The systemwide power crunch of 2014 has seen droves of leasers returning to CSX, offering railfans a little throwback to the early 2000's when seemingly every other train had leased power somewher... (more)

The Y311 local pauses during switching duty's on the "dead track"

Union Pacific’s Potash Turn heads north past unique red rock formations into Bootlegger Canyon on the afternoon of May 12, 2006. This train normally operates in the morning, so this late afterno... (more)

HLCX (GP38-2) with mismatched number boards heads for the 36th Street Yard.

JFDX 8045, the special Helm Leasing unit honoring former Helm CEO John F. Dains, drills a cut of cars in the Indiana & Ohio Railway's McCollugh Yard.

A Genset switcher and the infamous HLCX 6300 sit in Selkirk unassigned.

The mixed train of the Keewatin Railway is on the last leg of its southbound trip from Pukatawagan as it approaches The Pas, Manitoba. Three freight cars are on the head end, followed by three coa... (more)

The Indiana and Ohio north Lima Local is on the way back to Lima. Here the train gets on the CSXT Toledo Sub at Leipsic for the rest of trip to Lima. On Sunday this local makes a day light trip no... (more)

A freshly outshopped (by Helm Leasing) GP38-3 sits in Fresh Pond Yard awaiting shipment by NYAR to Brookhaven Rail Terminal, where it will be used along side sister #1010.

On a picture perfect evening, A pair of former BN SD40-2's lead CSX Q227 under the NYC signal bridge at MP 169 on the Erie West Sub.

SP in SC! After a little over a week of catching fallen flag units leading various trains around the area it was finally my turn to get in on the behind the scenes action as I was the condu... (more)

A former SP EMD surprised many today when it showed up leading K457. This unit had hung around the south for quite some time earlier in the year, and evidently has returned to give those who didn'... (more)

Far away from it's once common stomping grounds of the Sierra Nevada's, this ex Southern Pacific SD40R still looks good working through the hills of north Georgia.