Sometimes it helps to have a little bit of a thick skin to do shots like these. Case in point the grueling waiting game on a windy Saturday late morning while you watch northbound after northbo... (more)

On a frigid, clear January morning, the Conrail WASE-90 Hudson grain train local crew edges up to State Street on its first run to the ADM Mill in Greenport Center through park circle in downtown ... (more)

The Richer Feed Mill semi just pulled up 15 minutes before this southbound arrived at Central Bridge...

In a bitter sub-zero wind, the SMS critter SW14 climbs the grade out of Delanson with four loads picked up at CPF499 from the NS #938 in a new reinstated service of autoracks to the Guilderland ... (more)

Looking spiffy in a newly painted makeover, Former CO rebuilt Chessie GP30M 2111 rests at the Conrad Yelvington Distributor facility near Wildwood Yard on a beautiful morning. The unit is used to ... (more)

Not one CP Rail unit in sight as a very Aqua Velva #450 curves out of Mechanicville in the deep afternoon shadows of a fast fading Sunday.

A brief splash of sun finds a colorful #253-13 as it curves northward through Central Bridge led by a rare jewel in 2008!

In a lucky break while driving to visit a relative, I caught this PAS westbound as it prepares to depart for CPF423 off the siding after a brief stop. Meanwhile, the Adams local with the PAR '3... (more)

The DFT Job is seen charging past the old signals with a short train of nine cars for South Driftwood on a gorgeous spring Saturday on the old Pennsy playground. That wonderful 251 chuff! chuf... (more)

On a beautiful September morning, good friend Will Davis and I had a nice chase south with the Battenkill local to Eagle Bridge NY out of Greenwich Junction. Everything seemed to fall in place ... (more)

An eastbound drag out of Colton Yard meets a 'canned' westbound at Hiland(summit) in a crisp morning in December. The only time I've been able to record a meet here of two separate SP freights w... (more)

One of the more unusual and striking consists in quite some time makes a daylight visit to the River Sub on a moody Columbus Day. The mother of all lucky sucker holes perched itself momentarily ... (more)

An all red #414 enters Kenwood Yard in downtown Albany with a trio of former SBX SD's the '5698', '5677' & '5690'. The freight is passing a canned #642 ethanol train that came down earlier in t... (more)

Five matched 38 “golds” slog a small freight north along Route 12 out of Bellows Falls along the Connecticut River Valley on a warm May afternoon. One of those classic “so glad I did tha... (more)

Some EMD 'yellowjackets' on a local BH-1 do some switching by CP-BD for tommorow's Syracuse run as a NS 31T waits on the D&H runner on the right. Nice to see that rare sun again in Binghamton!