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MRL 251 shuffles cars in the yard at Logan on a cool morning. It just dropped the hoppers ahead for the grain elevator and will now put together its train to head west of the 5th Sub.
MRL 844 Local (Logan Local)
MRL SD40-2XR #251
Logan, MT
May 2nd, 2022
A Merseyrail Class 508 EMU switches back onto the correct Liverpool bound track just south of Maghull Station. It was involved in this switch because on 4th November the line north of Maghull to Town Green, Aughton Park and terminus station Ormskirk was closed. Can't just recall whether the short running on this occasion was due to an RMT strike day over driver only operation (when the new Merseyrail Stadler stock is introduced) or whether it was caused by an engineer's possession due to the construction of the new Maghull North Station a mile north of the present Maghull Station. In the background you can just make out another Merseyrail 507 or 508 EMU awaiting a clear line to run into Maghull Station.
And some autumnal colours too of course.
Just a simple shot I kind of like of this switcher framed up nicely between the short waving cane and the tall swaying palms.
Sunday morning dawned clear and dry so after a great Cuban breakfast I checked out the shop then drove down south of town for some morning shots of the east side of the Clewiston Mill, the beating heart of US Sugar Corporation and it's truly impressive rail operation. I hiked down from Davidson Road east of tracks along the levee a half mile or so where I could look west at Sugar Junction and the mill yard.
If you have a long lens this is a really cool spot to pull in some of the action and photograph locomotives that don't get out on the road. This 400mm telephoto shot illustrates how modern this railroad is with a solar panel and signal visible for a DTMF controlled power switch of which there are hundreds on this railroad. And it's also quite clear that no one is in the cab if this loco which is working a dump job at the mill and is being operated by remote control.
USSC 203 is an EMD MP15T blt. Oct. 1984 as Seaboard System 1214, which wore its same number on CSXT before coming here sometime after 2015.
Hendry County, Florida
Sunday March 15, 2025
The Morning Helena Switch (Y HEL0601 29 A) is in the process of setting out their cars at Helena Yard in Helena MT, March 29, 2018. MRL SD40-2XR was built for the C&NW in January 1966 as an SD40. Nikon F, f2 50mm, 1/500th at f5.6, Fuji Acros 100.
A former Southern Railway SD24 (SD9 now) works as a switcher at a grain elevator in Cozad Nebraska. At the time of this photograph the locomotive is 65 years old.
South Shore 801 switching Burnham Yard shortly after the 800's were assigned to the Gary Switcher in February 1975.
Moments after meeting counterpart train 12T, trash train 11T thunders under the N&W coal tower at Vicker Switch on the NS Christiansburg District.
Just another shot of this cool but homely veteran unit still toiling away in the far northern reaches of New England.
NECR 1750 (EMD SD9 blt. Apr. 1959) is seen switching back and forth over North Elm Street at the south end of the old Central Vermont Itay Yard at about MP 0.5 on the New England Central Railroad's Swanton Subdivision.
The 1750 is rather unattractive with its chopped nose, but sure is cool as the only operating example of this classic model in New England. None of the traditional New England roads ever purchased any SD9s, preferring instead the 4-axle GP9 model which were quite common. The 1750 was an original Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway unit were it served for 39 years as their number 161 before being sold to Railtex in 1998 and transferred to the Georgia Southwestern. It was around that time that its original high short hood was cut down and was renumbered 1900. It was transferred by then parent RailAmerica around 2005 to the Connecticut Southern and then came to the NECR around 2009. For the past dozen years she has been a stalwart switcher though her sibling, NECR 1901 (ex DMIR 168), that came at the same time has since been retired.
St. Albans, Vermont
Friday January 27, 2023
Part of my Buttermilk Falls series, I switched over to my 180 macro and got down low. Along the river banks are these soft moss beds with little shrooms are all over the place.
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A pair of UP MP15ACs (both originally MILW) slowly approach 9th St. while switching ARM-DAT in KC's West Bottoms. The actual office for ARM-DAT is off camera to the left, but this long-ago vacant building, which obviously was a bar or liquor store, provides a more interesting view, especially with the old Schlitz sign.
The track actually runs down the middle of State Line Rd (out of frame to the right), so depending on which side of the locomotive the crew would get off on, they would be either on the KS side or the MO side.
Pabst Brewing Company now produces Schlitz and Old Milwaukee.
A pair of IC geeps lead CN local L508 onto the single track at Byron, WI on the railroad's Waukesha Sub. The train will stop ahead to begin work at the Quad plant located here.
Bangor & Aroostook GP38s 82 & 83 are working in the yard at Searsport ME on September 16, 1991. Today's crew switched out the old friction bearing tank cars that were used for transporting diesel fuel. The Geeps were a 1967 delivery which involved the BAR trading in their two E7 passenger diesels towards the order. By this date, September 16, 1991, the 38s had now served the BAR longer than their E7 predecessors had.
Kodachrome Professional 64, Nikon N8008
A long abandoned section of track and switch arm for switching the train onto a different track out in the middle of the California desert.
Night, near full moon, 180 second exposure, protomachines flashlight set to gold.
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Fully Charged Live! returned to the Farnborough International Exhibition & Conference Centre at the end of April 2022. Although no buses were on display at the show, the park & ride services provided a real mix of vehicles to enjoy including brand new electric Yutongs for Newport Bus, rare Higer Steeds from Big Lemon, and a number of local independent operators pooling together to provide a link to the main car park in Rushmoor Arena.
Fully Charged Live! returned to the Farnborough International Exhibition & Conference Centre at the end of April 2022. Although no buses were on display at the show, the park & ride services provided a real mix of vehicles to enjoy including brand new electric Yutongs for Newport Bus, rare Higer Steeds from Big Lemon, and a number of local independent operators pooling together to provide a link to the main car park in Rushmoor Arena.
CSXT MP15T #1200 pulls an empty lumber car and an empty hopper from the USG plant out of one of the four active spur leading on the property.
Another Genset moves light towards Washington Union Station. Amtrak rebuilt/desecrated a number of older end-cab switchers into these models.
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