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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
Lhoist's road train is seen spotting the loads they brought from the mine for NS to pick up before they grab ahold of the empties for the return trip. Since the arrival of the 3043, it's been rare for either of the high hoods to appear on the point of the road train, so to have both of them powering the days train is certainly a plus, especially since the 4021 is rarely seen on it dating back to its Franklin days. This would also turn out to be the first day for about a month that these engines would be the road power while the 3138 was getting radiator repairs & the 3043 would serve as the plant switcher. 10-30-20
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 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*
BPRR 3301 leads the Batesville Switcher as they switch cars around at the Future Fuel spur in Magness.
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.
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.'
To read the whole story check out the original post here: flic.kr/p/2jtoazu
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.
Няшные йосд у меня могут вырасти только в няшных сд xD
не так я представляла себе первое появление этого товарища на людях, но раз уж все равно его спалила, а до полного воплощения еще как до луны пешком, да здравствуют снова портретики \(^___^)/
Face up by Ksiny ♥
A pair of Green Bay & Western RS20's switch the Ann Arbor Carferry Viking at Kewaunee WI. February 1976.
I switched Cassandra's eyes to the one's Chiyo was wearing. I think they look much better in her. <3 I think the smaller eye opening needed a more vibrant color eye to show up better.
Because my VicVipers always have to have a gimmick, I decided to try building one with variable swept wings this year. Like the 2017 model, it was based on sketching out various ideas, one of which was to have it be a "Sometimes Vic". It only strictly meets the criteria with the wings deployed.
The gearing situation was fun to mess with. You twist the engine to move the wings. There is an unfortunate amount of slop when doing so, however. Maybe some of you Technic buffs have pointers?
All in all, a highly enjoyable build and very swooshable.
EDIT: Uploaded higher res image.
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.
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.
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.