How To Get An Uneven Axle Count Without A Problem. If you were on the CSX River Line today with a radio, Q403-18 (Tuesday, May 18, 2021) had an uneven number of axles, as WEBX FL9 2024 (ex-... (more)

Aberdeen Carolina and Western 271 and 276 poses outside the railroad's shop at dusk after a full day of touring the Sandhills Division on their public debut.

The Sandhills Division of the ACWR is loaded with Loblolly Pines. These vast confiner forests are one of my favorite attractions to Moore County, NC. Photography and bird watching go hand in han... (more)

Guests enjoy a lunch break at the beautiful Pinehurst Country Club, while the F9s sit amongst dandelions adjacent to The Cradle Short Course. The flowers really compliment the golden-yellow paint... (more)

The maiden voyage of the ACWR's business train makes its way towards Aberdeen, passing through the village of Eagle Springs.

Still hauling passengers as Electro-Motive Division intended, a trio of Burlington Northern E9A locomotives line up with commuter trains in the BN/Metra Hill Yard at Aurora, Illinois, on April 16,... (more)

Aberdeen, Carolina & Western passes an old rustic shed in Seven Lakes. This passenger excursion traversed ACWR's entire Sandhills Division.

Aberdeen, Carolina & Western unveils their freshly painted F9 (A/B) units. These engines formally pulled Norfolk Southern's Officer Train and were sold to ACWR in 2019. ACWR put on a fantastic s... (more)

For some time Amtrak's San Francisco Zephyr, Nos. 5 and 6, made a stop in Cheyenne, WY on their route between Denver and Ogden. This necessitated a runaround move at Cheyenne, as the trains came i... (more)

Two Union Pacific gas-turbine electric, lead units number 14 and 16 at Salt Lake City, Utah in October 1967. Photo from my collection, no photographer information on slide.

I played 'catch the sun' all weekend on one of my few trips to Tuscaloosa way back when. As the Crescent rolled in from Birmingham, it was overcast as heck. A few minutes later, a brief sweet sp... (more)

The elements continue to take a toll on VIA 6510 and consist on static display at the Kaministiquia River Heritage Park. Meanwhile in the background wayfreight 421 plays peek a boo making a set of... (more)

V8 locomotive and budd cars of the EMU 1100 Series awaiting transfer to the museum in Rio Claro, but in a situation of neglect!

N&W Class J #611 pulls into Bristol, VA with the Tennessean on the starry night of May 1st, 2021. Meanwhile on the adjacent track the engineer of Southern FP7A #6133 climbs aboard ready to haul hi... (more)

In fading light SSR's 5MC5 empty grain from Appleton Dock to NSW rolls through Albion behind locos CLF3-S311-4911-48s35-48s36-48s28-GM27.