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.

An IHB transfer arrives at Yard Center with interchange traffic for the UP.

IHB 4019 rolls past while working the east end of Blue Island Yard still sporting the old IHB livery.

Back in the early 1980s when I was at George Washington University, I discovered that on Sundays the parking lot for the GSA building on Virginia Avenue was left open and I could just park there a... (more)

CSX and NS power spends a quiet Saturday morning at New York Susquehanna & Western's engine facility.

While the sun didn't fully cooperate, a rare Sunday afternoon CSX L016 rolls by in West Haven with four empties for City Carting in Milford. Freights on Metro-North's New Haven Line are few and fa... (more)

New Braunfels local power rests in the yard.

A railroad crew in Cayce, South Carolina works to put a train together in the ex-Seaboard rail yard. CSX 6137 was built as Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (BO) GP40-2 4238.

A CSX crew out of Cayce, South Caroline has shoved back onto a scrap yard spur and tied their train down for the night in October 2006. CSXT 6441 is an EMD GP40-2 built for the Baltimore & Ohio Ra... (more)

UP 1381 sits in the Union Pacific's North Yard in Denver, Colorado. It is an ex-Southern Pacific GP40-2.

GP40-2 1347 delivers cars in Modesto Ca.

CSX local freight L020 heads east on Amtrak's Hudson Line with salt loads for Troy on a cold but sunny February morning.