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CPs 8WWA ballast train follows closely behind another freight train, seen here slicing through the rolling hills of central Wisconsin.

A fate worse than death? Maybe not but life was hard for an old unit on BS&G's makeshift railroads. One of the last truly ragtag old southern operations. Ramshackle "Snaptrack" laid on... (more)

#206 slides by the Unit Train strung out from Cemex still unloading. Another five minutes or so would have resulted in a three-way meet with counterpart #105 which was getting close from the nort... (more)

During the week, local 915 leaves Titusville and heads straight to City Point where it awaits the Unit Train for these cars on its head end. Sometimes the Cemex crew brings the Unit Train out int... (more)

A Youngtown Belt Railroad crew switches out cement hoppers at the City Concrete siding in Youngstown, Ohio, passing through a gantry at the unloading pit for City Aggregates. Once the crew spots t... (more)

NECR tunnel motor 3317 leads a ballast extra north on the Palmer Subdivision from New London, and is seen here dumping stone on the approaches to the Horton Cove trestle in Montville, CT.

NYAR RS 60 with GP38-2 270 in the lead with nine TLTX stone hoppers for Arriva Concrete in Yaphank. A quick walk up to the single track Main Line. This area fenced during LIRR second track projec... (more)

After picking up the head end cars from the Unit Train #336, local #915 is heading south to Cocoa & Rockledge.

NYAR RS 40 with Progress Rail PR20B 300 and GP38-2 268 with seven GATX stone hoppers for Giaquinto Masonry in Deer park.

Heading through the unloader.

The morning mine train nears the USG plant in Plaster City as it brings the day's first load of crushed gypsum from the quarry. The open nose door on the MLW DL535E is common operating practice on... (more)

More crushed gypsum heads to Plaster City (where it will be crushed even more). The mine railroad was originally conceived and built by a San Diego pharmacist, Samuel Dunnaway, who had relocated t... (more)

The morning loaded train begins its journey back to Plaster City with the hills above Fish Creek behind it.

Union Pacific Railway's shuttle that hauls rock from a quarry in Cabazon to a facility in Gardena (south of downtown Los Angeles), symboled R WCWCC 18 (because it technically originates and termin... (more)