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After arriving back from Farnham, CP local F19 works the Poulin Grain while crossing the South Bay. Photo taken Newport, VT August 31, 2020
Sorting cars brought in from interchage, the two center cabs pass by a building that's seen better days.
Soo Line GP9 No. 556 drills cars at the small yard in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of May 6, 1985.
Central Maine and Quebec Railway train Job 1-7 switches out the LMS track at Jackman, ME on 3/7/2020. With a heavy train in tow, the power consisted of a pair of F barns, the two AC44's, and two lease geeps.
After the CN rail blockades cleared, these large trains weren't uncommon. Crew shortages on the Quebec side after the CP takeover was announced, resulted in a scaled back schedule which also increased the size of the trains.
Central Maine and Quebec Railway
Train: Job 1-7
3/7/2020
Jackman, ME
CMQ Moosehead Subdivision
Respondek's brightly painted, IT inspired GP40 works a cut of hoppers in their park in Granite City, IL.
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 pair of RF&P GP40s lead what was most likely the Sealston Switcher south out of Potomac Yard. The train is passing an inbound freight at Alexandria station. This job handled sand and gravel for the construction industry in the Washington, DC metro area. The empties in tow should have originated at Solite in Arlington. The train will fill out it's consist at one other location before continuing South to Dahlgren Jct. The cars would eventually be loaded at a Solite quarry on the Dahlgren Branch before returning north, starting the cycle over again.
RF&P Sealston Switcher:
RFP 125 GP40
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
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.
Higgins Switch. December2025. Mistakenly shot this roll of Retro80 at 400. It seems the DDX worked though. I lost a lot of shadow. Then the fixer failed. I don’t think it fully fixed the whole image. I dunked it back into the fix for an extra five minutes. Still the edges of every frame seem to have suffered. So there’s a little crop on everything. Along Higgins Switch Road in Higgins, Arkansas USA. RolleiRetro80@400. PentaxMX. SMCPentax100mmFA. DDXdeveloper1:4-20minutes. AGOFilmProcessor. CameraScan:FujifilmXH1
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.
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.
Middletown & New Jersey #2174, a GP38-2, slides out of Eastern Alloy in the Town of Mongomery, NY after spotting a box car. "New" power in the form of the Norfolk Southern unit had recently arrived. To this day, that loco has yet to receive the sharp East Penn blue and yellow paint.
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.
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.
Toledo, Peoria & Western’s Morton Switcher, powered by the road’s lone EMD GP18 No. 600, switches a lumber yard at Morton, Illinois, on December 16, 1983.
Southbound freight 11Z passing the approach signal that warns northbound traffic for the switch at Vesuvius. While the N&W-era CPL signals at the control points are the stars of the show on the NS H-Line, these newer intermediate signals are being replaced as well.
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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.
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
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.
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.
The Columbia Basin Railway local is switching at Connell with its SD9s. Parked up in the distance is a short BNSF inspection train.
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