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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.
The nose of a Wheeling & Lake Erie GP35 shines off the end of a relatively new tank car at Rook Yard in Green Tree.
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.
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.
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
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
NR43 and NR30 tackle the gradient at Coolalie with ease, working a late running 3PS7 to Sydney.
Friday 2nd May 2025
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 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.
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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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
" 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
A pair of GP35's put together their train at the east end of Bozeman Yard. After finishing their work here, they'll run around the train and head west for Belgrade and Logan.
MRL 841 Local (Bozeman Local)
MRL GP35 #405
MRL GP35 #401
Bozeman, MT
May 2nd, 2022
After arriving from the CN interchange at Joffre Yard with a dozen cars, the Sartigan is switching Logibel, an important client of this growing shortline.
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.
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.
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.
MRL's 840 local switches Logan before returning to Helena with the only operating MRL SD45 on the roster.
A getting rare GP15 shoves Metra equipment towards CPT on YCM08 01. On the right, YPR60 01 is switching out Blommers Chocolate Factory with a GP38-2.
... from workweek to weekend - TGIF !
African Elephants / Afrikanische Elefanten (Loxodonta africana)
Serengeti N.P., Tanzania, Africa
The crew of Montana Rail Link’s weekend train down the Bitterroot Branch, formerly known as the Darby Branch, switches their train together at Missoula, Montana, on a rainy May 18, 2013.
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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