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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.
UP 544 makes a light move up State Line Road past some classic West Bottoms warehouses. The warehouse to the left reads "Kansas City Iron & Metal Co." along with several other mostly illegible words or phrases. The building to the right is part of the Cargill mill and still reads "Nutrena Feeds". I really wanted this shot with all three of the larger warehouses in the shot so I was lucky they came down light instead of shoving cars.
After setting off their inbound cars for Arizona & California interchange, power from M-PHXMAT returns to the main. Below the lead engine is the East Siding Switch for Castle Hot Springs siding. Although timetable-east, this end of the siding is northwest as far as the compass is concerned. The 543 was probably the best looking warbonnet GE on the roster two decades after the merger.
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.
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.
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
SIND 103 performs some early morning switching at the cement plant in Speed, IN. The crew will spot some cars, and serve the plant before taking a cut south to the CSX interchange at Watson later in the morning.
One of two MP15's left on the roster, Belt Railway of Chicago 150 works Charter Steel on Chicago's extreme West side.
Chicago, IL
2022.03.05
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
The autumn colors of the Northern Kettle Moraine seldom disappoint as the season changes. Here, the Wisconsin & Southern train L599 works among the autumnal beauty at Ackerville's west end.
WSOR L599
WSOR 1501,1502,4010
Slinger, WI.
Autumn 2015
Nerdy Light Switches. Embrace your inner geek with theses decorative wall switches. Coming to the 7event this Feb maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Cyldane%20Mall/208/214/3097
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
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.
St. Maries River Railroad’s turn to Plummer interchanges its train to Union Pacific at Plummer, Idaho, on September 27, 2021. It’s pretty obvious where STMA’s former Milwaukee Road Pacific Extension main line ends, viewing the trackage at the foot of Poleyard Road in Plummer. The train is on the former siding and is backing its cars past a crossover switch for the UP to pick up. On the right is the former main line that now butts up to a mound of dirt, and contains the empties that STMA will pick up and take back to St. Maries. To the west, an abandoned roadbed lies empty and trainless, until it reaches Warden, Washington, where Columbia Basin Railroad operates former Milwaukee main line trackage between Warden and Othello.
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.'
Y193 goes about its switching duties on the Old Even at Wyoming Yard with MP15DC #1146 and RCPHE4 #9120. The drone was 1 of 4 former GP40s converted to RC drones that called Grand Rapids home for many years. 3 wore Chessie paint while the other was in MOW orange. A few years later all were rebuilt into 2300 series RDMT Road Slugs.
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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.
Interior of the main gate guard shack on the Green River Missile Base and Launch Complex, Green River, Utah.
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Two "CROW" EMD SW's working for Cliff's Steel of Cleveland, OH, shove against some "hot bottle" cars for their next pouring.
This shot was taken from the public access on Independence Ave.
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.
The Mac Switcher pulls forward to set off their inbound cars and pickup outbounds for McMinnville. In the background the Newberg Switcher is seen getting in the clear.
I remember the RS-1's floating around on the SOO but I was a little to young to have shot any. This view of 353 switching at Stevens Point on September 10, 1966 represented pretty much what the did in there later years, yard work and local service. Early on before the merger the DSS&A used there RS-1's on the passenger trains and also in switching service. Catching a back to back pair wasn't uncommon on the St- Ignace-Marquette freight although it generally was assigned Baldwins. Most likely a Joe Stauber shot, Chuck Schwesinger collection.
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