, where this job is based.
The power currently being used is a GP39M, originally built for the CB&Q as a GP30 in April of 1962. 5/12/21.
A pair of Cat-powered geeps switch cars in the Breckenridge yard while another job idles. The field have been harvested and tilled - a sign of the transition of seasons.
I had to overcome a fair bit of adversity for this shot, most of it my own doing too.
Every night this week, Melbourne has been blessed with colourful sunset. The one time I get a chance to grab the camera and head out, this was as colourful as the sunset got! Blah. No problem, I'll switch to plan 'B', some long exposure photo's. ND filters still sitting on the kitchen table. No problem, just wait a little longer and take some city skyline shots after dark - fully charged battery sitting on the kitchen table next to the ND filters. I only had enough juice in the battery for a couple of shots. I'm happy with this one, but there were far better vantage points I found on the long walk back to the car.
An eastbound Kyle grain train switches Arriba Grain on the former Rock Island main line in the great plains of Colorado on May 6, 2014. Two former Southern Pacific SD45T-2s power the train, led by recently repainted No. 3099.
On the morning of September 27, 2016, Portland & Western GP9 No. 1801 switches the PNWR yard in Eugene, Oregon. The 1959-built EMD is dressed in classy Southern Pacific black widow colors and lettered for previous owner Willamette & Pacific.
With Norfolk Southern, North Shore, and North Sunbury Bulk Transfer all using "NS", names can get confusing in Pennsylvania railroading.
This GE 50-Ton, former Navy, switcher engine has seen better days. With its swing couplers and side rods, I don't know if it is still in use or not.
western vancouver washington a bnsf railyard with strings of boxcars and flatcars waiting assignment.
A BNSF GP50 leads one of the Los Angeles Junction Railway's switch jobs through the many industrial warehouses along the LA River in Vernon.
A Union Pacific local has arrived at the sand mine located on the outskirts of Pacific, MO to do a little switching. A check of Google maps shows this facility owned by U.S. Silica and it is not only still in business, but it also appears to have been expanded since the time of the photo.
Another look back a couple years to my first successful Batten Kill chase.
#4116 is a real live burbling 244 powered Alco RS3...and an ex Delaware & Hudson loco (4116 blt Sept 1952) on D&H "home rails" no less!
Seen here switching out Carovail, one of the Batten Kill Railroad's two regular remaining customers.
Salem, New York
Saturday April 13, 2019
A GP15-1 and a SD70M switch out the elevator in Triumph, Illinois on the UP Troy Grove Sub before finishing their trek to the facility in Troy Grove.
When viewed small this image seems to be one thing but as it get larger it switches and it's true perspective emerges. I liked the pattern but also the surprise.
SOOC - pretty much.
The Columbia Basin Railway local is switching at Connell with its SD9s. Parked up in the distance is a short BNSF inspection train.
When a trip along the Union Pacific's Troy Grove Sub in search of bald eagles yielded no eagles, a stop at the sand plant in Troy Grove was in order. Here, parked nicely close to the road, was Burlington Junction 1510, an EMD SW1200 originally built for the Terminal Railway Association of St. Louis (TRRA) as #1234. This unit previously was assigned to the cold storage park up in Rochelle. This view is looking northeast from the end of the Troy Grove Sub.
Just another frame I like of this picture perfect scene as a Delaware-Lackawanna crew makes a few last switching moves before calling it a day. They are on the Mall Siding adjacent the railroad's yard office and base of operations located in the former Lackawanna Railroad's Bridge 60 tower. Located at MP 133.8 (as measured from the DL&W's Hoboken Terminal) just east of the railroad's large steel span crossing Bridge Street, the D-L's ex D&H main, the Lackawanna River, and tha abandoned CNJ right of way,
Leading is DL 405 an Alco C420 blt. Nov. 1964 as Lehigh Valley 405. Behind her is DL 2457 an Alco C425 blt. Jun. 1965 as Spokane, Portland and Seattle 312.
Scranton, Pennsylvania
Sunday September 14, 2025
The original Springfield Terminal Railway was an interurban trolley line from N. Charlestown, NH to Springfield, VT. After the end of passenger service, the railroad survived for years with minimal amount of freight, hauling mostly salt for the city of Springfield, VT. GE 44 tonner number has arrived at the B&M interchange at N. Charlestown, NH and is switching the lumber facility in the fall of 1977. According to Fred's notes on this slide, number suffered a major failure shortly after this and was replaced by B&M power. Photo by Fred Bailey
Being switcher Saturday, I'll draw a few scans from the Bob Barnett collection. Amidst the short lines he loved, was the Bay Colony RR with its' fleet of ALCO 244 powered switchers. Conductor Bill Feindel is preparing to switch inbound cars from Conrail at Middleboro, MA in 1982. This scene has changed dramatically today. Robert C. Barnett photo SC Collection
Union Pacific GP9 No. 195 switches the yard near UP’s car shops in Omaha, Nebraska, in June 1981. Mixed in the freight cars in the background are three former Rock Island bay-window cabooses, in three paint schemes, recently acquired from the bankrupt railroad after Rock ceased to exist in 1980.
Doug Harrop Collection • February 23, 1973
Pictured outside the UP shops in Omaha, Nebraska, UPMW 903999 is a 44-ton locomotive built as GE demonstrator No. 1399 in 1947.
It was sold by GE to the Union Pacific on March 28, 1947. Between 1956 and 1972, it served as the shop switcher in Pocatello, Idaho.
By the end of 1972, it was sent to Omaha for a complete rebuild. By February of the following year, it began its new role as the shop switcher in Omaha until retirement in 1974.
This Saturday morning special required a bit of research. I resorted to an old copy of New England Sates Limited, a magazine from the 80's that Fred and his friend Don Valentine published years ago. On a trip to see the "new" Mass Central RR, Whitcomb 44 tonner, number 401 heads north over Main Street passing the site of Mill No. 1 in Thorndike, built in 1845, on March 29, 1980. The train will pause at Forrest Lake Jct and head west over the B&M Bondsville branch to Diamond National Co paper. Fred Bailey Photo
A Reading & Northern "Work Extra" has just made interchange with the PICW at Penobscot, PA, and are blasting south on the main. The two "pups" in the yard are arranging the locomotives and freight cars for the run to the Creawood Industrial.
God Bless The R&N
A trio of former Santa Fe GP60Ms switch out freight at the west end of Kaiser Yard. We set up here hoping to get this power on the main after they built a train, but they ended up not leaving the yard on this day due to the Memorial Day holiday. This shot of them in the yard would have to suffice.
A CSX MP15DC shoves a loaded centerbeam into an industry just west of Duval Connection,after having removed an empty.
Doug Harrop Photography • September 30, 1974
A clean Southern Pacific Alco S-6 shuffles Amtrak power in Oakland, California. A grand total of 126 S-6 (DL 430) models were built by Alco in Schenectady, New York between May 1955 and December 1960. SP acquired far more than any other railroad with 70 of them.
Multi-marks in Brockville. CP Rail S2-7027, flying white flags, is switching. Note the AAR type "A" trucks.
The crew of 562 is stretched out from Port Robinson, Ontario over the Welland River as they switch out 421 and build 531 and 539 for interchange with US counterparts.
After setting off their inbound cars for Arizona & California interchange, power from M-PHXMAT returns to the main. Below the lead engine is the East Siding Switch for Castle Hot Springs siding. Although timetable-east, this end of the siding is northwest as far as the compass is concerned. The 543 was probably the best looking warbonnet GE on the roster two decades after the merger.