Amtrak 281 races by a CWR train at CP 173.

Things that weren’t on my bingo card for 2025; seen in Amsterdam is P976, the BNSF OCS. This train is en route over CSX territory then Amtrak and LIRR to the Ryder Cup.

Things that weren’t on my bingo card for 2025; seen in Amsterdam is P976, the BNSF OCS. This train is en route over CSX territory then Amtrak and LIRR to the Ryder Cup.

A westbound CSX manifest train, led by SD70MAC 4541, is passing Through Amsterdam at sunset.

Amtrak's second P42C in service, 9701 (ex-AMTK 166) leads Empire Service train 283 to Niagara Falls, as it runs along the Mohawk River.

Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited (Chicago to NYC) runs at full speed on the CSXT Mohawk Subdivision, with AMTK 108 (50th Anniversary unit) trailing.

As the fog began to clear, Ex. Conrail CSX 7351 in YN2 & CSX 8136 lead the Q386 elephant style into the early morning sun passing through the Amsterdam Amtrak Station just over 11 years ago.

Like a ghost train BNSF 6412 pulling the G998 loaded unit grain train for the Port of Albany rockets out of the early morning Mohawk River fog and into Amsterdam passing through the Amtrak Station... (more)

Story of a 6000 & a Spongebob. CSX 664 & CSX 4042 elephant style pull the Q626 eastbound through Amsterdam Amtrak Station on a sunny morning 11 years ago.

CSXT Train W990-24 passes lock 10 on the Mohawk River with a windmill part fresh from GE in Schenectady.

Following behind the M364, Amtrak 48 with engineer DTM at the controls slowly rolls through the City of Amsterdam in the CP-175 interlocking alongside the former New York Central freight house on ... (more)

Cruising out of Amsterdam, M368 being lead by two "thunder cab" UP ACe's with refer cars on the head-end brings back memories of the late Q090 "Salad Shooter/Produce Express" a... (more)

After sitting on the Amsterdam weeds filled siding for well over a year, a tank car involved and damaged in the August 4th, 2023 derailment in Cranseville, NY with two center-beam flat cars are fi... (more)

CSX 4562 "Un-Flared" MAC singly pulls the M267 empty-auto into Amsterdam over Quist Rd.

With the yard at Quist Rd. in Amsterdam now almost fully ripped up and decommissioned, an old switch box still remains for the last two remaining abandoned spurs which veer off the siding between ... (more)