Afternoon northbound K train.

Northbound manifest Q434 leaves Iona Island behind as its heads towards Selkirk. It will meet southbound oil train K140 at CP 43.

Fresh BNSF H3 8044 leads an SD75I in H2 paint south across the trestle over Doodletown Bight at the north end of Iona Island on a gorgeous winter afternoon.

Dwarfed by the massiveness of the Bear Mountain Bridge, southbound loaded oil train K038 passes through CP 43 in Fort Montgomery, NY, seen from the shoreline at the north end of Iona Island.

A beautiful winter day dawned on the CSX River Sub in Fort Montgomery, NY with lots of southbound traffic. Seen from atop a rock cut in Mine Dock Park, southbound manifest Q433 has just gotten the... (more)

Southbound autorack train Q254 traverses the causeway at the south end of Iona Island on CSX's River Sub on a beautiful, mild winter afternoon. Lead SD50, number 8542, is one of a mere handful of ... (more)

BNSF 8044 is on K-140 at Ridgefield Park, NJ 12/27/2014

Catch of the day….Didnt expect to get it. Saw that it passed MP 76 at 10 in the morning, rolled over and slept till after noon, expected it to be gone, but I guess I got lucky. NS 1069 is on K-0... (more)

A pair of GEs take ethanol empties north across the trestle at the north end of Iona Island in the early evening.

A trio of rebuilt CP SD60s lead an empty ethanol train north across the causeway at the north end of Iona Island on a beautiful morning. This train surprised us, for if we had known it was coming,... (more)

To the top of the mountain we went, and just in time too. The dispatcher had a fleet of southbounds to run, but with northbound Q434 in emergency just to the south, only two were able to run. Firs... (more)

Ethanol loads snake their way through CP 43 on the River Sub in route to unloading in New Jersey.

What I did on my Summer vacation, redux: Sitting on top of the world: The view from the top of Perkins Memorial Drive at Bear Mountain State Park gives one a panoramic canvas with which to work. P... (more)

What I did on my Summer vacation, redux: Sitting on top of the world: The view from the top of Perkins Memorial Drive at Bear Mountain State Park gives one a panoramic canvas with which to work.

Having just rounded Jones' Point and crossing Snake Hole Creek.