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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.
During a whirlwind trip across Maine and Quebec in August of 1988, we were just a tad bit late to see the last stand of Maine Central's Alco switchers at Waterville. Here we find four of the creatures dying a very slow death at the hands of Guilford.
Bearded Tits are found in reed beds throughout the temperate regions of Europe, Asia and North Africa. For this reason they are also called Reed Buntings. It is not a tit as such, but belongs to a unique group of its own. The way they move about reeds beds, however, in small groups, they are more like long-tailed tits. They feed on small reed aphids and small insect, but come autumn and winter they switch to reed seeds. This one is the male of the species. It has more of a moustache than a beard, a feature lacking in females.
After switching around Weyers Cave VA. Shenandoah Valley’s former B&O GP9 6512 will pick up her train and head back to Staunton.
Wet Set KIONA Leeder MEG
Bento AO HUD [ INMOTION ] HULA HOOP
Exclusive @ Dollholic
3 D Tattoo THIS IS WRONG STICKERS
Hair & Cap Besom ERIN
Progressive Rail leased switcher CIT 1101 at Faribault, Minnesota, June 2, 2023. The unit switches former CGW and Milw Road industries in town. Photo by Joe McMillan.
Former B&M GP9 1741 begins to make up its train for the day at the North Conway Depot on the Conway Scenic Railroad. 1741 was just restored to service, thanks to the 470 Railroad Club. 1741 will lead the annual 470 Excursion to Conway before being added onto the west end of the train to join F7s 4266 and 4268 for the climb up the mountain to Fabyan's. As hinted by the old telephone box, we're in B&M territory, and this train will be operating on the former Boston and Maine Conway Branch. There's no better power than the 3 historic B&M locomotives that will be used today.
I thought this shot could look like something else going on a few decades ago. The Illinois Railway Museum diesel crew was using CNW F7 411 as Museum switcher on Sunday 3/12/23. Among the switch moves was to pull out GTW RS1 1951. This veteran ALCO hasn’t been outside in some time.
The Torrance Local shoves back into the lumber yard at Gardena passing one of the two remaining Wig Wag crossing signals on this short stretch of Pacific Electric trackage.
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 :)
" 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
Having completed their 28 mile trip from the mainline in Poteau, OK the Fort Smith Dodger (train RHV106 03) is seen working in their historic original Kansas City Southern Yard in the town that gives them their name.
While their are a few smaller customers they switch and they do handle a bit of interchange with both shortlines in town, the Arkansas and Missouri and Fort Smith Railroad's, their main reason for continued existence is to serve the OK Foods feed mill on the edge of downtown. I was astonished to find that the 10 story tall grain towers were decorated with three truly stunning portraits. Fort Smith has a surprisingly vibrant downtown full of historic sites, good restaurants, and public art but few art pieces can compare to this. Sponsored by the company and painted over only the span of two weeks back in 2016 by Australian visual artist Guido van Helten they are inspiring pieces worthy of reflection. To learn more check out this article: www.swtimes.com/news/20160919/guido-van-helten-transforms...
Here is one of the countless angles I captured of the pair of KCS GP40-2s switching beneath it.
And if you missed it and want to learn a bit more about this line check out the caption with my first post of this chase: flic.kr/p/2mmgpqZ
Fort Smith, Arkansas
Friday September 3, 2021
We started MLK Day 2020 at Canton, expecting to follow the daily Canton to Asheville turn on the Blue Ridge Southern. Unfortunately, they weren't running on their normal schedule that morning, but we stumbled into a local on the western end of the railroad with two old D&H GP39-2s for power. Blue Ridge Southern train T59 switches out Giles Chemical in Waynesville, NC.
Housatonic Train NX-12 from Canaan, CT has stopped at about MP 79.3 on the former New Haven Railroad Berkshire Line main and has ducked into the building to pull a car from Casella Waste Systems here just north of the Lenoxdale Depot and the Berkshire Scenic Railway museum. As soon as this work is done they will continue on north to the CSXT interchange in Pittsfield behind flag draped GP38-2s GMTX 2627 (originally a straight GP38 blt. Jan 1971 as Penn Central 7916) and 2142 (blt. Nov. 1976 as Rock Island 4333).
