A PHL yard job switches Berth 200 Yard in late Saturday afternoon light. Shortly after this shot I heard on the scanner radio, "Foamer Alert."

With their air conditioning set to full power, a leaser locomotive rounds the curve at Cusseta as it brings the 86 cars comprising today's M617 south along the A&WP subdivision.

After five months of being inactive, Northshore Mining operated its first ore train today between the mine at Babbitt and plant at Silver Bay. Cliffs Natural Resources idled this operation in Octo... (more)

CP 253 over the river. CP 253 is crossing the St-Lawrence river on its way to Montreal with an eclectic lashup composed of AC4400CW CEFX 1045, GP20C-ECO CP 2270 & GP38-2 DH 7304 (one of two... (more)

In the late evening light, the NS 201 crosses over the North Fork of the Holston River with a CEFX leading the way.

A Helm Financial Corp leaser pulls A050 this afternoon as the train of 48 ballast hoppers heads south after dropping rock earlier in the day. Soon this aggregate train will come to a stop as it t... (more)

CEFX 6001, a former SOO Line SD60, provides a splash of color in the BNSF engine servicing facility yard as it gets repositioned for a run to the Denver Yard.

Lease unit switching at Mexico Junction

Here we see a East bound NS train bound for Savannah, GA with CEFX 6014 a SD60, this engine is a ex SOO Line which was bought by CEFX and is now leased to NS. NS has about 20-30 of these leasers, ... (more)

Curving through the basalt Pillars Of Lyle, a matched set of three brand new GE ES44AC's from Citicorp Rail Leasing make their first trip to the west coast on an BNSF oil train bound for Tacoma, W... (more)

A rare leader pretty much anywhere on the NS system (NS is only leasing 3 total), CEFX #104 leads Plant Marshall coal loads past the classic Southern Railway station at Old Fort, NC.

CSX Q633 with a surprising leader today, NREX 2738. Here they are seen working at Burdeck street in Schenectady, NY

An NRE genset shuffles around several CP and a Savage GP in various states of rebuild at the former Rock Island shop in Silvis. The former SP EMD's were purchased by NRE with the intent to lease ... (more)