After leading a loaded Ethanol train on the D&H from Binghamton to Kenwood Yard in Albany, NY, CSX took the train over at Kenwood and ran it down the Port Sub to Selkirk. After dropping K634 in th... (more)
An ex Conrail GP15-1 sits in the engine service area at 4:54 PM in a sea of YN3. The 1537 was formerly Conrail 1620.
Six YN3 units lead a long WB mixed freight into the inbound yard at Selkirk from West Springfield, MA on the old B&A at 4:48 PM.
In the sweet light at 5:50PM one of the Selkirk Hump sets shoves yet another cut of cars over the hump as the air is filled with the slow and steady drone of the SD40-2 with squealing flanges from... (more)
The power off inbound Q366, a YN3, YN2, YN1 combo, has cut off and is heading for the engine service area. The 8418 was the trailing unit inbound. The 8418 was the C&O 7567, delivered as C&O 7467.... (more)
Not much power onhand at Selkirk on this busy Friday.
A CSXT SD40-2 and yard slug, bathed in the late evening sun, travel west through Selkirk Yard to grab another inbound train to shove over the hump. A thunderstorm is moving just to the north, but... (more)
Inbound ethanol trains now offer the best chance for exotic color into a snowless, cold Selkirk Yard. This train will proceed to the East End Departure Yard on Track 12 and the colorful CP CSXT... (more)
In for a quick checkup at Selkirk before heading back out into the cold. www.railroad-photography.com
A sea of blue: I was only 14 years old in the summer of 1996 and -- at the time -- the dissolution three years later of Conrail, the railroad I had grown up with, was an inconceivable notio... (more)
Fresh from the service shed at Selkirk yard.
CSXT OCS P918-07 departs Selkirk Yard after coming south off the D&H earlier in the day. Train will head west into a line of thunderstorms on it's westward run to Buffalo.
Good looking slug set sits outside the fuel rack at Selkirk Yard.
