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Copper plated terminals on a rotary switch. This switch will be used in an electric guitar to select which set(s) of pickups get used. For Macro Mondays theme "periodic table" (copper - Cu) and for 2016: one photo each day (185/366).
Sorting cars brought in from interchage, the two center cabs pass by a building that's seen better days.
US&S switch levers light the board up like a Christmas tree. These are the types of sensory experiences this dispatcher misses most!
During the late 90's into the early 2000s, it was common for the P&W's Sunday Worcester extra to finish its' day with a side trip north to Gardner, MA to grab interchange from Guilford (B&M). Long before Med City-St. Vincent Hospital was built over the tracks altering the downtown Worcester scene, the Sunday extra with SW-7's 1201-1202 creep up the connection switch to access 2 in the hill. Engineer Bob Borelli and Conductor Chris Devlin waste no time, as the day is coming to a end. Richard C. Barnett photo SC Collection
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.
With both of the blue Horizon motors on the point, the Rocky Mountaineer heads west at the west switch of the siding at Crescent. The result of a meet with a freight train longer than the siding, both the Mountaineer and the Zephyr would line up right behind each other to allow the freight train to pull around. Once in the clear, both passenger trains would depart the siding back to back to continue west.
Soo Line GP9 No. 556 drills cars at the small yard in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of May 6, 1985.
Credits:
Body: Lara by Maitreya
Head: Uma by Catwa
Head Applier & Makeup: Maya new from YS&YS @ The Chapter Four
Skin Tone: Tone 02 from YS&YS
Hair: Sonya from DOUX
Hairbase: Unati from DOUX
Top and Skirt: Mombata new from E-Clipse Design @ Vanity
Gloves: Claus new from Pacagaia @ eBENTO
Pose: Dream Towel Pose 1 new from CNZ @ eBENTO
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.
Respondek's brightly painted, IT inspired GP40 works a cut of hoppers in their park in Granite City, IL.
After arriving back from Farnham, CP local F19 works the Poulin Grain while crossing the South Bay. Photo taken Newport, VT August 31, 2020
Providence and Worcester local CT-1 with B39-8E 3906 is seen on the Portland Running Track working the only customer on the line, Red Technologies, which ships contaminated soils and demolition debris out by rail. After crossing the more than 1200 ft long bridge, there is only a bit more than 3/4 of a mile of perfectly tangent track on this side of the river extending to just shy of Marlborough St. / Route 66. This view looks east (railroad north) from the aptly named Airline Avenue grade crossing toward the end of the line where one can still find an old New Haven era freight house standing as a reminder of an earlier era.
To read the detailed story of this day along with some history and links see the original post here: flic.kr/p/2n38ud7
Portland, Connecticut
Friday February 11, 2022
Shortly after UP 1004 got it's nose patch torn off, it got assigned to the Redding Local. When I found out it I made a trip to see the local. After waiting for a northbound to pass the train flew south to this industrial park where they switched Valley Pacific Petroleum. After the train finished switching they would head to Anderson and dump their train before returning north with no cars. They would pick up one car along the way.
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.
Milwaukee Road SW1200 switches industry along the banks of the Mississippi River at Wabasha, MN back in 1983. Amazingly, this 1954 built diesel is still in service on the Twin Cities & Western! Pretty much everything else is gone. We're at the corner of Bridge Ave and Lawrence Blvd. The bridge shown in the background connecting Wabasha with Nelson, WI was replaced by a new structure in 1988. This bridge had a crazy approach and tight curve before crossing the river.
From a May 1992 trip to Pittsburgh. I have no idea where this is in the Pittsburgh area except it is crossing a river on a fairly large bridge. Perhaps one of you knows. If so please post in the comments.
In an odd turn of events, Fore River Railroad's ex-Conrail B23-7s 101 and 102 were called on early Saturday morning to bring a pair of cabooses to Amtrak's Southampton Street Yard to use the wheel machine. While the move over the wheel machine didn't happen, it was absolutely still neat to see this kind of stuff under the wires, and under its own power on foreign territory despite the weather. Here the Dash 7 pair shove the cabooses into Track 3 at Southampton Street Yard over the radio-controlled DMTF switch, more commonly referred to as the Puzzle Switch.
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
A pair of yard jobs switch out the south end of BNSF's Vancouver Yard. On the left is a GP50 still wearing BN colors, while a TEBC6 (originally an SD9) is on the right.
On April 7, 2008, SMS SW1200RS #1337 leaves Delanson, NY with a one-car train for Guilderland. Scanned from a Fujichrome Provia 100F slide.
The Columbia Basin Railway local is switching at Connell with its SD9s. Parked up in the distance is a short BNSF inspection train.
A westbound Kyle train does work in Stratton, Colorado, while the sun plays hide and seek with the train. There are two former SD45s on the line, this one with RCPE reporting marks and another with Kyle reporting marks and logos.
UP 622 creeps around the corner to enter the industrial street trackage on Fox Avenue South in Seattle as the night starts to sets in. Once clear of the switch, the crew will shove the two tank cars in tow down Fox Avenue South toward Cascade Columbia Distribution, one of two (possibly three) remaining customers accessed by this street trackage. The switch in the foreground leads to Emerald Services, formerly Brenntag, which still received tank cars at least two years ago but appears to be dormant at this time, potentially since ownership has changed. Some improvements have however been made to the track here in recent months and the switch was kept in place at least. Following the track up the street, Seatac Marine Services is the other customer still active here and receives centerbeams and boxcars rather regularly. Although not this week, cars would be spotted more or less in the street (behind me in this perspective). Seattle, WA
An old hall with turbines in the Maxhütte steel works, photographed in 2015. This building may have escaped demolition and may still be standing today. I wonder how it looks today...
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
Arkansas & Missouri’s Fort Smith turn passes a shut-downT6 in Fort Smith, Arkansas. A replacement T6 is tucked behind the three C420’s on the turn. Number 14 will return to Springdale for servicing with the turn.
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