With a closing speed well over 100 mph the EB Lake Shore Limited passes the hot WB Q003 intermodal right at MP 201.

The UP Salt Lake Olympics engine leads a long CSX mixed freight down the Mohawk Valley of upstate NY. Two nice clean UP's trail, including a standard cab C40.

The Wabash heritage, NS 1070, trails on the SB NS mixed freight headed from Montreal to Enola, PA. With a light coat of weathering applied and jammed between 2 standard NS units, the Wabash looks ... (more)

The Montreal to Enola NS mixed freight CP 930 (NS 30T) grinds up Howes Cave Hill past the old cement plant with 55 cars. NS 9032 is the trailing unit.

5 engines, 5 models, 5 schemes. Another crazy consist rolls EB towards Selkirk Yard on CSX. The SOO 4405 (GP38-2) is an extremely rare visitor. It's online in this consist and would be turned and ... (more)

Ethanol empties roll WB on CSX just a few miles out of Selkirk Yard. The Ferromex - CP NAFTA set is making its second round trip on this part of CSX. All 81 cars (buffer plus 80 tank cars) can be ... (more)

Another train load of oil for Philadelphia makes it's way thru the departure yard at Selkirk on its way into the yard for a crew change. In the background are the CSX Selkirk Shops.

A KCS Belle leads a CSX unit on oil loads for Philadelphia.

NAFTA meets the New York Central. An empty CSX ethanol train rolls WB with a Ferromex-Canadian Pacific combo. The pair are seen passing one of the few remaining NYC towers left on the Water Level ... (more)

The lights of the NS Nickel Plate heritage reflect in an icy field at the blue hour as the NKP plus NS 8088 and BNSF 4992 lead 92 loads of oil and 2 buffer cars over the Mohawk River well after su... (more)

Indiana Rail Road on CSX. The INRD 9002 leads a short 16 car local thru CP SK as it approaches Selkirk Yard on an unseasonably warm day with temps in the mid 50's, fog, pouring rain, and even thun... (more)

A borrowed Pan Am unit runs around its train at North Creek as it passes one of several historic buildings located in North Creek. The yellow barn was built in the 1870's by TC Durant, the same ma... (more)

A CP SD60 still in its original white SOO scheme leads BNSF 5069 and BNSF 9075 plus a buffer and ethanol empties WB along the ice jammed Mohawk River just east of CP-173

During the largest snow storm of the season there is a lull in the storm just before sunset at 5:22pm. A number of Amtrak trains and engines can be seen at the Rensselaer station.

SNC light engines catch the last rays of sun as they roll down CP tracks on the last few miles toward CP's Saratoga Yard. The SNC unit is hauling the borrowed Pan Am GP40 MEC 352 back to Saratoga ... (more)