As a mixed freight comes down the slide, an intermodal fights the grade on the east end of Gallitzin without the assistance of helpers.

Since my trip to Pennsylvania, a little bit has changed at the Juniata shops, the most prominent being that NS 3505 had its cab removed. However, when I visited, the cab was still intact. The unit... (more)

I am all for getting people into the hobby, and seeing this many people in Durand, a place that used to have many dedicated visitors, is great. However, they were all on the wrong side of the ligh... (more)

On the first day of December, the North Pole Express, pulled by the Pere Marquette 1225, fresh from its FRA rebuild comes around the curve on the Great Lakes Central Cadillac District near King Rd... (more)

Once a critical power supply to Metro Detroit, the end has come for the Detroit Edison Bunce Plant in Marysville, MI. Started in 1914, the coal fired giant was put online in 1922, and after severa... (more)

A mere monument kept as a extra, the nose of TSBY 388, a GP35 originally purchased by Ann Arbor in 1964, was involved in a rollover wreck in Northern Michigan, and due to the heavy damage it recei... (more)

As the sun begins to settle below the horizon, the GLC OSTN throttles up and the venerable GP35's that ride on Alco trucks feel as though they have to smoke like Alcos with an Osmer bound with a 9... (more)

One of the 54th/Cermak Pink Line trains runs across the Wells & Lake Interlocking in Downtown Chicago.

The last active GP35 in TSBY black and yellow, 393, has finally been escorted to the GLC paint booth (394 still holds its black and yellow, but it is not active due to major mechanical issues). Th... (more)

Some days, everything that you want, comes together perfectly, such was the case as the GLC OSTN pulls a cut of damaged surplus military artillery equipment from Camp Grayling out of the yard in D... (more)

It's business as usual at Tower 18 as a Pink and Blue line train both occupy the interlocking above Wells and Lake in Downtown Chicago.

Despite the heavy clouds hanging strong thanks to the Detroit River, the sky did not dampen the mood of myself, Steven McKay and "The Guy"(along with several others) as CN L572, led by E... (more)

90 pounds of pressure escapes in a flash.

With a pair of C30-7's already out at the mine, we were taken off guard by another train running out to Tilden. While it was not the boats we were after, a pair of blue birds run through the cut a... (more)

The Shepherd Elevator Trackmobile operator takes a break to watch the GLC ONTN roll south past the elevator as they were told to halt operations until the train cleared town and the siding.