I don't know if it was official policy, but it seemed like former L&N units had their predecessor markings removed way more often than units from other CSX component roads. One such unit is shown... (more)

CSX 3277 may look a little rough, but for the late '80s and early '90s on CSX, rough-looking was what you usually got. Pretty soon the C40-8s will be arriving in droves, and the railroad will star... (more)

GC 3959 spews a column of smoke as it notches up to switch out the siding at Collins.

You can almost feel the humidity in the air as the trio of U-Boats spew black smoke into the hazy, south Georgia summer sky as they get their train moving towards Lyons after swapping with L783.

In just a few more yards, 2710 and its train will converge with the L&N's Evansville main to run past the west side of Amqui tower and head for Radnor Yard on Nashville's far south side.

The scene depicts another day on the Lehigh Valley as Cornell red motors chug through Sayre. However, we are deceived by the black diamond U boats for on this particular day in April Conrail had b... (more)

This older railroader came out and posed for me as his train waited on the main West of Bluefield.

One of the bastardized U23-Bs that Guilford reassigned from the D&H to the MEC leads a pair of D&H Alcos and another U23-B on an early morning Eastbound on Conrails Southern Tier Line.

GC L783 storms west with over 80 loads of coal as it passes through the small southern hamlet of Meldrim. At one point the Central of Georgia passed through this spot too, now only the SAL remains... (more)

Four U23Bs drag a coal train to the SP Newsprint Mill in Dublin, GA. The train is lead by the only low nose U23B on the roster.

8903 one of two U23B's on the HESR leads the Rocket into Durand. The U23B's are now stored serviceable but are rumored to have seen their last year on the HESR and are possibly up for sale.

Conrail U23b 2777 trails SD45-2 6658 through Butler IN.