A nice Christmas Eve “gift” from CSXT & the Train Gods on a milder blue dome day in the Hudson River Valley. A former B&O war wagon CSXT 8435 leads two BNSF units over the Catskill Creek just ... (more)

Coming south alongside Sunderland Road, the annual Manchester Elks “Elf Express” holiday train rumbles for its next stop at Arlington Depot. The Vermont Railway supplied motive power & equipme... (more)

On a warm July afternoon, southbound Philly bound oil train K160-24 rumbles into the deep cut just south of CP-43 at Mine Dock Road. Leading the train is a very unusual (for NY State)H3 schemed SD... (more)

On a frigid January morning, eastbound freight RJED with matched pair of blue SD40-2s, thunders out of Hoosick Middle on its run to East Deerfield Yard out of Rotterdam Junction. The days of seein... (more)

On a beautiful (and much milder) afternoon in the Greens, the annual Manchester Elks "Elf Express" train skirts south for Arlington along the flats at Sunderland alongside Durham Road. On the sou... (more)

On a frigid January morning, eastbound flagship freight “SEFR-12”(Selkirk Yard to Framingham Ma) storms the curve just west of the NY/Mass state line. This is the 80 MACs first winter in the h... (more)

The crew of the Friday B&R VTR local pulls down for head room past the Pan Am Freight Main CPF448 interlocking on a frigid cold afternoon. A nice trio of war wagon Geeps heads today’s train whic... (more)

The Friday B&R Job is seen departing past the historic North Bennington former passenger station as it prepares to head south on the Hoosick Branch to drop its interchange freight of mostly empty ... (more)

The scene at Green Street on the Voorheesville Runner to Kenwood Yard in downtown Albany on a January afternoon. Saratoga to Albany CP freight #450 runs around a parked ethanol load(on the right) ... (more)

On a cold, snowy January afternoon, CSXT Q620 approaches Game Farm Road with a nice red cowl treat today from the great white north. Seeing one of the CN SD60Fs leading was always a nice and rare... (more)

On a frigid January morning on the second day of 2010, two classic rebuilt GP9Us work the east end of CP Rails Conklin Yard. Miss these cool little red Geeps during my pilgrimages to Binghamton fr... (more)

On a frigid Sunday morning in the teens, one of the last active SD50-2s on the CSXT system, CSXT 8632 leads a gaggle of war wagon EMD trimmers on the east end of the Selkirk Departure Yard.

On a cold day in the high teens, a shivering dash 3 “Bob” leads a loaded auto rack the last few miles to Selkirk Yard after holding on Track #1 for Q003 at CP-VO.

On a cold December late morning, Philly bound oil train K162 rumbles south over the serene icy Catskill Creek after holding at CP-111 for Q007. Winter has come hard and early to the Mid Hudson Val... (more)

On a cold and bright November morning, two war wagon veterans shuffle freight on the east end drill tracks. CSXT 8482 is one of the last active SD40-2s still in its YN2 “bright future” scheme.... (more)