One of a dwindling handful of end cab switchers remaining on CSX's active roster pauses between switch moves on a Raleigh-based local.
Steam on the beach
12025 Pune Secunderabad Shatabdi Express crusing over the long Bhima river bridge near Bhigwan under beautiful morning light
Southbound R20 led by AC44i #9912 crossing the new bridge built in Km 208.
The NS Reading heritage unit leads 33K west as rolls past the New Albany amphitheater.
Former Denver, Rio Grande Western Railway GP35 3044 in 2024. No time traveling DeLorean needed.
NCDOT's US Open Special heads northbound over the Haw River on the way from Pinehurst to Raleigh. The track is the former Seaboard Air Line main.
An unusual spin of the somewhat common GE-LNG-EMD sets roaming the rails lately. Not sure what led to this leading, more likely to catch something like this on the Unit Train at City Point, but h... (more)
Sunday morning's 202 is usually a mix of power to balance the lack of northbounds over the weekend and this time of year is a better northbound shot across the marsh.
Unusual mid-late day outing of the FEC business (BIZ) cars southbound from Jax to Fort Pierce, stopping in New Smyrna Beach and Titusville Ramp along the way. An unscheduled stop at Cocoa Junctio... (more)
A BNSF hump set consisting of two Warbonnets bracketing an SD40-2 (which curiously has a golden swoosh on the nose) pushes a cut of cars over the hump at Northtown Yard in Minneapolis, MN. Off to ... (more)
A couple of BNSF SD70ACes sit outside the diesel shop at BNSF's Northtown Yard while a former BN green switcher works hard shuttling other diesels around.
BNSF 637, an old Santa Fe C44-9W still wearing Warbonnet paint (albeit very faded), works a pull-down job at the south end of BNSF's Northtown Yard while a pair of Warbonnet Dash 8 locomotives com... (more)
UP 5319 leads Columbia loads East onto the M&P Sub in Portage.
MRL's freight from Missoula to Laurel rolls east along the Yellowstone River. 2022 saw damaging flooding along the Yellowstone from the park through south central Montana. Above the 4306 is a shed... (more)
MRS northbound suggar train M83, led by AC44i #7308, photographed between Ouro and Tamoyo yards.
Hauling a big mix of everything this mundane merchandize is dressed up today with a celebrity unit. The train is operating on a track that has bisected this small campus since Civil War days. Th... (more)
Flash Floods shut down the FEC for about 12 hours which resulted in a fleet of extra trains, like this 240 with a rare EMD leader.
The WW102 heads light to Gore over the "Sandman Branch." This portion of the line has not seen any revenue moves since January of this year when the sand mine in Gore closed.
Back when it was a day train, CN 377 is through Dorval with CN 5770, CN 8927 and 125 cars.
A westbound empty grain train heads west through southwest Virginia with the 8103 trailing second.
Daily Action. The daily container (pig) train arrives into Columbia off the Southern's W-Line from Spartanburg. Today was routine NS power, but with a nice horn and engine sound.
Tier 4 engine BNSF 3831 (ET44C4) leads the Longmont Switch local towards Loveland, Colorado on the Front Range Sub.
Light fog and ridge-hugging clouds cover Coal Creek Canyon as the California Zephyr heads west on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.
Last train out before flash floods shut down the railroad down south was FEC 206.
The Longmont leaves Fort Collins, Colorado and runs light back to Longmont on the Front Range Sub.
The engineer of BNSF 8400 (SD70ACe) walks the intersection due to a downed crossing gate at an elevated curve in Keenesburg, Colorado.
Fresh from the paint shop, UP 5833 leads a manifest (think it was MNPNL) through downtown Kansas City heading east.
The California Zephyr runs through Plainview, Colorado on the Moffat Tunnel Sub as it heads to Denver.
Meet You at the Station A pair of BNSF stack trains pass each other at KC Union Station as the Eastbound (BNSF 6927) makes their way towards Chicago, and the westbound heading to BNSF Arg... (more)
A CPKC Train YKK20, led by KCS 3961, heads east for KCS Jct., to get back to CPKC Knoche Yard with tonnage from BNSF.
On the morning of June 14, 2024, crews were observed readying M3 car 9794 for loading onto a flatbed truck destined for the NCPD academy, where emergency personnel will receive hands-on training w... (more)
Union Pacific Big Boy 4006 and Union Pacific 6944 on display at the National Museum of Transportation.
Minntac loads hold the main line at Biwabik for an empty train coming north out of Two Harbors. The yard here sees little use these days other than as storage space for unused railcars.
CN 120 passes some spring flowers.
A chartered Medway train, 98204, transport of cars Seat/Cupra, from Vilar Formoso to Praias do Sado, pulled by Siemens locomotive 5630.
Zurich tram near Central Railway Station.
CN 3309 and CN 3331 and a train made up of three different sets of passenger cars (some to Pokegama for Duluth, some for the Friends of 261 in the Twin Cities and some for Homewood) make their sou... (more)
ICE train seen south of Bern.
460003 between Bern and Spiez.
MLW "Bigs" wait for mechanical attention. These were acquired from WNYP in their ALCO purge. Prior to working in western New York, the M636s saw time on NYSW rails. Pulling ore trains p... (more)
The latest retro beauty.
A TP&W transfer job passes passes UP's "L-PD01" as it waits its turn to access the TZPR main.
UP 7974 leads B741 south over the Catskill Creek.
CSX ES44AH #3068 awaits its turn outside the paint shops in Waycross, GA after its YN3b paint had been sandblasted off completely. It would be painted in the Western Maryland heritage paint scheme... (more)
The WW102 services my scrap yard. I recently rehabilitated a portion of track that was buried/out of service to accommodate 5 cars at a time vs 3. This is one of the first runs of 5.
