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This has been finished for a while now, but I didn't photograph it properly.
The engine is controlled by an SBrick and contains a remote decoupler.
As freight car capacity and size increases, so does the horsepower requirement to move said cars. One of CN's "Super Switcher" sets heads north on the Camrose Sub after switching the Atla Steel Plant on the east side of Edmonton Alberta.
Robinson Switch, AL
A small sharecropper community southwest of Montgomery. According to the one obscure document I found, it was formed after the Civil War when the plantation that occupied the land closed up and went under. It apparently lasted until the 1950s or 60s and then just stopped.
📟 : 140 to Harrow Weald (Bus Garage)
🚍 : VWH2228 - LK66EOC
📟 : X140 to Harrow
🚍 : VWH2230 - LK66DWJ
🏢 : Harrow Weald (HD)
🚏 : Station Parade
Ⓜ️ : Volvo B5LH Gemini 3
VWH2228 overtakes VWH2230 at Station Parade as it heads to Harrow Weald operating route 140 while VWH2230 heads to Harrow on express route X140.
Usually it's the express overtaking but a light 140 with just the one passenger makes its move!
Maine Northern Railway Train 900-14 makes some switching moves at Skerry Siding on the Madawaska Subdivision.
Out of view behind the train is a massive sawmill owned by Maine Northern's parent company J.D. Irving. The mill makes up a large portion of MNR's traffic, shipping logs to Woodland, lumber, and chips for Irving's papermills in Saint John. Having just spotted a cut of empty chip cars, an army of front end loaders has already started the process of loading the empties. Roughly 50 chip cars, around 20 log cars, and 9 center beams can be loaded at a time. Depending on demand, the mill can be switched on both the north bound and southbound leg of 900's journey.
The empty log cars on the head end are destined for the yard at Fort Kent, where they will be loaded by the TNT Road Company which harvests for Irving Woodlands. Others will go to Irving's Grande-Riviere sawmill in Saint-Leonard, NB to be loaded there.
Maine Northern Railway
Train: 900-14
1/14/2024
Skerry, ME
MNR Madawaska Subdivision
Don't we all have a tendency to get into routines, doing things the same way over and over, just because that's how we've always done them. Routines can be a trap that prevent us from seeing opportunities and experiencing life.
Here's a thought; what if you're so intimately involved in your life that you have lost perspective? Like a frustrating problem that you can't walk away from.
The way out of that trap is to get out of your routine. Make an effort to experience something new, really new and different, every day. Make it a point to take alternate routes to familiar places. Try a new kind of food. Adjust the lighting differently. Re-arrange your furniture. The list is limitless and so are the possibilities.
Step back, look at the things you do every day, and ask yourself "why?" Then look at the things you've never thought you could do, or never considered doing, and ask "why not?"
Take yourself to the places where you have never been, in the people you don't know much about. One place to do such activity is Hunza. With all its mystery and grandness Hunza takes you out of the routine and for sure stun you with the atmosphere and history.
The only way you can take control of your life is to switch off the auto-pilot and steer your way into this world.
Taken: Baltit Fort, Karimabad, Central Hunza, Northern Areas of Pakistan
Exposure: 20 sec
Aperture: f/20.0
Focal Length: 14 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Auto, Did not fire
The second ITT Hub (Innovation & Technology in Transport) show took place in Farnborough in early May 2022. ITT Hub is the annual meeting place for the commercial road transport sector, bringing together the latest innovation and technology for bus, coach, truck, van, last mile and autonomous vehicle fleets.
From the bus world there were displays from Alexander Dennis, BYD, Caetano, Dawson Group, Equipmake, Iles Bus, Mellor, Switch, Volvo, Wrightbus and Yutong (Pelican).
Maine Eastern GP9 764 switches the Dragon Cement facility on the Rockland waterfront, switching out empties for loads. They'll make quick work of the switching and bring the empties right back out to Thomaston, to be reloaded once again. To the right is the Rockland Sail Power & Steam Museum, a fairly busy attraction to tourists and native Mainers alike.
When you read you surely felt this feeling of leaving reality, living some one else's life jumping, laughing endlessly in your own made up world that exists secretely in your mind and no one is possible to manipulate or destroy it. When I've read a book which plot fascinated me so enourmously, even days after, I am dizzy, rewiniding the smallest details in my head, learning the most beautiful passages by heart and thinking what a great loss the death of one person was, I can get really sad, thiking what a loss for the world it is - BUT wait stop, it's only a book. No one died here. But thiking of the fate of the characters makes me thinking of human's fates and I am sure there is a person who experienced and felt things the protagonist felt, so I assure me I can be sad, for a person I've never known and never going to meet.
Girly image, girly room, girly pillows
310068 enters London Euston with a local service on 8th August on 1984. Introduced in 1963, these Derby built AM10s were the mainstay of fast electric services in the Midlands and London lasted just into the new century, the last sets being withdrawn in 2002.
There appears to be a huge number of switch diamonds in this part of the station throat at Euston.
L&C 2369 lead #12 today from Richburg to the Chester Industrial park, seen here near Orrs, SC.
They had a fairly sizable train both ways, but made good time getting back to the NS interchange.
A pair of Illinois Central GP38-2s switch at the west end of CN's former EJ&E Kirk Yard, as seen from Clarke Road.
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North Western geep 4206 takes a break from switching the quarry west of Downtown Elmhurst on a nice evening in August 1986.
I don't know much about dutch locomotives, but I tried to find some information.
It is a diesel-electric NS Serie 200-300 switcher which was built in the 1930's by Werkspoor. Some had a crane attached like this one. It can be controlled from the sides of the locomotive. The engine has a power of 85hp and a max. speed of 60kph and it's got the nickname "Sik" which means goatee if i'm right.
If you have more information, please let my know.
Picture taken at the train station of Simpelveld, Netherlands.
Late night passengers on the platform at lonely Minersville, PA watch with interest as the crew of a Central Railroad of New Jersey Switcher go about their business of shifting cars around for the next day's operations.
This image was captured during an October 2023 night photo shoot organized by Railroad Restoration Project 113, which featured the 1923-vintage Central Railroad of New Jersey 0-6-0 Switcher, # 113 under steam. Strobe lighting was provided by Steve Barry Photography.
Originating from Waukegan WI, CWKNA9 24 with the UP 3016, a new EMD T4 SD70AH, pulled down to the "Paper House Crossover" between 29 and 30 Main of Proviso Yard just off Lake Street in Northlake IL. After changing crews, a problem arised with the 3016. Cab signals that were needed to proceed West on the Geneva Sub went bad order, so power needed to be swapped around. In the process of swapping power around, the 3016 was set aside on 29 Main which made for a good photo op. They then took the second motor, UP 7243, and tied onto the 3016, then shot back over to 30 Main to tie onto the train. After everything was all said and done, out of town they went with the 7243 as the new leader.
Working the Northend of Norfolk Southern's Whitaker Intermodal Facility, NS G95 uses the UP 1989 (D&RGW) heritage unit for for switching.
A Lehigh Valley Rail Management crew brings a long cut of double stack cars into the River Yard for interchange to NS.
The train is led by a trio of EMD switchers:
LVRM 19 MP15DC (ex-CI/SB/PBNE 19)
LTEX 1517 SW1500 (ex-PC/CR 9556)
LVRM 1146 MP15DC (ex-CSXT 1146, LN 5036)