The fall colors have not yet found south east Pennsylvania as 2 trains wait to get into Enola yard while a ballast train comes across the Rockville bridge.

Caldwell County Railroad rosters 2 ex-SCL GP16s. Both are in regular use but today the 1811 rolls out of the small yard in Hickory as it heads to the NS interchange to pick up some customer cars. ... (more)

There is a certain anticipation that comes when the pieces to a photo start coming together. The only part I could control was position and exposure, but as I watched an absolutely amazing sunset ... (more)

ATI 02 is returning to the Breckenridge plant after shuffling cars at the nearby Natrona facility. Allegheny Technologies, or ATI, has an operation that focuses on the production of stainless and ... (more)

The unabated decomposition of a once mighty machine marches on. Originally built in the 1950s, these classically styled products of General Motors were the "A" listers of the commuter lo... (more)

2 sets of helpers, a total of 8 units, pass an empty stack train as they drift downgrade on their way back to stage at Helena. There they will wait for the next westbound to provide a shove over M... (more)

A venerable GE leads the 5 day-a-week manifest from Knoxville, TN to Asheville, NC. This view, about a mile east of Hot Springs NC, catches the train headed upriver past Frank Bell's Rapids, which... (more)

A busy morning at horseshoe curve as the sun has just risen high enough to ignite the spectacular fall colors that were still hanging on this fall. In fortunate timing the head end of a manifest ... (more)

The 3rd shift NS local shoves back to tie up near the Kodak Eastman plant as the sunrise begins to warm the day. They pass by a Jordan Spreader slowly rusting to the rails on a parallel stub trac... (more)

Southern E8 #6900 slumbers at the North Carolina Transportation Museum. The locomotive is fully operational but is not part of regular service at this time. Regardless, it is shown spending the ni... (more)

Railroading is about interruptions. Not just having a trip full of green signals being interrupted by a 3 hour wait for an opposing train, or a hot box detector tagging the next to last axle, but ... (more)

New passes old. Train 123 heads east through Barnard, NC on its way up to Asheville. Barnard used to be a busy little town with a passenger depot for vacationers. Now, all that remains is this bui... (more)

Capturing an image of a trash train at the slag dump doesn’t sound very appealing, however, light and fall color can make a big difference! On a sunny October afternoon an NS unit garbage train ... (more)

The Blue Water makes a quick stop in Durand, MI while making its daily run between Chicago and Port Huron.

The obligatory Kent depot shot had a nice surprise with the second unit, 8536, one of only 14 SD50-3 left on the roster.