And on the way home from the previous derailment, we got to take in the cleanup of the last pile-up, 9 miles east of the Lincolnton derailment, at Iron Station (25 miles NE of Charlotte).

Many of these wooden bridges around the upstate of South Carolina have been closed in the last few years. This one over the former Piedmont and Northern has been a target for me since acquiring t... (more)

A crow has a bird's eye view as the Penn Central Heritage Unit leads Charlotte-Chicago intermodal 217 through an overtake of 19M at the coaling tower at Vicker.

The Salamanca-Machias-West Valley local switches at Ashford Junction to get the empty hoppers right to go to Machias. I dropped the SIRI and headed this way just in time to beat the train to this... (more)

The first southbound train of the new year in Lowell is the Crescent at 3:15 a.m. as it splits the intermediate signals.

The Bozeman Helpers shove on the rear of a long ML to get it over the hump at the west end of Bozeman Tunnel.

This little unit spends its next to last night beside the nicely maintained Piedmont and Northern station that formerly served as a museum. Belmont is 15 miles W of Charlotte.

Crossing the South Fork River just after sunrise.

The DPU on Q692 flies across Copper Creek on the former Clinchfield.

The Charlotte and Western has traded cars with CSX in Mt. Holly and heads west across the South Fork River on the way back to the transload facility in Gastonia.

P76 inches past an empty Fluor Field, home of the Boston Red Sox single-A affiliate, the Greenville Drive. The "Green Monster" and Fenway replica scoreboard are visible in left field. ... (more)

Pan shot of Black Beauty leading the Masters OCS through the pasture at Trenton, SC, approaching Augusta on the Columbia-Augusta R-line.

The Hartwell crew pulls a second cut of storage cars from deep on the segment between Bowersville and Hartwell, GA.

A rerouted BNSF San Bernardino-Birmingham intermodal train crosses the Mississippi River on KCS rails with Old Glory flying in the stiff breeze. The reroute was due to track work on the former Fr... (more)