The 534 was the fav train in the AM to chase north from Bellville. You started out at B'ville shooting the sulphur train, a loaded grain train usually, the remotes set out at Bellville from grain... (more)

Westbound stack train on the Eagle Lake branch calling ahead for a rock train at Eagle Lake to hurry up and move. The branch was used as an overflow around the single track Sunset main through Ro... (more)

This eastbound rock train is huurying to clear the Sunset main at the tower so that the westbound AVAXT can come off the Eagle Lake branch (to the right of the train) and head west.

Gaylord was the center of my consulting career during this time, and my first month of encounters with the D&M were around Grayling-Gaylord-Alpena. I had heard this guy on the radio, but went bli... (more)

The 3PM Tilden Job brings another train of pellets to the yard at Eagle Mills, where the train will be yarded and combined with other cuts for the Hill Job to take to the docks in Marquette.

Eerily reminescent of the late 70s; it was not far from this spot where you couldn't buy a spot to watch the cabhops to and from Hardy Street and see the railroads of the east. SCL U-boats were a... (more)

The 3PM Hill Job is returning from Marquette after dropping off loads and picking up empties, easing past the AEI scanner and about to cross the Morgan Creek bridge. Don't ask me how I got across... (more)

On the complete opposite end of the beauty scale from the U25C is the BQ23-7. Being a GE fan does not prevent the feeling that this is perhaps the ugliest locomotive ever built. But you can hard... (more)

I remember being VERY sleepy, hardly being able to stand up from working all night, not getting any sleep because there were so many shots to be had. 4 axle U-boats everywhere!

One of the few, the proud, the GP28s. Not many built of this model, IC had most of them.

Smoke seen for miles as this guy left Laramie and was winding through Colores, so I thought "great; UBoats!" Not a GE to be found, though, as the culprit is an NW SD45. When he exited the east e... (more)

Was down at the Port inspecting dual diameter tank car welds at a repair shop; drove around during lunch and found the old OC&E MK rebuilds. Didn't know they had 'em! Ex OC&E 7601, nee UP 639.

What an Alco heaven this was! D&H, Guilford C420s, A&M C420s, RS32s, T6s, and you really had the run of the place; I hear it's not quite as friendly now.

Like viewing a masterpiece at an art museum, here is the last U25C in existence; well, actually at the time the 2500 had not yet been scrapped, so almost. It was the last to run, having caught th... (more)

Weary from a day of darting back and forth between NP and Cheyenne on the prowl for new Dash 8-40Cs, before heading back to the Park Motel in Sutherland decided to close the day with the PDNPZ sho... (more)