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4433 enters the railroad south end of the yard with a small train from the Traverse City Main line across the river.
An SD40-2/C32-8 combination substitutes for the usual SD38/MT6 set assigned to Allentown Hump. The pair has dropped into the class yard to grab a cut of cars.
CR 6473 SD40-2
CR 6615 C32-8
1779 is seen departing the west end of the BNSF yard in Tacoma. This SD40-2 has a long history having first entered service with BN back in 02/78. 44 years later this hugely successful class of locomotives can still be found in regular use throughout the US network. 3,982 were built between 1972 and 1989.
Clifton, Arizona, USA. Once a booming copper mining town but now mostly declining or already in decay and the majority of people and business have moved just up the road to Morenci. The Freeport McMoRan copper mine located in Morenci is one of the largest in the world
Cliff dwellings along the San Francisco and Gila Rivers are evidence of an advanced civilization that existed long before Caesar ruled Rome. Many specimens of pottery and stone implements are still to be found in these ancient dwelling places. In the mid-1500s, both Fray Marcos de Niza and Francisco Vasquez de Coronado passed through the area, following the San Pedro north to the Gila River. Geronimo was born in 1829 near the confluence of Eagle Creek and the San Francisco and Gila Rivers.
In 1856 the first mineral discoveries of the Morenci/Clifton area were found by California volunteers pursuing Apaches, and conflicts between the Apaches and advancing Anglo settlers touched off a 26-year-long war. Mining for gold and silver began in 1864, followed by copper in 1872, and the mine at Morenci quickly grew to become the largest copper producer in North America. Clifton's population ballooned from 600 in 1880 to 5000 by 1910, and it quickly earned its reputation as the wildest of the "Wild West" boomtowns. Neighboring Morenci was swallowed up by an open pit mine in the 1960s, but Clifton was preserved, and today Chase Creek Street is still graced with lovely Victorian-era buildings from the town's halcyon days as the place to quickly make and lose a fortune.
In 1983, Clifton survived two nearly fatal blows, first a nearly three-year-long strike that began on June 30, 1983. Then later that same year, on October 2, 1983, Tropical Storm Octave sent 90,900 cubic feet of water per second into the San Francisco River, which burst its banks, destroying 700 homes and heavily damaging 86 of the town's 126 businesse
CP 4008 and CP 6250 hang out at the roundhouse while CP train 473 sets out their inbound train in the yard. Even though most of the roundhouse was shut down, the remaining staff tends to the local power and fuels mainline power as necessary.
February 10, 2017.
A pair of Union Pacific SD60's pause at the Alton & Southern General Offices at Gateway Yard so the crew of Job 102 could grab paperwork. Eventually, this job would gather traffic to run across the MacArthur Bridge and deliver to the UP at 12th Street Yard in St. Louis.
04-25-2021
So when I run out of material I head into the unknown, in my case the back yard to see what's about. Well apparently the grevilleas are in season. :)
BNSF 552 and BNSF 3142 are tied down in the Lower Yard of downtown Rock Island, IL while CPKC's Nitrin Job heads west to cross the Mississippi River on the Crescent Bridge and land at their home yard of West Davenport.
January 31, 2024
I spent the weekend with the URHS crew, aboard their time machine NYC Hickory Creek. Here it is, in damp repose, aside some neighboring Amtrak equipment. Standing there in the rain taking these photos, it struck me that this scene really is a multigenerational story of post-war passenger railroading: Amfleets were the first new cars purchased by NRPC in 1975, ACS-64s are the modern electric power on the NEC, and of course in the middle is this 1948 Pullman-built obs lounge, the crown jewel of a train dedicated by none other than Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower himself. Sunnyside, once the largest coach yard anywhere, is a location steeped in history, and still serves as the nerve center of passenger operations in New York City, stabling Amtrak, NJ Transit, and LIRR trains between runs.
Double sun reflection off The Yard, a new apartment building in Portland, OR. The Photographer's Ephemeris setup for this photo. NB49976
I had this fence put in the summer after I moved into this house.. The old fence was a wreck.. No matter I wanted cedar anyway... Fappy Fence Friday, Everybody!!!
in the winter deer, both bucks and does, bunch up in areas often that are protected from the winter winds.....some of the young bucks may still feel the effects of the rut and engage in minor sparring.....there were probably 20-30 deer here...
This photo is for my friend Brian! These birds aren't very pretty but he is one of God's creatures! I will be back to comment!
A single UP Geep rests at J Yard, one of several small local freight yards in this part of Los Angeles. The old Sears warehouse forms a recognizable backdrop here, although the distant hills are completely enveloped by haze.
Wearing the new corporate paint of its parent company, Travero, a Cedar Rapids and Iowa City yard job switches the UP interchange yard on the south side of Cedar Rapids.
The CRANDIC began operations in 1904 between its namesake cities, first primarily operating as an interurban line. Though as passenger service declined in the 1950's, freight traffic increased. Nowadays it makes a good living switching industrial customers, including several large grain and ethanol facilities.
This mother-slug pair (along with 8 others on the line) were custom-built by Relco in Albia, Iowa specifically for CRANDIC.
CRANDIC Yard Job
CIC S4-143 #307
CIC L4-1500XD-M #207
Cedar Rapids, IA
July 12th, 2025
It's close to home, and there is usually something to shoot. So I go here often, typically in the morning unless it's long summer days when the sun gets around to the north. This morning there was a steaming load of pellets sitting in the yard along with a set of ore motors, the e lead power, and a loaded limestone waiting for its time to go north. The sun was highlighting the rails and some railroader also decided to drive through the yard.
I couldn't resist the color contrasts and grit of this scene in a semi-paved alley behind the AAA Scrap Metal yard, near the 33rd Street Railroad Bridge.
Ummm...Mom...the mailman has a box!
About the time I took this the mailman came up behind me and said... "You aren't going to throw that cute thing away are ya?" :D Darn why didn't I get a pic of him with her...oh well...I know why...cause I KNEW WHAT WAS IN THE BOX HE HAD! :D *GRABBY* *GRABBY*
Originally I was taking this shot to show how widdle Aubrey is in relation to the Yard debris cntainer we ...well I...filled. :) As you see...she saw the mailman coming before I did!
UP YPR60B emerges out of Grand Avenue Yard behind the #815 long-hood forward passing Prairie Materials Yard 32. One of the largest concrete suppliers in Chicago, Yard 32 supplied over 5,000 cubic yards of concrete in under 24 hours during the construction of Trump Tower (seen in the background) using a fleet of 30 trucks each making nearly 600 round trips. Alas, the facility gets all of its shipments by barge.
Just a few miles out of its origin at BNSF's New South Yard, BNSF 8178 crosses over from Main 2 to Main 1 of the West Belt at Congress Jct in central Houston.
H HOUTUL1 04A (High Priority Manifest- Houston, TX to Tulsa, OK)
BNSF ES44C4 #8178
BNSF ES44C4 #8054
BNSF ES44DC #7215
Houston, TX
July 4th, 2020
With an ex-Conrail GP15-1 and an SW1500 for power, Cleveland Cliffs hands an empty coal train over to Lakefront Yard for interchange with CSX. The bridge at Hick can be seen in the background.