Q381 with a rainbow lashup of Warbonnet and H2 B40-8W's heads over the High Falls in the Genesee River Gorge with downtown Rochester as a backdrop.

Conway turntable on Thanksgiving 2008.

The aftermath of the Q380 derailment about 3 days after the initial derailment. It burned for more than 24 hours and eventually service was fully restored 4 days after the fact.

The remains of 2 Amtrak F40s and a VIA unit sit in a junkyard near Ohio Central's Youngstown Yard. I just happened to be driving down 422 and glanced to the left and saw these at the top of a pile... (more)

Oopsies

The proud owner of the "Spirit of the Conrailer", Douglas Woodard, watches a westbound CSX train roll through Berea. This truck was formerly the "Spirit of the Conrail 7", and used to be in CSX YN... (more)

Q353 is in the middle of a parade of westbounds who had to wait for 2 eastbounds to clear J&L Tunnel which was having signal problems and all trains had to stop and proceed to get through. Dark s... (more)

Many old switchers wait in line to be rebuilt or scrapped at Larry's Truck and Electric.

NS 309 was passing through Lakewood when it struck a pedestrian at Brockley Street. Why did the pedestrian get struck? He was making a gesture towards the train which involved his middle finger. H... (more)

Leading it's first train since being painted into the Phase III Heritage Paint scheme, Amtrak 145 takes a break at the Cleveland Depot at 2:40 a.m. en route to Washington on the Capitol Limited.

As I was standing on the Franklin Avenue Bridge, I kept hear a revving up of an engine, and wondered down the hill to find this. GECX 4400 is now a testbed unit for AC4400/AC6000 locomotives, and... (more)

Many ex SP Tunnelmotors get a new life as another looks on.

Q371 derailed at CP 17 on the CSX Short Line Sub at about 6 a.m. on a 7 degree day in Northeast Ohio. Shown here at 9 a.m. with 11 cars derailed and other traffic would have to be rerouted onto t... (more)

Sadly, all that is left of this old SD9 is the cab and ladders. Even had it not been scrapped, it wouldn't have been going anywhere as most of the Port of Tillamook Bay railway was destroyed by a ... (more)

Quite an interesting find off of a random side street in McKees Rocks, less then ten minutes from downtown Pittsburgh. Nearly as interesting, but not really, is the random blue switcher.