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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.
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.
Respondek's brightly painted, IT inspired GP40 works a cut of hoppers in their park in Granite City, IL.
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.
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.
The cool November morning is enveloped in clouds, as Soo Line Mikado 1003's crew, makes up their train and switches out some cars at Fairwater before heading east towards Brandon.
Extra SOO 1003
Fairwater, WI.
November 1, 2015
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 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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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 Columbia Basin Railway local is switching at Connell with its SD9s. Parked up in the distance is a short BNSF inspection train.
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.
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.
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
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
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
On April 7, 2008, SMS SW1200RS #1337 leaves Delanson, NY with a one-car train for Guilderland. Scanned from a Fujichrome Provia 100F slide.
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.
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.
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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.