My favorite CSX standard cab locomotive passes some beautiful autumn color in the form of this red oak...

This trio of GEs have just lifted themselves away from the Mohawk Line and are now crossing the Mohawk River toward Selkirk Yard... Note the green and red signs on the bridge piers that aid boats ... (more)

A pair of brand new ES44AC's wait the be assigned to their next Boston Line train... CSX prefers to break in their new AC units on the old B&A for a couple reasons: 1) Heavy traffic, 2) A good gra... (more)

Brand new...the engineer seems to be quite comfortable at his new control stand while easing Q426 out past an incoming empty trash train Q702... Note that you can see through the grills in the bac... (more)

The business end of New York Central #3 looks grand, sporting 7 flags, including the Connecticut State Flag (left), representing the owner's home state and ultimately this car's home during the wi... (more)

Four Amtrak switcher locomotives sit out the night in Springfield including 3 MP15s and a GP38H-3...I believe they were supposed to head down the Springfield Line to New Haven, CT at some point, b... (more)

AC60s have made a strong reappearance on Boston Line manifests of late, exemplified by this pair of AC60s led by an unusually clean #632!!!

The maples, elms and birches have really begun to show their splendid colors in the Berkshires as an orange snake of loaded ballast cars heads from Trap Rock in Westfield Mass to a point west...

An ex-CR SD60I (rare for Boston Line manifest trains) leads a 106 car Q425 from West Springfield Yard to Selkirk, just after the morning fog and haziness has just burned off...

The eastbound Lake Shore Limited stops in Springfield, MA with a private observation car PCCX #800188, the Navy bringing up the rear...thankfully the neon was not on, or else ... (more)

The westbound Lake Shore Limited heads north on the Hudson Line with an unexpected P42 trailing today...note that the consist, this year, is only 10 cars, as compared to last year's 11 (they got r... (more)

This unique high short hood GP38 rests cold at the Locomotive tracks in West Springfield Yard...its most likely on its way to or from St. Albans, VT for repairs...

Almost 400ft below me, Q439 hugs the west bank of the Hudson River on its way south with tank car UTLX #662999 as the first car of many...

An hour after Q390, Q380 rumbles across the bridge...for all the previous times I've made trips to the Selkirk area, my luck with foreign power was hardly existant...this day seemed to make up for... (more)

When I heard Q390 was coming, I crossed my fingers and hoped that it would have UP power...and it did, in the form of elephant style Union Pacific SD70Ms...a beautiful site for one whose eyes were... (more)