YAV40 03 transfer job drags train MLIWX 03 over the NS Back Belt, en route to CSX. Of note is the SD70M leader, two months shy of it's 20th birthday, but just pulled out of storage to assist with... (more)

YAV36 drags a heat exchanger/boiler thingy from Apodaca, NL to Red Level Jct, FL with a borrowed Norfolk Southern motor and a coil car spacer. Netting 373,000 lbs & grossing at 563000lbs, it requ... (more)

NE Tower or NO&NE Interlocking, depending on which railroad you ask, is the crossing of NS & CSX lines out of New Orleans, just a few miles after they split. The tower, like many other structures... (more)

82 boxcars of Mexican beer on the train, take one down and pass it around... the line of standard 50' boxcars do look cool as UP crew YAV40 02 drags MLIWX 02 over to CSX where the entire 127 car t... (more)

I may have bought a 44oz frozen hurricane and convinced my GF to sip & stroll along the levee, just in case. While I prefer the NOPB 'belt' logo, beggars can't be choosers and the fleur-de-lis wa... (more)

They may not be original, but they're still cool.

UP train MLIWX 01 with transfer crew YAV10 02 crosses from the Northbound to the Cutoff at the CSX Industrial Canal drawbridge.

A first for me, the Downtown Job ran all the way to the end of the Burma West spur to grab a plastic pellet covered hopper. This was also my first photo of the new GP38-2s.

Shortly after sunrise, the eastbound Crescent crosses the Industrial Canal in the Little River area of New Orleans. Seabrook is the less famous & photographed of NS' Louisiana bascule bridges.

Unusual Freight. Kansas City Southern 3928 and 3943 (SD70MAC) were tasked with a short move from the KCS Yard to to New Orleans Public Belt Railroad on the early morning of Friday, July 17,... (more)

KCS 4002, sporting the old white paint scheme, rests in the New Orleans yard a few days after Christmas as storm clouds build.

Grand Truck Western 4910 leads CN 9624 out of the CN yard.

Late Day at Manchac Pass. CN A420 has made great time south on the former IC out of Jackson, which allowed us to thankfully shoot it on the Manchac Pass bridge. Manchac Pass is the narrow Bayou th... (more)

Pacing CN A420 through Arcola, LA with CN 3115 on point, CN's Bc Rail heritage unit. CN 3115 CN 3193

As the final moments of daylight are slipping away to dusk, CN 3115 (Bc Rail heritage unit) brings A420 across the drawbridge in Akers, LA. This bridge crosses the Pass Manchac, a channel connecti... (more)