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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.
Say hello to Mr Conflicted. Kaji is student council shacho, but has an alternate life outside which he hates but has no choice but to live out. More soon :)
Kaji is a Switch Milhwa on a Little Monica type A body :)
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
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.
The Fore River Railroad B23-7 101 (blt. in Jul. 1979 as CR 1992) has just shoved down the middle of Wharf Street on a short stretch of about 250 ft of street running and are backing into the Twin Rivers Technologies plant at Shipyard Point alongside the Weymouth Fore River. This is the larger of the railroad's two customers, the other being the Massachusetts Water Resources fertilizer plant.
Twin Rivers Technology LLC, a manufacturer of industrial inorganic chemicals (rendering of glycerin, fatty acids) is particularly busy pumping out hand sanitizer given the state of the world in 2020. Twin Rivers purchased the former Proctor & Gamble soap plant in 1994 and in 2007 the company was purchased by FGV a Malaysian Global Agribusiness company that was originally and arm of the Malaysian government agency FELDA but was taken public in 2012.
Twin Rivers is the owner of Fore River Transportation, the contract operator of the Fore River Railroad which is owned by MWRA, a state agency.
I've written extensively about the Fore River before, but if you missed it check out the caption with this older photo: flic.kr/p/2juf2nG
Quincy, Massachusetts
Friday November 20, 2020
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.
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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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Circa 1967 Cortina and Taunus 15M on a D-Series transporter. At some point Ford's Finnish facility switched from an assembly plant to being a parts depot.
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
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.
Always wanted to see this MP15T in action. Here it is at the Vulcan Mines doing its thing.
Irwin, Ill.
10-20-14
Kidwelly Brick Works to the north of Kidwelly station was opened c.1858 by William Edwards of Swansea. This site ceased operation in c.1903. A new works was built to the south of of the railway station by Alderman Daniel Stephens which opened in 1903. Stephens worked silica from Mynydd-y-Garreg and this was brought into the works via train. Up to 1927 the firm was known as Stephens & Co, but later as Beynon Davies Civils Ltd.
These photographs, taken in March 2017, showcase the building as it stands today.
Inspiration for the framing of the shots came from the 1975 New Topographics exhibition.
BRC 380 performs some switching duties at the east end of Clearing Yard, Pulaski Rd is seen in the foreground. December 2025
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.