Returning lite to the yard, CSX 5955 passes the old signals just outside Greek Village on the University of South Carolina campus. This would be one of the final runs this engine would make befor... (more)
During the big maintenance jamboree the crews cleaning mud and improving drainage at Sandy Ridge tunnel have cleared up to allow a northbound ballast train to pass on a day when the weather could ... (more)
Just an ordinary toaster getting some attention.
Classic GE Crossing over Birmingham Hwy, and the NS AGS North-End, is the 12,500 ft long CSX Q237-16 (Louisville,KY-Tampa,FL) eases down the mountain on the yard lead ending its ... (more)
Conrail "stealth." Class unit No. 6610 in the light-gray "Ballast Express" scheme from 1997 leads a westbound RoadRailer through Perdix. GE built only ten 3,200 hp C32s, with... (more)
Conrail GE C32-8 6619 in Montreal's Canadian Pacific St. Luc yard.
SSW 8080 leads a manifest train Southbound past a semaphore signal North of Vaughn.
The engineer chats with a crewman before Bluebonnet 577 heads in for servicing at the Denver BNSF engine servicing facility.
This quartet of veterans was spotted in the BNSF engine servicing facility yard, including BNSF 573 (a former ATSF B40-8W Warbonnet built in 1992 now wearing a Heritage I paint scheme), BNSF 1468 ... (more)
CNW 8502 is dwarfed by grain elevators as it brings a coal train eastbound thru Arcadia, IL.
Westbound Alliance, TX to Los Angeles, CA stack train climbing Goffs Hill out of Needles, CA passing Ibis station.
The ground remains damp from a thunderstorm that had just passed over Proctor yard as a limestone train prepares to depart for Minntac.
Fortunately our dreams came true. Stealth went away.
There are those times when you look at units that seem pretty new and realize, wow, those things are getting some age on them. I remember the days when a GE over 25 usually had a center cab.
A pretty rare YN2 CSX C40-8 leads a mix through downtown Plant City on the S-line.