One Car for Boyertown

In the day’s last light, Anthracite Railway SW1 55 spots the one car that it has brought from the Conrail interchange at Pottstown on a siding in Boyertown,... (more)

As night settles over Avery, ID, one of the brakemen that will be working the train behind him looks over his car list. Behind him, other Milwaukee Road employees discuss tonight's operations. The... (more)

A Santa Fe 189 train accelerates after passing an MOW crew at the west end of tunnel 1. SF30C No. 9530 is still wearing her distinctive paint from the failed SP-Santa Fe merger of the mid-1980s.

Late in the afternoon, Little Joe E70 holds the main with a dead freight, waiting for an eastbound symbol to emerge from St. Paul tunnel. Meanwhile, five Milwaukee Road MOW employees with a speede... (more)

Who was Ernie? Wikipedia told me the village was named after Prince Ernest Augustus, fifth son of George III. I was hoping for Ernie of Bert and Ernie fame. A Roger Puta Photograph

VIA Rail MLW FPA-4 6777 still in CN colors leads Sarnia train 83 near Toronto's Union Station.

C&O 3888 rolls off the end of 20 track. Failure to set a handbrake was blamed as the cause.

Chessie GP40-2, 6081(nee C&O 4182) leads a westbound freight by MD Cabin at Meadow Creek, WV. Hidden behind 6081 is NKP 765 being serviced for the return trip to Huntington on the New River Train.... (more)

MLW FA-2 4049 used mainly for Montréal-Windsor fast freight service.

A Canadian National RS18 growls through Brockville, Ontario with an eastbound peddler. Meanwhile, the SW120... (more)

A Canadian National SW1200RS drills the CN team track at Brockville, Ontario. It was much less common to see CN local freight activity here than to see a CP switcher from Smiths Falls working the ... (more)

A Roger Puta Photograph

All in a Day’s Work

The Reading, Blue Mountain & Northern serves a small explosives manufacturing plant at Mount Carmel Junction, Pennsylvania. Since there is no runaround track ... (more)

All eyes on all moving parts! UP 8444 and 3985 steaming to the First Sacramento Rail Fair. A Roger Puta Photograph

A Roger Puta Photograph