A Helms Leasing SD60 leads a Norfolk Southern train through Cayce, South Carolina in 2009. HLCX 5998 was built in 1986 as Chicago & Northwestern #8048.


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A Florida Gulf & Atlantic Railroad Yard Job is seen doing some work in their yard at Tallahassee, FL., on a beautiful December morning.

CSX auto rack train pauses at the Amtrak station in the ditch in Columbia, South Carolina.

HLCX GP38-2 1067 leads Local 105 West through Hodgkins.

A CSX crew is onboard leased power at Cayce, South Carolina in this 2011 photograph. They would shove back maybe a hundred feet to pick up a cut of cars for delivery.

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An ex-Burlington Northern Santa Fe SD40-2 is on point of a train sitting in the CSX yard in Cayce, South Carolina. HLCX #8081 was built in 1979 as Burlington Northern, same number. The unit was so... (more)

A former Burlington Northern SD40-2 is caught at the CSX yard in Cayce, SC sporting HLCX reporting marks. She eventually was sold to Norfolk Southern and became NS 3553. They later sold it to the ... (more)

A former Burlington Northern SD40-2 is caught at the CSX yard in Cayce, SC sporting HLCX reporting marks. She eventually was sold to Norfolk Southern and became NS 3553. They later sold it to the ... (more)

BNSF's Eola-Western Avenue local heads east on Track Two through Naperville powered by two Helms Leasing units.

For some time in 2010-2011, FEC stored about a dozen locomotives at their shops in New Smyrna Beach, which included a few ex-Ohio Central GE's not in frame. A couple of the ex-BNSF/BN SD40-2 were... (more)

Unfortunately, the Florida Gulf & Atlantic Lake City Day Switcher was running light engine, but I was still glad to get it passing the Seaboard Air Line signals as it headed out to work the multip... (more)

The red on the switch stand doesn't quite go with the red on the HLCX leasers. FYI - 3812 started out as Texas Mexican 863, delivered in June 1978.

The Soo Line yard at Schiller Park is all quiet, thus allowing WC to run GTW ballast empties thru it. The train will go up to Minnesota to load ballast back to the GTW. The lead engine is former... (more)

HLCX 6313 passes through a rock cut as it approaches the small town of North Freedom, WI. The train is heading west on the WSOR’s Reedsburg Subdivision during an afternoon thunderstorm.