A fresh looking SD70MAC leads CSX Q169

With engineer sunshine behind the wheel, a CSX “powder” 70mac crawls out of CP Liberty, with greens till CP Normantown... seen here ducking under the Rt. 34 bridge on the Aurora Naperville bor... (more)

An executive MAC brings up the rear of a 279 car westbound empty coal train.

CSX U109 with a SD70MAC Rebuild leading the way wasting no time by the coaling tower in Ronceverte on their way back to coal fields.

A matching set of Grinstein Executive MACs muscle a BNSF loaded coal train over the Rio Grande bridge in Monument, Colorado.

Powered by a trio of EMD SD70MACs, a BNSF coal empty is westbound approaching Anselmo, Nebraska, on BNSF’s Sand Hills Subdivision on the afternoon of May 22, 2014.

An SD70MACe pushes on an eastbound loaded coal train.

A pair of Grinstein executive SD70MACs had DPU duty shoving a loaded coal train through Spruce, Colorado.

A pair of Grinstein executive SD70MACs were caught shoving a loaded coal train through Greenland, Colorado.

Even before I had speedlites, I knew that this shot was one I would want to try if I ever got them. X541 with a rebuilt SD70MAC & CM44AC combo woulds provide for an interesting power consist for m... (more)

A rebuilt SD70MACe leads a mixed freight under the eastbound control signal gantry in Big Lake.

A pair of ACe motors (SD70MACe, SD70ACe) thunder westward with building storms in the distance.

On a bright and frigid January afternoon, intermodal train Q112 approaches the LaFarge Cement Crossing led by the bright future nose of a CSXT 762 “Mac” & SD40-2 duo. I never had much luck ge... (more)