Even the 30,000 people at Trainfest could not take away the individual, almost solitary experience one gets from standing at a vestibule and watching the passing landscape. With the wind in one’... (more)
This former D&H bridge has a 10 mph speed restriction on it which provides a great place to watch a slow roll-by.
It takes picks, brooms, ice melt, crowbars, and a lot of muscle to dislodge a frozen switch. This crew used plenty of all to get this one to move and still had many more to go on a frozen February... (more)
Crossing Newark Bay out of Oak Island Yard, a Conrail Shared Assets transfer crosses the 1930 Lehigh Valley built bridge into Bayonne.
These former Santa Fe GP60M’s used to tear down the high iron pulling crack inter-modals, but are now down graded for local service. Here a pair is backing about two miles down the remnants of S... (more)
As a storm moves out and the tide moves in, an intermodel train darts across the Chamber's Creek bridge.
Leaving a quiet Gore Mountain behind, the ski train heads back home to Saratoga with a train load of skiers.This train runs Friday through Sunday and has been a huge succcess taking skiers from th... (more)
A late running Provo to Denver manifest train is leaving the high plane of the Soldier Summit area and entering the canyons that follow the Price River down to Helper.
Variations on a hopper.
Fall is coming to the Gap as the Portland bound turn passes through. The lead unit was originally purchased by the Lehigh Valley RR and looks right at home on this line.
Bound for High Bridge, NJ on the former CNJ mainline, this first westbound of the morning passes the controlled siding at Whitehouse.
The hostler pulls 2317 out of the Steamtown roundhouse and looks for the stop signal for the ash-pit from the man on the ground.
The hostler makes some final adjustments prior to #90 moving out of the yard.
What lies around the bend?
A commuter train heads north along the Hudson River on a hazy September 11th National Day of Service and Remembrance.
