The Q385 with a unique lashup as it rolls west with it's manifest train on a beautiful afternoon. It is rather unusual, at least in my experience, to see BNSF paired with Norfolk Southern.
On my way to work this morning, I checked the siding in Fonda, NY (as usual) to see if anything interesting was there. At 06:00 hours, I could just make out the standard cab shape of this engine.... (more)
The crew of the Q364 hold their train on the siding in Fonda while waiting to proceed east. They will soon be on the move again to no where fast as there is no room for them in Selkirk.
Three big GEs pull an eastbound stack train through a snowstorm.
WOOSH! With cars landing in ditches on neighboring roadways, an Amtrak dual-mode diesel safely blasts an icicle-encrusted Empire Service train through the Town of Mohawk, nea... (more)
Two Blasts from the Past. Though CSX is rapidly replacing the ancient steel New York Central-era signal bridges in the Mohawk Valley, a few remain in service, such as this one at Mi... (more)
With icicles hanging from her flanks, a surprisingly-clean CSX C40-9W and a sister unit charge head-first into a heavy Upstate New York snowstorm with mixed freight in tow.
Amtrak's 40th Anniversary Phase I engine 156 wastes no time as it rolls east through Fonda, NY. It's next stop will be in Schenectady, NY.
Area railfans have been quite plesed lately with a rather recent increase in "foreign power" on the CSX Chicago Line. Today, BNSF 6231 leads another load of Bakken Crude bound for Buckeye Terminal... (more)
The K652 slows down for the signal at CP186 as it heads on east with it's load of ethanol. Oddly, three buffer cars were in tow between the engines and loaded tankers.
"The Spirit of Cincinatti" is on the point of today's Q114 as it rolls on east through Fonda, NY.
Ruined.....What used to be a classic shot has been since ruined by CSX's installation of newer style "Vader Signals" from Selkirk Yard west. By Sometime next year most of these classics will be hi... (more)
CSX K645 heads west with two empty ethanol train sets combined into one long train.
An unusual early PC lashup of NYC and PRR engines
The lead unit is an early E7 built in 1945 with small numberboards like an FT
