Momentarily breaking the early morning silence, an eastbound intermodal catches the first rays of sunrise
As the sun rises over the valley, a second intermodal train crosses the Westfield River in Huntington on a cold Sunday morning
A Contract Rail Welding Crew is seen finnishing up there days work as an eastbound is seen approaching Game Farm Road Crossing on its way into Selkirk Yard.
Yeah they are orphans and all that but you can't help but like these beasts, sort of the plumber's nightmare of their generation. This SB mixed freight has been released to enter the yard.
A southbound toward Louisville, KY tiptoes through downtown La Grange as an older gentleman and a few other guys watch on almost as if it were a parade.
Fancy meeting you here. A UP 3985 crew member gives a wave to the crew on board UP 7306, which leads UP 6346 (a former SP AC4400CW) and a grain train westward through Thumel. After the 7306... (more)
A high-horsepower CSX motor passes by a former produce warehouse, now converted into condos. I imagine many RP viewers would love to have the view from their window that these condo dwellers do.
We're very near Montour Junction, which was a busy place on the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie some 30 years ago. Today, Q640 heads towards Buffalo as it passes Lang Machinery. No relation to me but it'... (more)
6071 leads SD70ACe 4326 ex BNSF 9184 away from the crossing loop at Garden. Other locos in train are 4330 with 6072 and 5640 with 4303 and4331
Q139 passes under Henderson Ave / Alt 40 as they head west towards Sand Patch
Ice covers just about everything as an empty coal train heads west out of Deshler in the late evening.
CSXT Q-113 approaches CP-SK after an historic ice storm in the northeast.
CSX 696 headed for the Coal River Sub.
A guy lays what appears to be a penny on the rail in full view of the crew on this approaching southbound mixed frieght. Although the train is only moving at 10mph, it's funny how people and cars ... (more)