Switch Face (Hidden Faces All Around Us)
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“Make sense who may. I switch off.”
Quote - Samuel Beckett
Wishing you a nice weekend ahead, will be away for some days.
A Cement dust laden CBFX Switcher, an EMD SW1500 doing its job at the Giant Cement Co at Harleyville, SC.
Spent part of my Sunday walking through the wonderful beech forest at Ekedalen. This shot is made by 4 portrait photos stitched together to get a wider shot and to make sure at least parts of the tree tops are visible. It was my first visit there, but for sure not the last...
For switcher Sunday we see 2 former PRR SW's (a 7 and a 9) leading a westbound local on what was PRR's 4 track main through Canton, Ohio in December 1981. It's about to be overtaken by one of the many trailer trains on the 4 track main that was still in place through town. The building to the left was a Fisher Foods warehouse that clearly still provided some box car business. The freight cars are as cool as the power is blue.
El 310.022 de Adif maniobra con unas plataformas de contenedores vacías en el cargadero de Laumar de Vicálvaro.
A small railroad locomotive used for maneuvering railroad cars inside a rail yard in a process known as switching (US) or shunting (UK).
This one is at the Niles Canyon Railway maintenance facility near Sunol, California.
Another frame of BNSF local Y-SPM220 switching in the caves at the Springfield Underground facility. To learn more check out the caption with my first post of this scene: flic.kr/p/2mm7sxC
Springfield, Missouri
Wednesday September 1, 2021
Dreistufiger Messbereichsschalter eines Vielfachmessgerätes, hergestellt vom Urgrossvater des Sekretärs (Datum unbekannt, wahrscheinlich irgendwann zwischen 1900 und 1925).
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Three-stage measuring range switch of a multiple measuring device, made by the great-grandfather of the secretary (date unknown, probably sometime between 1900 and 1925)
Susquehanna C420 2002 drills cars on the former Erie main line in front of some of the most-photographed brick buildings in the east.
Job 1 has arrived in Jackman behind consecutively numbered 9021 and 9020 and have begun switching the logs at Jackman to be taken back east by Job 2.
A switch engine in Nebraska caught on film. Reality So Subtle 6x6 pinhole camera, Ilford film and caffenol developer.
UBHF makes a reverse move to switch the NVR lumber yard in Thurmont, MD. The UBHF typically works Thurmont, allowing us time for a quick mid-chase coffee break at the nearby Sheetz.
BNSF’s Sandpoint local has finished switching empties for the Pend Oreille Valley Railroad at the east end of the yard in Sandpoint at Boyer, Idaho, on September 26, 2021. As an eastbound BNSF stack train curves by on the main line, the power will soon head west in the yard to pick up interchange from POVA before heading back to Spokane.
I never thought it would happen to me but it has, as amusing as it may sound and as it is often the jest of many a joke by comedians or in comic film making, but the midlife crisis is very real! Arriving at a stage in one’s life where within the mind reflects on what feels like a former life, undecided on new directions, lost in constant reminiscence of the past, suddenly things you could so easily tolerate now annoy the hell out of you, having spent half a life chasing the unseen and unobtainable whilst simultaneously overcoming the multiplicity of challenges life throws at you, in my case, addiction, CPTSD, overcoming the past, etc, etc and I have done so and I am proud of myself.
But here I am, as many others I am sure have arrived at this point, accompanied with the virtue of having been told I am “different” all my life, succumbing to the realisation I now have encountered something as much as anyone else, not sure if that is a good thing or not. But I am living in a modern era where as people no longer even use words, replaced by emoticons, replaced by the postage stamp consensus via a glowing mobile screen too many call reality, so does anyone even read anymore? Text that is? Hence the title, where do I go now?! The curious switch of navigating to a new field of thought, the inundation of possibilities is overwhelming!
I hope everyone is well and so as always, thank you! 😊
Busy afternoon around US Steel's Granite City Works as we found 4 switch engines banging around within a 30 minute period. The 1191 was grabbing empties from the interchange yard to distribute around the complex. This yard is also switched by the NS and TRRA.
02-19-2021
On the former Rock Island main line to Limon, an eastbound Kyle Railroad grain train arrives at Seibert to do some switching at the Seibert Equity Co-Op Association grain elevator on May 6, 2014. Kyle EMD SD45T-2 No. 3099 is the then recently-repainted former Southern Pacific No. 9330, with trailing sister No. 9362 still in remarkably good SP paint.