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Switchstand Shots
Both shots of switchstands (swithstand "portraits") and shots featuring swithstands, or derails, in the foreground.
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Photo ID: 416243

A Montana Rail Link local switches an industry in Belgrade, Montana. On the point is a former Missabe SD9. The device shown on the left is a Lock Box for the switch off of the main for the industr... (more)

Railroad: Montana Rail Link
Locomotive: EMD SD9
Location: Belgrade, Montana, USA
Locomotive #: 601
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: July, 1994


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By: Tom Danneman

Added: Nov 27, 2012

Views: 2,332
Comments: 0

Favorited: 11
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Photo ID: 416017

6800 sporting a new cab (unknown when or why) backs a cut into the yard in Jackson while the Brakeman watches patiently.

Railroad: Conrail
Locomotive: EMD SD60M
Location: Jackson, Michigan, USA
Locomotive #: 6800
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: April 24, 2009


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By: SeanK97

Added: Nov 25, 2012

Views: 3,559
Comments: 1

Favorited: 11
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Photo ID: 414662

Constantly on the guard for rattlersnakes and copperheads in an area heavily infested by snakes, a brakeman has written a reminder to future crews. The Royal Blue spur serves the International Pap... (more)

Railroad: Norfolk Southern
Locomotive: None
Location: Pioneer, Tennessee, USA
Locomotive #: Unknown
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: November 11, 2012


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By: B.A.Harrison

Added: Nov 12, 2012

Views: 5,813
Comments: 3

Favorited: 27
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Photo ID: 414271

CSX, EMD, call Jeff Gordon! This engine is in need of some decent paint. Not only have the noses in this series of engines gone really bad over time, but the shop has chosen to patch thin... (more)

Railroad: CSX Transportation (CSXT)
Locomotive: EMD SD70MAC
Location: Annapolis Junction, Maryland, USA
Locomotive #: CSXT 4823
Train ID: CSX Q409
Photo Date: November 04, 2012


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By: Janusz Mrozek

Added: Nov 08, 2012

Views: 3,157
Comments: 1

Favorited: 8
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Photo ID: 408063

Heisler No. 6 blows off some steam on a late night, in-between a two day excursion event on Labor Day weekend. Heisler 6 is not usual power for CSRR trains, and since getting a new coal bunker dur... (more)

Railroad: Cass Scenic Railroad
Locomotive: Heisler 3-Truck
Location: Cass, West Virginia, USA
Locomotive #: 6
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: August 31, 2012


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By: Philip Martin

Added: Sep 04, 2012

Views: 5,928
Comments: 4

Favorited: 42


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Photo ID: 394076

I&O 4071 working in the Springfield yard, as a switchstand that likely dates back to the DT&I stands guard at the south end of the yard

Railroad: Indiana & Ohio Railway
Locomotive: EMD SD40T-2
Location: Springfield, Ohio, USA
Locomotive #: IORY 4071
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: January 18, 2011


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By: Zach Marlow KD8CJM

Added: Apr 04, 2012

Views: 5,890
Comments: 4

Favorited: 24
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Photo ID: 382559

In a somewhat typical fall weather pattern, fog has overspread the summit of the Green Mountains on the Green Mountain Railroad's Bellows Falls Subdivision. Nearing the crest of the hill is the G... (more)

Railroad: Vermont Rail System
Locomotive: GP40-2W
Location: Summit, Vermont, USA
Locomotive #: VTR 310
Train ID: GMRC 263
Photo Date: November 25, 2009


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By: Kevin Burkholder

Added: Nov 29, 2011

Views: 3,215
Comments: 2

Favorited: 18
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Photo ID: 381261

A well-labeled switchstand quietly takes care of business as Q174, after setting off a cut of cars for Baltimore, heads out for New Jersey on a bright sunny winter day. This engine has since been... (more)

Railroad: CSX Transportation (CSXT)
Locomotive: GE ES44DC
Location: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Locomotive #: CSXT 5321
Train ID: CSX Q174
Photo Date: December 30, 2008


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By: Janusz Mrozek

Added: Nov 16, 2011

Views: 3,490
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Favorited: 2
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Photo ID: 364185

If a switchstand could tell its story, I certainly wouldn't mind hearing the tales this one could tell. A story of one of the busiest lumber mills in WV, of countless Shays treading soft overhead ... (more)

Railroad: Cass Scenic Railroad
Locomotive: 3 truck Shay
Location: Cass, West Virginia, USA
Locomotive #: WM 6
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: May 22, 2011


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By: Nick McLean

Added: May 24, 2011

Views: 3,237
Comments: 3

Favorited: 15
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Photo ID: 319305

An old Milwaukee switchstand and platform is situated at the east end of an unused industry track. The platform would protect a crewman from a steep drop to riverbed below. In the distance, WSOR... (more)

Railroad: Wisconsin & Southern
Locomotive: Switchstand
Location: Waterloo, Wisconsin, USA
Locomotive #: n/a
Train ID: n/a
Photo Date: March 31, 2010


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By: Ray Peacock heartlandrails.com

Added: Apr 01, 2010

Views: 3,919
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Favorited: 10


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Photo ID: 316682

Small, Yet Important. Somehow, we as photographers get so caught up with the trains that we forget to notice "the other stuff." This switch stand only reaches about two feet off the groun... (more)

Railroad: New England Central
Locomotive: EMD SW1500
Location: Palmer, Massachusetts, USA
Locomotive #: CSOR 2340
Train ID: NECR 603
Photo Date: March 06, 2010


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By: Paolo Roffo

Added: Mar 08, 2010

Views: 4,368
Comments: 2

Favorited: 10
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Photo ID: 315042

The conductor of local P20 rides past the switch into the Certainteed plant as the engineer pulls the train out onto the main. After a brake test, it's back to Durham.

Railroad: Norfolk Southern
Locomotive: EMD GP59
Location: Providence, North Carolina, USA
Locomotive #: NS 4619
Train ID: NS P20
Photo Date: February 13, 2010


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By: Nick DAmato (Diamond D)

Added: Feb 22, 2010

Views: 3,596
Comments: 1

Favorited: 3
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Photo ID: 313330

The Southern Pacific heritage unit shoves the KOAMN train eastbound on the Jefferson City Subdivision.

Railroad: Union Pacific
Locomotive: EMD SD70ACe
Location: Eureka, Missouri, USA
Locomotive #: UP 1996
Train ID: KOAMN
Photo Date: February 07, 2010


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By: Jake B.

Added: Feb 07, 2010

Views: 4,066
Comments: 1

Favorited: 10
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Photo ID: 284070

The Ugliest Diesel Ever? Some might consider the CF7 to be the ugliest diesel locomotive ever built, others the BQ23-7, but for my money this contraption based on an E8(B) when seen from t... (more)

Railroad: Chicago & North Western Railroad
Locomotive: EMD E8(B) (Crandall Cab)
Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Locomotive #: CNW 503
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: May 21, 1981


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By: Janusz Mrozek

Added: May 18, 2009

Views: 13,409
Comments: 10

Favorited: 43
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Photo ID: 282746

A westbound CSX empty hopper train passes the east siding switch at Burnsville, West Virginia, just before sunset in October 2004. The train is destined for a coal mine near Cowen, West Virginia, ... (more)

Railroad: CSX Transportation (CSXT)
Locomotive: Coal cars
Location: Burnsville, West Virginia, USA
Locomotive #: Unknown
Train ID: E135
Photo Date: October 10, 2004


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By: Scott Lothes

Added: May 05, 2009

Views: 4,007
Comments: 5

Favorited: 20
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