One of the "true" 6,000-h.p. GE units heads up a westbound TOFC train with a different GE model in the late afternoon. The train has just come around the sweeoing curve from Echo Canyon.
One of the enormously powerful GE 6,000-h.p. units and a similar unit are westbound at Tucker with a freight headed for Atlanta. CSX and Union Pacific were the only purchasers of the true 6,000-h.... (more)
The railroad scene has lost a lot of flavor with the removal of the classic signal systems. Case in point - the distinctive B&O-era color position lights. CSX 5015 East is exiting Carrothers Tunne... (more)
While literally everyone else in the greater Kansas City region was chasing the northbound Big Boy through the Kansas with questionable light for a northbound, I moseyed my way towards the city fr... (more)