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A Lycoming Valley pup drops of a flatcar loaded with steel plates on the northwest end of Newberry Yard.
Inside Battersea power station.
This huge switch would have turned the power on or off for a large area of London.
The inside of the power station is now a shopping centre, and original features like this can be seen in various places.
Apple have just opened a huge store here on the ground floor of the old Turbine hall.
Mate 20 Pro- Leica lens
Kendallville Terminal Railway SW8 #16 switches Kraft Foods at Kendallville, IN. Despite rumors of Pioneer Rail replacing the unit, I believe it is still there along with a Michigan Southern geep.
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.
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
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
Soo Line GP9 No. 556 drills cars at the small yard in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on the afternoon of May 6, 1985.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
BNSF’s eastbound Cody local stops to switch grain hoppers into Ralston Elevator (Briess Malt and Ingredients Company) just west of Ralston, Wyoming, on June 28, 2018. The elevator has a 2.3 million bushel storage capacity serving this barley growing region located on BNSF’s Cody Subdivision between Cody and Frannie.
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.
The Columbia Basin Railway local is switching at Connell with its SD9s. Parked up in the distance is a short BNSF inspection train.
A Los Angeles Junction crew pulls some grain hoppers out from the large General Mills plant in Vernon.
FEC 5AM Medley Job switches F Garcia Wholesale and Export at ML 3.1 on the Medley Lead. A number of rail-friendly warehouses exist here but many either sit vacant or don't receive shipments - F Garcia is one of a few exceptions that regularly receives foodstuff by rail and forwards it for delivery or export.
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.