Carbon and Acid

With approximately forty cars of sulfuric acid in the consist, CP/D&H train 700 rolls toward its destination of Baltimore as it crosses the CSX Susquehanna River br... (more)

The “acid train”, CP/D&H train 700, starts its journey from Philadelphia to Baltimore at the entrance to CSX’ East Side Yard. Fortunately the drab GATX SD40-2, which was destined to become a... (more)

Near the location of the CP 4744 shot, the photographer encountered a heavy CN freight with big power.

A Roger Puta Photograph

CP/D&H train 701, empty sulfuric acid tank cars, has arrived from Baltimore at CSX’ East Side Yard in Philadelphia. The power, an all-MLW M636/C424/M636 lashup, has uncoupled from its train so t... (more)

PT-98 rolls downgrade through Henryville shortly after working Bestway in Cresco. The entire train is visible from this angle, and you can barely discern the yellow railings of the two units at t... (more)

PT-98 rolls toward Portland with five light units, all in "corporate" paint. The crew had dropped their train at Gravel Place and would later bring a heavy train west from the NS interch... (more)

WNYP's Driftwood Turn heads south through North Eldred.

PT-98 accelerates out of Moscow with a generous display of "Alco smoke" on an unusually warm autumn day in the Poconos. At right is the nicely restored former Lackawanna freight house.

PT-98 slows on the approach to the siding adjacent to Horizon Milling in Mount Pocono. The crew will pick up a large cut of empty grain cars before proceeding east to Slateford Junction.

Delaware-Lackawanna train PT-98 races uphill, passing the former Lackawanna station in Moscow, powered by three big Alco 636's of CP, PC, and BCOL origins, and an ex-BCOL MLW M420W. Once PT-98 cre... (more)

Throttling up through a small Burg just southeast of Emporium, PA, three "Bigs" have the Driftwood Turn moving tonnage toward interchange with the Norfolk Southern connection. The WNY&P rosters m... (more)

CP Rail MLW M636 No.4734 and 4722 at Toronto's CP Agincourt yard, October 23, 1987.

Not looking any better. It had been a little while since I had checked in on 'preserved' M636 CP 4723 in Farnham and unfortunately it is not looking any better. It sits near the ex-CP stati... (more)

Skunked!

I’m fortunate to have like-minded railfan friends who were always looking for better locations to capture images. At the same time, most of us had a friendly rivalry, an... (more)