NCRC 6326 has just picked up two units and 60+ loaded cars at Green Plains in Central City and are struggling to bring the train up to track speed on the Union Pacific Columbus Sub.

Backdropped by a 'healthy' dose of U.S. Steel air pollution, SD40 1254 models one of the early variants of L&N's gray and yellow scheme, exhibiting slanted yellow numbers and letters outlined in b... (more)

UPY 356 was built as CNW 6865. This new slug set includes UPY 456, a former MP SD38-2 converted into a Slug known as a PS6B. The slugs rely on power from the mother unit but provide a higher maxim... (more)

SP 7345 leads an eastbound manifest up San Timoteo Canyon as it heads towards Banning.

SP 7342, with the experimental "Daylight" paint scheme, sits in the diesel service area in the West Colton yard.

UP 3091 is stopped on the south main as it waits for the westbound Amtrak Desert Wind to run around it.

A short freight has just arrived at Wheeling & Lake Erie’s Rook Yard, powered by WE “SD40-3” 3048 and “SD40-2” 6997. The 3048 is ex-Wisconsin Central Oxford Leasing (WCOL) 3102, origina... (more)

On a winter afternoon, a loaded Western Maryland coal train behind an SD40 and an F7B has stopped outside the yard at Hagerstown, MD, awaiting a clear track.

On the afternoon of September 12, 1998, an eastbound Burlington Northern Santa Fe train crosses the Clark Fork and passes the mile 210.3 semaphore east of Quinns, Montana, on Montana Rail Link’s... (more)

The ever popular SP 7319, trying to emulate UP's Desert Storm unit, with it's mostly pealed paint job, was leading a westbound train up the Coast Line emerging from the Santa Susanna tunnel into a... (more)

At the Wheeling & Lake Erie’s Rook Yard in Carnegie, Pennsylvania; a train led by WE SD40 3048 (and SD39 6997) arrives. Meanwhile, sitting one track over is a set of four WE SD40s (3102, 4000, ... (more)

Mom! Don't leave me! The yard crew has just dropped off GP15 UPY 653, and is now heading back into South St. Paul yard.

An Original, Three Patches, and a Repaint

EMD power is in abundance as a Penn Central SD40 teams up with a patched Conrail SDP45 and a patched SD40 to lead an empty hopper train in... (more)

An SD40 and two SD40-2’s lead a westbound Conrail manifest into Reading Pennsylvania on the former Reading main line. The lead unit is passing the former Reading Brewing Company brewery, which c... (more)

The crew of a westbound Conrail TV train waits between Lucknow and Rockville as the weekly power servicing move from Reading heads toward Enola.