With Quartzite Mountain as a backdrop, Mojave Northern SE32C diesel 419 brings a nineteen-car string of 3-bay hopper cars (built by Freight Car America) from the Black Mountain Quarry to the plant... (more)

Uneven Track Rarely level from any angle the junction for the Rocky Local can cause nausea for any rail enthusiast both shooting or running. Rare move to an aggregate plant in Boulder ... (more)

BNSF Southbound candy cane ballast train heading to Porphyry in Corona for loading.

Carolina Coastal 114 nears the quarry at Sims with ballast hoppers that will be loaded for Morehead City.

An empty stone train heads out of Wilson with a GP9 and GP38 for power.

Tilcon Connecticut GE 80 Tonner 553778 is shoving cars through the wash at Reeds Gap Quarry. This locomotive is part of the obscure fleet of locomotives used by the Branford Steam/Tilcon companies... (more)

Clean up in progress from a DGNO train derailment after a loaded rock train put 40 cars on the ground.

DGNO loaded rock train derailed and put 40 cars on the ground.

ARR 4012 leads a loaded rock train through Anchorage on its way to the Anchorage Sand & Gravel plant for unloading.

Martin Marietta switcher pulls out a cut of loaded rock hoppers for NS to pick up later

94Z, a Herzog ballast train, heads across the "Hurt Connection," which connects the former Southern main line to the former Virginian main line.

The Chesapeake & Ohio Heritage Unit crests the grade at the front of an aggregate rock train. This rock is loaded in Freyco, VA, and transported down to Benning, DC, which then travels up Amtrak's... (more)

“Stone Train @ Westwood”

On April 27th, 2025, Long Island Rail Road Extra 158, with MP15AC 158, passes Westwood station as it tows a stone train through Malverne, New York on the... (more)

66510 with an empty aggregate train, near Oxford Parkway.

CLNA 120 gets headroom on the EC Line at Chocowinity before setting off a train for NS.