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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.
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.
Just a wall switch.
With some effects from BeFunky and QniPaint
I got the idea for doing these from trying to survive in the Macro Mondays group without being allowed to get creative with the photos.
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
GTW 4921 switches out cars at the Appvion paper Mill in Appleton Wisconsin. The overhead bridge was added in the later years of the mill.
CSX Q594 with 5 GPs slowly creeps through Tuscola past a switchstand that led to the interchange between the CSX and CN. The track has recently been removed.
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.
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
Ex-southern MP15dc 2424 waits at the CSX/LRS interchange while slug 910 and MP15dc 2385 shove ex CN&W hopper into the Nutrimax building.
The conductor of the L540 switcher heads back to the comfort of the locomotive cab for the trip back to the Edson yard
Soo Line 2406 on the former Milwaukee Road Lakewood Branch (C&E North Line) switching Peerless Confection on Lakewood in June 1996.
A dual in-line package (DIP) switch. Dual in-line packaging is a standard style for many electronic devices and DIP switches are often used to set various options on the device. Standard spacing between pins is 0.1" or 2.54mm.
Slightly less than 1.5:1 reproduction ratio.
Strobist info: the switch is lying on its back (side away from the numbers) on the diffuser on an EX 430 III at 1/64 power. A second bare EX 430 III at 1/128 power is touching the side of the lens and aimed almost directly toward the nearest pin-side corner to light the front and create slight shadows. The front of the second flash about 1.5" from the switch and about 1.5" in front of the lens.
D&S 107 switches out the next days 461, which it'll pull. One of the signs of the changing times on the D&S the last several years has been the introduction of road diesels-electrics. After what I'll politely call a "mistake" with 2 custom made engines for them, D&S decided to go for a more proven model when they announced that they were acquiring 4 DL535E's from the White Pass & Yukon Route. Ordered by the White Pass in 1969, the first 7 of the 10 started being built at ALCO's Schenectady Works before the comapny folded & were sent to their Montreal Locomotive Works subsidiary. Still sporting the classic green & yellow scheme of the White Pass, this engine serves as a sign of the changing times that'll allow the D&S to continue to operate & also give us railfans a chance to now see these engines in action now without having to go to Alaska. 9-3-21
At the Minnesota Commerical's Midway Yard a pair of old GE B23-7's switch out AC tank cars. #44 and 43 were built for the ATSF in 1979 and still doing its part to serve railroad customers in 2023 and hopefully, years to come.
Two UP SD60s work the Minnesota Soybean Processors plant at Brewster, MN as some thin clouds filter a November prairie sunset.
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
Green Bay and Western RS20 305 is switching the west end of Norwood Yard in Green Bay, September 1979.
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.
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
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.
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.
Black River & Western 1202 has arrived at the transload site in Ringoes with three lumber loads. The crew spots the centerbeams adjacent to an impressive collection of EMD switchers wearing a variety of paint schemes.
BDRV 1202 SW1200 (ex-NH 643, PC/CR 9183)
Are you excited? I love that feeling when the seasons are about to switch and we move in to the early spring with all the weather changes that is about to bring. The first major one is happening today and we might be even able to witness and capture aurora or northern lights here in Illinois! This image is captured last spring, I used my wind painted clouds technique to emphasize the movement of the clouds and contrast it agains the still and beautiful Chicago skyline. What do you think?
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