The temperature has dropped below freezing again after a beautiful warm, sunny winter day in Northwest Connecticut, as Housatonic Railroad train NX12 chugs its way up the grade past the dam for th... (more)

After switching Specialty Minerals (SPEM), NX-13 is seen coming of the south leg of the wye in Canaan, CT. They will then travel north on the main to pick up their consist for the trip south to Ne... (more)

NX-12 crosses over Water St in Fall Village on its way south to New Milford, CT.

GLC 392 leads four other EMD's south on 90 loads of grain for the CSX in Howell.

Housatonic Railroad train NX12 makes good time southbound approaching Kent, CT

Housatonic Railroad train NX12 hits the second of five crossings within a three-mile stretch along River Road in West Cornwall, CT

Housatonic Railroad train NX12 motors south past the Falls Village dam and canal on the Housatonic River

The 292-mile Ann Arbor Railroad was a subsidiary of the Detroit Toledo & Ironton RR from 1963 to 1970. Locomotive maintenance and repairs for both railroads was done at DT&I’s engine and shop fa... (more)

After two GP35’s with an eastbound coal train arrived at Altoona, Pennsylvania in a cloud of brake sho... (more)

An analysis of the air in Altoona, Pennsylvania in the 1970’s would have revealed that the four most predominate components of that air were nitrogen, oxygen, diesel exhaust, and brake shoe smok... (more)

Montana Rail Link’s 844 local powered by EMD GP35s Nos. 403 and 402 arrive at Logan, Montana, with three cars from the Trident cement plant on June 26, 2017.

A Conrail GP35 leads a CNW SD40-2 and UP SD40-2 on an eastbound coal train on the Indiana Harbor Belt. Tom Golden photo.

Looks like the forecast on January 21, 1980 was for snow! A pair of B&O GP35's are in front of the Brooks Ave. yard office in Gates, NY.

The first full weekend of January 2018 had much of the Northeast in a Winter deep freeze not seen in many years. With daytime highs in the single digits and wind chills 20-30 below zero, outside ... (more)