Lenox, Massachusetts
Sunday May 25, 2025
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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
NSHR1 switches out the Chef Boyardee factory in Milton, PA. Now owned by ConAgra Foods, this is the only customer on the Union Country Industrial Railroad on the east side of the Susquehanna River. Chef Boyardee was founded here in 1928, and continues to produce a variety of Italian foods at its original site here in Milton.
This train of cars went back an forth across this road crossing 3 times on Friday afternoon rush hour as it navigated tracks.
The Niles Train Museum.
Night, full moon, one minute exposure, sodium and mercury vapor lights, blue and red-gelled strobe flash.
Switch EV YJ19HVC on hire to Lothian for demonstration and is to be used on service 23 between Trinity and Greenbank.
YJ19HVC seen here at Greenbank Temrinus. 06th February 2022.
Maine Switching Services shoves a long cut of boxcars into ND Paper as the late afternoon light shines down. On a visit 9 days later, the mill would be shut tight with not a peep of movement, the start of an "extended shutdown" that may likely extend infinitely. At this point, the switcher has gone west and Old Town yard is used mainly for car storage.
The crew of L506 uses a pair of GP40-2W's to switch the yard at Roma Junction Alberta. The road power for the next day's southbound sits in the yard just to the left of the conductor
At Fredonia, the corn train stopped to pick up some ballast hoppers and set out the Barns. He had some other moves to do as well so we were there for a while.
We passed the time playing with a bunch of cute kittens that came out of an abandoned barn behind us to see what was up.
Eventually the train left town with just the two SD45's and a string of ballast cars on the headpin, then the 50 cars of the corn train trailing.
The West Local has just dropped three cars at the Arcosa Lightweight aggregate plant at the west end of the Rocky Flat Industrial Lead. With no cars to pick up today, the local is departing with just the two GP40-2s to head back to the main and back to Denver. An intense afternoon storm is currently resting over Boulder to the north.
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MRL's 840 local switches Logan before returning to Helena with the only operating MRL SD45 on the roster.
Maine Northern Railway Train 521-11 switches LaJoie Growers on 4/11/2025.
LaJoie runs a warehouse here which loads and unloads products for the Twin Rivers Paper mill in Madawaska, since there isn't a whole lot of room at the mill. In addition to this LaJoie takes cars of fertilizer for local potato farms, in addition to shipping occasional loads of potatoes.
Behind me is the large Irving lumber transload, which can load 10-11 cars at a time with lumber from various mills in New Brunswick.
Once done working the US side, 521 will normally work the Irving mill across the river in Saint-Leonard, NB as well as dropping interchange traffic with CN. However on this day they didn't end up switching the mill.
At one point tracks continued south from here to Stockholm, where the line split with one leg going to Caribou and the other to Mapleton. The trackage from Caribou to Van Buren was pulled during the BAR's downsizing in the late 60-80's, while the Mapleton-Stockholm line survived for a few more years. After large plots of land were sold by the paper companies, the BAR got rid of the Mapleton-Stockholm portion after the loss of logs going to the paper mills.
A few customers remained in Van Buren until sometime in the 90's. Around 15-20 years ago, US Customs and Border Protection bought the remaining track running into downtown, to allow for a new border crossing to be built on the former right of way. Today the line dead ends around a mile south of this point.
Maine Northern Railway
Train: 521-11
4/11/2025
Van Buren, ME
MNR Van Buren Yard
CNW 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 CNW 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 CNW 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 railyard, in reality CNW 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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Union, Illinois, USA
May 24, 2025
Canon EOS 60D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
TLTX 553775 is seen being put away after a long day of filling railcars with various grades of stone and asphalt bound for New York City and various Tilcon Distribution plants around the state. This locomotive is soully used to switch railcars within the Tilcon reeds gap quarry located in Wallingford, Ct