Up the Ramp

A clean set of Conrail GP10’s are running up the ramp between the westbound departure yard and the eastbound arrival yard at Enola, Pennsylvania.

NX-12 crosses over Water St in Fall Village on its way south to New Milford, CT.

A duo of golden orange IHB units head north through Broadway Street in Blue Island, destined for Norpaul and interchange to CP at Franklin Park. The leader, 4010, is a rare SP era GP40P-2, which w... (more)

NS GP60 7128 leads the bottle train east under the last remaining IHB searchlights in Calumet City.

Chessie power rests at the engine facility at Lincoln Park on the West side of Rochester, NY on 2/2/1980. You just can't beat a clean Chessie unit on a sunny, snowy day.

Chessie train RS97 prepares to depart Brooks Yard at Beahan Road in Gates, NY on May 31, 1980.

Last snow of the year. At Gershow Recycling the 271 is pulling up to the switch with Engineer Don Carman at the controls. Seen in the distance is Jay Eichler Conductor heading to the facility. Jay... (more)

"We Didn't Start the Fire" Big Al, one of NYAR's senior engineers poses by a switch being heated by the Track Department.

A pair of old Santa Fe GP20's, now PREX #3001 & #2026 are seen here resting in Monroeville, AL. On a cloudy December morning

The first full weekend of January 2018 had much of the Northeast in a Winter deep freeze not seen in many years. With daytime highs in the single digits and wind chills 20-30 below zero, outside ... (more)

Top Ten of 2017. With 2017 in the books, here's a look back at my Top 10 favorite shots from the past year.
9. Labor Day weekend 2017 was spent in the White Mountains of Ne... (more)

P&WV (WE) 101 brings up the tail end of W&LE train 612 across Banning Bridge spanning the Yough Valley and a frozen, tundra like Youghiogheny River.

The power from GMRC train 263 is on the causeway just south of Riverside yard at Bellows Falls preparing the train for the return trip to Rutland.

It was bound to happen. It has been nearly two years since the UP closed their Burnham Yard operations, and vandals have been able to frequent the previously busy rail yard. An icon of the Denve... (more)