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After a long slow ride south from Crete, the first stop of the day is to switch the Nutrien fertilizer distribution facility at Hoag.
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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Gefunden in einer alten Fabrik in Görlitz / Sachsen
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Another Genset moves light towards Washington Union Station. Amtrak rebuilt/desecrated a number of older end-cab switchers into these models.
Strasburg Railroad's ex Canadian National 2-6-0 89 makes a switching move past a farm at Strasburg PA.
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
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.
Switching one of the Facilities close the the yard located near Virginia Avenue in North Charleston. Interesting catch of a GP20 and GP16. GP20 #2008 appears to have been built as an EMD GP20 demonstrator EMDX #5626 While #2003 is an ex SAL GP16,
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
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
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.
Electo Motive SW1500 1541 at the Kingman Airport Industrial Park Arizona, three miles of internal railroad operated by the Kingman Terminal Railroad with connection to the BNSF main line at Berry.
switch on a yellow panel of an old locomotive.
used a LEE Filters landscape polariser.
Nikon D800e and a Zeiss Milvus 1.4 50mm
The inaugural ITT Hub trade show took place in Farnborough over 2 days at the end of June 2021. Promoting "Innovation & Technology in Transport", the show featured many trucks, vans and around 45 buses, coaches and minibuses, most of which were located in an area next to the main cavernous hall.
Exhibitors from the bus industry included ADL, Altas Auto, BYD, Caetanobus, Dawsongroup, EVM, Harris, Ilesbus, Iveco, Mercedes-Benz, Switch (Optare), Wright Bus, and Pelican Yutong.
The next ITT Hub event is scheduled for May 11th/12th 2022.
Those of you who follow my work know I have a thing for shooting freight under wire. Well this past Thursday I got a tip that CSXT Middleboro based daytime local B727 would be making a relatively uncommon move that was long on my wish list to shoot. B727 runs five days per week between Middleboro and Attleboro on the MassDOT owned and Mass Coastal maintained and dispatched Middleboro Subdivision serving customers and interchanging with the MC along the way.
On Thursdays they normally sneak out on to Amtrak's NEC main at BORO interlockong for a two and half mile shove west down Track 4 to East Junction to work a couple customers on that historic bit of trackage that I've written about in this caption: flic.kr/p/2jck93J
But there is one other customer in the area that every once in a while gets a switch. And on this day after shoving out they reversed direction and ran east a mile to a short twisting lead splitting off just short of Holden interlocking. This lead reaches down into the building of Polyfiber Inc. a subsidiary of Holland Manufacturing makers of industrial packaging, specialty coated and laminated products, water activated tapes and other products.
B726 has run the mile west with three cars trailing three GP40-2s. Just short of Holden they stopped and made two trips down and back on the lead to pull one empty and spot one load before shoving back east through Attleboro station toward East Junction. They are seen here pulling out of the building with three geeps to head back to the Amtrak mainline at MP 198.
Attleboro, Massachusetts
Thursday January 14, 2021
Four SD9s help an MEEUM at the west switch of Divide, Oregon siding on the Siskiyou Line. It sounded delightful.
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 pair of SD's switch scrap metal gons into the Sherritt International plant at Fort Saskatchewan Alberta
South Shore 801 switching Burnham Yard shortly after the 800's were assigned to the Gary Switcher in February 1975.
Lake State Railway GP40M-2-1171 is switching in LSRC's Saginaw Yard. 1171 was built in December of 1971 as Chesapeake & Ohio GP40-3793. It has since been sold to Adrian & Blissfield as their 824
Out to the east of Cleveland there used to be the Fairport Painesville and Eastern that ran between Fairport Harbor where they connected with the Baltimore and Ohio and Perry where they connected with the Norfolk and Western. For a short time the railroad continued east of Perry but that had been cut back in the 40's when the planned traffic never materialized. The biggest customer was a Diamond Alkali plant in Fairport Harbor but they were a busy little outfit with several other online industries. Here we see a stone train crossing the B&O coal yard lead in Fairport Harbor. This would have been Good Friday 1968. That was one of the few weekdays that my Dad and his cousin were both off on the same day and they would pack up sons and venture a little farther from home. These 2 S2's were originally bought by the FP&E in the late 40's. There's a very thorough history of the FP&E online accessible with a simple search. Today there is a stub end branch in Fairport Harbor operated by NS to serve one customer.
NS P60 is seen working the McNess lead in East Statesville with a freshly repainted ex-Conrail SD40-2 on the point. The Southern Railway signals are still prevalent on this classic stretch of railroad.
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.
Springbok are primarily browsers and may switch to grazing occasionally; they feed on shrubs and young succulents before they lignify. They prefer grasses. Springbok can meet their water needs from the food they eat and are able to survive without drinking water through the dry season. In extreme cases, they do not drink any water over the course of their lives. Springbok may accomplish this by selecting flowers, seeds, and leaves of shrubs before dawn when the food items are most succulent. In places such as Etosha National Park, springbok seek out water bodies where they are available. Springbok gather in the wet season and disperse during the dry season, unlike other African mammals.