How sweet it is! WC 4012 switches the Galloway West plant in Fond Du Lac, WI in July of 1992. This plant produced sweetened condensed milk. Milk Specialties runs the plant today, but he siding is ... (more)

Wisconsin Central train 47 approaches Sussex, Wisconsin, as it passes a field of Tiger Lilies growing along the tracks near milepost 105 on July 6, 1991. Leading the train is former Texas & Pacifi... (more)

On a usual pre-COVID Saturday, this train would have just been creeping out of a station stop at the Indigo Lake Station right around the corner. Instead, today it continues full speed at 15 mph b... (more)

The Cuyahoga Valley is truly one of Ohio's premier fall locations, with plenty of activities, markets, and trails, all surrounded by an incredibly high concentration of green-leaf trees. Tress, of... (more)

On a warm summer evening, the crew of NX-13 rumbles out of Great Barrington with a matched pair of 35s with the interchange freight out of Canaan for Pittsfield as it paces motorists along Route 4... (more)

On a moody Monday afternoon, the NX-13 local with a matched pair of GP35Ms 3600 & 3604 skirt the calm swamp waters at Golden Hill Road just outside of the village of Lee.

Between torrent thunderstorms and needed rain, the NX-13 local rumbles past the Housey Market above Front Street and Paradise Avenue as the low evening sun makes an appearance.

On a muggy and warm Sunday, the Housatonic local is seen heading west on the CSXT Boston Line past the former GE facility after picking up their interchange from freight Q424. The local will soon ... (more)

A pleasant evening at Pleasant Avenue in downtown Housatonic as the HRRC local NX-12 makes it was south back to Canaan CT after picking up it’s CSXT interchange in Pittsfield.

With Canaan Union Station as a backdrop, GP35M 3600 and leased GMTX GP38-2 2346 bring train NX-12 south on a Sunday afternoon. The track on the right leads to Specialty Minerals which is Housatoni... (more)

Wisconsin Central GP35M 4007 leads a GP30 and another GP35M at Spencer WI April 1989. Jim Shepard Photo from my Collection.

The engineer of Housatonic NX-12 leans out the window and looks at the dip in the rail from the weight of GP35M 3600. The train is making a set off on Rising siding before continuing south to Cana... (more)

Just at the right time, the sun makes a brief appearance from behind the clouds, as train NX-12 snakes its way between the former textile buildings of Monument Mills and the New Haven Railroad fre... (more)

Heading south for Canaan, train NX-12 parallels Van Deusenville Rd. in Great Barrington.

Housatonic GP35M 3600 leads southbound train NX-12 past a field on a sunny spring afternoon in Sheffield. The red building is home to Sheffield Pottery.