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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.
A 500mm zoom shot of a Seven Cities Scot Rail HST passing Greenloaning signal box working a Dundee to Glasgow service. The box has been switched out for a number of years, and despite the fact the passing loops have been disconnected, the loop signals are still in place. I suppose it is only a matter of time before it all disappears.
Natsuki - he's confident and "flirty" got a bit of a smirky playful side too. (Not shown here though!)
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
Switching the yard at Logan, local 844 is in a push-pull configuration after a quick run to Three Forks on the 5th Sub. March 2019.
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
Often times the best opportunities for photos comes before the main event. I photographed P36-0110 switching in the yard at Shcherbinka on August 24, 2019, in preparation for Expo1520.
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
IORY 3222 South powers the Lima South Local southbound on the DT&I through Thackery, Ohio. Heritage Cooperative’s GE-25-Ton switcher sits at the end of one of their loading tracks. February 24, 2021.
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.
On a Sunday, twenty years ago, BN GP10 #1408 leads a cut of ballast over the Mississippi River in St. Cloud, MN on Sept. 29, 1996. This was the St. Cloud switch engine heading across the former GN bridge to set out ballast for a manifest to pick up on the double track mainline.
At this time the railroad in St. Cloud, at least of the mainline, still looked pretty much BN in these early days of BNSF. Also at this time as sophomore at SCSU, 10 years ago seemed way far back to me. It was 10 years before 1996 when BN closed the St. Cloud Car Shops in Waite Park, where a large fleet of those white BN ballast cars were rebuilt. Nowadays 20 years ago doesn't seem that far back to me, at least that is what I keep telling myself.
The single car 518 picked up a couple of ballast hoppers at Grove City and made for a nice scene as they switched them out beside the old yard office while getting very short on time.
A pair of BNSF SW1500's working under the viaducts in Seattle's Industrial District.
February 13, 2017
A brush cutting crew, a switching crew, and the regular excursion all ended up converging at the Walkersville station. The switcher was in the center, looking both ways at the action unfolding around them.
Driving back from my father in law`s last night, this beautiful sight appeared in the distance ahead of me.
I quicky pulled over switched on my camera and fired off a few frames as it started to fade away. This is only the second rainbow I have shot in my photographic journey and this supasses the previous one by far.
Maryland Midland's UBHF pulls onto the Hanover Subdivision at Highfield with their pickup from the CSX local. Once the crew clears the switch in the distance, the CSX job will couple up to the cars that the Midland has left for them. After the local clears, the Midland will back up to clear the switch and then proceed east back to the yard at Union Bridge MD.
November 8, 2021
Kodak Ektar 100 6x9 color negative
Mamiya Super 23
South Shore 801 switching Burnham Yard shortly after the 800's were assigned to the Gary Switcher in February 1975.
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.
Black River SW1200 1202 leads a Maryland & Delaware Centreville Line train past the neatly restored station in Sudlersville, MD. In tow are cars for Perdue in Roberts and also for customers near the end of the line in Centreville. 1202 was not well-liked by MDDE crews, but it got the job done...sort of. The station was built in 1885 by the Queen Anne's and Kent Railroad which later became part of Pennsylvania Railroad's expansive operations on the Delmarva Peninsula.
BDRV 1202 SW1200 (ex-NH 643, PC/CR 9183)
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.
Having wrapped up their work over on the East Providence side, Providence and Worcester Railroad local freight PR-3 is now headed south toward the Port of Providence for the rest of their days work. This is the official timetable end of the Main Line at MP 5.1 (as measured from Union Station) at this one time junction known as 'Boston Switch' and from here to Cranston Yard they will be on Amtrak property. Visible to the right and partially obscured by the spring greenery is the crumbling tile roofed pagoda style interlocking tower here where Amtrak's Northeast Corridor mainline down from Boston curls in from the northeast. Sharp eyes will note the white painted concrete New Haven Railroad era milepost 190 at the right edge of the frame.
That line was built as the Boston & Providence in 1847 as a new route into the city from East Jct. near South Attleboro, MA. Their original 1835 route traveled to East Providence where passengers and freight were ferried across the Providence River into downtown. From this point to Union Station the P&W (which opened its line into Providence that same year) and B&P were operated a joint facility. In 1892 the P&W was leased to the New Haven and a year later the former B&P (by then in the Old Colony fold) joined the growing empire and both routes now fell under the aegis of the same company.
In 1914 a massive grade separation and line relocation project in Pawtucket took place. This was about the eastern limits of the work and according to Edward J. Ozog's phenomenal Railroad's of Rhode Island site:
"SS 156 was built to protect the east end of the line relocation. Switches and signals were operated by electricity. The plan of the tower was similar to SS 154 built at the same time at the west end of the relocation but adjusted for its location and orientation. The tower was reduced to short hours when the depression struck and it was closed in 1935 and its duties transferred to Woodlawn Tower. In 1937 the interlocking machine was sent to Bridgeport for use in SS 60.".
Remarkably some 87 years after the last shift was worked here it still stands guard as a tangible link to the Ocean State's railroading heritage. And interestingly though named 'Boston Switch' there is no longer an actual switch here and the closest physical connection (even though technically Amtrak property begins here) is about 1.4 miles ahead at LAWN interlocking.
GP38-2s 2008 and 2006 are original to the road having been built new for the then only 7 year independent company by EMD in Dec. and Feb. 1980 respectively), and they still proudly wear their red and brown colors despite being a member of the Genesee and Wyoming family for more than six years already.
Central Falls, Rhode Island
Monday May 22, 2023
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.
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.