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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...
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.
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
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.
After the conclusion of the days Fall Foliage excursion, the power switches out the consist to be put away for the week. 10-17-21
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.
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.'
NR43 and NR30 tackle the gradient at Coolalie with ease, working a late running 3PS7 to Sydney.
Friday 2nd May 2025
Maryland Midland UBHF switches out a lumber customer in Thurmont, about midway through their trip between Union Bridge and Highfield. A pair of former Conrail SD50s provide the power for today's train.
BNSF 2571 and 1521 return to the yard office after switch work. Lots of Soo Line hoppers in the yard for lime service.
A trio of EMD standard cabs sits at the interchange between UP and Kennecott Utah Copper, located at Garfield west of Salt Lake City. All switching at the copper smelter and refinery in Garfield is contracted out to RailServe, hence the RSSX locomotives here.
GMTX GP38-2 #2662
RSSX GP9u #1590
RSSX GP7 #116
Garfield, UT
April 24th, 2023
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.
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.
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
" 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
Switch grass makes airy curtains with views of the marina in the background.
The sailboats add to an interesting bokeh on a sunny,warm September afternoon :)
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Credits:
Hair - Doux Bertha @ Aqua (Open Now)
Face Piercing - SU Piercing Set 4 @ The Chapter 4 (Open Now)
Tattoo - Bolson Mr Burton
Top - Ricielli Charlie Lace Top Black @ The Chapter 4
Jacket - Scandalize Annie Black
Pants - Villena Distressed Pants Black
Shoes - Reign Sweet Bliss Heels @ Collabor88 (Open Now)
Head - Catwa Lona
Eyebrows - Bossie Autumn Eyebrows
Eyes - SU The Dark Eyes
Skin - Deetalez - Head Taylor
Pose - Vilda Melody 1
A pair of Minnesota Commercial crew work in the yard area - one switching onboard MNNR 54 and another clearing switches.
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 Niles Train Museum.
Night, full moon, one minute exposure, sodium and mercury vapor lights, blue and red-gelled strobe flash.
A pair of Geeps shove a cut of scrap gons into Tri Coastal Trading in east Houston. The scrap will be loaded into barges on Buffalo Bayou on the opposite side of the facility.
YHO75R 27
UP GP60 #1043
UP GP38-2 #553
Houston, TX
December 27th, 2022
The Denver & Rio Grande Western acquired 10 SW1000 locomotives from EMD between Sept. 1966 and May, 1968. Three of the 1000 HP switch engines were assigned to the Salt Lake City, Utah area (DRGW 147-149). No. 147 was sitting outside the Roper Diesel Shop in South Salt Lake on May 20, 1977. It would be retired by the SP in Oct. 1995 and sold to Progress Rail Services in Albertville, Alabama. History from UtahRails.net.
The Conrail Norwich local with EMD SW 9023 passes by a dead NW-2 at the Norwich, NY yard.
Conrail assigned the "pups" to the job in the early 80's. Constant mechanical problems due to the little engines running over the road at speed for up to 100 miles a day arose. When one would die, Conrail would just taxi the crew to Binghamton to fetch another one, like as seen in this photo. The crews thought it was a ploy to drive business off the branch. When things like this happened, service deteriorated.
Switcher Saurday: The Katy repowered their fleet Baldwin DS-4-4-1000s with EMD prime movers. Here a pair of them drill cars at the small yard north of downtown Dallas. This yard has since been removed to expand the downtown area. The grain elevator is gone as well.