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CSX switching crew dismount to reset the switch after the train passes off the siding onto the main line preparing to head to Raleigh.
Another serendipitous moment to find BNSF 536 switching Continental Cement Co. on the west bank of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis north of downtown. Fun to see some life on this former piece of Northern Pacific trackage that connected downtown Minneapolis to Northtown Yard.
Lighting is still not quite where I would like it but the light box works for what it is. I think I need to raise the work lights off the ground and angle them down through the box.
A big thank you to everyone that voted at the Switch photo contest. Congratulation to all finalist. All photographies were amazing, everyone deserved to win !
And a special thanks to Switch for hosting this event. I am really happy ! *tear of joy*
SFG Train 565-11 has cut away from the rest of the train and will shortly start working the Groupe-Lebel lumber mill in Nouvelle-Ouest, Quebec.
The lumber mill is one of only a few customers on the Cascapedia Subdivision and ships outbound loads of lumber and woodchips.
Société du chemin de fer de la Gaspésie
Train: 565-11
12/11/2023
Nouvelle-Ouest, Quebec
SFG Cascapedia Subdivision
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.
On the Montana City branch just east of Helena, the 840 local drops a healthy cut of 2 bays at a sand facility. In the distance the Big Belt Mountains stand tall above the high plains east of the Montana state capital.
MRL 840 Local (Helena Local)
MRL GP9 #109
MRL SD40-2XR #252
East Helena, MT
May 4th, 2022
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.
The photo was taken at GEG, an industrial monument of a former mill and a factory of malted coffee substitute. It is located in Mannheim, Germany.
CN 537 has just cleared the switch for Tri-Province Scrap, with an empty to spot and two loads to be pulled. A fresh snowfall the night before has the landscape looking quite wintry just a few short days before Christmas. The tied down cars in the background are pulls from the Humphrey Spur to go west on 305 the following morning.
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.
Its June 1978 a view of the yard with Alco switcher and GP-9 and a snow plow [photo collection Mark Llanuza]
IHB SW1500 1505 leads a local -past one of the very few remaining EJ&E searchlights at Bridge 631 in East Chicago, IN.
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
Illinois and Midland SW1500 prepares to switch out the ADM grain industry nearby Creve Coeur, Illinois during a very dismal morning.
In the days when EMD switchers dominated the Lancaster & Chester roster, a pair of SW900's work an industrial siding in Orrs, South Carolina.
A pair of Commercial B39 type GEs switch some cars around in the yard at St. Anthony. The engineer waits for the conductor to clear so they can shove back into the yard.
Three and a half years before the prior shot I caught train 911 making a rather rare stop at Caffey with 807, 383 and 717. The units were parked in such a way that required me to shoot with a garbage wide angle lens to avoid placing the crossing signals between me and 807. It was late afternoon on November 5, 1977 and the sun was about to drop into a cloud bank while the units sat pumping air on there late running 111 car train. After spending a good part of 75 and early 76 in storage the U-boats were back on the main making appearances east of Gladstone. About a year after this shot I seen my last SOO U30C go through Trout Lake. I've seen shots of them working in 1979 but none ventured east of Gladstone that I ever was aware of after November 1978.
OSR 8235 and 1400 switch the CAMI Automotive plant, I'm always impressed with the grade to get up to the yard.
C&NW GP7 4104 switches the Morton Salt facility along Elston Ave. at Magnolia and Blackhawk. It is now the entertainment venue The Salt Shed. 1989.
I switched the wig out for this girl with a wig from Kit 2, as I liked it on her better than the blonde wig. I may have to dig through my wig stash and look for another, as this one isn't quite perfect either. She's a beautiful sculpt though!
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
CP 2315 ties onto the remainder of their train after coming off of the Radville Subdivision in the foreground. A spring storm and some great drop down light provided a guardrail sot that I just couldn't pass up.
L586 goes about its switching duties on a tranquil Sunday morning in Dubuque. The job's duties consist of switching out the various customers CN has in the area, including across the river on the shared trackage with BNSF and beyond. In addition to these duties, the job also sorts the pick ups and set offs for/from the pair of CN manifest freights that pass through town daily. A nice pair of GTW GP38-2s for power made this Michigan native very happy.
CEFX 1569 and NECR 3840 work the yard at Brantford.
1569 was pinch hitting for a power short SOR and would be returned in a couple months to CEFX. It would then end up in Cardinal Ontario.
Amtrak's "Ethan Allen Express" contained multiple firsts for me, and among them was mid-trip power switching. This train requires power to be on both ends due to a change of directions in Rutland (another first), but going in-and-out of NYC, they only need one unit, so they add/remove a unit at the Albany-Rensselaer station.
From here, they run the surplus unit up to Amtrak's nearby Rensselaer shops for servicing. From a fan perspective, it also allows you to get out and photograph the train in the process. In this case, we're looking south towards NYC, and the 701 would be cut off in short order, allowing the rest of the train to run south with just the 716.