The "G" plate usually designates a "grade" signal where a train can pass a stop and proceed signal without stopping (but at restricted speed) so as not to stall on the grade. At the Cloppers CPL ... (more)

Happy Holidays to All RPers! Nothing like seeing a manifest in the snow passing through a yard.

For all the images from my morning at Hancock, go Railroad: CSX Transportation (CSXT)
Locomotive: GE ES40DC
Location: Hancock, West Virginia, USA
Locomotive #: CSXT 5288
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: January 22, 2012

Narrow Cabs! Narrow cabs are not (yet) in heads up / chase status, but it was nonetheless a pleasure to see a matched pair of C40-8 engines on K497-03, pulling empty ethanol cars (and an id... (more)

Oh, for the great expanses out ... east! The tree tunnels in this area usually preclude seeing much of a train from the side, but thanks to man's intervention in the form of three, count'e... (more)

This work train, tied down for the weekend, ponders the coming changes at Hancock.

Q226 passes just far enough past the signals to enter the next block and thus trip the circuit and turn them on.

D742 (on the left), waiting on 4-runner for its departure east to Benning, is visited by a pair of engines.

Still a few B&O CPLs around! I made a special trip out to Cumberland just to see them one more time. The eastbound Capitol Limited comes around the bend at West Hump; shortly it will pass... (more)

A northbound commuter passes the gnarly tree (what species, please?) at the weekend-only station in Atherton.

After another train/picnic trip, the Piaseczno tourist train goes through a number of switching moves, as the engine runs around the train, past the semaphores and back, pulls it down a track, and... (more)

Q398 passes on track 2 on the left as Q415 waits on 4-runner for its turn to head east. In the distance, on the other side of the MARC parking lot that was once Brunswick's EB yard, sits yet anot... (more)

Spring Is Coming! Really! Or at least it did come in 2008 (and every other year during which I have been alive!) and it will come again. And then there will be lots of green and, in plac... (more)

Q226 passes the yard at Hancock, approaching the tower. Third autorack train of the morning!

A helper set stops short of the signal to come off the OML WB onto the Metropolitan sub, waiting for other movements to pass.

My first sighting of a train on the Old Main Line in many years. As the train was crawling at some 5 mph or less, I was easily able to drive over to St. Denis and see it again. My first "chase" ... (more)