A return trip from up north is seen deadheading back to storage in Waycross. One of the benefits of having this train now kept in Rice Yard is a guaranteed chase with multiple photo ops in and ou... (more)

VIA 69 with VIA 6413 and six LRC cars passes two tracks worth of grain cars.

A westbound TRE led by a recently rebuilt F40 passes through the 6th Street Jct as it climbs into Downtown Fort Worth. It has just crossed under the mess that is I-35W

CSXT OCS is visiting their yard in Taft which is split down the middle by CFRC's double track/ex-CSXT Sanford Subdivision mainline. The West Yard is where most of the local work is done while the... (more)

One of the very few times I was able to get rebuilt #9993 leading, it has since been repainted & renumbered CSXT #2.

VIA 69 passes Turcot Ouest with VIA 6437 and four LRC cars.

Passenger train on the CN St. Hyacinthe Subdivision. The nearest southbound defect detector is located at mile 51, just a few miles before this bridge. There will be plenty of time to prepare for ... (more)

Office Car Special, northbound over Palm River, has run from Yeoman to Rockport, where they turned the train so it can run to Orlando the following morning.

Office Car Special is on day one of three days across Florida, repeating a trip they did one year prior. Today they will head straight to Miami, only stopping to recrew in Lakeland....oh, and Sum... (more)

For the first time in a number of years, CSXs Office Car Special graced the Philadelphia area in good morning sunlight. Bound for Selkirk and points west, the train comes off the Philadelphia Subd... (more)

OCS making its second visit to Taft Yard since being repainted. Naturally, the effort to do so has questions circulating. Even passing commuter trains remarked on the sight.

OCS heads down the Bypass towards the Yeoman Yard office where passengers will disembark, while the train will continue a short distance southward to Rockport to turn back north. On return, it wi... (more)

The famous and well done CSX OCS makes yet another lap through Florida as it did this time last year. The price I paid for this photo was a large bolt the destroyed one of my tires.

The OCS has detrained passengers at the yard office on the "Bypass" in Yeoman and is continuing a short distance south on the main to turn the entire train. Upon return, they will shuff... (more)

So...here's where property lines get tricky. CFRC maintains & operates the double track mainline in Taft, but CSXT maintains & operates the yard leads and adjoined yard on either side of it, in e... (more)