One of roughly a dozen SD50-3s left on the CSX system works with an SD40-3 at CSX's Boyles Yard in Birmingham. While its days of leading road trains are likely over, the big EMD is more than capab... (more)

Conrail SD50 6707 Desert Storm Yellow Ribbon unit, We Support our Troops.

So this is where the EMDs are working. Morning rush begins.

CSX O03027 brings a train of old railroad ties south, the ties are being cleaned up after being removed during summer trackwork.

A pair of Conrail SD50’s bring a loaded coal train through East View on the Monongahela’s Waynesburg Southern branch.

CSX 8662 leads a local west through Hammond as a special B&O heritage caboose trails on an eastbound rail train.

Conrail’s SEFR-2 freight led by EMD SD50 No. 6819 passes mile 129.5 west of Chester, Massachusetts, working over the old Boston & Albany route on May 22, 1993.

CSX X580, an extra of the regularly scheduled Q580, heads north for the crew change point in Wauhatchie, passing through Chetoogeta Mountain Tunnel in Two Tunnels Hill, GA. On the point is SD5... (more)

Having started its journey at Phippsburg, Colorado, Rio Grande Train 701 passes through the scenic valley near Oak Creek. The three SD50’s are bound for the Energy Mine with a train of PSCX hopp... (more)

On the shortest days of the year, the one of the last places of the day to get light on a train on the Southern Tier is on the Starrucca Viaduct. Viewed from the shadowed Delaware & Hudson Penn Di... (more)

Fifties Meeting Fifties

Two Conrail trains with two SD50’s each meet at East Penn Junction, Pennsylvania. On the far track, a westbound manifest is pulling from Allentown Yard. A... (more)

The crew of Reading & Nothern's NRFF (North Reading Fast Freight) gets some friendly waves from some railfans, and gives one back as the train crosses the recently installed bridge over the Lehigh... (more)

Luckily for me, the rear of 172-18 has just cleared as 173-19 throttles up for the short but steep 1.00% climb out of Peachtree Creek. Anecdotally, the Conrail SD50's seemed to lead a lot of trai... (more)