Rolling into the viewfinder!

Amid wildfire smoke from Canada and filtered sunlight from nature, CN 3023 sticks out with its still bright orange color in a nod to the EJ&E as it hauls limestone loads north on the CN (former DM... (more)

With the abolishment of 103, the 905 is back to doing the New Smyrna Beach Haul.

CSX rock train B428-08 heads east past the Westmore Siding in Rockville, Maryland. These stone loads are from Winchester, Virginia and bound for Alexander Park, Virginia.

CN 3023 leads limestone up the Missabe sub about to get on the Minntac Sub here at Wolf for the final few miles into the U.S. Steel Minntac plant. Neat to see a CN heritage unit pulling DMIR ore c... (more)

Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right... G74 drops his conductor for a shove, while intermodal 249 01 & CSX L69401 pass by.

Battle of 100 Loads One Hundred loads of rock is lifted up South Draw for a West-Slope track project. The very heavy westbound is slowly moving up the 2%+ grade and 10 degree curves of S... (more)

With 35mins left of sunlight, IC 6251 takes a quartet of SD40 products out of Burnett with limestone loads.

After being shopped for two weeks, to our surprise, we see IC 6251 shove a limestone set underneath I-35. After getting signals, we race up the line to watch the quartet of SD40s crawl uphill in s... (more)

An eastbound rock train departs the siding in Cibolo

Fire In Town. On July 23, 2015, an early morning fire in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia caused tremendous smoke throughout the area, though miraculously only damaged three buildings and there... (more)

This westbound rock train has stalled despite all the units. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection. Happy July 4th!

A trio of MLW's have arrived in Turtlepoint, Pennsylvania and shove their train of loaded stone hoppers into the Glenn O Hawbaker siding for unloading. Once the cars are tied down, the crew will r... (more)

While the rain has passed, it's still a rather dreary evening at the Wheeling & Lake Erie Yard in Akron, Ohio as two trains meet on the west end of the yard. A pair of SD40-2's are tied down on a ... (more)

CSXT 1776 "Spirit of our Armed Forces" leads B451 the evening Rock Runner returning empties from Bladensburg, MD back to Millville, WV. Seen here crossing the well known wooden trestle t... (more)