Just minutes before sunset, a late running J726 roars southbound past the endangered semaphores at south Romney on a bitterly cold December evening. Railroad: CSX Transportation (CSXT)Locomotive: EMD SD40-2Location: Romney, Indiana, USALocomotive #: CSXT 8029Train ID: CSX J726Photo Date: December 05, 2008
RailAmerica has been transferring several Florida East Coast engines to its various power short properties since the two companies came under common ownership in 2008. This creates some interesti... (more)
A solitary horse eyes WNYP 631 as it leads the Hornell Turn past a set of deactivated signals on the former Erie mainline.
Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug... J726 heads back to Indianapolis light-power, passing one of the soon-to-be replaced sets of semaphore signals north of Linden. This... (more)
Delays can be good.... After having some issues with the lead engine and a meet with 261, eastbound 306 is back on the move a few short minutes before sunset at Oakwood on the former Nickel Plate... (more)
At the Alaska RR shops.
Norfolk Southern's Reading heritage unit, together with the Lehigh Valley heritage unit, lead an empty coal train across Otter Creek enroute to Toledo, Bellevue, and points south. The train is on... (more)
Morning sun finds an eastbound W&LE trackage rights train trundling across the CSX Toledo Branch at "KIRK." Up until recently, this train ran three days a week to interchange with the I&O at Lim... (more)
The harvest is over for most fields in this area. Now the process of hauling the grain to market begins.
Freshly repainted and renumbered IN 2216 leads a short freight west across one of the many dirt road crossings and past some early fall colors between Jonesville and Quincy. What was once the ban... (more)
Small town Sunday afternoon...
On a hot summer afternoon, "bumblebee" 4050 leads southbound racks into the big curve at MP 101.
On a foggy Saturday morning, a northbound rack train takes the siding at Ottawa for a meet with Q231. I&O's Ottawa Loop industrial track, once the DT&I mainline, can be seen to the left.
BJRY 702 shows off her SP heritage while awaiting the day's work.
Former Grand Trunk 4704 reflects on its years of mainline service as it loads a grain train at the Anderson's elevator.
