Clean Up, Track 3...

At 8:40 PM on the evening of July 5, 2019, westbound manifest 34A derailed the first 11 cars as it entered the main arc of Horseshoe Curve. The three locomotives... (more)

As the crew of the stone train ties down on track 4 at South Fork PA, a mixed freight glides down grade. The PRR signal in this shot would be removed less that 48 hours later, and this was the las... (more)

After bringing in a unit train of GrainsConnect cars (some seen at left), the power of CN 596 (NS 7219, NS 4028 & NS 9568) is stopped, awaiting the okay to leave the Port of Montreal light power. ... (more)

Big Mac. With only 30 ever produced, the SD80MAC is a rare model, even more so in Canada. Here an ex-CSX SD80MAC (NS 7219) leads a light power move out of the Port of Montreal after CN 596 ... (more)

Shot with K25 film from the Castleton Berkshire Spur Thruway Bridge on a beautiful July morning.

A duo of SD80macs back their train (which is lead by two more 80s) into the track 4 siding at South Fork PA; while a NS hotshot intermodal whizzes by on track 3.

A loaded coal train passes under the ex-Pennsylvania Railroad position signals at Summerhill. The train entered the main line from the mine just east of Portage and is making a short westbound das... (more)

One of those rare cases where the planets all allign up for a magical shot. Check; two now rarely seen matched pair of consecutively numbered SD80MACs returning for an unusual run over their form... (more)

SD80MAC 7220 leads NS train 177, a Elkhart, IN to Macon, GA manifest, as it approaches the Diverging Approach signal being shown at Control Point Foss on the Atlanta North District.

Norfolk Southern SD80MAC 7207 shoves the the second cut of 50 coal cars through the flood-loader at the Amfire Coal Load-out in Portage, PA. Amfire receives coal from multiple mines in the area wh... (more)

NS 7219 leads a short NS 298 through Iron City, AL

Two SD80MACs get ready to pull an empty coal train in off the NS Pittsburgh Line and onto the South Fork Secondary to get loaded once again with more coal. The SD80MACs were once all assigned out ... (more)

Time is running out for the SD80MACs in paired sets on the Boston Line as the takeover of CSXT and NS closes in. On a beautiful May afternoon, FRSE bursts out of the craggy bore with some head e... (more)

Norfolk Southern SD80MAC 7216 cruises down the main after getting the green at the Swains CP as it leads manifest freight 309 westbound towards Buffalo.

Running west on track one, SD80MAC 7215 leads NS C47, a loaded coal train. With the cab signal project moving west on the Pittsburgh Line, the MP 258 signals at Portage have only a few weeks left ... (more)