The day's work done, a BNSF work train with a former ATSF GP35u backs into the Essex Yard for the night. To the right is the renowned Izaak Walton Inn, which was built in 1939 by the Great Northe... (more)

UP 5322 leads Federal Railroad Administration detector car DOTX 217 along the old D&RGW mainline at Midvale, Utah. This train would soon tie up for the day in the yard at Provo.

LLW 5399, assigned to a work train, sits for the weekend at Wrens siding with five 60' centerbeams that look like they see frequent tie service.

Georgetown Rail Works "Slot Machine" trains have been busy all around the Metro. Preparations for heavy rail commuter trains and flooding calls for trackwork.

A Speno ballast cleaner on the CNJ back in '53. Looks like the highway above the tracks has been newly constructed.

A work train is on the heels of the CP #252-led by one of the GP38-2 'blue birds' at Central Bridge NY. Incredibly this is my third bluebird this month shot on the former D&H!

After laying fresh ties between Ushers (MP-471) and Mechanicville, the CP work train reverses past CPF467 to tuck itself inside a small spur to clear up the Colonie Main for northbound freight #... (more)

CP crews prepare to tie down a work train on an old spur(reportedly not seen a train this size in eight years!) near Mechanicville adjacent to the old Colonie Main Line. The blue and grey colors... (more)

A touch of class as blue and gray(former Lehigh Valley) GP38-2 '7303' backs a work train past the CPF467 interlocking at Mechanicville. The crew are doing a reverse move to A-17 on the Colonie M... (more)

Ballast dumping continues on the shoo-fly. The tunnel portals were removed about a week later.

One of CSX's finest sits on a work train on the ex-ex-Florida Southern Railway in Hawthorne. For those who do not know, Florida (and Georgia) is a CSX goldmine with old GE's still working in yards... (more)

CN 6020 idles away with a string of side dump cars at Lytton awaiting for her next duty on the Ashcroft Sub.

After running around their unloaded Flat Car, the Engineer of the SDNR Work train watches me out the Cab Window as his Conductor finishes tying the brake lines in. The light in the background com... (more)

Freshly painted GP38-2 with a four pack of containers pass's mile nine on the Sussex Subdivision. This work train is headed for Hampton, NB. CN Rail and Operation Life saver conducted a mock car a... (more)