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The Aspen trees are a brilliant yellow as BNSF's Golden Local switches cars with a pair of SD40-2s.
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A pair of leased Geeps crawl through an alley with a cut of empty waste cars for New York Waste Management on the Bushwick branch. Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
HESR 8802 switches Georgia Pacific on the west side Owosso as a lite rain/mist falls on a rather nasty January night. As a kid i used to watch 8802, 8804 and the other CMGN and HESR units switch this line over the years. With the Railamerica take over by G&W and all their repainting & moving of power, it is really nice to see this engine working Owosso. 8802 and the 4 former HESR GP38's are the only ones left on the HESR that have not been renumbered or repainted. It is only a matter of time.
With a pair of ECO rebuilds, this local crew has just finished switching the Lafarge cement plant at Exshaw. They're shoving into the small yard at Exshaw to grab their cars for Baymag at Gap.
CPKC C31 (Exshaw, AB to Copithorne, AB and return)
CP GP20C-ECO / DRS-30 #2221
CP GP20C-ECO / DRS-30 #22??
Exshaw, AB
August 26th, 2025
In the days when EMD switchers dominated the Lancaster & Chester roster, a pair of SW900's work an industrial siding in Orrs, South Carolina.
Cargill Alco S2M loads a string of grain cars at Gillman, IL. This locomotive was rebuilt with a CAT diesel under the hood. The Alco S-4 that was once here, an original Santa Fe unit, had been donated to a museum in Arizona.
BPRR 3301 leads the Batesville Switcher as they switch cars around at the Future Fuel spur in Magness.
A Juniata Valley Railroad trainman rides a boxcar back to pick up a single empty gon near end of track in Burnham. The big Standard Steel mill is is behind me in this shot.
PRR styled heritage painted SW900 2106 (blt. Nov. 1953 for the Pittsburgh and Shawmut Railroad as their number 236) looks right at home on this former Pennsy branchline that once extended another 8 miles up the valley to Milroy, although since 1980 end of track has been near here just out of sight to the right.
Burnham, Pennsylvania
Friday November 13, 2020
GP-7 4296 switches an industry track in Elburn, Illinois on a very cold February 10th, 1988. This unit was rebuilt from the 1650 in November 1980 at the C&NW's Oelwein shops.
Here is just another from last summer when GP40-2LW MEC 507 showed up on the docks in Everett to work BO-1 in her sparkling brand new paint. Truly one of the most improbable things to happen in New England railroading in 2020.
The red white and blue unit beside them is the Ciment Quebec plant switcher. This unit is the last privately owned plant switcher to be found in daily use in the immediate Boston area. It is a cabless 125 ton Alco blt. in 1960 and acquired from the bankrupt James River Coal company. The unit is remote controlled and has a hostler stand on it and once worked at a coal mine in Kentucky whose lettering it still wears. I'm not sure of the exact history of of the switcher. Some sources say it was ex Baltimore and Ohio but another says that it was originally Lehigh and New England Alco S2 616 before being sold to the Louisville and Nashville that eventually traded it in to GE that rebuilt it as an 'auto-haul 335.'
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Everett, Massachusetts
Wednesday August 5, 2020
Illinois and Midland SW1500 prepares to switch out the ADM grain industry nearby Creve Coeur, Illinois during a very dismal morning.
ELS 1201 drops 2 boxcars inside the KK warehouse in Marinette, WI, wrapping up their work for the day, they'll then head light back to the ELS yard across the river in Menominee, MI
A pair of Green Bay & Western RS20's switch the Ann Arbor Carferry Viking at Kewaunee WI. February 1976.
IHB SW1500 1505 leads a local -past one of the very few remaining EJ&E searchlights at Bridge 631 in East Chicago, IN.
After CSX L135 grabbed their cars from York Rail at Smiths, they came back to Center Street yard just east of Hanover, PA. Here they broke the train apart and switched it to be in a proper order.
Coca Cola Bottling is switched by an NS High-hood GP38-2. Here the engine is seen shoving two tankers down the spur, across McDuff avenue.
Found Corman switching cars onto a siding near Mullins, SC. Two GP38-2 (barely seen) #'s 3812 and 3813 leading to Mullins, while trailing SD40T-2 #8336 does the actual switching. All three locomotives will proceed to to Mullins when finished.
Local job AB10 has slid into Graces at Irondale, Alabama with their pair of SD40-2s and await further instructions for about ten minutes before the mission was aborted. Meanwhile that gave a chance to nab a few shots which were to include the old Southern Railway, Brosnan era maintenance limits sign otherwise known as a football sign. As the time dwindles down and just a minute before the crew heads back to the main, a passerby struts across completely oblivious to the soon to be in motion approximate
350 tons, of course I gladly wait. April 6, 2019
York Rail picks up a car at York Transfer. Formerly Northern Central and then Pennsylvania RR trackage and freight facility. The railings for the steps still sport PRR stanchions.. Always fun to catch them here. Freight facility to the right is being rehabbed, hence the equipment
The A&M Sand Switcher begins its day switching the various sand plants around Springdale and Rogers. The Monnett Turn and Rogers Local will go on duty within the hour followed by the Springdale Local later that morning. The Sand Switcher religiously uses #32, originally BRC #601 and one of six ALCO C424s delivered to the Belt.
Central Maine & Quebec train No. 1, led by three ex-Canadian Pacific SD40-2Fs, switches the Moose River Lumber Co siding at Jackman, Maine on Nov. 21, 2017. Once a load of lumber is picked up and a cut of logs are spotted on the siding, the American crew will park the train to await a Canadian crew that will take it to Farnham, Quebec.