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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
Norfolk Southern SD33ECO #6223 crosses Murphy Avenue as they work Mondelez near Oakland Junction on the southwest side of Atlanta.
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
Respondek's brightly painted, IT inspired GP40 works a cut of hoppers in their park in Granite City, IL.
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
Delaware & Hudson RS11 5007 switches the yard in Taylor, Pennsylvania. Piggyback cars with general freight and cabooses were still a not-too-uncommon sight in the mid-1980’s, but were rapidly disappearing.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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
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.
Seaview SW-7 #5 spots some loaded auto-racks at NORAD's Davisville, RI, unloading yard. The headout car is a still fairly fresh, and graffiti-less, Providence and Worcester auto-rack; the previous owner of the little EMD switcher.
November 2013
Davisville, RI.
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.