The Pioneer Valley Railroad consists of former New Haven Railroad trackage that was once the northern extension of the canal line from New Haven north. This was one of the NH's few incursions nor... (more)

Sneaking On To The Street!

Selkirk based local B765 turns on to South 7th Street for a block of street running after coming through the town square and crossing Warren Ave. on t... (more)

A Terex dump truck gets waved in front of Conrail local BA-3 as its cars of loaded scrap metal from Sims Metal Management get inspected by its conductor. An employee from the metal company stood i... (more)

Time for a game of "chick-hen"? CP 8846 eases into Lansing, IA with a southbound freight appearing to be in for a face off with a formidable biker chick. Fortunately her need to quench h... (more)

Real Classy...

Q317 crawls through St. Marys, W.Va. en route to Cincinnati, Oh. via Russell, Ky. The very professional crew must have found it amusing to hang toilet paper fro... (more)

Under the guidance of five standard cab EMD locomotives, CSX Q317 navigates the original B&O street running in downtown St. Marys on New Year's Day. The consist is led by three West Virginia-rebui... (more)

It's only been a few years since the L&N takeover of the Hoosier Line (Monon) between Louisville and Chicago as a southbound manifest runs the streets of Bedford, Indiana. Seemingly continually en... (more)

A young fellow paces the GP38-2s heading down the middle of Fourth (or was it Fifth?) Street. Train is headed south on UP's McPherson Branch, but it is a new train, put on after UP/MP merger, and... (more)

With lines of traffic stacking up in all directions, and impatient drivers turning around and inching to cross, CP 2260 in-charge of D45, shoves a set of boxcars into Mohawk Paper, previously the ... (more)

A crewman is flagging Broadway Street in Sheboygan Falls, WI so CNW can 4287 can continue its' journey west on a gloomy December day in 1986. Much of this line was removed, including the iconic wi... (more)

MILW 164 leads a mix of SD40-2s and SD10s on a dead freight east as the train eases through downtown street running trackage through Renton, WA. The first leg of the trip east used Pacific Coast R... (more)

South Shore Line freight motors wait for the light to change at Franklin, as they cruise through town on 11th street. Photo by Jeff Stupar.

A Herzog train pulls out into the street running. This train had quite an interesting lashup, consisting of a 3 month old SD70ACe, 41 year old GP40-2, and an AC44C6M.

The Torrance Local heads down Vermont Avenue on the eastern border of Gardena and Los Angeles with a trio of gensets for power.