Conrail's Oak Island to Browns Yard transfer train is departing Port Reading behind a pair of former Erie Lackawanna SD45-2 locomotives.

The daily transfer train is just arriving to Browns Yard, which was originally owned and operated by the first railroad in the nation, the Camden and Amboy Railroad (1830's). The yard has since b... (more)

7 days a week Browns Yard in Sayreville/Old Bridge is supplied by a daily transfer train from Oak Island, Newark. During the week the train re-crews at night to return empties back. However, on ... (more)

Ballast for the Glasgow Subdivision expansion project trots East behind three leased Montana Rail Link SD45-2's, crossing the frozen Des Lacs Reservoir. MRL power in North Dakota is pretty uncommo... (more)

Browns Yard is part of the Conrail Shared Assets territory and a mix of CSX and NS power are routinely seen here. NS 1702 & 1705 have recently uncoupled from the daily yard supply train they brou... (more)

3 MRL SD45's lead this westbound BNSF H-KCKSPO across the Montana Rail Link. BNSF has leased these units due to there massive power shortage.

This Is The End: In recent months, nearly a dozen Montana Rail Link SD45-2s have been sold and scrapped in Livingston, Mont. and these three locomotives – leading BNSF Railway's H-KCKSPO1... (more)

Last Stand?: A trio of Montana Rail Link SD45-2s lead a westbound manifest, H-KCKSPO1-21, off the Lake Pend Oreille bridge in Sandpoint, Idaho on the evening of May 25, 2014. BNSF Railway i... (more)

While heading back west, I caught this set of helpers descending back towards Livingston.

Running as the second of five westbounds, extra 5705 west has the consist whining in dynamic as it runs for the rack at Belen. After 5 west will be 4 east. Didn't notice the open top auto rack, ... (more)

It is unusual to see MRL locomotives on the Montana high line. I have seen MRL 330 along with MRL 327 several times in the past few weeks.

A loaded coal train led by CRR 3621 rolls through Lattimore, NC. on Seaboard Coast Line track. Seeing Clinchfield power on SCL or L&N lines was common due to the Family Lines mantra. 35mm slide fr... (more)

Inbound train arriving Trona

A set of Trona power was heading west away from Trona

Ballast and tie replacement work has recently been completed here where the Amboy Secondary and the Gillespie Branch lines meet. Extra piles of ballast and old ties are visible to the left. The... (more)