"SD45 Mainline Return"

The USS Ling

The crew on board WS-5 is just beginning their Sunday evening run to Sparta as they exit the yard limits and accelerate to trackspeed in Hackensack. Of note in the... (more)

NYSW SD45-2 3618 is seen passing the former site of the East Paterson Station. 3618 was built as BN 6500 in March of 1971 and is the last of the SD45 fleet in service.

Sunday Afternoon Sparta Turn

The only active SD45-2 on the NYS&W, no. 3618 leads an unusual daylight local to Sparta Junction on a stellar Sunday evening. The crew is bringing ... (more)

Pompton Junction Set-Out

A Sunday afternoon NYS&W extra job bound for Sparta, NJ makes a quick a stop in Pompton Lakes to set off the railroads caboose turned shoving platform.... (more)

Conrail PR-32 shoves into Port Reading Yard after completing a round trip to Oak Island Yard in Newark. A spring nor'easter is in the process of depositing more snow on the region after several o... (more)

Reactivated NYS&W SD45-2 #3618 leads Train BH-2 south through Cortland, NY passing the former station and an old DL&W crossing tower. This train originated in Syracuse, NY and is on its way to Bi... (more)

SD45-2 5828 leads SD40-2s 5121 and 5062 on an eastbound manifest.

Reactivated NYS&W SD45-2 #3618 leads Train BH-2 south through Killawog, NY, passing the First Baptist Church. This train originated in Syracuse, NY and is on its way to Binghamton, NY.

The DGNO has finished working the Encore Wire Plant and shoving back to clear the crossing and the crew van waits to take them back to Sherman.

The DGNO are done working the Encore Wire Plant and making there way to the main line. Ironic to catch an EX-SP engine on the former Southern Pacific line to Sherman TX.

A colorful locomotive consist leads Burlington Northern Santa Fe HKCKPAS westbound through Rock Creek between Bonita and Clinton, Montana, over MRL’s Third Subdivision on October 15, 2000. MRL N... (more)

Chemicals up the coast. Norfolk Southern Corp 1700 (EL heritage, ex-Conrail 6654, ex-EL 3669, SD45-2) is on the move over the bridge at CP Karen in Carteret, New Jersey on Sunday, March 18, 2018. ... (more)

Santa Fe 5832 West, a hot 199 train, roars through a super-elevated curve at Glen Frazer as it fights a 1.0 percent grade. The high-priority pig train is moments away from entering tunnel 3, insid... (more)

On a hot morning in August 1973, Santa Fe 5665 East meets an SP westbound in the hole at the Loop. The SP's conductor, which at this time rode in the caboose, will give the Santa Fe a roll-by. Bot... (more)