Looking a bit worse for wear but still elegant this special unit is leading an EB coal train on double track just east of the division point.

I heard complaints from crews about that winterized window. A bit out of place down south.

Somehow my usual expert labelling went awry, and I'm too lazy to dig thru all those slides but offhand I'd guess this is R460, the joint CSX/NS train to Winston Salem running ostensibly as a WSSB ... (more)

All auto racks on this date on this southbound train out in the bucolic scenery of central Kentucky. Photo by "Boxcar" Jim Satterwhite. From my collection. A vintage automobile thrown... (more)

In the warm fall afternoon light a southbound mixed freight races through the rolling hills of what I like to call the Bourbon State. Bluegrass tastes awful and gets stuck in my teeth. Photo by ... (more)

Up until December 27, 2002, I had not had a camera fail on me. I'd had film not catch. I'd made my own exposure and focus mistakes, but I'd had good luck with the cameras themselves. I don't beliv... (more)

Looking good awaiting an assignment. Photo by Dave Petke.

What happened to the good old days, when GEs used almost as much water as fuel. Or that was the rumor. Wabtec just doesn't make it as a name. Sorry WABTEC.

There were so many of them it seemed.

Eastbound at XN Siding on the CSXT New Castle Subdivision, photo date approximate.

"Don't go to Pasco, dude. They're a bunch of nepotistic tire slashers who hate anyone from the Coast"...This was music to my ears as a 24-year-old new hire fresh out of the Corps (Marines, not Pea... (more)

ABO NM July 6 1986 — Santa Fe C30-7 8146 leads an SD40-2 and two SD45s on the Tanscon. GE built the 8146 (s/n 43573) as an RCE Locotrol master in June 1981 and delivered it in yellow warbonnet. ... (more)

Photo by Dave Petke. From my collection.

Southbound unit coal. Photo by Gary W. Zeitler. From my collection.

an Eastbound coal load snakes through Burlington Iowa approaching the Mississippi River bridge on a wet rainy June day