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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.
CSXT 2012 pulls empties at Kraft Heinz in Jax, FL on a smoggy evening, likely from a nearby wildfire, a pretty routine occurrence around the swampy regions here in North Florida and South Georgia. Notable here is the SP boxcar with dreadnaught ends that the conductor would spot in place of the RBOX; extremely few still remain in service in 2025 with basically zero making it to Florida these days. One more 50' car with dreadnaught ends made it to Heinz a few months later, but like the one here it wasn't pulled or placed until nighttime. Unfortunately the conductor first had to switch the tanks around and by the time the loads were spotted it was well past dark in this case, leaving this as the only photo of the classic car getting switched. The car, SP 656253, was built in November 1976 by Pacific Car & Foundry, leaving only about a year left for its service life, if it makes it that long. Interestingly, this exact car number has an N-scale model; here it hauled tomato paste for ketchup production from California to Jacksonville, FL.
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SMS SW1200 #104 has paused its switching duties in Fort Edward, NY as the covered hopper on the headpin gets transloaded to a truck.
SMS Rail Services
Fort Edward, NY
April 27, 2026
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
Providence & Worcester train NH-1 works Gateway Terminal on the New Haven waterfront with B40-8 4002. This job used to run to the Belle Dock regularly in daylight. Under the G&W regime the Belle Dock gets served at night and I'm sure one would see borg units more often than not. What I would give to get it all back...
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
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.
TRC 2008 switches out some cars at the massive facility in Trona, CA. While generally inaccessible to the public, the Trona Road grade crossing offered this view of a switch crew that pulled up just far enough to be photographed.
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.
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.
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.
BNSF 2571 and 1521 return to the yard office after switch work. Lots of Soo Line hoppers in the yard for lime service.
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.'
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.
Arkansas and Missouri train SFLO is doing a bit of switching at the siding known as Johnson Switch ad they work their way south from Springdale to Fayetteville. This job was on duty at 11 AM with a pair of classic Alco C420s, numbers 56 and 57 both built for the Lehigh and Hudson River Railroad in Dec. 1965 as their numbers 25 and 26 respectively. They are seen here working just north of the Main Street crossing near MP 347.7 (measured from the Frisco's historic corporate headquarters city of St. Louis) in this once small down that is now a suburb of booming Fayetteville.
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Johnson, Arkansas
Thursday September 2, 2021
Duluth & Northeastern 14 is on switching duty the railroad's base town of Cloquet, MN. 14 is now owned by the Sierra Railroad, acquired in 2022 from the now defunct Filmore and Western Railway.
9-21-1963
Photographer Unknown - Jacob Narup Collection
NECR 4049 accompanied by Bay Line 3018 and 2078 switch cars in the CSX interchange.
A recent derailment at the interchange set things back for the Bay Line so today was the day they had to make up for lost time. Unfortunately, making up for lost time in Dothan meant that the Hilton turn wouldn't run which was the main reason my friends and I were out here. Although we didn't get exactly what we had hoped for, I am glad we at least had the opportunity to see something operate out here.
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
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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
Union Pacific's first diesel-electric switch engine pulls Deer Creek Scenic Railroad's "Santa Claus Express" train south of Heber City, Utah on Dec. 15, 1985. The beautifully restored NW2 was built by EMC as a demo unit in Oct. 1939 and purchased by UP in 1940.
In July 1966, it was retired and sold to the Stockton Terminal & Eastern in California. By June 1969, it found a new home on the Western Pacific as No. 607 and by May 1973, it was transferred to subsidiary road Sacramento Northern.
After the UP-WP merger of 1983, 607 was retired by UP (again) and donated to Utah's Deer Creek Scenic Railroad in May of 1984.
By February 1993, it was sold to the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Boulder City, where it operates today.
" Lets get the drill on P&H 1 lined for the naught..The yard job on P&H 2 for the Waverly runner ...and I got a transfer job from the Garden waiting to come off the NY BAY Line spur ..and he's on SHORT TIME......"
WA5 in the good ole days on a Saturday morning ..a switch tenders nightmare
Newark NJ WA5 P&H Branch/Greenville Branch CR
C&NW SD40-2 6847, built in March 1974, idles in Union on a partially cloudy May afternoon. The crew breifly discusses what their plan is to pull the locomotives in tow out of the shop and to move C&NW 6847 onto a seperate track. Today's plan was to get CB&Q SD24 504 out of the shop to use the outdoor crane to replace the radiator, and C&NW 6847 was the designated shop switcher for the day. While this may look like a scene straight out of a 1980s Chicago and North Western rail yard, in reality C&NW 6847 is currently owned and operated by the Illinois Railway Museum and was switching power around the Diesel Locomotive Restoration Shop.
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Illinois Railway Museum
Union, Illinois, USA
May 24, 2025
Canon EOS 60D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS