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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!
A BAR brakeman rides two free-rolling tank cars into their intended track at the Searsport ME yard, September 16, 1991.
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Switch Escape was my entry into The 100 Project | 2019 .Original works of 100 Community Toy Photographers.
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.
Once switching has been completed, Union Pacific's LDI04 "Local 4" with a pair of SD40N's begin to shove back to their train on the siding at Greeley, Colorado after picking up some gondolas and a box car at a couple of industries on January 25, 2017.
Not long after daybreak at Junction City, Kentucky on November 19, 2011, the southward signals at the double crossover display “all red.” The crossing of the L&N’s Lebanon Branch (from which the community got its name) had been removed years earlier when the middle section of the “LB” was abandoned. For the moment, this spot on the CNO&TP is quiet, but as the day moves along, freight tonnage into the hundreds of thousands will clatter over the switch points and frogs of the four turnouts. This route seldom sleeps very long.
The signals dictating train movements on this morning were still General Railway Signal Company’s model “SC” searchlight models that replaced the much older semaphores from the steam era. The always frugal and innovative Southern built the signal bridges from repurposed freight car center sills. The slots through which the fulcrums and other appurtenances of the brake rigging system passed were still obvious.
Alas, these classic signals were not compatible with the coming of positive train control, so in 2010, the slow process of replacing them with “modern” tri-light signals began. They’re all gone today.
I woke up on November 6th, 2020 to a ton of Messenger notifications telling me that NS 8105 was on the point of CP 244 with an NS dash 9 trailing - and that it had been stuck in Lobo siding just outside of London for a few hours. I decided to hustle over to the Denfield Road bridge, and was greeted by a couple other railfans. Indeed, there it was on the siding with the switch set against it...all due to train 141, which was working Quebec Street yard downtown. We waited quite a while, and caught a couple of CN trains in the meantime on the Strathroy Sub which is situated right next to the CP Windsor Sub at Denfield. More railfans showed up over the course of the hour and a half. 8105 was the first NS heritage unit to come our way in a little while. Eventually, 141 did leave the yard and it was only approximately two minutes after he cleared when 244 became lined out of the siding.
Before starting their snow busting journey south to Eagle Bridge the Batten Kill Railroad Alco duo had to spot up some loads at the Cargill plant and cleat the mainline. The SNE RS32 runs remarkably clean but still will give a bit of that signature Alco smoke when throttling up. But you have to be ready and quick with your camera to capture it!
This was my first time getting to shoot the privately owned Southern New England Railroad unit working here since the day earlier in the year when I was lucky to shoot her arrival to the Batten Kill dead in tow. SNEX 5012 is ex Atlantic & Danville Alco RS36 (blt. 12/59) and is coupled up with Batten Kill's own G&J 4116 an RS3 (blt. 9/52) built 1952 for the D&H that has spent all of her life on the rails for which she was built.
Salem, New York
Saturday December 19, 2020
Green Bay and Western RS20 305 is switching the west end of Norwood Yard in Green Bay, September 1979.
A Illinois & Midland switcher pulls four Buffalo & Pittsburgh power units and a few cars as it is assembling a train at the DuBois, Pa. yard.
A pair of GP38-2s switch Catawba, SC at Resolute's Bowater Yard.
This yard is now switched by RJ Corman.
Just another view from the East Randall Wobbe Ln. crossing into little five track yard north of town where the Arkansas and Missouri Railroad classifies its traffic.
I really wanted a good sunny shot here but they were all filtered light except for this one. Alas I didn't have my long lense on so had to settle for this wide view, but it's kind of grown on me over time. I like the brightly lit train and the foreground shadow of the cloud that is moments from swallowing the scene. This view of the whole yard shows its rather diminutive size that belies its role as the main hub of A&M operations.
This is train SFLO (the Springdale local) which was on duty at 11 AM with this pair of classic Alco C420s, numbers 56 and 57 both built for the Lehigh and Hudson River Railroad in Dec. 1965 as their numbers 25 and 26 respectively. They are seen here kicking up dust in the sand coated yard near MP 341.9 (measured from the Frisco's historic corporate headquarters city of St. Louis).
To learn more check out the long caption with this shot: flic.kr/p/2mmJMoD
Springdale, Arkansas
Thursday September 2, 2021
Yorkrail's RJ2 has returned to Lincoln Yard in York PA and is now switching out the freight the crew picked up from CSXT at Smith's Station. A friendly wave from the engineer was most welcome. March 30, 2021.
Kodak Tri-X Pan, Rolleicord lll
Strasburg Railroad's ex Canadian National 2-6-0 89 makes a switching move past a farm at Strasburg PA.
MP15AC 1187 shoves loads of asphalt into the Owens Corning Trumbull Asphalt plant. The company uses it to make asphalt coatings and shingles. A few months ago they received covered hoppers as well on a second spur, but it doesn't look like that's currently being used.
CSXT Middleboro based local B727 (now officially known as L007) led by GP40-2 6237 (blt. Feb. 1979 as BO 4335 in Chessie System paint) and two sisters are switching on the Myles Standish Industrial Lead. They are curving off to spot one reefer at Americold and then will go pull one from Reinhart Foodservice at the end of track before coming back here to work the busy New England Waste Disposal transfer station. This branch is accessed from Attleboro Junction at MP 8.6 on the Middleboro Secondary a bit over a half mile behind me here.
The Middleboro Sub is strange in that it is owned by MassDOT and dispatched and maintained by Mass Coastal, but CSX still operates it and serves the customers as the direct corporate successor of CR, PC, NH, and all the way back to the Old Colony Railroad. In fact this particular segment of line here on the Myles Stabdish was opened in 1836 by OCRR predecessor Taunton Branch Railroad making it one of the oldest rail routes in New England. Becoming a mainline for the Old Colony it survived as a secondary through route under New Haven aegis seeing its last passenger train pass shortly before the connection with the shoreline was severed at Mansfield in 1955 to make way for a highway grade separation project.. The tracks into Mansfield center lasted until about 1966 for freight service served from this end, but then were abandoned leaving only the present 1.5 mile stub still in use today up to the large industrial park.
Taunton, Massachusetts
Tuesday March 15, 2022
just as I was about to leave BPW I popped into the island hide and the kingfisher was outside ,couldn't even open the windows so shot through grubby fingerprinted glass ,but it worked
Just another shot from this fun relaxing day out on the Mohawk, Adirondack and Northern.
MHWA 2453 (Alco C425 blt. Oct. 1964 as Erie Lackawanna 2453) was repatraited back to the states with several sisters after a long post EL career in British Columbia. On this Thursday the crew ran west from Utica with a shirt train and switched in the small yard on the former Griffis Air Force Base before running out to the end of the former USAF trackage to work here. Once completed they headed back east with 10 cars via the fast running on their trackage rights over CSXT's Mohawk Sub mainline.
This is the major customer that the MHWA serves in what is now the Griffiss Technologies and Business Park. Sovena USA was founded as the East Coast Olive Oil Corporation in Utica in 1991, and 80 percent of it was acquired in 2005 by the Portugal-based Sovena Group, which two years later renamed it Sovena USA and moved it to Griffiss.
Rome, New York
Thursday October 28, 2021
OSR 1620 and 1591 finish up their switching at PDI just as the sun was setting. Sadly this was as close as they came before reversing north out of sight to pick up the rest of their train.