I like SD40-2s but my real favorite of the model is made when you take a "basic" and upgrade it with new innards. The trucks are nicer and the lengthwise etc. it's just more "balanced". As alway... (more)
Looks like the local ran out of time and tied up in Abingdon for the weekend, nicely posed. It probably will be there until Monday when the crew will start their day, run to Bristol and start the... (more)
Around and about the vernal (or is it diurnal?) equinox the sun gets on the north side of the track on the old Bristol line and we get the opportunity for some different shots. Here, in the dying... (more)
Switching Light Milling our familiar local is getting cosy with the property of the preserved 1857 Section Foreman's house. Local kids enjoy the thrill of standing over the freights as they speed... (more)
This unit was built to run this way and is scuttling EB with the V40 local. The 1652, however, has been "turned around" to short hood front but must be dreaming of the the good old days. It ha... (more)
The winters were just as bad 15 years ago.
On an overcast morning, Norfolk Southern's Nickel Plate Road Heritage Unit leads 23G through historic downtown Abingdon.
The V40 local has "lawed out" on it's westbound return and can't make it to Bristol so they tied up their leased pony on the siding. The crew will taxi out in the AM. The historical landmark 185... (more)
The weather is sweltering, the V40 local is in the hole for with westbound #112 which is approaching but needs to wait a while to get into Bristol so what else to do but chew the fat. The conduct... (more)
The local is scuttling back to Bristol after serving Abingdon. We didn't see very many of the rebuilds here so I was liking this unit. They are now being returned to lessor. Coming to a shortli... (more)
Heritage unit "Interstate" brings up the rear as the eastbound flies past 22A waiting on the siding.
Having waited on the Abingdon siding as the much longer eastbound 23G came through, it is on to Bristol for the westbound intermodal.
At track speed moving on to Bristol for crew change.
Coming out of the siding after an eastbound went through.
Holding the siding as 202 eases by in a carefully orchestrated meet of two long trains.
