CN's Pointe-Saint-Charles switcher, CN's nos. 4795 and 9523, is picking up empty grain hoppers from Ardent Mills on the Canal Bank Spur on a Monday in early February.

Service to Ardent Mills, last rail client on Montral's Lachine Canal bank, is a fragile business, constantly threatened to be handed over to the rubber-tired competition. At a time when service wa... (more)

After working Halifax Paving the 905 comes back north in the last light of the day.

MI-21 in the Millville Yard.

A string of CSX locomotives rest underneath a relic from a different age on the afternoon of March 19, 1988. This imposing concrete coaling tower that once loaded steam locomotive tenders with fue... (more)

FEC's Fort Pierce to Pineda local hustles south with a single ex-CB&Q GP40 for power.

The Rochester & Southern's RS-1 has arrived in Silver Springs, New York and prepares to interchanges cars with Norfolk Southern utilizing a connection to the Southern Tier. The train has paused to... (more)

FEC 920 returns south over Turkey Creek in Palm Bay as work continues on the second bridge at this location.

FEC 430 on AFW1 takes a cut of ballast cars by the searchlights that once guarded the south end of Micco siding. AFW1 was dropping ballast on the main while work crews were removing the switch for... (more)

With the crossing of Charlevoix street secured, CN 500 returns from Ardent Mills with a cut of grain empties on CN's Canal Bank spur, heading to the Montreal sub mainline to push back to Pointe-Sa... (more)

After going on duty in Crestline about 45 minutes earlier, local L325 passes the Big Four Depot running light power and long hood forward. This local runs Sun-Thur on the Columbus Line Subdivision... (more)

Northbound passenger extra is meeting the special "Mapco Express" oil train. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.

CSX local L020 has just come out of South Schenectady Yard seen in the background to the right and is now seen heading east towards CP-SH where it will diverge onto the Carman Sub for its trip to ... (more)

"You gotta go to Alaska for a few days". "Oh, darn, alright but you own me." (Never let the good deal monitor know you might enjoy any trip, or you'll never go again. Anyway,... (more)

A special oil train with dignitaries, dubbed the "Mapco Express" pauses at Healy. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.