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Conemaugh & Black Lick SW7 #104 pulls an empty wire coil gondola from Building 112 just North of the JWF Industries complex on a freezing January morning in Johnstown, PA. The old structure was once part of the vast Bethlehem Steel complex that shuttered its remaining operations in the early 90s. It's great to see such an old brick structure still receiving rail cars; I believe the Johnstown Wire plant receives cars here while also utilizing a direct spur to their plant located on the West side of the Conemaugh River. They seem to be going through somewhat of a dry spell currently as the plant itself hasn't gotten any loads in a few weeks it appears. Thanks to Keith for helping with some info on the operation! Johnstown, PA
Ex Canadian National GP9rm now working for Carolina Coastal pulls cars from the yard at Perdue. It will couple to the other GP9 and head to Rocky Mount with the interchange traffic.
Four of CN's four-axles engine fleet are at the helm of local job L538, doing some switching at the east end of Coteau yard's track Q068.
After the switching done, the crew of three will pick up their train built into track Q065 and head toward the Valleyfield subdivision in order to serves the daily needs of Valleyfield industries.
CN L53821-12
4777 GTW 6226 4802 9410
Coteau Yard - Milepost 38.3 Kingston subdivision
Coteau-du-Lac,QC
August 12 2021
Dartmouth dayshift 505 was advised to go pull three empty gons from Cherubini on July 16, 2022, and where I was just getting back from Moncton (having worked 122), the timing worked out perfectly for me. 505 with 4139 & a GP40-2W are seen on the CN Autoport Spur in Shearwater, where the crew will soon run around their cars outside of Autoport's compound before heading back west to Dartmouth Yard.
I can't say that I have seen a single tunnel motor used to spot cars. However that is exactly what was happening here. Rio Grande tunnel motor 5377 was doing exactly that with some tank cars on a spur in Price, UT.
Montana Rail Link Train 844-19 switches the Graymont facility at Townsend on 10/19/2022.
Lime is mined and produced at a mine to the west of here, which is then trucked and transloaded onto rail cars here.
I was lucky to catch the 109 leading, since it had been out of service for most of my trip and went down again not long after.
Montana Rail Link
Train: 840-19 (Helena Local)
10/19/2022
Townsend, Montana
MRL 2nd Subdivision
In the Novara Boschetto yard both private and national operators provide the shunting services.
Here the SerFer G2000.02 and D245.2275 are staging before coming back to switch freight trains. (19/9/16)
CSXT MP15AC 1189 pulls a set of tanks from Heinz Portion Control in Jacksonville, FL. The 1189 is one of only a handful of MP15s remaining on the CSX roster and is likely only left because of it's remote control capability. Heinz makes small sauce packets here and receives corn syrup and other oils and tomato paste by rail. The remote operator would set out an empty tank, replace it with a load and also spot a loaded boxcar of tomato paste, which gets tucked away at the farthest spot on the spur where the only unloading door is located.
Otter Tail Valley's local makes the usual stop on the way back to Fergus in S Moorhead. They have 3 customers on this short branch and two are being serviced today. The last car is a load of lumber for Sprenger and the other two centerbeams are for Drywall Supply.
It was a quick switching stop today, but sometimes they can work this branch for as long as three hours. If you see the local leave Dilworth with 10+ loaded centerbeams and nothing is sorted, that's your answer on switching time.
A pair of SD's switch the Sturgeon Industrial Park west of Fort Saskatchewan Alberta. The park is serviced via a spur off of CN's Vegreville Sub, and up until last week I had yet to catch anything moving on this section of trackage
Former MRL 12 and former CP 1283 sit by themselves in the shrinking deadlines at NRE in Silvis, IL. They are both missing the "LEWIS" mark, so they appear to have been saved, for now.
June 18, 2021
A late running 6M31 09:53 Hunslet Tilcon Sdgs - Arcow Quarry hauled by GBRf 60087 “Ingleborough” passes Switchers Farm near Otterburn, on approach to Hellifield.
Having departed Hunslet some 100+ minutes behind schedule, it was down to 67 late passing Shipley however, on approaching Skipton it got routed into the loop, despite nothing needing to overtake, after an anxious wait, 6M31 got the route north passing the camera around 92 late, probably a blessing in disguise being late.
January 2025.
6002 is an SD40T-2, originally built for the Southern Pacific. Seen here switching at Guardian with several other Lancaster and Chester units.
Mass Coastal 2008 is seen at Maritime Terminal Inc. switching out a reefer car in busy New Bedford, MA.
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
323210 rolls into Four Oaks with 2O45 Lichfield Trent Valley High Level to Bromsgrove with the former platform lighting control switch taking centre stage removed and rusted up it's certainly switched out.
2021 represents a significant milestone in the history of the Phoenix Railway-Photographic Circle with the celebration of our 50th anniversary. Phoenix was set up in spring 1971 and was created to promote an alternative approach to railway photography. Why not take a look at the PRPC web site at www.phoenix-rpc.co.uk/index.html.
Hoboken Paints was an active customer on NYS&W's Lodi Branch into at least the early 90s. Service was infrequent, but if a clay slurry tank car appeared on a local, there was a good chance it was headed to Hoboken Paints. Here we see 1804 working in the weeds on the siding, which ran parallel to the Division of Motor Vehicles facility in Lodi. Most likely the Engelhard car was an empty which will be pulled, and the loaded car spotted in its place. Today Hoboken Paints is gone. The building still stands, but there is hardly any trace of the siding, which crossed Gregg Street after diverging from the Lodi Branch (which, itself, is now a memory).
NYSW 1804 GP18
The nose of a Wheeling & Lake Erie GP35 shines off the end of a relatively new tank car at Rook Yard in Green Tree.
Union Pacific SD45 No. 3637 performs a 'flying switch' in Provo, Utah on July 3, 1977. Merriam-Webster defines this as 'a maneuver in which one or more railroad cars are disconnected from a locomotive while moving and as the locomotive pulls away are switched to another track to roll to a desired position under their own momentum.'
BNSF 2571 and 1521 return to the yard office after switch work. Lots of Soo Line hoppers in the yard for lime service.
Caught on film. Reality So Subtle 6x6 pinhole camera, Ilford Pan F Plus 50 film and caffenol developer.
Interior of the main gate guard shack on the Green River Missile Base and Launch Complex, Green River, Utah.
To see more of this interesting cold war relic check out my album here: www.flickr.com/photos/19779889@N00/albums/72157719188749079
While switching a customer the afternoon crew nears the eastward distant approach signal for the CSX diamond at Wilson.
For this switcher Sunday, we're in Tulsa Oklahoma on May 22, 1980 and see an SW7 drilling the rear end of a freight that had come into Cherokee Yard from the east. This was a quick stop over for me on the way home from a year long work assignment in Texas. I was anxious to get home but Tulsa deserved a lot more time. Sadly, I've not been back.
MRL's Helena Local switches hoppers at the Graymont lime facility in Townsend on the 2nd Sub.
MRL 840 Local (Helena Local)
MRL GP9 #109
MRL SD40-2XR #252
Townsend, MT
May 4th, 2022
The International Intermodal Center serving the area around Huntsville, AL is situated right next to Huntsville International Airport. Owned by the Huntsville-Madison County Airport Authority, the Authority provides its own interesting power to switch the facility. Here is an owned Alco and a leased EMD from Progress Rail of NS heritage.
HMCAA RS1 #IIC-107
PRLX MP15E #2383
Huntsville, AL
April 21st, 2022