Imagine my surprise to find a UP on the EB “gut” freight. The second unit was a four-axle, actually working. The first one I’ve seen here in literally years.

Imagine my surprise to find a UP on the EB “gut” freight. The second unit was a four-axle, actually working. The first one I’ve seen here in literally years.

The regular morning mixed freight rolls those the edge of the nice old hamlet. They usually meet somebody at Glade, one of only two 10,000 Ft sidings between Bristol and Radford. Rumored to be c... (more)

The most ridiculously long freight scheduled on this line gingerly threads the curves, vertical and horizontal, that make this area infamous for train separations. Seen here approaching a signal ... (more)

DPU on this EB freight is almost always buried in the train but on this date I got lucky. We had UPs on their opposite number. A most unusual day here in monochrome land.

With four units, one offline, this eastbound mixed freight has a speed limit of 30MPH but may have been making 20 at best as he heels into a curve east of town.

With a DPU down and a huge train on unable to proceed considering tonnage grades etc. they are waiting while conductor ties down 40+ brakes on the section behind the DPUs. It’s 12:38. They’... (more)

This train of junk freight didn’t have a prayer, maximum tonnage, minimum power, then on the downgrade their one AC, a DPU, blew an engine. Maximum grades ahead. Setting brakes, moving all p... (more)

The electric locomotive ChS4-046 just stopped on a Boryspil station with a passenger train #126 Kyiv - Konstiantynivka.

Emory & Henry College is a great small liberal arts school located in a beautiful rural setting, made more beautiful today by two newly rebuilt units, 100 numbers apart. For some reason 4313 was ... (more)

Just a few hundred feet short of the Appalachian summit, at a slow but determined Run 8 pace, two brand new rebuilds one hundred numbers apart are looking good as they approach the friendly rural ... (more)

Amtrak Northeast Regional train 126 races against the sunset, heading to New York Penn Station.

Burlington Northern F9A 770 leads train 126 at Northtown Yard in Minneapolis March 1974. The 770 was built as Northern Pacific 6701-A in August 1956 and was numbered in the passenger number series... (more)

The DF class were built by EMD Canada and entered service in 1979 and were rebuilt with turbo in 1990s and then BrightStar and other upgrades. Nearly all remain in service, including 7335 which no... (more)

The DX class was built by General Electric's Erie, PA plant and entered service from 1972. From 1988 the DX class received a series of modifications and, were classified DXB. The train is heading ... (more)