FEC #716 leads an Asplundh weed spray train towards Miami. The boxcar at the end of the train still wears an SCL/L&N Family Lines emblem.

NS P38 working Frito Lay in the Arrowood Industrial Park

Conrail's ALEN (Allentown-Enola).

Enveloped in remote Northern Ontario forest, an ONR ballast extra makes it's presence known with the venerable GMD SD40-2 putting on quite the performance. Just like when the '40 was fresh out of ... (more)

Westbound Conrail intermodal on the Pittsburgh line.

B&O 7610, part of a 3-unit helper set, is westbound–returning to its Brunswick base after shoving a freight over Barnesville Hill on the “Met”. The camera position is near C&O Canal Lock 29.... (more)

LIRC's veteran units 3001 and 3002 lead a northbound across the Flatrock River in Columbus.

A Conrail unit helps out of BN SD40 as they hustle down the Aurora Sub south of Lynxville. Scanned negative from October 1992.

The morning Chicago to St. Paul hotshot is less than 20 miles from the next crew change at LaCrosse. The train skirts the Mississippi River as they pass thru Genoa. The Genoa power plant is in the... (more)

The BNSF leased alot of junk power after the merger. The railroad needed alot of power to help thru the struggles they had moving freight. Some of the leasers were these ex-ATSF C30-7s that came f... (more)

Rare leader on 105 today the first time EMD's have lead this hot train since 2013 (when it was 101)

CPs 8WWA ballast train rumbles over the wooden Crawfish River bridge on a cold and windy spring afternoon. Todays train sports a trio of six-axle EMDs.

CPs 8WWA ballast train follows closely behind another freight train, seen here slicing through the rolling hills of central Wisconsin.

With 50-60 loads of ballast fresh from the pit in Waterloo, CPs 8WWA ballast train crawls over the Crawfish River with two rebuilt SD40s and a SD30C for power. The matching red pops alongside the ... (more)

The other side of the story. A shot of the other side of this nee CNW, ex UP unit is posted elsewhere. Not a bad cheap change of color scheme.. I don't think that red sill strip is kosher by th... (more)