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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.
Mass Central GP38-2 1750 switches a plastic customer on the "Ware River Route" in Ware, MA. I bet people from Ware are sick of those jokes.
A pair of M636s switch sand hoppers at Turtlepoint. Once they put their train together they will have an MLW on each end. Why I am not sure but it did make things interesting for the drive back to Olean.
2009 is at the end of street running on 11th street and will head over to 10th street on its way out of town.
Any locomotive will do!
BNSF pulled an ES44C4 into switcher duty at the Stockton Intermodal Gateway yard in Stockton, CA. Usually, BNSF employs two ex BN SD40-2's to handle the switching. BNSF 8242 shoves a long cut of intermodal cars onto the pad to be unloaded.
Watching the single GE motor shove the cars backwards into the yard would excite any railfan. It took every ounce of power from the motor to gain enough push the cars. The growl from the powerful GE motor was loud. Heavy fumes rose from the exhaust stack. Wheels jerked slightly back and forth as the engine attempted to exert enough energy to shove.
Once it gained enough energy, the cars freely moved backwards into the yard. The 8242 was in full control. Not a problem for this brute!
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C&S 802 works a cut of tankcars in Cheyenne, the northern end of the C&S system. 802 was from a group of five 2-8-2s built by Baldwin in 1911. Much like sister locomotive 801, 802 would last until 1959.
Cheyenne, WY
December 10, 1953
Train of the Day
6/21/22
Montana Rail Links Townsend local is seen switching out hopper cars at the Broadwater County Transfer Station in Townsend, MT. With dusk quickly approaching, the crew is working with their ex Northern Pacific GP9 and Ex Burlington Northern SD45 to finish their work and clear the main for a WB BNSF freight...8/17/22
Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch.
≈ Wynonna Judd ≈
I spent my first free evening in a while looking for trains along the UP in northwest Iowa. When I got to Worthington and saw the local power wasn't parked by the depot, I knew there was a good chance I would find them somewhere between there and Sheldon. As it turned out, I got to Sheldon just in time to get a few pictures of them completing their work before they would start their trip back north. A nice looking pair of EMDs shoves a cut of hoppers back toward the elevator, passing the former C&NW depot that's still standing.
The ICTF switcher pulls a string of double stacks at the north end of Dolores Yard. These SD60Ms were primarily in yard and local service by this point. Most would be off roster within a few years. Today, a large fence spoils most of the photo opportunities here.
The ultra friendly folks at the Apache Railway allowed us to sign a release in exchange for limited access on the property. We weren't allowed to go very far from the building or cross tracks, but it was better than getting kicked out!
After waiting a couple hours for their safety meeting, etc, the crew finally got on the APA 98/99 and started working the yard prior to departure.
Snowflake, AZ. September 6, 2012.
Great Northern searchlights are still active here at Baden along the BNSF Casco Subdivision. Baden is one of two sidings along the Casco between Brookston and Kelly Lake, the other being Fermoy. It was a hike to get here but worth it for the documentation.
New Haven Railroad ALCO S-1 switcher 0948 is seen in a yard area at Oak Point, New York, 1958. At the current time there appears to be no crew on-board.
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Phelps Dodge power switch at Clifton whilst waiting for the SP local to arrive from Lordsburg. In the dying days of the SP, they may have a long wait some days. March 1995.
Switch House, Tate Modern designed by Herzog & de Meuron the extension to Tate Modern opened June 2016.
Concrete spiral stair.
BONSAL NC: This switcher is one of the restored gems at the New Hope Valley RR & Railroad Museum. It is a 45 ton diesel that was built in 1941 and used by the Navy in Maryland and Camp LeJeune NC.
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Laying over on a slow Sunday, BNSF 2661 sits outside the shops for Metra's BNSF Line and the Zephyr Pit. Since BNSF is the operator for Metra trains to Aurora, they also provide power for switching at Chicago Union Station.
BNSF GP39-3 #2661
Chicago, IL
June 12th, 2022