ALCO Safari Day 4, WNYP: In the morning, two of WNYP's veteran ALCO's drag a heavy cut of cars out of the yard in Meadville, exhibiting the classic ALCO turbo lag. Don't let the smoke fool... (more)
UP runs westbound MASKC 06 past the Kirkwood station about an hour before sunset. The man standing next to the station is Zach Guenzel, of Railpictures.net.
ALCO Safari Day 5, LA&L: After gathering a handful of cars from the Lakeville yard, the LA&L road job comes up the grade, and around the curve at Conesus Lake Jct. heading for Rochester. Th... (more)
At the end of the day, like clockwork, the CN local rounds the curve at IL Rt. 157 and heads over the small canal. He has already gotten a warrant from Church Jct. to Mousette and will procede dir... (more)
How do you like your GE? Burnt, Chared? Possibly on fire at some point? I know I do! (take a look at the long hood) Train was CDYSV1 24
A KCS Slug set sits under the sanding tower at their former GWWR facilities in E. St. Louis. The white slug is a relic from the KCS of past years.
Three Terminal SW1500's struggle with a train-length cut of just over 60 cars at the west end of the downtown yard. Today was absolutely sweltering, you start to feel sorry for these guys being in... (more)
A standard cab Dash 9 and SD40-2 sit under the stars on a chilly December night with MNLTR 26. Canon 350D 28-80mm. (f/3.5 @ 20 sec.)
This Cargill switcher idles at the grain facility on the Mississippi's East side. 1 or 2 of the cylinders in the back 6 cylinders appear to be "running dirty" with a high fuel to air ratio.
MRS 255 shoves some SLSC cars into the Anheuser-Busch storage yard on humid St. Louis afternoon.
A ratty bunch of locomotives sits on the aux. track just after sunset in Dupo yard. Canon 350D, 28-80mm. f/3.5 @ 8 sec.
7244 and its train, CCSWE 15, roars past the 7178 on CNAWL9 13, which is just getting under way.
My first SD70M-2. Here the brand new unit leads a hot stack and rack train out of the NS Princeton Terminal and towards Francisco, IN.
ALCO Safari Day 7, Delaware Lackawanna: PO74 has finished putting their train together, and 10,000 pure ALCO horsepower starts their train on the 1.5% grade out of Scranton.
A nice set of power rolls through Dupo with southbound manifest QASLI 24 in the morning.
