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  1. Let's All Get Out and Push!

    Let's All Get Out and Push!

    This Saab was fouling the tracks ahead of the South City Switcher. They had to wait for a tow truck to show up to remove the car. With the tow truck driver at the wheel, the brakeman and a good samaritan shove the car out of harm's way.
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    • francisco local running san street up
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    • Category: Western United States
  2. Running Down Quint Street

    Running Down Quint Street

    The South City Switcher winds its way down the twisting street trackage of Quint Street in San Francisco. If there's going to be a headache, this is where it will be, as many people don't realize that a freight train comes through here on a daily basis. Thinking the tracks are abandoned, many...
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    • Category: Western United States
  3. ExSAABsperation

    ExSAABsperation

    The brakeman on the South City Switcher looks with resignation upon the obstruction that has brought his train to a standstill. Despite copious signage, this driver still failed to heed the warnings. As a result, several grade crossings were fouled for 20 minutes while a tow truck was called to...
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    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Western United States
  4. Highballing Through Highland

    Highballing Through Highland

    BNSF 506 leads the Longmont Local over the north switch at Highland, CO. This was kind of a test shot, using a cheapie Tamron 70-300mm f/4-5.6 zoom that I picked up at a pawn shop for $60. I also attached my Tamron SP AF 1.4x teleconverter for a total of 420mm. The Tamron zoom...
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    • 506 bnsf front highland local longmont range sub
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    • Category: Editors Choice Gallery
  5. Back Alley Railroading

    Back Alley Railroading

    In a scene almost reminiscent of the third world, the South City Switcher gingerly picks its way down an alley lined with junkyards and scrap dealers. The tracks are barely visible amid the dirt. Just two minutes prior, you wouldn't even know a train could ever pass through here, as there were...
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    • francisco grande local rio running san street up
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    • Category: Western United States
  6. Gritty Urban Railroading

    Gritty Urban Railroading

    The South City Switcher carefully picks its way down Rankin St. There are several scrap yards in this area which see a lot of truck traffic and there are frequently obstructions on this stretch of tracks, everything from trucks to forklifts, to dumpsters. Liberal use of the horn usually is...
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    • city francisco local san south switcher up
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    • Category: Western United States
  7. Busy Intersection

    Busy Intersection

    The power for South City Switcher cuts across a busy intersection in South San Francisco. There are no lights or gates at this intersection. Instead, when the train arrives, the signal flips to all-red, and the train gets a green light - note the small signal in the upper left.
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    • city francisco local san south switcher up
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    • Category: Western United States
  8. The Trooper

    The Trooper

    CN 630 tramp job (CN Industrial, MP 188) heads home with 5 cars, slowly following CN 347. 2:43pm CN 1434-1412 hopper/flat/gondola/2 tankers I used to see 1434 all the time in Winnipeg across the street @ Fort Garry Industrial Park/Manitoba Sugar site/Fort Rouge yard job. Now he has been...
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    • 1412 1434 cn cold gmd-1 gmd-1u gmd1 gmd1u industrial job local mainline mp188 riverview saskatoon snow watrous winter yard
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    • Category: Canada
  9. Fresh zebra...

    Fresh zebra...

    It should be an oxymoron, a non-museum, operational CN unit wearing the fresh zebra paint sheme - yet here it is! Perhaps its CN's version of a heritage unit. A number of widecab Geeps have been getting their original paint touched up lately. You can clearly see the shine, when comparing to the...
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    • 1410 4713 cn fresh gmd1u gp38-2 industrial local painjob paint paintsheme saskatoon sheme wayfreight zebra
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Canadian National
  10. All zebras!

    All zebras!

    November 20th, 2007 CN Riverview 1:41pm CN 560, 4 hoppers CN 4797-4703-4792 A couple months ago I posted this photo of CN 560 as "CN Classic": http://tinyurl.com/2yqu82 Today the scene repeated with three Geeps! Two GP38-2W's sandwitching a GP38-2, all in classic zebra paint...
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    • 4703 4792 4797 560 cn gp38-2 gp38-2w local saskatoon trio wayfreight zebra
    • Comments: 3
    • Category: Bridges and Trestles
  11. Crossroad of Competitors

    Crossroad of Competitors

    The South City Switcher contends with the truckers on Amador St. as it picks up loads from a local industry. This section of street running was recently abandoned when the industry built a new spur that bypasses the street, so photos such as this one are now history.
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    • francisco local running san street up
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    • Category: Western United States
  12. The South City Switcher

    The South City Switcher

    The South City Switcher is the last freight operation that still does business in the city of San Francisco. A total of 3 customers remain in the city. To reach those customers, the train must negotiate a complicated network of street trackage in a busy industrial area on the south side of the...
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    • francisco local san up
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    • Category: Editors Choice Gallery
  13. Protecting the Shove

    Protecting the Shove

    The conductor of the South City Switcher protects the rear of his train as it shoves into an industrial spur.
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    • francisco local san up
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    • Category: Western United States
  14. BNSF 560 leads the Cadiz Local out of Ludlow, CA

    BNSF 560 leads the Cadiz Local out of Ludlow, CA

    BNSF 560 leads a mix of other locos downgrade at Ludlow, CA. 09-17-07.
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    • 560 bnsf ca cadiz local ludlow
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    • Category: Western United States
  15. Returnng From Fort Collins & Loveland....

    Returnng From Fort Collins & Loveland....

    An ex BN GP50 and an ex ATSF GP60M, (104), are seen coming into the North Restricted Limits of Longmont, Colorado with 25 cars from Fort Collins and Loveland, Colorado on the Longmont Local. Copyright 2007 By SD70ACe9370
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    • bnsf gp50 gp60m local longmont loveland
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Western United States
  16. CSX Local

    CSX Local

    A CSX local passes under Main Street (Rte. 1A) in Walpole, Mass. on Friday Aug. 3, 2007.
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    • Category: Tunnels
  17. Tight Clearance

    Tight Clearance

    The South City Switcher negotiates the serpentine street running on Quint St. as it heads back to its home yard in South San Francisco. The clearances on Quint St. are very tight, and the power cleared the red car on the left by less than a foot.
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    • francisco grande local rio running san street up
    • Comments: 4
    • Category: Western United States
  18. NS'S Alabama Division NA District

    NS'S Alabama Division NA District

    BNSF Northbound Local Freight Train ( Transfer Job ) has just delivered interchange to NS'S Norris Yard in Irondale, Al. & is headed back to BNSF'S East Thomas Yard.
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    • ( ) 2nd al. avenue birmingham bnsf freight job local northbound rumbles through train transfer
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Eastern United States
  19. MRL #4308 West on the Night Gas Local

    MRL #4308 West on the Night Gas Local

    MRL #4308 West is on the point of the Night Gas Local that left Missoula, MT at 1730 hrs. on it's way to Thompson Falls to deliver approx. 25 white CONX tank cars.. The cloud over the #4308 is the leftover of a major thunderstorm that was to the SW of Missoula about 3-4 hours earlier than when...
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    • #4308 evaro gas local missoula mont. montana mrl night sd45-2 sd70ace thunderstorm west
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Western United States
  20. Costa Mesa local

    Costa Mesa local

    The Costa Mesa local heads down Santa Ana St.
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    • Category: Western United States


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