Conrail's OI-16 has just made a set off at Port Reading Yard. The crew has back their locomotives against the remaining portion of the train and is preparing to depart for Brown's Yard in Old Bri... (more)

"Shared Assets Power"

A sequentially numbered pair of former Erie Lackawanna SD45-2s with some CSX and leased power in the background. The City of Newark stretches to the... (more)

"New and Old Heritage"

A full day after the threat of the "Blizzard of 2015" was gone, North Jersey was treated with a beautiful morning. On that morning, Norfolk Southern's Pennsy... (more)

Flares Through the Flathead: A trio of Montana Rail Link SD45-2s pull an eastbound manifest freight out of BNSF Railway's Whitefish, Montana yard just moments after sunset on January 20, 20... (more)

An eastbound Santa Fe intermodal passes the old American Pumice Company mill in Grants, New Mexico on Oct. 6, 1995.

A hot Santa Fe piggyback train crosses the 544 ft. long Canyon Diablo bridge on Oct. 1, 1988.

Into the Storm: A trio of Montana Rail Link SD45-2s head west on BNSF Railway train H-KCKSPO1-24 on Dec. 28, 2014. The train will take Montana Rail Link's 4th Subdivision on its way across ... (more)

A quartet of Kodachome painted EMDs (and a single Bluebonnet) lead a westbound Santa Fe mixed freight through Darling, Arizona on March 31, 1989.

Santa Fe's "worlds fastest freight" the Super C is about to come to a stop at a red signal indication at the West end of Prado Dam siding. Today this is a three track CTC main line.

Arizona California 4001 is on the point of a set of road power at Parker. Note the 2 RCPE SD40-2's now on the property.

Santa Fe SD45-2 #5705 with two F45's plus a GE C30-7 in merger paint and an SD45.

L&N Extra CRR 3614 North is waiting for the head brakeman to get back to the head end before continuing to Loyall, KY with an empty hopper train. The train has just doubled the switchback at Hagan... (more)

The L&N and Clinchfield had just started pooling CRR power between Loyall and Erwin for certain unit coal trains when I caught this quartet of Clinchfield SDs ready to leave Loyall with a train. T... (more)

Although CSX Corporation is now in place, out on the property, not much has changed---yet. At St. Paul, VA, a northbound on the Clinchfield--cab lite--rolls around the curve and toward the crossin... (more)

It's almost dark as a manifest pulls into the yard at Elkhorn City. If your first exposure to the Clinchfield was at Elkhorn City, you might not believe it was a very modern, efficient railroad. ... (more)