Summer afternoon action on Tehachapi with a north bound UP manifest quickly dropping down grade, through tunnel 2, and around the horseshoe curve at the west end of Bealville siding. Off in the di... (more)
Power Pack Across 3rd Avenue. On the early morning of Tuesday, June 11, 2024, R-211As Metropolitan Transportation Authority/MTA NYCT Subway 4275-4279 were picked up at he South Brooklyn Rai... (more)
More R211As Continue To Arrive. On the early morning of Tuesday, June 11, 2024, R-211As Metropolitan Transportation Authority/MTA NYCT Subway 4275-4279 were picked up at he South Brooklyn R... (more)
Delaware Lackawanna 2452 and 3643 get the day off.
Long Island City Cube. New York & Atlantic SW1001 no. 101 (EMD, 1977) leads train RS-40 out of Blissville Yard and across Greenpoint Ave Outer Rd as it doubles its train in the yard.
Urban Freight. The conductor of New York & Atlantic Railway train RS-40 is seen halting traffic on 55th St as SW1001 no. 101 creeps towards the roadway through the dense urban neighborh... (more)
The Sri Lanka Railways M6 Class #790 is shunting at the Rambukkana station. The M6 is a class of 16 Diesel-electric locomotives imported to Sri Lanka in 1979. They were manufactured by Thyssen-Hen... (more)
Refuse Railroading. New York & Atlantic SW1001 no. 101 leads train RS-40's power east on the LIRR Bushwick Branch, amidst a yard full of New York City's finest export!
CPKC 118 eases through the community of Mobert along the White River and the bottom of White Lake.
After doubling away for the westbound morning hotshots (running a touch late at Hornepayne) a shorter eastbound Calgary Logistics Park, AB to Montreal Taschereau, PQ "Z" train is able to scoop a "... (more)
CSX Q411 crosses the Seaboard Air Line to Wilmington as it heads south down the Atlantic Coast Line (A-Line) through Pembroke
Amtrak 668 leads 190 east past the Lords Point beach.
Hiawatha Service Train 338 clatters across the Menomonee Draw Bridge and begins its trip to Chicago.
The rain has paused long enough to catch a southbound Scot Rail passenger train heading to Edinburgh. The massive bridge is an engineering marvel having been constructed in the 1890’s.
BNSF 6179 & 8437 power westbound empties.
BNSF 3668 & 3298 westbound with 269 empties.
UP 5307 & 6595 eastbound with a loaded coal train.
A pair of SD40Ns, UP 1808 & 1638, power an eastbound local.
A pair of veteran Alco units, the C420 of Monon origin and the RS-1 appearing to be of NYS&W origin, wait for their next assignment.
A single C6M leads P46 into Cary at last light.
Power for the Apex locals await their next assignment.
“Room with a View”MMID 2060 plus three SD40-2s haul Maryland Midland’s UBHF west, past what looks to be some prime railfan real estate in Keymar, along the former Western M... (more)
ARR 2004 works the north end of Anchorage Yard on a beautiful morning. Nice to see the SP box car visiting Alaska.
ARR 4004 leads an empty rock train through the south side of Anchorage going to the Anchorage Sand & Gravel plant.
Passing The Flag. On February 6, 2021, Amtrak Train 281 crossed over State Route 298 in Syracuse, New York en route to New York Penn Station in New York, New York. AMTK 46 (P42DC, 50th Anni... (more)
The Holland America train arrives in Anchorage and soon the passengers will detain and load up on busses for the next leg of their trip.
The California Zephyr 6 train runs through Plainview, Colorado and heads towards Tunnel #1 and Coal Creek Canyon on its way to Denver.
S&S Shortline Leasing #1393 (MP15AC) moves a cut of grain cars at the Budweiser Brewery in Fort Collins, Colorado.
With the City of Denver skyline on the horizon and wildflowers in bloom in Coal Creek Canyon, UP 6271 (ES44AC) shoves an oil can towards Tunnel #1 on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.
BNSF 8424 (SD70ACe) runs light with a mate through Greenland, Colorado on the Joint Line.
An extra North Star commuter train carrying attendees from the Minnesota Twins baseball game rushes underneath the Saint Anthony Parkway bridge just south of BNSF's Northtown Yard in Minneapolis, ... (more)
CN 3092 leads a coal empty north as it nears Centralia.
A long line of Union Pacific, BNSF, and former BNSF with GECX markings wait outside the Wabtec facility near Fort Worth, Texas. An early morning severe thunderstorm with a tornado has cleared the... (more)
A Twin Cities & Western freight passes through downtown St. Paul, MN on its way to CPKC's Pigs Eye Yard on the south side of the city. Today's train consists of four Geeps, the third of which wear... (more)
Norfolk & Western Y6A 2156 on display at the National Museum of Transportation.
This week, I had the immense privilege to witness CP 2816, the "Empress" 4-6-4 Hudson steam locomotive, make its trek south on the Final Spike Steam Tour celebrating the Canadian Pacific - Kansas ... (more)
The Rock Island number 3 on display at the National Museum of Transportation.
It is nice to see a pair of GP-30s as AIKR 4202 and AIKR 4201 are shut down for the weekend.
One of many rebuilt locomotives on the CSX roster travels on the mainline leading another engine and 142 cars.
WW301 heads north across the Potomac River on the largest bridge on the Winchester and Western Virginia division.
Steam is still coming off of a loaded train as it accelerates toward the highway crossing at Rollins, making a run at the last long upgrade section of track between here and Highland. Like many ra... (more)
L129 heads north/east with a YN2 leader in late evening light. Any type of nose light at this location is only possible on the longest days of the year.
